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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR 



BY 

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PREFACE. 



The history of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk county contained in 
this volume includes an introductory chapter and a biographical reg- 
ister. The introductory chapter treats of the courts, the laws under 
which thev were established, of the judges and other persons exercising 
judicial powers, and of the bar. The biographical register contains 
the names of forty-eight hundred and forty persons, of whom sketches 
are given of about three thousand, while of the remainder such infor- 
mation is furnished as it has been practicable to obtain. 

The aim of the author has been to include in the register every judge 
whose court has held its sessions within the county, and every lawyer 
who has either been admitted to its bar or has at any time been one of 
its members, before January 1. 18'..l"2. 

An alphabetical arrangement of the register has been found imprac- 
ticable, in consequence of the demand of the publishers for copy as the 
work progressed. An alphabetical index, however, is furnished, 
which, it is believed, will remove any objection which might otherwise 
be raised to the want of such an arrangement. 

A few duplicate .sketches will be found in the register, which are 
explained by the acquisition of more atnple materials after the earlier 
sketches had been written. The later sketches alone are referred to 
in the index. 

Besides numcr<ius printed sources of information, the author is 
indebted for aid to many public officials and gentlemen, to whom it 
would be ungrateful to omit his thanks. Among these may be men- 
tioned C. B. Tillinghast, assistant librarian of the State Library; John 
Ward Dean, librarian, and Walter Kendall Watkins, assistant librarian 



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of the New England Historic Genealogical Societ_v ; Joseph A. Willard, 
clerk of the Superior Civil Court for Suffolk county; John XoJtIc, clerk 
of the Supreme Judicial Court for said county; William E. Parmenter, 
chief justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston; Hon. Charles 
Theodore Russell, Alexander S. Wheeler, esq., and Hon. Francis H. 
Underwood, members of the SutTolk bar; and James W. Allen, clerk 
in the city register's office of Boston. 

He is aware that errors and omissions may be found in his work, but 
he trusts that, even with its imperfections, the " History of the Bench 
and Bar of .Suff'olk County" may not prove to have been a useless 
undertaking, 

Wm. T. Davis. 

Pl.\M01 III, M.\SS. , 

September 1, ISli;). 



The Bench and Bar. 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 

""T^HIS chapter is intended to be cliiefl}' introductory to the volume 
I containing a sketch of the Bench and Bar of Suffolk County. A 
general history of the county will find no place in the narrative. It will 
be proper, however, to present a statement of the origin and establish- 
ment of the Massachusetts settlement as preliminary to the more re- 
stricted examination of the judicial legislation and methods which 
followed it. 

In the early part of the seventeenth century the territory one hundred 
miles wide along the coast of North America, extending from the 
thirty- fourth to the forty- fifth degree of north latitude, was called Vir- 
ginia, after Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen. On the 20th of April, 
1606, this territory was divided by James the First between two com- 
panies which for a time were known as the Northern and Southern Vir- 
ginia Companies. It extended approximately from Cape Fear to 
Passamaquoddy Bay. To the Northern Virginia Company a patent 
to lands between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees was granted, 
and to the Southern Virginia Company a patent to lands between the 
thirty-fourth and forty-first degrees. The first of these grants ex- 
tended from Passamaquoddy Bay to the southeastern corner of Mary- 
land, and the second from Cape Fear to a line running through Port 
Chester, on Long Island Sound, and the easterly corner of New Jersey, 
on the Hudson River. That portion lying between the thirty-eighth 
and forty- first degrees, which was included in both patents, was to be 
appropriated by that company which should first occupy it, and it was 
provided that neither company should plant a colony within one hun- 



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dred miles of a settlement previously made by the other. The Northern 
Virginia Company was composed of certain knights, gentlemen, mer- 
chants and adventurers of Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth, and the 
Southern Virginia Company of persons of the same description, in 
London. 

On the 13th of November, 1620 (new style), a new charter was granted 
by King James to the Northern Virginia Company. Sir Edwin Sandys, 
the governor and treasurer of the Southern Virginia Company, having 
incurred the royal displeasure, was forbidden a re-election, and the Earl 
of Southampton, a no less obnoxious person, having been chosen in his 
place, the king was inclined to show special favor to the Northern Vir- 
ginia Company. Under the title of "The Council established at 
Plymouth in the County of Devon for the planting, ordering, ruling 
and governing of New England in America," it was empowered by its 
new act of incorporation to hold territory e-xtending from sea to sea, 
and in breadth from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north 
latitude, to make laws, appoint governors and other officers necessary 
for the establishment of the forms of government. This immense ter- 
ritory included all the land between Central New Jersey and the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic coast, and the northern part of Cali- 
fornia, Oregon and the larger part of Washington on the Pacific, with 
a line running through Lake Superior for the northern boundar\', and 
a line running through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for the 
southern. 

On the 30th of December, 1622, the Northern Virginia Company, 
under its new title, granted to Robert Gorges all that part of the main- 
land " commonly called or known by the name of the Messachusiack," 
which was described as situated " upon the northeast side of the bay 
called or known by the name of the Messachusett." Robert Gorges 
having received the giant, was appointed by the Virginia Company, in 
1623, lieutenant general of New England, and arrived with " passengers 
and families" in Massachusetts Bay in September of the same year. A 
part of this grant is included within the limits of Suffolk County. The 
claims imder this grant were, however, quieted after a subsequent and 
apparently conflicting grant had been made to the Massachusetts Com- 
pany. This latter grant was made on the 19th of March, 1627-8, to 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. ii 

Sir John Roswell, Sir John Young-, Tliomas Southcoat, John Humphrey, 
John Endicott and Simon Whitcomb, including all the land extending 
from three miles north of the Merrimac River to three miles south of the 
Charles River, and covered a large part or nearly all of what is now 
Suffolk County. A royal charter was issued in accordance with the 
patent of the Virginia Company, which passed the seals on the 4th of 
March, 1628-9, the text of which is as follows: 

" Charles By the Grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland and Ireland, Defender of 
the Fayth etc., To all to whoine these Presents shall corne Greeting. Whereas our 
most deare and royall father Kinge James, of blessed memory, by his Highness' letters 
patents bearing date at Westminster the third day of November in the eighteenth yeare 
of his raigne hath given and graunted unto the Councell established at Plymouth, in the 
county of Devon for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of Newe England in 
America, and to their successors and assignes for ever: All that part of America lyeing 
and being in bredth from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctiall lyne 
to forty-eight degrees of the saide northerly latitude inclusively, and in length of and 
within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the raaine laudesfrom sea to sea, together 
also with alN the (irme lands, soyles, groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fisheries, 
mynes and myneralls, precious stones, quarries, and all and singular other comoditie.*!, 
jurisdiccons, royalties, priviledges, franchises, and prehemj-nences, both within the said 
tract of lande upon the niayne and also within the islandes and seas adjoining; Pro- 
vided alwayes that the said islandes or any the premises by the said letters patents in- 
tended and meant to be graunted were not then aotuallie possessed or inhabited by any 
other Christian Prince or state now within the bounds, lymitts or territories of the 
Southern Colony then before graunted l)y our said deare father to be planted by divers 
of his loving sulijects in the south partes. To Have and to houlde, possess and enjoy all 
and singular the aforesaid continent, landes, territories, islands, hereditaments and pre- 
cincts, seas, waters, fisherys, with all and all manner their comodities, royalties, liberties, 
prehemynences and profitts that should from thenceforth arise from them, with all and 
singular their appurtenances and every parte and parcel] thereof unto the saide Coun- 
cell and their successors and assignes forever. To the sole and proper use, benefitt and 
behoof of them the said Councell and their successors and assignes forever; to be 
houlden of our said most deare and royall father, his heirs and successors as of his man- 
nor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent to free and conion socage, and not in 
capite nor by Knights service, yeildinge and paying therefore to the said late Kinge, his 
heirs and successors, th« fifte parte of the oare of gould and silver which should from 
tyme to tyme and at all tymes thereafter, happen to be found, gotten, had and obtayned 
in, att or within any of the saide lande.s, lymitts, territories and precincts, or in or 
within any parte or paroell thereof, for or in respect of all and all manner of duties, de- 
mands and services whatever to be don, maide or paide to our saide deare father, the 
late Kinge, his heires and succe.ssors, as in and by the said letters patent (amongst 
sundrie other claims, powers, priviledges and grauntes therein conteyned) more at large 



12 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

appeareth. And whereas the saide Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of 
Devon, for the plantinge, ruhng. ordering and governing of Newe England in America 
have by their deede indented under their comon seale bearing date the nyneteeth day 
of March last part in the third year of our raigne, given, graunted, bargained, soulde, 
enfeoffed, aUened and confirmed to Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Young, Knightes, 
Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, John Endecott, and Suiion Whetcombe, their 
heirs and associates forever, All that part of Newe England in America aforesaid which 
lyes and extendes between a greate river there comonlie called Monomack alias Merrie- 
raack and a certen other river there called Charles River, being in the bottome of a 
certayne bay there commonly called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias Massa- 
tusetts bay, and also all and singular those landes and hereditaments whatsoever lying 
within the space of three English miles on the south parte of the said Charles River, or 
of any or everie parte thereof: And also all and singular the landes and hereditaments 
whatsoever lyeing and being within the space of three English myles to the southwarde 
of the southermost parte of the said bay called Massachusetts alias Mattachusetts alias 
Massatusetts bay : and also all those landes and hereditaments whatsoever which lye 
and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river called 
Monomack alias Merrymack, or to the northward of any and every parte thereof : And 
all lands and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north and 
south, in latitude and bredth, and in length and longitude, of and within all the bredth 
aforesaide throughout the mayue landes there, from the Atlantick aud westerne sea and 
ocean on the east parte, to the south sea on the west parte, and all landes and groundes, 
place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, waters, fish- 
ings and hereditaments whatsoever, lyeing within the said boundes and lymitts and 
every parte and parcell thereof ; And also all islandes lyeing in America aforesaid in 
said seas or eitlier of them on the westerne or eastern coastes or partes of the saide tracts 
of lande by the said indenture mentioned to be given, graunted, bargained, sould, en- 
feoffed, aliened and confirmed or any of them : And also all mynes and niyneralls as 
well royall mynes of gould and silver as other mynes and myneralls whatsoever in the 
saide landes and premises or any part thereof: And all jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, 
liberties, freedomes, y'mmunities, priviledges, franchises, preheminences, and comodities 
whatsoever which they the said Councell established at Plymouth, in the County of 
Devon, for the planting, ruleing, ordering and governing of Newe England in America, 
then had or might use, exercise or enjoy in and within any parte or parcell thereof. To 
have and to hould the saide part of Newe England in America, which lyes and extendes 
and is abutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof; And all the said islandes, 
rivers, portes, havens, waters, fishings, mynes and mynerall^, jurisdiccons, franchises, 
royalties, liberties, priviledges, comodities, hereditaments, and premises whatsoever, 
with the appurtenances unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas 
Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and as- 
signs and their associatts foreverniore. To be houlden of us our heires and successors 
as of our mannor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, in free and common socage 
and not in capite, nor by Knightes service, yeilding and paying therefore unto us our 
heires and successors, the fifte part of the oare of gould and silver, which shall from 




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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 13 

tyme to tyme ami all tyme^ hereafter happen to be found, gotten, had and obtayned in 
any of the said landes within the said lymitts or in or within any part thereof, for and 
in satisfaoon of all manner duties, demands and services whatsoever to be donn, made 
or paid to us, our heires or successors, as in and by the saide recited indenture more at 
lar^e maie appeare. Nowe knowe yee, that wee at the humble suite and peticon of the 
said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John 
Endecott and Simon Whetcombe and of others whom they have associated unto them, 
have for divers good causes and consideraconsus moveing, graunted and confirmed, And 
by these presents of our own especiall grace, certen knowledge and meere mocon, doe 
graunt and confirme unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thomas 
Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe and to their as- 
sociats hereafter named (videlicet) Sir Richard Saltonstall Knight, Isaack Johnson, 
Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, 
Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus 
Eaton, Thomas Gofte, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samiiell Browne, Thomas 
Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon, and George Foxcrofte, their heires and 
assignes all the said parte of New England in America lyeing and extending between 
the boundes and lymetts in the said recited indenture expressed, and all landes and 
groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, 
waters, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons, rights, royalties, liberties, freedomes, immuni- 
ties, priviledges, franchises, preheminencies, hereditaments and comodities whatso- 
ever to them the saide Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Thom;ip Southcott, John 
Humfrey, John Endecott and Simon Whetcombe, their heires and to their associates by 
the said recited indenture given, graunted, bargayned, sold, enfeoflfed, aliened and con- 
firmed or menooned or intended thereby to be given, gi-aunted, bargayned, sold, en- 
feofi^ed, aliened and confirmed. To have and to hould the saide parte of Newe Eng- 
land in America and other the premises hereby menconed to be graunted and confirmed 
and every parte and parcell thereof with the appurtenances to the said Sir Henry Rose- 
well, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thoujas Southcott, John Humfrey, 
John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuel Aldersey, John Ven, 
Mathew Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling- 
ham, Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas GofTe, Thomas 
Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William 
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes forever to their onlie proper 
and absolute use and behoofe for evermore. To be holden of us our heires and success- 
ors as of our mannor of East Greenwich aforesaid in free and comon socage and not in 
cai)ite nor by Knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heires 
and successors the fif te parte of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme 
and att all tynies hereafter shalbe there gotten, had or obteyned for all services exacons 
and demaunds whatsoever according to the tenure and reservacon in the said recited 
indenture expressed. And further knowe yee That of our more especiall grace certen 
knovvledg and meere mocon Wee have given and graunted. And by theis presents doe 
for us, our heires and successors give and graunt unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir 
John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John Ende- 



14 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

cott, Symon Whetcomb, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven. Mathew Cradock, 
George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belhnghani, Nathaniel, 
Wright, Samuell Vassal!, Theophehis Eaton, Thomas Gofte, Thomas Adams, John 
Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon and 
G-eorge Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes, All that parte of Newe England in Amer- 
ica which lyes and extendes betweene a great river there comonlie called Monoraack 
river alias Merrimack river, and a certen other river there called Charles river being 
in the bottome of a certen bay there comonlie called Massachusetts alias Alattachusetts 
alias Massatusetts bay : And also all those landes and hei-editaraents whatsoever which 
lye and be within the space of three English myles to the northward of the said river 
•called Monomack alias Merrymack on to the northward of any and every parte thereof 
and all landes and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing within the lymitts aforesaide north 
and south in latitude and bredth and in length and longitude of and within all the 
bredth aforesaide throughout the mayne landes there from the Atlautick and westerne 
sea and ocean on the east parte to the south sea on the west parte ; And all landes and 
groundes, place and places, soyles, woodes and wood groundes, havens, portes, rivers, 
waters and hereditaments whatsoever lying within the said boundes and lymitts, and 
every parte and parcell thereof, and also allislandes in America aforesaide in the saide 
seas or either of them on the western or eastern coastes or partes of the said tracts of 
landes hereby menconed to be given and graunted, or any of them, and all mynes and 
myneralls whatsoever in the said landes and premises or any parte thereof, and free lib- 
ertie of fishing in or within any of the rivers or waters within the boundes and lymitts 
aforesaid and the seas thereunto adjoining ; And all fishes, royal fishes, whales, balan, 
sturgeons and other fishes of what kinde or nature soever that shall at any tyme here- 
after be taken in or within the said seas or waters or any of themliy the said Sir Henry 
Rosewell, Sir John Young, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey. 
John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, Jolin Yen, 
Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Belling- 
ham, Nalhaniell Wright, Samuell Yassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas 
Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Yassall, William 
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assignes, or by any other person or per- 
sons whatsoever there inhabiting by them or any of them to be appointed to fish there- 
in ; Provided alwayes that if the said landes, islands, or any other the premises herein 
before menconed and by these presents intended and meant to be graunted were at the 
tyme of the graunting of the saide former letters patents dated the third day of Novem- 
ber in the eighteenth year of our saide deare fathers raigne aforesaid actually possessed 
or inhabited by any other Christain Prince or state or were within the boundes, lymitts 
or territories of that southern colony then before graunted by our said late father to be 
planted by divers of his loveing suly'ects in the south partes of America, That then this 
present graunt shall not extend to any such partes or parcells thereof soe formerly in- 
habited or lyeing within the boundes of the southern plantacon as aforesaide, but as to 
those partes or parcells soe possessed or inhabited by such Christian Prince or state, 
or being within the boundes aforesaid shalbe utterly voyd, these presents or anythinge 
therein conteyned to the contrarie notwithstanding. To Have and to hould, possesse 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 15 

and enjoy the saide partes of Newe England in America 'vvhich lye extend and are 
abutted as aforesaide and every parte and parcell thereof; And all the islandes, livers, 
portes, havens, waters, fishings, fishes, mynes, myneralls, jurisdiccons, franchises, royal- 
ties, liberties, priviledges, comodities and premises whatsoever with the appurtenances 
unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonatal], Thomas 
Southcott, John Humfrey, John Endecott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell 
Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard 
Perry, Richard Bellingham, Nalhaniell Wright, Samuell Vassal!, Theophilus Eaton, 
Thomas G-ofte, Thomas Adams, John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, 
William Vassall, William Pincheon and George Foxcrofte, their heires and assignes for- 
ever to the onlie proper and absolute use and behoofe of the said Sir Henry Rosewell. 
Sir John Younge, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Thomas Southcott, John Humfrey, John En- 
decott, Simon Whetcombe, Isaack Johnson, Samuell Aldersey, John Ven, Mathewe 
Cradock, George Harwood, Increase Nowell, Richard Perry, Richard Bellingham, 
Nathaniell Wright, Samuell Vassall, Theophilus Eaton, Thomas Goffie, Thomas Adams, 
John Browne, Samuell Browne, Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall, William Pincheon 
and George Foxcrofte, their heirs and assigns forevermore. To be holden of us our 
heires and successors as of our mannor of East Greenwich in our countie of Kent 
within our realme of England in free and comon socage and not in capita nor by 
Knights service, and also yeilding and paying therefore to us our heirs and succes- 
sors the fifte part onlie of all oare of gould and silver which from tyme to tyme and at 
all tymes hereafter, shalhe gotten, had or obtayned for all services, exaccous and de- 
maunds whatsoever, Provided alwaies and our expresse will and meanenge is that onlie 
one fifte parte of the gould and silver oare above menconed in the whole and uoe more 
be reserved or payable unto us our heires and successors by collour or vertue of these 
presents. The double reservacons or recitals aforesaid or any things herein contayned 
notwithstanding. And foreasmuch as the good and prosperous success of the'plantacon of 
the said partes of Newe England aforesaide intended by the said Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir 
John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John Endecott 
Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John Ven Mathewe Cradock 
George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Belhngham Nathaniell 
Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Gofie Thomas Adams John Browne 
Samuell Browne Thomas Hutchins, William Vassall William Pincheon and George Fox- 
crofte to be speedily set npin cannot but chiefly depend next under the blessing of 
Almightie God and the support of our royal authoritie upon the good government of the 
same. To the ende that the alFaires buysinesses which from tyme to tyme shall happen 
and arise concerning said landes and the plantacon of the same male be the better man- 
aged and ordered. Wee have further hereby of our especiall grace certen knowledge 
and mere mocon given graunted and confirmed. And for us our heires and successors doe 
give graunt and confirme unto the trustees and well beloved subjects Sir Henry Rose- 
well Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John Humfrey John 
Endecott Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuel Aldersey John Ven, Mathewe Crad- 
ock George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bellingham Nathnniell 
Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Eaton Thomas Goft'e Thomas Adams John Browne 



1 6 HISTORY O/' THE BEACH AND BAH. 

Saniuell Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassall William Pinclieon and George Fox- 
orofte; And for us our heirea and successors wee will and ordeyne That the saide Sir 
Henry Rosewell Sir John Younge Sir Richard Saltonstall Thomas Southcott John 
Humfrey John Endecott >Simon Whetcombe Isaack Johnson Samuell Aldersey John 
Ven Mathew Cradoclc George Harwood Increase Nowell Richard Perry Richard Bell- 
ingham Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus Baton Thomas Goffe Thomas 
Adams John Browne Samuell Browne Thomas Hutchins William Vassall William 
Pincheon and George Foxcrofte and all such others as shall hereafter lie admitted and 
made free of the Company and Society hereafter menconed shall from tyme to tyme 
and at all tymes for ever hereafter be by vertue of these presents one body corporate 
and politque, in fact and name by the name of the Governor and Company of the Matta- 
chusetts Bay in Newe England : And them by the name of the Governor and Com. 
pany of the Mattachusetts Bay in Newe England, one bodie politique and corporate in 
deede fact and name, We doe for us our heires and successors make ordeyne consti- 
tute and confirme by these presents and that by that name they shall have peipetuall 
succession, and that by the same name they and their successors shall and male be ca- 
peable and enabled as well to implead and to be impleaded and to prosecute demaund 
and aunswere and be aunswered unto on all and singular suites causes quarrels and ac- 
cons of what kind or nature soever, And also to have fake possesse acquire and pur- 
chase any landes tenements or hereditaments or any goods or chattells, and the same 
to lease graunt demise alien bargaine sell and dispose of as other our liege people of 
this our realme of England or any other corporacon or Ijody politique of the same 
male lawfuUie doe : And further that the said Governor and Companye and their suc- 
cessors male have forever one comon scale to be used in all causes and occasions of the 
said Company and the same scale niaie alter change breake and newe make from tyme 
to tyme at their pleasures, And our will and pleasure is. And we do hereby for us our 
heires and successors ordeyne and graunte That from henceforth for ever there shalbe one 
Governor, one Deputy Governor and eighteen Assistants of the same Company to be 
from tyme to tyme constituted elected and chosen out of the freemen of the saide Com- 
pany for the tyme being in such manner and forme as hereafter in these presents is ex- 
pressed. Which said olBcers shall applie themselves to take care for the best dispose- 
ing and ordering of the generall buysines and affaires of for and concerning the saide 
landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted and the plantation thereof and 
the government of the people there, And for the better execucon of our royal pleasure 
and graunt in their behalf wee doe by these presents for us our heirs and successors 
nominate ordeyne make and constitute our welbeloved the saide Mathewe Cradock to 
be the first and present Governor of the saide Company and the said Thomas Goffe to 
be Deputy Governor of the saide Company and the said Sir Richard Saltonstall Isaack 
Johnson, Samuell Aldersey John Ven John Humpfrey John Endecott Simon Whet- 
combe Increase Nowell Richard Perry Nathaniell Wright Samuell Vassall Theophilus 
Eaton Thomas Adams Thomas Hutchins John Browne George Foxcrofte William Vas- 
sall and William Pincheon to be the present assistants of the saide Company to con- 
tinue in the saide severall offices respectivelie for such tyme and in such manner as in 
and by .these presents is hereafter declared and appointed, And further we will and by 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 17 

these presents for us our heires and successors doe ordayne and graunt, That the Gov- 
ernor of the said Company for the tyme being or in his absence by occasion of sickness 
or otherwise the Deputie Governor for the tyme being shall have authoritie from tyme 
to tyme and upon all occasions to give orders for the assembling of the saide Company 
and calling them together to consult and advise of the businesses and affaires of the 
saide company; And that the said Governor for the tyme being shall or male once 
every raoneth or oftener at their pleasure assemble and houlde and keep a Courte or As- 
semblie of themselves for the Ijelter ordering and directing of their affaires, And that 
any seaven or more persons of the Assistants together with the Governor or Deputie 
Governor soe assembled shalbe saide taken held and reputed to be and shalbe a full and 
sufficient Courte or Assemblie of the saide Company for the handling ordering and dis- 
patching of all such buysinesses and occurants as shall from tyme to tyme happen touch- 
ing or concerning the said Company or plantaoon and that there shall or male beheld 
and kept by the Governor or Deputie Governor of the said Company and seaven or 
more of the said assistants for the tyme being upon every last Wednesday in Hillary 
Easter, Trinity and Michas terras respeotivelie forever one greate generall and solembe 
Assemblie wrhich four Generall Assemblies shalbe stiled and called the Foure Greate and 
Generall Courts of the saide Company : In all and every or any of which said Greate 
and Generall Courts soe assembled wee doe for us our heires and successors give and 
graunte to the said Governor and Company and their successors. That the Governor or 
in his absence the Deputie Governor of the saide Company for the tyme being and such 
of the Assistants and freemen of the saide Company as shalbe present or the greater 
number of them soe assembled whereof the Governor or Deputie Governor and six of tlie 
Assistants at the least to be seaven shall have full power and authoritie to choose nome- 
nate and appoints such and soe many others as they shall ihinke fitt, and that shall be 
willing to accept the same to be free of the said Company and Body and them into 
the same to admitt and to elect and constitute such officers as they shall think fitt and 
requisite for the ordering managing and dispatching of ihe aftaiies of the saide Gov- 
ernor and Company and their successors, And to make lawes and ordinances for the 
good and welfare of the saide Company, and for the government and ordering of the 
said landes and plantacon and the people inhabiting and to inhabite the same as to them 
from tyme to tyme shalbe thought meet, soe as such laws and ordmances be not con- 
trarie or repugnant to the lawes and statuts of this our realme of England ; And our will 
and pleasure is And we do hereby for us our heires and successors establish and ordeyne 
that yearely once in the yeare for ever hereafter namely : the last Wednesday in Eas- 
ter tearme yearely the Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company 
and all other officers of the saide Company shalbe in the Generall Court or Assembly to 
be held for that day or tyme newl}' chosen for the yeare ensueing by such greater paite 
of the said Company foi' the tyme being then and there present as is aforesaide ; And 
yf it shall happen the present Governor Deputy Governor and Assistants by these pres- 
ents appointed or such as shall hereafter be newly chosen into their roomes or any of 
them or any other of the officers to be appointed for the said Company to dye or be re- 
moved from his or their severall offices or places before the saide generall day of eleoon 
(whome we doe hereby declare for any misdemeanor or defect to beremoveable Ijy the 
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1 8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Governor or Deputie Grovernor Assistants and Company or suoli greater parte of them 
in any of the publique Courts to be assembled as aforesaid) Tliat then and in every such 
case it shall and male be lawfull to and for the Governor Deputy Governor Assistants 
and Company aforesaide or such greater parte of them soe to be assembled as is afore- 
said in any of their assemblies to proceade to a new eleccon of one or more others of 
their company in the roome or place, roomesor places of such officers soe dyeing or re- 
moved according to their discrecons, And ymediately upon and after such eleccon and 
eleccons made of such Governor Deputy Governor Assistant or Assistants or any other 
officers of the saide Company in manner and forme aforesaid the authoritie office and 
power aforesaid given to the former Governor Deputy Governor or other officer or 
officers soe removed in whose steade and place newe shalbe soe chosen shall as to him 
and them and everie of them cease and determine, Provided also — and our will and 
pleasure is That as well such as are by these presents appointed to be the present Gov- 
ernor Deputy Governor and Assistants of the said Company as them that shall succeed 
them, and all other officers to be appointed and chosen as aforesaid — sliall before they 
undertake the execucon of their saide offices and places respectivelie take their corporall 
oathes for the due and faitlifull performance of their duties in their severall offices and 
places before such person or persons as are by these presents hereunder appointed to take 
and receive the same: That is to sale the said Mathewe Cradock — who is hereby nom- 
enated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company — shall take the saide 
oathes before one or more of the Masters of our Courts of Chauncery for the tyme be- 
ing, unto which Master or Masters of the Chauncery Wee doe by these presents give 
full power and authoritie to take and administer the said oathe to the said Governor 
accordingly. And after the saide Governor shalbe soe sworne, then the said Deputy 
Governor and Assistants before by these presents nominated and appointed shall take the 
said severall oathes to their offices and places respectivelie belonging before the said 
Mathewe Cradook the present Governor soe formerlie sworne as aforesaide. And every 
such person as shalbe at the tyme of the annuall eleccon or otherwise upon death or re- 
movall be appointed to be the newe Governor of the said Company shall take the oathes 
to that place belonging before the Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the 
said Company at the least for the tyme being, And the newe elected Deputy Governor 
and Assistants and all other officers to be hereafter chosen as aforesaide, from tyme to 
tyme to take the oathes to their places respectively belonging before the Governor of 
the said Company for the tyme being, Unto which said Governor Deputy Governor 
and Assistants Wee doe by these presents give full power and authoritie to give and 
administer the said oathes respectively according to any true meaning herein before de- 
clared without any omission or further warrant to be had and obteyned of us our heires 
or successors in that behalf. And wee doe further of our especiall grace certen knowl- 
edge and meere mooon for us our heires and successors give and graunt the said Gov- 
ernor and Company and their successors forever by these presents That it shalbe law- 
full and free from them and their assigns at all and every tyme and tymes hereafter out 
of any ourrealmes or domynions whatsoever to take leade cary and transport for and 
into their voyages and from and towards the said plantacon in New England 
all such and soe many of our loving subjects or any other strangers that will becom 





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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 19 

our loveing subjects and live under <inr allegiance as shall willinglie accorDjianie 
them in the same voyages and plantacon, and also shipping armour weapons orde- 
nance municon powder shott corne victualls and all manner of clothing implements 
furniture beastes cattle horses mares merchandizes and all other thinges necessarie 
for the saide plantacon and for their use and defence, and for trade with the 
people there and in passing and returning to and fro, any law or statute to 
the conrtarie hereof in any wise notwithstanding and without payeing or yeild- 
ing any custome, on subsedie either inward or outward to as our heires or successors 
for the same by the space of seaven yeares from the day of the date of these presents, 
Provided that none of the saide persons be such as shalbe hereafter by especiall 
name restrayned by us our heires and successors, And for their further encourage- 
ment of our especiall grace and favor wee doe by these presents for us our heires and 
successors yield and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors and 
every of them their factors and assignes, That they and every of them shalbe free and 
quitt from all taxes subsidies and customes in Newe England for the like space of seven 
yeares and from all taxes and imposicons for the space of twenty and one yeares upon 
all goodes and merchandises at any tyme or tyraes hereafter, either upon importaoon 
thither or exportacon from thence into our realm of England or into any other our 
domynions by the saide Governor and Company and their successors their deputies 
factors and assignes or any of them except only the five pounds per centum due for 
custome upon all such goodes and merchandises as after the saide seven yeares shalbe 
expired shalbe brought or imported into our realme of England or any of our do- 
mynions according to the ancient trade of merchants which five pounds per centum onlie 
being paide it shall be thenceforth lawful and free for the said adventurers the same 
goods and merchandises to export and carry out of our said domynions into forrane 
parts without any custome, tax or other duties to be paid to us our heires or successors 
or to any other officers or ministers of us our heires and successors, Provided that the 
said goodes and merchandises be shipped out within thirteene moneths after their first 
landing within any parte of the saide domynions. And wee doe for us our heires and 
successors give and graunte unto the saide Governor and Company and their successors 
That whensoever or soe often as any custome or subsidie shall growe due or pa_veable 
unto us our heires or successors according to the lymittacon and appointment aforesaide 
by reason of any goodes wares or merchandises to be shipped out or any returne to be 
made of any goodes, wares or merchandises unto or from the said portes of Newe England 
hereby menconed to be graunted as aforesaide or any the lands or territoreries afore- 
saide. That then and soe often and in such case the farmers, customers and officers of our 
customes of England and Ireland and everie of them for the tyme being upon request 
made to them by the said Governor and Company or their successors factors or assignes 
and upon convenient security to be given in that behalf shall give and allowe unto the 
said Governor and Company and their successors and to all and everie person and per- 
sons free of that Company as aforesaide six monethes tyme for the payment of the one 
half of all such custome and subsidy as shalbe due and payeable unto us our heires and 
successors for the same. For which these our letters patents or the duplicate in the 
enrollment thereof shalbe unto our saide officers a sufficient warrant and discharge. 



20 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Nevertheless our will and pleasure is That if any ot the saide goods wares and mer- 
chandise which be or shalbe at any tyme hereafter lauded or exported out of any of 
our realmes aforesaide and shalbe shipped with a purpose not to be carried to the portes 
of Newe England aforesaide but to some other place, That then such payment duty 
custom imposicon or forfyture shalbe paid or belonge to us our heires and successors 
for the said goodes wares and merchandises soe fraudulently sought to be transported 
as yf this our graunte had not been made nor graunted. And Wee doe further will 
And by these presents our heires and successors Brmely enjoine and comaunde as well 
the Treasurer Chauncellor and Barons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors, 
as also all and singular the customers farmers and collectors of the customes subsidies 
and imports and the other ofiicers and ministers of us our heires and successors what- 
soever for the tyme being, That they and every of them upon the showing forth 
unto them of these letters patents or the duplicate or exemplificacon of tliesarae 
without any other writt or warrant whatsoever from us our heires or successors to be 
obteyned on said faith doe and shall make full whole entire and due allow- 
ance and cleare discharge unto the saide Governor and Company and their suc- 
cessors of all customes subsidies imposicons taxes and duties whatsoever that shall 
or male be claymed by us our heires and successors of or from the said Governor and 
Compan}' and their successors for or by reason of the said goodes ehattells wares mer- 
chandises and premises to be exported out of our saide domynions or any of them into 
any parte of the Saide landes or premises hereby menconed to be given graunted and 
conferred on for or by reason of any of the saide goodes ehattells wares or merchan- 
dises to be imported from the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be given 
graunted or conferred into any of our saide domynions or any parte thereof as aforesaide 
excepting onlie the saide five pouudes per oentum hereby reserved and payeable after 
the expiracon of the saide terme of seaven yeares as aforesaide and not before. And 
these our letters patents or the enrollment dujjlicate or exemplificacon of the same 
shalbe forever hereafter from tyme to tyme as well to the Treasurer Chancellor and 
Barons of the Exchequer of us our heires and successors as to all and singular the cus- 
tomers farmer? and collectors of the customes subsidies and imports of us our heires and 
successors and all searchers and others the oflicers and ministers whatsoever of us our 
heires and successors for the tyme being a sufficient warrant and discharge in this be- 
half. And further our will and pleasure is, and wee doe hereby for us our heires and 
successors ordayne declare and graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their 
successors That all and every of the subjects of us our heires or successors which shall 
goe to and inhabite within the saide landes and premises hereby menconed to be graunted 
and every of their children which shall happen to be born there on the seas in going 
thither or retorneing from thence shall have and enjoy all hberties and immunities of 
free and naturall subjects within any of the domynions of us our heires or successors to 
all intents construccons and purposes whatsoevei' as if they and every of them were 
born within the realme of England. And that the Governor and Deputy Governor of 
the saide Company for the tyme being or either of them and any two or more of such 
of the saide assistants as shalbe thereunto appointed by the said Governor and Company 
at any of their courts or assemblies to be held as aforesaide shall and male at all tymes 



IN2R0DUCT0RY CHAPTER. 21 

and from tyme to tyme hereafter have full power and authoritie to minister and give 
the oathe and oathes of supremacie and allegiance or either of them to all and everie 
person and persons vphich shall at any tyme or tyines hereafter goe or passe to the 
landes and premises hereby menooned to be graunted to inhabite the same. And 
wee doe of our further grace certen knowledge and mere mocon give and graunt to the 
saide Governor and Company and their successors That it shall and maie be lawfull to 
and for the Governor and Deputy Governor and such of the Assistants and Freemen of 
the saide Company for the t3'me being as shalbe assembled in any of theire General 
Courts aforesaid or in any other Courts to be specially sumoned and assembled for that 
purpose or the greater parte of them (^whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor and 
six of the Assistants to be alwaies seaven) from tyme to tyme to make ordaine and es- 
tablish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders lawes statutes and ordenances di- 
reccons and instruccons not contrarie to the laws of this our realme of England as well 
for selling of tlie formes and ceremonies of government and magistracy fitt and necessary 
for the said plantacon and the inhabitants there and for nameing and stiling of all sortes 
of officers both superior and inferior which they shall find needful! for that government 
and plantacon and the distinguishing and setting forth of the severall duties powers and 
lymitts of evry such office and place and the formes of such oathes warrantable by the 
lawes and statutes of this our realme of England as shalbe respectivelie ministered unto 
them for the execucon of the saide severall offices and places as also for the disposeing 
and ordering of the elecoons of such of the said officers as shalbe annuall and of such 
others as shalbe to succede in case of death or removeall and ministering the saide oathes 
to the newe elected officers and for imposicons of lawfull fynes, mulcts imprisonment or 
other lawfull correccon according to the course of other corporacons in this our realme of 
England and for the directing ruleing and disposeing of all other matters and thinges 
whereby our saide people inhabitants there maie be so religiously peaceablie and civelly 
governed as their good life and orderlie conversacon maie wynn and incite the natives 
of the country to the knowledge and obedience of the onlie true God and Saviour of 
mankinde and the Christian fayth which in our royal intencion and the adventurers free 
profession is the peaoefull ende of this plantacon. Willing ccmmaunding and require- 
ing and by these presents for us our heires or successors ordayning and appointing 
That all such orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruccons and direccons as shalbe soe 
made by the Governor and Deputie Governor of the saide Company and such of the As- 
sistants and Freemen as aforesaide and published in writeing under their coraon seale 
shalbe carefullie and dulie observed kept pformed and putt in execucon according to the 
true intent and meaning of the same, And these our letters patents or the duplicate or 
exempliiicacion thereof shalbe to all and every such officer superior and inferior from 
tyme to tyme for the putting of the same orders lawes statutes and ordinances instruc- 
cons and direccons in due execucon against us our heires and successors a sufficient war- 
rant and discharge. And wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and 
graunt to the saide Governor and Company and their successors by these presents 
That all and everie such chiefe comaunders captaines governors and other officers and 
ministers as by the saide orders lawes statutes ordinances instruccons or direccons of the 
said Governor and Company for the tyme being shalbe from tyme to tyme hereafter 



22 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ymployed either in the government of the said inliabitants and plantacon or on the waye 
by sea thither or from tlience according to the natures and lymitts of their offices and 
places respectiveMe shall from tyme to tyrae hereafter forever within the precincts and 
partes of Newe England hereby menconed to be graunted and confermed or on the waie 
by sea thither or from thence have full and absolute power and authoritie to correct 
punishe pardon governe and rule all such the subjects of us our lieires and successors as 
shall from tyme to tyme adventur themselves in any voyage thilher or from thence or 
that shall at any tyme hereafter inhabite within the precincts and partes of Newe Eng- 
land aforesaid according to the orders lawes ordinances instruccons and direccons afore- 
said not being repugnant to the lawes and statutes of our realnie of England as aforesaid, 
And wee doe further for us our heires and successors give and graunte to the said Gov- 
ernor and Company and their successors by these presents, That it shall and male be 
lawful! to and for the chiefe comaunders governors and officers of said Company for the 
time being who shalbe resident in the saide parte of Newe England in America by these 
presents graunted and others there inhabiting by their appointment and direccon from 
tyme to tyme and at all tymes liereafter for their special! defence and safety to in- 
counter expulse repel! and resist by force of armes as well by sea as l)y lande and by all 
fitting waies and means wliatsoever all such person and persons as slial! at any tyme here- 
after attempt or enterprise the destruccon invasion detriment or annoyaunce to the said 
plantacon or inliabitants; and to take and surprise by all waies and meanes wliatsoever 
all and every such person and persons with their shipps armour municon and other goodes 
as shall in hostile manner invade or attempt the defeating of the said plantacon or the 
hurt of the said company and inhabitants. Nevertheles our will and pleasure is and wee 
doe hereby declare to all Christian Kinges Princes and states that yf any person or per- 
sons which shall hereafter be of the said company or plantacon or any other by lycense 
or appointment of the said Governor and Company for the tyme being shall at any tyme 
or tymes hereafter robb or spoyle by sea or by land or doe any hurt violence or unlawful! 
hostility to any of the subjects of us our heires or successors or any of the subjects of any 
Prince or State being then in league and aniytie with us our heires and successors and that 
upon such injury don and upon just complaint of such Prince or State or their sub- 
jects, Wee our heires or successors shall make upon proclamacon within any of the 
partes within our realme of England comodious for that purpose, That the person 
or persons haveingcomitted any such roberie or spoyle shall within the terme lymytted 
by such a proclamacon make full restitucon or satisfacon of all such injuries don soe 
as the said Princes or others soe complayning male hould themselves fullie satisfied 
and contented. And that yf the said person or persons haveing cometted such rob- 
berie or spoyle shall not make or cause to be made satisfacon accordinglie within such 
tyme so to be lymytted. That then it shall be lawful! for us our heires and successors 
to put the said pson or psons out of our allegeance and protecon : And that it shalbe 
lawful! and free for all Princes to prosecute with hostilitie tlie said offenders and every 
of them, Their and every of their procurers ayders abettors and comforters in that 
behalf. Provided also and our express will and pleasure is and wee doe by these 
presents for us our heires and successors ordayne and appoint That these presents sliall 
not in any manner inure or be taken to aliridge barr or hinder any of our loveing sub- 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 23 

jects whatsoever to use and exercise the trade of fishing; upon that coast of Newe 
England in America by these presents menconed to be graunted : But that they and 
every or anv of them sliall have full and free power and liberty to continue and use their 
said trade of fishing upon the said coast in any the seas thereunto adjoyning or any 
armes of the seas or saltwater rivers where they have byn wont to fish and to build and 
sett up upon the landes by these presents graunted such wharfes stages and worke 
houses as shalbe necessary for the salting drying keeping and tacking up of their fish to 
be taken or gotten upon that coast ; and to cutt downe and take such trees and other 
materialls there groweing or being as shalbe needful! for that purpose, and for all other 
necessarie easements helpes and advantage concerning their said trade of fishing there in 
such manner and form as they have byn heretofore at any tyme accustomed to doe 
without making any wilfuU waste or spoyle any thing in these presents contayned to 
the contrarie notwithstanding. And vv'ee doe further for us our heires and successors 
ordeyne and graunte to the said Governer and Company and their successors by these 
presents, That these our letters patents shalbe firme good eftectuall and availeable in all 
thinges and to all nitentsand construccons of lawe according to our true meaning herein 
before declared, and shalbe construed reputed and adjudged in all cases most favourable 
on the behalf and for the benefltt and behoofe of the saide Governor and Company 
and their successors although expresse mencon of the true yearely value or certenty of 
the premisses or any of them or of any other giftes or grauntes by us or any of 
our progenitors or predecessors to the aforesaid Governor or Company before this time 
made in these presents or not made or ainy statute act ordinance provision proclamacon 
or restramte to the contrarie thereof heretofore had made published ordayned or pro- 
vided or any other matter cause or thinge ^whatsoever to the contrarie thereof in any 
wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof wee have caused these our letters to lje 
made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster the fourth day of March in the fourth 
yeare of our raigne. 

Per Breve de Privato Sigilio 

WOLSELEY. 

PraedictusMatthaeus Cradocke Juratus est de Fide et obedientia Regi et Suocessori- 
bus suis, et de Debita Exeoutioni OfBcii Gubernatoris juxta Tenorem Praesentium, 18° 
Martii 1628. Coram me Carolo Ciesare Milite in Cancellaria Mro. 

Char. C.i-:sar. 

The full text of tlie above charter is included in this narrative in or- 
der that readers may have a clear understanding of the foundation on 
which the judicial system of the Massachusetts colony rested and the 
source from which authority was derived for its establishment. Doubts 
have been entertained by some writers whether it was the royal intent 
that the charter and the corporation authorized by it should ever be 
transferred from England to America. A no less careful and discrim- 
inating writer than Hutchinson says in his history, " It is evident from 
the charter that the original design of it was to constitute a corporation 



24 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

in England like to that of the East India and other great companies, 
with povveis to settle plantations within the limits of the territory, un- 
der such form of government and magistracy as should be fit and neces- 
sary. The first step in sending out Mr. Endicott, appointing him a 
council, giving him commission, instructions, etc., was agreeable to this 
construction of the charter." 

It will perhaps be well in order that this reference to Mr. Endicott 
may be understood, to follow for a time the steps taken by the Massa- 
chusetts Company under the charter. One of the earliest movements 
among the members of the company was the withdrawal of Sir Henry 
Rosewell, Sir John Younge and Thomas Southcott, and the assignment 
of their interest to John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson, Mathew Cradock, 
Thomas Goffe and Sir Richard Saltonstall, and among the new mem- 
bers of the company when reorganized were Thomas Dudley, Nicholas 
West, Thomas Sharpe, William Browne and William Colbron. The 
financial affairs of the company were at first managed in England, and 
John Endicott was sent out to New England with a company in the sum- 
mer of 1628, before the issue of the charter, which did not pass the seals 
until the fourth of the following March. Endicott arrived at Salem in tiie 
ship Abigail on the sixth of September, and for a time acted as a quasi 
governor of the colony. The colony over which he had authority was 
merely a band of emigrants sent over by what may be termed the Mas- 
sachusetts Company, acting simply under the grant which they had re- 
ceived from the Plymouth Council or Northern Virginia Company and 
before tlie issue of the letters patent from the king. It will be seen there- 
fore that the mission of Endicott throws no light on the intent of the 
charter, as it was authorized before the charter was issued. After the 
issue of the charter to the company of which Endicott was one and 
to which his small Salem colony was subservient, he was permitted to 
act as local governor until Winthrop arrived with his larger company 
and with the charter from the king. After the issue of the charter, fa- 
vorable letters having been received from Endicott, at a meeting of the 
company held on the 28th of July, 1629, Mathew Cradock, the gover- 
nor of the company named in the charter, " read certain propositions 
conceived by himself," giving reasons for transferring the government to 
Massachusetts. At the next meeting of the company held on the 2Sth 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 25 

of August in the same year the deputy governor put the question as 
follows: "As many of you as desire to have the patent and the gov- 
ernment of the plantation to be transferred to New England, so as it 
may be done legally, hold up your hands, so many as will not, hold up 
your hands." The decision of the question is thus entered on the rec- 
ords of tlie company : " Where by erection of hands it appeared by the 
general consent of the company that the government and patent should 
be settled in New England, and accordingly an order to be drawn up." 
Two days before the vote was taken, on the 26th of August, the fol- 
lowing agreement was executed : 

" Upon due consideration of the State of tiie Plantation now in hand for New Eng- 
land, wherein we whose names are hereunto subscribed have engaged ourselves, and hav- 
ing weighed the greatness of the work in regard of the consequence, God's glorv and 
the Church's good ; as also in regard of the difficulties and discouragements which in. 
all probabilities must be forecast upon the prosecution of this business; considering 
withal that this whole adventure grows upon the joint confidence we have in each 
other's fidelity and resolution herein, so as no man of us would have adventured it with- 
out assurance of the rest; now for the better encouragement of ourselves and others 
that shall join with us in this action, and to the end that every man may without 
scruple dispose of his estate and afiairs as may best fit his preparation for this voyage: 
it is fully and faithfully agreed amongst us and every one of us doth hereby freely and' 
sincerely promise and bind himself in the word of a Christian, and in the presence of 
God, wlio is the searcher of all heart.'*, that we will so really endeavor the pro.secution 
of this work, as by God's assistance we will be ready in our persons, and with such of 
of our several famdies as are to go with us, and such provision as we are able conven- 
iently to furnish ourselves withal, to embark for the said Plantation by the first of March 
next, at such port or ports of this land as shall be agreed upon by the Company, to the 
end to pass the seas (under God's protection) to inhabit and continue in New England ; 
Provided always, that before the last of September next the wliole government together 
with the patent for the said Plantation, be first, by an order of Court legally transferred 
and established to remain with us and others which shall inhabit upon the said Planta- 
tion ; and provided also, that if any shall be hindered by such just and inevitable let or 
other cause to be allowed by three parts of four of those whose names are hereunto sub- 
scribed, then such persons, for such times and during such lets, to be discharged of this 
bond. And we do further promise, every one for himself, that shall fail to be ready 
through his own default by the day appointed, to pay for every day's default the sum. 
of £3 to the use of the rest of the company who shall be ready by the same day and 
time. 

Richard Saltonstall Isaac Johnson John Winthiop 

Thomas Dudley John Humphrey William Pinchon 

William Vassall Thomas Sharpe Kellam Browne 

Nicholas West Increase Nowell William Colbron. 



26 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

On the 20th of October, 1629, at "a Generall Court holden in Eng- 
land at Mr. Gofife the Deputye's House," the records of the company 
state, Governor Cradock having declared the object of the meeting to 
be the election of a new governor, deputy governor and assistants on 
account of the proposed transfer of the government to New England : 

'' And now proceeding to the election of a new Governor Beputy and Assistants, 
which upon serious deliberation hath been and is conceived to be for the special good 
and advancement of their aflFairs, and having received extraordinary great commenda- 
tions of Mr. JoTin Winthrop both for his integrity and sufficiency as being one eveiy 
way well fitted and accomplished for the place of Governor, did put in nomination for 
that place the said Mr. John Winthrop, Sir R. Saltonstall. Mr. Isaac Jolinson and Mr. 
John Humfrey ; and the said Mr. Winthrop was with a geneial vote and full consent of 
this court by erection of hands chosen to be Governor for tlie ensuing year to begin on 
this present day ; who was pleased to accept thereof and thereupon took the oath to 
that place appertaining. In like manner and with like free and full consent Mr. John 
Humfrey was chosen Deputy Governor and 

Sir R. Saltonstall Mr. Thomas Sharpe 

Mr. Isaac Johnson Mr. John Revell 

Mr. Thomas Dudley Mr. Matt: Cradock 

Mr. Jo : Endicott Mr. Thomas Goft'e 

Mr. Noell Mr. Aldeisey 

Mr. William Yassall Mr. John Venn 

Mr. William Pinchon •' Mr. Nath : Wright 

Mr. Sam : Sharpe Mr. Theoph : Eaton 

Mr. Edw : Rossiter Mr. Tho : Adams 

were chosen to be Assistants: which said Deputy and the greatest part of the said As- 
sistants being present took the oaths to their said places ap]nn'taining respectively." 

The departure of Winthrop for New England occurred on the 8th of 
April, 1630, after detentions by unfavorable winds at Cowes and Yar- 
mouth, and he arrived at Salem on the 12th of June. On his arrival of 
course the administration of Endicott ceased, the colony of emigrants 
was merged in the Massachusetts Companj', of which 't was only a fore- 
runner and part, and henceforth the government of the Massachusetts 
Colony was vested in a governor, deputy governor and assistants living 
on the plantation, and with the royal charter in their possession, not 
answerable to any company officers at home. 

The question may now be resumed as to the power of the company 
to transfer their patent and government to New England. The opinion 
of Hutchinson has already been quoted, and his opinion, as stated by 



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Mr. Charles Deane in liis paper on the charter in the Memorial History 
of Boston, has been concurred in " by such historians as Chahtiers, Rob- 
ertson, Grahame, Hildreth and Young and by the distinguished Judge 
Storey." On the other hand Mr. Deane says that "Dr. Palfrey, the 
eminent historian of New England, and the late Professor Joel Parker of 
Cambridge are of the opinion that the charter was actually drawn with 
a design on the part of the patentees to be used either in England or in 
New England — there being an absence of any language locating the 
corporation in England." 

Mr. Deane in the paper referred to fails to express his own opinion 
on the mooted question, and his failure is the more to be regretted be- 
cause the almost unerring instinct which he exhibited in the investiga- 
tion of historical points would have given his opinion the form of a ju- 
dicial decision. With a natural hesitation to attempt to decide a ques- 
tion on which leading antiquaries are divided, the writer ventures to 
add a word in maintenance of the position of Professor Parker that the 
transfer of the charter and company to New England were in accord- 
ance with powers conferred by royal authority. Aside from the silent 
acquiescence of King Charles in the transfer, which of itself affords an 
argument not to be ignored, a careful reading of the text discloses at 
least two provisions which look directly to the possible administration 
of the government outside of England. With regard to the oaths to be 
taken by the officers of the company the text of the charter reads as 
follows : "That is to say, the said Mathew Cradock who is hereby nom- 
inated and appointed the present Governor of the said Company shall 
take the said oaths before one or more of the Masters of our Court of 
Chancery for the tyme being, unto which Master or Masters we do by 
these presents give full power and authority to take and administer the 
said oaths to the said Governor accordingly. And after the said Gov- 
ernor shall be sworne then the said Deputy Governor and Assistants, 
before by these presents nominated, shall take the said several oaths to 
their offices and places respectively belonging before the said Mathew 
Cradock the present Governor so formerly sworn as aforesaid. And 
every such person as shalbe at the time of the annual election or other- 
wise upon death or removal, be appointed to be the new Governor of 
the said Company shall take the oaths to that place belonging before 



28 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the Deputy Governor or two of the Assistants of the said Company at 
the least for the time being." It is fair to presume that the provision 
for a different method of taking the oath by Governor Cradock before 
a Master in Chancery, from that permitting the oaths of his successors 
to be taken before the deputy governor or two of the assistants was in- 
tended to meet the contingency of a removal of the company to New 
England where no master in chancery would be accessible. 

Again the charter provides " That it shall and may be lawful to and 
for the chief commanders, governors and officers of said company for 
the time being who shalbe resident in the said part of New England in 
America by these presents granted and others there inhabiting by their 
appointment and direction from time to time and at all times hereafter 
for their special defence and safety to encounter, e.xpulse, repel and re- 
sist by force of arms as well by sea as by land and by all fitting ways 
and means whatsoever, all such person and persons as shall at any 
time hereafter attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detri- 
ment or annoyance to the said plantation or inhabitants." This pro- 
vision certainly contemplates the residence of the ofificers of the com- 
pany in New England, and it is impossible to understand why, if the 
officers were authorized to reside on the plantations of the company, 
they could not by authority have in their possession there the charter 
from which they derived all their powers. This provision is only one 
of many to be found in the text manifestly indicating that the charter 
contemplated the establishment of a company in New England with 
duly chosen ofificers, and with all the necessary powers to make laws, 
provide methods of punishment for their infraction, and organize to all 
intents and purposes a government of their own. 

It has also been doubted by some whether the charter contained any 
authoritj' " to erect judicatories or courts for the probate of wills or with 
admiralty jurisdiction ; or to incorporate towns, colleges or schools, all 
which powers were exercised, together with the power of inflicting cap- 
ital punishment." How such a doubt can be seriously entertained it is 
difficult to understand after reading the provision that the chief com- 
manders, captains, 'governors and other officers and ministers shall from 
time to time have full power and authority to correct, punish, pardon, 
govern and rule according to laws established by the company. The 



INTRODUCTORY CHATTER. 29 

power to punish carries with it the power to establish courts to try per- 
sons accused, and the broad power to govern includes all the powers 
necessary toestablish and maintain a peaceable and well organized com- 
monwealth. 

But though the Massachusetts Company had no hesitation in the trans- 
fer of their patent and in the exercise of the powers conferred by it, 
some years elapsed before they were left in undisturbed possession of 
the patent and its privileges. Without entering upon a detailed history 
of their annoyances, it is sufficient to say that repeated complaints were 
made to the home government of what were called usurpations by the 
company, and to state the final conclusion of the action of the govern- 
ment whicli these complaints elicited. Though these complaints took 
exception chiefly to the exercise of civil power, it is quite evident that 
the theological attitude of the colony and its apparently changed rela- 
tions to the established church excited more uneasiness at home than 
any acts of the colony committed under the presumed authority of the 
patent or charter. Repeated demands were made by the Privy Coun- 
cil for the return of the charter to England, and at various times ships 
read}- to sail for New England were temporarily detained. The Massa- 
chusetts Company turned a deaf ear, however, to these demands, and 
finally the disorders of the mother country became so serious that the 
colony in New England was overlooked and permitted to go on in its 
career of development and manage its affairs in peace. 

The closing incidents in the long- continued effort to secure the return 
of the charter were a letter to John VVinthrop from the Privy Council 
and the response of the Massachusetts General Court, after which the 
interference of the council in the affairs of the colony ceased under the 
pressure of more serious matters at home. With the presentation of 
this letter and response as parts of this narrative, this sketch of the 
charter will close. 

" Ai Wliitehall, April 4, 1630. 

"Thisda}' the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, taking into consideration 
th;it the petitions and complaints ot his Majesty's subjects, planters and traders in New 
England grow more frequent than heretofore, for want of a settled and orderly govern- 
ment in those parts, and calhng to mind that they had formerly given orders about two 
or three years since to Mr. Cradock, a member of that Plantation to cause the grant or 
letters patent ot that Plantation (alleged by him to be there remaining in the hands of 



30 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Mr. WinUirop) to be sent over hither, and that notwithstanding the same, the said let- 
ters patent were not as yet brought over : and their Lordships being now informed by 
Mr. Attorney General that a quo warianto had been by him brought, according to 
former orders, against the said patent, and the same was proceeded to judgment 
against so many as had ap])eared, and that they which had not appeared were out- 
lawed, — 

''Their Lordships, well approving of Mr. Attorney's care and proceeding therein, did 
now resolve and order that Mr. Mewtis, Clerk of the Council, attendant upon the said 
Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, should in a letter from himself to Mr. Wintlirop, 
enclose and convej' this order unto him. And their Lordships hereby in his Majesty's 
name, and according to his express will and pleasure, strictly require and enjoine the 
said Wintlirop, or any other in who.se power and custody the said letters patent are, 
that they fail not to transmit the said patent hither by the return of the ship in which 
the order is conveyed to them ; it being resolved that in case of any further neglect or 
contempt by them shown therein, their Lordships will cause a strict course to be taken 
against them, and will move his Majesty to reassume into his hands the whole planta- 
tion." 

The response was as follows : 

" To the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners for Foreign Plantations : 

" The humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts in New England of 
the General Court there asstembled, the Gth day of September in the 14th year of the 
reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles. 

" Whereas it hath pleased your Lordships, by order of the 4th of April last, to require 
our patent to be sent unto you, we do humbly and sincerely profess, that we are ready 
to yield all due obedience to our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, and to your Lord- 
ships under him, and in this mind we left our native country, and according thereunto 
hath been our practice ever since, so as we are much grieved that your Lordships 
should call in our patent, there being no caui;e known to us, nor any delinquency or 
fault of ours expressed in the order sent to us for that purpose, our government being 
according to his ilajesty's grant and we are not answerable for any defects in other 
plantations. 

" This is that which his Majesty's subjects liere do believe and profess, and therefore 
we are all humble suitors to your Lordships, that you will be pleased to take into further 
consideration our condition, and to afford us tlie liberty of subjects, that we may know 
what is laid to our charge; and have leave and time to answer for ourselves before we 
are condemned as a people unworthy of his Majesty's favor or protection ; as for the quo 
warranto mentioned in the said order, we do assure your Lordships we were never 
called to answer it, and if we had, we doubt not but we have a sufficient plea against it. 

" It is not unknown to your Lordships that we came into these remote parts with his 
Majesty's license and encouragement, under his Great Seal of England, and in the con- 
fidence we had of tiiat a.ssurance, we have transferred our families and estates, and 
heie have we built and planted to the great enlargement and securing of his Majesty's 
dominions in these parts, so as if our patent should now be taken from us we shall be 





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looked ou as runnigados and outlawed, and shall be enforced either to remove to some 
other place, or to return into our native country again; either of which will put us to 
unsupportable extremities, and these evils (among others) will necessarily follow: (1) 
Many thousand souls will be exposed to ruin, being laid open to the injuries of all men. 
(2) If we are forced to desert this place, the rest of the plantation (being too weak to 
subsist alone) will, for the most part, dissolve and go with us, and then will this whole 
country fall into the hands of the French or Dutch, who would speedily embrace such 
an opportunity. (3) If we should lose all our labor and costs, and be deprived of those 
liberties which his Majesty hath granted us, and nothing laid to our charge, nor any 
failing to be found in us in point of allegiance (which all our countrymen do take no- 
tice of and will justify our faithfulness in this behalf) it will discourage all men here- 
after from the like undertakings upon confidence of his Majestie's royal grant. Lastly, 
if our patent be taken from us (whereby we suppose we may claim interest in his 
Majesty's favor and protection) the common people here will conceive that his Maj- 
esty hath cast them otl', and that, hereby, they are freed from their allegiance and sub- 
jection, and therefore will be ready to confederate themselves under a new govern- 
ment, for their necessary safety and subsistence, which will be of dangerous example to 
other plantations, and perilous to ourselves of incurring his Majesty's displeasure, 
which we would by all means avoid. 

" Upon these considerations we are bold to renew our humble supplications to vour 
Lordships, that we may be suffered to live here in this wilderness, and that this poor 
plantation, which hath found more favor from God than many others, may not find less 
favor from your Lordships; that our liberties should be restrained, when others are en- 
larged; that the door should be kept shut unto u.«, while it stands open to all other 
plantations ; that men of ability should be debarred from us, while they have encour- 
agemeuL to other colonies. 

" We dare not question your Lordship's proceedings ; we only desire to open our 
griefs where the remedy is to be expected. If m anythmg we have offended his Maj- 
esty and your Lordships, we humbly prostrate ourselves at the footstool of supreme 
authority ; let us be made the objects of his Majesty's clemency, and not cut off, in our 
first appeal, from all hope of favor. Thus, with our earnest prayers to the King of 
Kings for long life and pro.sperity to his sacred Majesty and his royal family, and for all 
honor and welfare to your Lordships, we humbly take leave." 

Thus an end came to tlie controversy, and Winthrop, in his history of 
New England, says under date of 1639 : " We were much afraid this 
year of a stop in England by reason of the complaints which had been 
sent against us, and the great displeasure which the archbishops and 
others, the commissioners for plantations, had conceived and uttered 
against us, both for these complaints, and also for our not sending iiome 
our patent. But the Lord wrought for us beyond our expectations ; 
for the petition, which we returned in answer of the order sent for our 
patent, was read before the Lords and well accepted, as is before ex- 



32 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

pressed ; and ships came to us from England and divers others ports 
with great store of people and provisions of all sorts." The patent 
never was returned, and may be seen to-day well preserved in the office 
of the secretary of the Commonwealth in the State House in Boston 

It is not proposed to follow further the general history of the Massa- 
chusetts colony It was provided in the charter that the officers of the 
company or colony should consist of a governor, deputy governor, and 
eighteen assistants to be chosen annually by a General Court, consist- 
ing of said officers and all the freemen of the colony on the last Wednes- 
day in Easter term. Besides the General Court there were to be 
three others in each year on the last Wednesday in Hilary, Trinity and 
" Michas." In addition to the above, monthly courts were to be held 
by the governor, deputy governor and assistants " for the better order- 
ing and directing of their affairs." At the first meeting of the General 
Court held in Boston on the 19th of October, 1630, for "the establish- 
inge of the Govm', It was ppounded if it were not the best course that 
the fifreemen should have the power of chuseing assistants when these 
are to be chosen & the assistants from amongst themselves to chuse a 
Govn' & Deputy Govn' whoe w"' the assistants should have the power 
of niakeing lawes & chuseing officers to execute the same. This was 
fully assented unto by the genall vote of the people & ereccon of 
hands." This abrogation of a provision of the charter which made the 
election of these officers a popular one to the extent that all the freemen 
had a vote, looks at first like a surrender of popular rights and a trans- 
formation of the pure democracy contemplated in the patent into a gov- 
ernment possessing a taint of exclusiveness and of a disregard of the 
people's will. It is probable that at this meeting the few who had been 
admitted as freemen were outnumbered by the officers and really had 
no voice in making the change. The limitation of the power of the free- 
men did not continue long. At a General Court held on the 9th of May, 
1632, after the representation of freemen was more numerous, "It was 
genally agreed upon by ereccon of hands, that the Govn"^, Deputy Govn"' 
& Assistants should be chosen by the whole Court of Govn'', Deputy 
Govn"^, Assistants & freemen, and that the Govn'' shall alwaies be 
chosen out of the Assistants." At a General Court held on the 14th of 
May, 1634, the records state, " further it is agreed that none but the 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 35 

Genall Court hath power to chuse and admit freemen. — That none but 
the Genall Court hath power to make and establishe lavves, nor to elect 
and appoynct officers as Govn', Deputy Govn"', Assistants, Tresurer, 
Secretary, Capt., Leiuten'", Ensigns, or any of like moment, or to re- 
move such upon misdemeanor, as also to sett out the dutyes and powers 
of the said officers. — That none but the Genall Court hath power to 
rayse monyes and taxes, and to dispose of lands, vis., to give and con- 
firme pprietyes " 

At the same court it was also ordered " that it shalbe lawfull for thc 
ffi-eemen of evy plantacon to chuse two or three of each towne beforc 
evy Genall Court, to conferre of & ppare such publ busines as by them 
shalbe thought fitt to consider of att the next Genall Court, & that such 
psons as shalbe hereafter soe deputed by the freemen ot [the] sevalt 
plantacons, to deale in their behalfe, in ye publiqueatfayres of the com- 
onwealth, shall have the full power & voyces of all the said ffreemen, 
deryved to them for the makeing & establishing of lawes, graunting of 
landes, &c., & to deale in all other affaires of the comonwealth wherein 
the ffreemen have to doe, the matter of eleccon of magistrates & other 
officers onely excepted, wherein evy freeman is to gyve his own voyce." 
Thus a general court composed of deputies was authorized for all pur- 
poses except the election of officers. For this election the votes of the 
freemen were required. A method approaching to a general election 
of freeman in their respective towns became desirable as towns increased 
in number, and it became inconvenient to attend the General Court 
for the purpose merely of casting a vote. At a General Court held on 
the 3d of March, 1635-6, it was consequently ordered "that the 
Genall Court to be liolden in May nexte for eleccon of magistrates, &c., 
shalbe holden att Boston & that the townes of Ipsw'='', Newebury, Salem. 
Saugus, Wayrnothe & Hingham shall have libertie to stay soe many of 
their ffreemen att home, for the safety of their towne as they judge 
needfuU, & that the saide ffreemen that are appoyncted by the towne to 
stay at home shall have liberty for this Court to send their voices b}- 
pxy." 

This partial order seemed to open the way for the enactment of a 
general election law which was passed on the gth day of March 1636-7. 
The record states that "This Couit takeing into serious consideration 
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34 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the greate danger and damage that may accrue to the state by all the 
freemens leaveing their plantations to come to the place of elections, have 
therefore ordered it that it shalbe free and lawful! for all freemen to send 
their votes for elections by proxie the next Generall Court in May & so 
for hereafter wch shallbe done in this manner ; The deputies wch shalibee 
chosen shall cause the freemen of their towns to bee assembled & then 
to take such freemen's votes as please to send by pxie for every magis- 
trate & scale them up, severally subscribing the magistrates name on 
the backside & soe to bring them to the Courte sealed with an open roule 
of the names of the freemen that so send by pxie." Thus a House of 
Delegates was established by these several laws and orders, after which 
the House of Representatives of our day is modeled, and a method of 
conducting elections and making returns thereof was adopted less com- 
plicated than our own, but perhaps as effective and exact. 

As early as 1634 legislation was had concerning judicial pioceedings. 
Up to that time the General Court had taken cognizance of oflences 
against the laws and ordered the infliction of punishment. As early as the 
autumn of 1630 in cases of capital crimes, juries were impaneled, and on 
the 9th of November in that year at a Court of Assistants consisting of 
the governor, deputy governor. Sir Richard Saltonstall, Mr. Ludlowe, 
Capt. Endicott, Mr. Coddington, Mr. Pinchon and Mr. Bradstreet, 
Walter Palmer, who had been indicted for manslaughter was tried before 
a jury consisting of Mr. Edmond Lockwood, William Rockwell, Chris- 
topher Conant, William Phelps, William Gallard, John Hoskins, Richard 
Morris, William Balston, William Cheesborough, John Page, John 
Balsh and Lawrence Leach and acquitted. 

In 1634 it was enacted "that the General Court, consisting ofmagis- 
tates and deputies, is the chief civil power of the Commonwealth ; which 
only hath power to raise money and taxes upon the whole country and 
dispose of lands viz., to give and confirm proprieties appertaining to and 
immediately derived from the country ; and may act in all affairs of this 
Commonwealth according to such power, both in matters of counsel, 
making the laws and matters of judicature, by impeaching and sentenc- 
ing any ])erson or persons according to law, and by serving and hear- 
ing any complaints orderly presented against any person or court ; and 
it is agreed that this court will not proceed to judgment in any cause, 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 35 

civil or criminal, before the deputies have taken thisoath following : ' I do 
swear by the most great and dreadful name of the ever living God, that 
in all cases wherein I am to deliver my vote or sentence, against any 
criminal offence or between parties in any civil case, I will deal up- 
rightly and justly, according to my judgment and conscience; and I 
will according to my skill and ability assist in all other publick affairs of 
this court faithfully and truly according to the duty of my place, when 
I shall be present to attend the service.' " 

Without attempting to present a list of crimes and offences of which 
the courts were required at various times in the history of the colony to 
take cognizance, it may be interesting to learn what were punishable by 
death. They were Idolatry in obedience to the passage of Scripture, 
Exodus 22:20, Deuteronomy 13:6, 10, and 17:2,6; Witchcraft, 
Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Blasphemy, 
Leviticus 24:15, 16; Murder, Exodus 21:12, 13, Numbers 35:31; 
Mail Slaughter, Leviticus 24:17, Numbers 35:20, 21; Poisoning, 
Exodus 21:14; Bestiality, Leviticus 20:15, 16; Sodomy, Leviticus 
20:13; Adultery, Leviticus 20:19 and 18:20, Deuteronomy 22:23, 
27 ; Man Stealing, Exodus 21:16 ; False Witjiess, Deuteronomy 19 : 16 
and i8:i6; Rebellion, Numbers 16, Second Samuel 3, same 18,. 
same 20; Cursing and Smiting o{ Parents by children above sixteen 
years of age. Exodus 21:17, Leviticus 20:9, Exodus 21:15; Stud 
bornness of children above sixteen years, Deuteronomy 22:20, 21 ; 
Rape ; Arson. 

On the 3d of March, 1635-6, the jurisdiction of the General Court was 
restricted by an enactment concerning inferior courts and courts of 
assistants after which the General Court was chiefly if no"t solely a court 
of appeal. This enactment provided : " That there shalbe ffoure Courts 
kept evy quarter I att Ipsw''', to which Newberry shall belonge : 2 att 
Salem to w"'' Saugus shall belonge ; 3 att New Towne to w''' Charlton 
[Charlestown], Concord, Meadford & Waterton shall belonge; 4th att 
Boston to w'*' Rocksbury Dorchester Weymothe & Hingham shall 
belonge," and that "evy of theis Courts shalbe kept by such magis- 
trates as shalbe dwelling in or neere the saide townes & by such other 
psons of wourth as shall from tynie to tyme be appoynncted by the 
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36 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

att the least, & tliat none of the magistrates be excluded whoe can and 
will attend the same: yet the Genall Court shall appoynct w'' of the 
magistrates shall specially belonge to evy of the saide Courts. Such 
psons as shalbe joyned as assotiates to the magistrates in the said Court 
shalbe chosen by the Genall Court, out of a greater number of such as 
the sevall townes shall nominate to them, soe as there may be in evy of 
the said Courts so many as (with the magistrates) may make fyve in all. 
Theis Courts shall trie all civell causes whereof the debt or dam- 
age shall not exceede ^lo & all criminall causes not concerneing life 
member or banishm*. And if any pson shall finde himselfe greived 
with the sentence of any of the said Courts, he may appeale to the nexte 
greate quarter Court, pvided that hee putt in sufficient caucon to psent 
his appeale with effect & to abide the sentence of the magistrates in the 
said greate quarter Court, whoe sliall see that all such that shall bringe 
any appeale without just cause be exeniplaryl)' punished." 

These were called Inferior Courts and the first was to be held the last 
Tuesday in June and the others on the last Tuesday in September,(De- 
cember and March respectively. 

The Great Quarter Courts referred to above were established at the 
same time by an enactment that " there shalbe foure greate quarter Courts 
kept yearely att Boston by the Govn' & the rest of the magistrates ; the 
first, the first Tuesday in the 4th moneth called June; the second, the 
first Tuesday in Septemb' ; the third the first Tuesday in Decem' ; the 
fourthe the first Tuesday in the ith monethe called Marche." 

It was further enacted that " all accons shalbe tryed att that Court 
to w''' ye Deft belongs " and that " all offenders which shalbe in the 
prison att Boston att the tyme of any Court there holden, shalbe tryed 
att that Court, except in the war' of his comitm* hee be reserved to the 
greate quarter Court. And it shalbe lawfuU for the Govn' or Deputy 
Govn', or any two magistrates (upon speciall & urgent occacon) to 
appoyncte Courts to be kept upon other dayts than in this order are ap- 
poyncted." 

The judicial system of the colony for the time being was completed 
by a further enactment at the same time as follows : " And whereas the 
most waightie affaires of this body are nowe, by this present order & 
others formerly made, brought into such a, way & methode as there will 




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not henceforthe be neede of see main- Genall Courts to be kept as 
formerly it is therefore ordered that hereafter there shalbe onely two 
Genall Courts kept in a yeare vis. that in the third moneth called May for 
eleccons, and other affaires & the other the first Wednesday in October for 
makeing lawes & other publique occacons of the comonweaithe pro- 
vided that the Govn'' may upon urgent occacon call a Genall Courte att 
any other tyme besides the two Courts before menconed. And whereas 
it may fall out that in some of theis Genall Courts to be holden by the 
magistrates and deputies there may arise some difference of judgment 
in doubtfull cases, it is therefore ordered, that noe lawe order or sen- 
tence shall passe as an act of the Court without the consent of the greaf 
pte of the magistrates on the one pte and the greaf^ number of the 
deputyes on the other pte ; and fore want of such accorde the cause or 
order shalbe suspended & if either ptee thinke it soe materiall, there 
shall be forthwith a comitte chosen, the one halfe by the magistrates & 
the other halfe b}' the Deputyes & the comittee soe chosen to elect an 
umpire, whoe together shall have power toheare & determine the cause 
in question." 

The last provision concerning the requisite assent to any act of the 
General Court of a majority of the magistrates, by which term was 
meant the governor, deputy governor and assistants, was a step towards 
an enactment passed in 1644, that the deputies or representatives should 
form one branch of the General Court and the magistrates another, 
each sitting apart and having a negative on the other. Under this 
arrangement the governor presided over the assistants, and the office 
01 speaker was established as the presiding ofificer in the House of Dep- 
uties. 

The judicial system of the colony remained as above described until 
1639, with the following divisions: First, the General Court, composed 
of the governor, deputy governor, assistants and deputies, sitting twice 
in each jear ; second, the Court of Assistants, or Great Quarter Courts, 
composed of the governor, deputy governor and assistants, sitting at 
Boston four times in the year; and third, the Inferior Courts, kept 
by magistrates, with associates appointed by the General Court, 
with the right of appeal from Inferior Courts to the Courts of Assistants, 
and last appeal to the General Court. The magistrates and associates 



38 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

appointed by the General Court to hold the Inferior Courts were as 
follows: For Salem and Saugus, John Humphrey and John Endicott, 
magistrates or assistants, with Captain Turner, Mr. Scruggs and Town- 
send Bishopp, associates; for Ipswich and Newbury, Thomas Dudley, 
Richard Dummer and Simon Bradstreet, magistrates, with Mr. Salton- 
stall and Mr. Spencer, associates ; for Newtown, Charlestown, Medford 
and Concord, John Haynes, Roger Harlakenden and Increase Nowell, 
magistrates, with Mr. Beecher and Mr. Peakes, associates ; for Boston, 
Ro.xbury, Dorchester, Weymouth and Hingham, Richard Bellingham 
and William Coddington, magistrates, with Israel Stoughton, William 
Hutchinson and William Heath, associates. 

In 1639 the law establishing the Courts of Assistants, or Great Quar- 
ter Courts, was amended, and it was ordered "that there be two Courts 
of Assistants yearly kept in Boston by the governor or deputy gov- 
ernor and the rest of the magistrates, on the first Tuesday of the first 
month and on the first Tuesday of the seventh month (March and Sep- 
tember), to hear and determine all and only actions of appeal from 
inferior courts, all causes of divorce, all capital and criminal causes 
extending to life, member or banishment. And that justice be not 
deferred, nor the country needlessly charged, it shall be lawful for the 
governor, or in his absence the deputy governor (as they shall judge 
necessary), to call a Court of Assistants for trial of any malefactor in 
capital causes." 

At the same time, what were called County Courts were established, 
though no counties had at that, time been incorporated or organized. 
They were merely the old Inferior Courts with a new name and powers 
more clearly defined. The law concerning them provided that " there 
shall be County Courts held in the several counties by the magistrates 
living in the respective counties, or any other magistrate that can attend 
the same, or by such magistrates as the General Court shall appoint 
from time to time, together with sucln persons of worth, where there 
shall be need, as shall from time to time be appointed by the General 
C'ourt (at the nomination of the freemen of the county), to be joined in 
commission with the magistrates so that they may be five in all, three 
whereof majf keep a court, provided there be one magistrate ; every of 
which courts shall have full power to hear and determine all causes^ 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 39 

civil and criminal, not extending to life, member or banishment (which, 
with causes of divorce, are reserved to the Court of Assistants), and to 
make and constitute clerks and other needful officers, and to summon 
juries of inquest and trials out of the towns of the county; provided 
no jurors shall be warned from Salem to Ipswich, nor from Ipswich to 
Salem." 

It was at the same time ordered " that the governor or deputy gov- 
ernor, with any two magistrates, or when the governor and deputy 
governor cannot attend it, that any three magistrates shall have power 
upon the request of any stranger, to call a special court to hear and 
determine all causes, civil and criminal (triable in any County Court 
according to the manner of proceeding in County Courts), which shall 
arise between such strangers, or wherein any such stranger shall be 
party ; and all records of such proceedings s"hall be transmitted to the 
records of the Court of Assistants to be entered as trials in other courts, 
which shall be at the charge of the party, or condemned, in the case." 

With regard to the powers and jurisdiction of the County Courts it 
was ordered by the General Court on the 13th of November, 1644, " yt 
ye County Courts in ye jurisdiction shall take care yt ye Indians residg 
in ye sevrall sheires shalbe civilized, & they shall have pow' to take 
ord"^ from time to time to have them instructed in ye knowledge of 
God." 

In addition to the courts already mentioned, a military commission, 
or, as it has been called by Washburn in his judicial history, and others, 
a Military Court was established by the General Court on the 4th of 
March, 1634—5, by an order which provided "that the present governor 
(Thomas Dudley), deputy governor (Roger Ludlow), John Winthrop, 
John Humphrey, John Haynes, John Endicott, William Coddington, 
William Pinchon, Increase Nowell, Richard Bellingham and Simon 
Bradstreet, or the major part of them, who are deputed by this court to 
dispose of all military affairs whatsoever, shall have full power and 
authority to see all former laws concerneing all military men & muni- 
cons executed, & also shall have full power to ordeyne or remove all 
military officers, & to make and tender to them an oath suitable to their 
places, to dispose of all companyes, to make orders for them & to make 
and tender to them and to see that strickt dissipline and traineing be 



40 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

observed, and to comand them forth upon any occacon they tliinke 
meete, to make either offensive or defensive warr as also to doe what- 
soever may be further behoofefull, for the good of this plaiitacon, in 
case of any warr tliat may befall us and also that the aforesaid comis- 
sioners or the major pte of them shall have power to imprison or con- 
fine any that they shall judge to be enemyes to the comonwealth & 
such as will not come under comand or restrainte, as they shalbe re- 
quired, & shalbe lawfull for the sd comissioners to putt such persons 
to death. This order to continue till the end of the nexte Generall 
Court." 

It cannot be denied that the appointment of this commission or court 
was an extraordinary one, and transcended the powers conferred by 
the charter. That instrument gave the company the power to carry 
on a defensive, but not an offensive war, and if this was one of the acts 
reported to the home government as usurpations of power, no other 
conclusion can be reached than that the accusation was well founded. 
The commission or court was extended from time to time, but was 
finally allowed to die. 

Before taking up the organization of Suffolk county, to which what 
has been thus far presented to the reader has been somewhat intro- 
ductory, it will be well to furnish a list of those who at various times 
occupied positions which may be considered judicial in their character, 
in connection with the Court of Assistants, from the earliest period of 
the colony to the erection of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 
1692. 

The governors were John Endicott, 1629, 1644, 1649, 165 i to 1653, 
1655 to 1664; John VVinthrop, 1630 to 1633, 1637 to 1639, 1642 to 
1643, 1646 to 1648; Thomas Dudley, 1634, 1640, 1645, 1650; John 
Haynes, 1635; Henry Vane, 1636; Richard Bellingham, 1641, 1654, 
1665 to 1671 ; John Leverett, 1672 to 1678 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1679 
to 1686, 1689 to 1692. From 1686 to 1689 Joseph Dudley and Ed- 
mund Andros had jurisdiction over New England by royal appoint- 
ment. 

The deputy governors were: Thomas Dudley, 1629 to 1633, 1637 
to 1639, 1646 to 1649, '651, 1652; Roger Ludlow, 1634; Richard 
Bellingham, 1635, 1640, 1653, 1655 to 1664; John VVinthrop, 1636, 



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1644, 1645; John Eiidicott, 1641 to 1643, 1650, 1654; Francis Wil- 
loughby, 1665 to 1670; John Leverett, 1671, 1672; Samuel Symonds, 
1673 to 1677 ; Simon Bradstieet, 1678 ; Thomas Danfortli, 1679 to 
1686, 1689 to 1692. During the administrations of Josepli Dudley and 
Edmund Andros there was no deputy. 

The assistants at various times were as follows: John VVinthrop 
1634; Thomas Dudley, 1635-36, 1641-42-43-44-45; Increase New- 
ell, 1630 to 1655 ; Simon Bradstreet, 1630 to 1675 ; William Pinchon, 
163010 1636, 1646 to 1650; John Endicott, 1630 to 1634, 1636 to 
1640, 1645 to 1648: William Coddington, 1630 to 1636; Roger Lud- 
low, 1630 to 1633 ; Richard Saltonstall, 1630 to 1633 ; Isaac Johnson, 
1630; Thomas Sharp, 1630; William Vassall, 1630; Edward Rossiter, 
1630; John Winthrop, jr., 1632 to 1639, 1 640 to 1649; John Hum- 
phrey, 1632 to 1639-40-41; John Haynes, 1634 to 1636; Richard 
Bellingham, 1636 to 1639, 1642 to 1652 ; Richard Dummer, 1635-36; 
Atherton Hough, 1635 ; Roger Harlakenden, 1636 to 1638 ; Israel 
Stoughton, 1637 to 1643 I Richard Saltonstall, jr., 1637 to 1649 
Thomas Flint, 1642 to 165 i, 1653 ; Samuel Symonds, 1643 to 1672 
William Hibbens, 1643 to 1654; William Pinchon, 1642 to 1650 
Herbert Pelham, 1645 to 1649; Robert Bridges, 1647 to 1656; Fran- 
cis Willoughby, 1650-51; Edward Gibbons, 1656-51; Thomas Wig- 
gin, 1650 to 1664; John Glover, 1652-53; Daniel Gookin, 1652 to 
1675 ; Daniel Dcnison, 1653 to 1682 ; Simon Willard, 1654 to 1675 
Humphrey Atherton, 1654 to 1661 ; Richard Russell, 1659 to 1676 
Thomas Danforth, 1659 to 1678 ; William Hawthorne, 1662 to 1679 
Eleazer Lusher, 1662 to 1672; John Leverett, 1665 to 1670; John 
Pinchon, 1665 to 1686; Eldward Tyng, 1668 to 1680; William 
Stoughton, 1671 to 1686; Thomas Clarke, 1673 to 1677; Joseph Dud- 
ley, 1676 to 1683. 1685 ; Peter Bulkley, 1677 to 1684; Nathaniel Sal- 
tonstall, 1679 to 1686; Humphrey Davey, 1679 to 1686; James Rus- 
sell, 1680 to 1686; Samuel Nowell, 1680 to 1686; Peter Tilton, 1680 
to 1686; John Richards, 1680 to 1686; John Hall, 1680 to 1683; 
Bartholomew Gedney, 1680 to 1683 : Thomas Savage, 1680-81 ; Will- 
iam Browne, 1680 to 1683; Samuel Appleton, 16S1 to 1686; Robert 
Pike, 1682 to 1686; Daniel Fisher, 1684; John Woodbridge, 1683-84; 
Elisha Cooke, 1684 to 1686; William Johnson, 1684 to 1686; John 
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42 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Hawthorne, 168410 1686; Elisha FTiitchinson, 168410 1686; Sam- 
uel Sevvall, 1684 to 1686; Isaac Addiiigton, 1686; John Smith, 1686; 
OUver Purchase, chosen in 1685 and declined. The charter required 
the annual election of eighteen assistants, but in violation of its provis- 
ions the number varied from seven to twelve until, in consequence of a 
letter from the king of July 24, 1678, the number prescribed in the 
charter was thereafter chosen. 

Under Joseph Dudley, who assumed by royal appointment in 1686 
the office of president of New England, with William Stoughton as 
deputy president, the ofifice of assistant was suspended and the follow- 
ing councillors were appointed, viz : Robert Mason, Fitz John Win- 
throp, John Pinchon, Peter Bulkier, Edward Randolph, Wait Still Win 
throp, Richard Wharton, John Usher, Bartholomew Gedney, Jonathan 
Tyng, John Hinckes, Edward Tyng, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Brad- 
street, Dudley Bradstreet, and Francis Champenon. Under Edmund 
Andros the above persons were reappointed to the council, and the follow- 
ing additional persons : Thomas Hinckley, Barnabas Lathrop, William 
Bradford, Daniel Smith, John Walley, Nathaniel Clarke, John Cogge- 
shall, Walter Clark, Walter Newberr)', John Sanford, John Greene, 
Richard Arnold, John Albro, Francis Nicholson, Robert Treat, John 
Allyn, Samuel Shrimpton, William Browne, Richard Smith, Simon 
Lynde, Anthony Brockholst, Frederick Phillips, Jarvis iJaxler, Stephen 
Van Courtlandt, John Young, Nicholas Bayard, John Palmer, and John 
Sprague. Of the above Nathaniel Saltonstall, Simon Bradstreet, Dud- 
ley Bradstreet and Francis Champenon did not accept their appoint- 
ments. 

Thus far no reference has been made to enactments concerning the 
courts and judiciary after the organization of Suffolk county in 1643 
There only remains to complete the record of the earlier period some 
account of lesser local courts, and of the legislation concerning wills 
and the settlement of estates of persons deceased. It was first provided 
by an order of the General Court, passed on the 9th of September, 
1639, "That there bee records kept of all wills, administrations & in- 
ventories ; as also the dayes of every marriage, birth and death of every 
pson within this jurisdiction." These records were evidently intended 
to be kept by the clerks of the courts, as the preamble to the above 




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order says, " Whereas, many judgments have been given in our Courts 
whereof one hundred and ten records are kept of the evidence 
and reasons whereupon the verdict and judgment did pass, the records 
whereof being duly entered and kept, would be of good use for prece- 
dent to posterity, and a reHef to such as shall have just cause to iiave 
their causes reheard and reviewed ; It is therefore by this Court ordered 
and declared that henceforth every judgment with all the evidence be 
recorded in a book to be kept to posterity." Immediately following 
this preamble as an item is the provision concerning wills above quo- 
ted. No further , legislation was had before the incorporation of the 
county. 

With regard to the lesser local courts it was ordered at a General 
Court held on the 6th of September, 1638, " that any magistrate [as- 
sistant] in thetovvne where hee dwells may heare and determine by his 
discretion all causes whearin the debt, or trespas, or damage, etc., doth 
notexceede 20 s ; & in such towne where no magistrate dwells the Gen- 
erall Court shall from time to time nominate 3 men two whereof shall 
have like power to heare & determine all such actions under 20 s ; & 
if any of the pties shall find themselves greived with any such end or 
sentence, they may appeale to the next quarter Courte or Courte of 
Assistants, etc. And if any pson shall bring any such action to the 
Court of Assistants before hee hath endeavored to have it ended at 
home (as in this order is appointed) hee shall lose his action & pay the 
defendant costs. If no appeale bee put in the day of the sentence upon 
such small actions the magistrate or the said 2 chosen men shall grant 
execution." 

Such, then, was the judicial system at the time ef the incorporation 
of Suffolk county in 1643. h^irst, the General Court, with appellate ju- 
risdiction from the Court of Assistants ; second, the Court of Assistants, 
with appellate jurisdiction from the lower courts ; third, the County 
Courts, with the probate of wills included in their jurisdiction ; fourth, 
Stranger's Court, and fifth. Magistrate's Court. After the incorporation 
of the county laws were passed, during the colonial life of Massachu- 
setts, concerning these courts and establishing others, to which reference 
will be hereafter made. 



4t nisroKv OF the bench and bar. 

At a meeting of the General Court held in Boston on the lOth of May, 
1643, it was ordered " that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction 
be divided into four sheires to wit: 

Essex — Salem, Lynn, Enon (Wenham), Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, 
Gloucester and Chochicawick (Andover.) 

Middlesex. — Charleston, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, 
Woburn, Medford, Linn Village (Reading). 

Suffolk. — Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, Dedhani, Braintree, Wey- 
mouth, Hingham, Nantasket (Hull). 

Norfolk. — Salisbury, Hampton, Haverhill, Exeter, Dover, Strawberry 
Bank (Portsmouth). 

These were the first counties incorporated in Massachusetts, and in 
the order establishing them, were called "Sheires," or Shires. When 
what were called the County Courts were established in 1639 the word 
" County" bore a different meaning from that which aftei wards and now 
prevails. It meant merely, in the language of Worcester's dictionary, 
"a civil division of a State for political or judicial purposes." In the 
application of the word to courts, it merely denominated courts to be 
held and to hold jurisdiction in limited and defined districts. 

Of the towns included in Suffolk shire the incorporation (settlement) 
of Boston is reckoned on the 7th of September, 1630 (old style). It was 
incorporated as a city February 23, 1822. Roxbury was incorporated 
as a town September 28, 1630; as a city, March 12, 1846, and annexed 
to Boston June i, 1867; Dorchester as a town, September 7, 1630, 
and annexed to Boston June 4, 1869 ; Dedham as a town, September 8, 
1636 ; Braintree as a town. May 13, 1640 ; Weymouth as a town, Sep- 
tember 2, 1635; Hingham as a town, September 2, 1635, and Nan- 
tasket May 29, 1644, and its name changed to Hull on or before May 26, 
1647. 

It is proper to state that the Norfolk shire, or county, above men- 
tioned, included some towns within the limits of New Hampshire when 
that territory became a royal province, and that by an act of the Gen- 
eral Court, passed February 4, 1679-80, the county was extinguished 
and the Massachusetts towns within its bounds were annexed to Essex 
county. 

With regard to Suffolk county, it is not proposed to state the various 
changes which have taken place in its territorial limits, as no detailed 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 45 

general history of the county would be properly within the scope of 
this narrative. It is only necessary to say that it now includes Boston, 
incorporated, or settled, as above stated, with its various additions and 
losses of territory; Chelsea, set off from Boston and incorporated as a 
town January 10, 1739, and as a city March 13, 1857 ; Revere, set off 
from Chelsea and incorporated as North Chelsea March 10, 1846, and 
its name changed to Revere March 24, 1871 ; and VVinthrop, set off from 
North Chelsea and incorporated as a town March 27, 1852. 

When the present Norfolk county was incorporated on the 26th of 
March, 1793, all the towns in Suffolk county, except Boston and Chelsea, 
were placed in that county. Thus Hingham, and Hull, and Cohasset, 
which last had been set off from Hingham and incorporated as a town 
April 26, 1770, became parts of Norfolk county. Hingham and Hull 
being dissatisfied with their new connection, were, at the same session 
of the General Court, exempted from the act of incorporation, and were 
finally annexed to Plymouth county. Such is the e.xplanation of the 
mystery, so puzzling to many, that Cohasset should be surrounded by 
Plymouth county towns, and yet be a part of Norfolk county. 

In 1647 3.nd 1649, after the incorporation of Suffolk county, an act 
was passed defining and enlarging the jurisdiction of the petty or magis- 
trate's court, and providing that "any magistrate in the town where he 
dwells may hear and determine by his discretion (not by jury), accord- 
ing to the laws here established, all cases arising in that county wherein 
the debt, trespass, or damage doth not exceed forty shillings, who may 
send for parties and witnesses by summons or attachment directed to 
the marshal or constable, who shall faithfully execute the same. 

" And it is further ordered, that in such towns where no magistrate 
dwells, the Court of Assistants, or County Courts, may, from time to 
time, upon request of the said towns, signified under the hand of the 
constable, appoint three of the freemen as commissioners in such cases, 
any two whereof shall have like power to hear and determine all such 
causes, wherein either party is an inhabitant of that town, who have 
hereby power to send for parties and witnesses, by summons or attach- 
ment directed to the constable, as also to adminster oaths to witnesses 
and to give time to the defendant to answer if they see cause ; and if 
the party summoned refuse '.o give in his bond or appearance, or 



46 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

sentenced refuse to give satisfaction where no goods appear in tlie 
same town where the part}' dwells, they may charge the consta- 
ble with the party, to carry him before a magistrate, or Shire Court (if 
then sitting), to be further proceeded with according to law ; but the 
said commissioners may not commit to prison in any case And where 
the parties live in several towns, the defendant shall be liable to be sued 
in either town, at the liberty of the plaintiff" It was also ordered " that 
in all small causes as aforesaid, where only one magistrate dwells in the 
town, and the cause concerns himself, as also in such towns where no 
magistrate is, and the cause concerns any of the tliree commissioners, 
that in such cases the selectmen of the town shall have power to hear 
and determine the same, and also to grant execution for the levying and 
gathering up such damages for the use of the person damnified, as one 
magistrate or three commissioners may do. And no debt or action 
proper to the cognizance of one magistrate, or the three commissioners 
as aforesaid, shall be received into any County Court, but by appeal 
from such magistrate or commissioners, except in cases of defamation 
and battery." 

In 165 I it was provided by law "that there be seven freemen resi- 
dent in Boston annually chosen by the freemen of the said town and 
presented to the Court of A^istants, who hereby have power to author- 
ize the seven freemen to be commissioners of the said town, to act in 
things committed to their trust, as is hereafter expressed ; who shall 
from time to time be sworn before the said court, or the Governor, 
Deputy Governor or any two magistrates And this court doth hereby 
give and grant commission and authority unto the said seven men, or any 
five of them, or any three of them with one magistrate, to hear and deter- 
mine all civil actions which shall be brought before them not exceeding 
the sum often pounds, arising within the neck of land on which the 
town is situate, as also on Noddles Island, or betwixt anj' persons where 
both parties shall be inhabitants or residents within the said Neck or 
Noddles Island aforesaid, or where either party shall be an inhabitant 
or resident aforesaid ; provided they keep a book of records for the en- 
try of all causes, evidences, testimonies, sentences and judgments as the 
law provides in like cases; which said commissioners are authorized an- 
nually to appoint a clerk of their court and to demand and receive of 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 47 

every plaintiff in all cases or actions not exceeding forty shillings the 
sum of three shillings four pence; and for all other actions the sum 
of ten shillings ; and for all other things the accustomed fees; and the 
said commissioners shall from time to time publish their court days, as 
the three commissioners in towns are bound to. And for the discov- 
ery, prevention and punishment of misdemeanors in the town of Boston : 
Power and authorit}' is hereby given and granted to the said commis- 
sioners, and every of them, by warrant under their or his hand, to con- 
vent before them, or any of them, all such persons as shall be complained 
of for such offences or otherwise brought to their cognizance, and to 
hear and determine the same according to the laws here established, as 
any magistrate may do, provided the fines imposed by them do not ex- 
ceed forty shillings for one offence." It was further provided, in order 
that breaches of the peace might be more effectually suppressed, that 
all " marshals and constables, and other inhabitants should aid and as- 
sist the commissioners" in the performance of their duty, and that none 
should be appointed commissioner "but such whose conversation is in- 
offensive and whose fidelity to the country is sufficiently known and ap- 
proved of by the County Court of the shire." This court was created 
for one year, and, as Hutchinson says, in consequence of a growing jeal- 
ousy of Boston, was not renewed. The selectmen of towns were also 
authorized to Vxy offences against their own by-laws where the penalty 
did not exceed twenty shillings, provided the offence was not a crimi- 
nal one. 

In May, 1685, a Court of Chancery was established by law. It was 
provided as follows : " Whereas it is found by experience that in many 
cases and controversies betwixt parties, wherein there is matter of ap 
parent equity, there hath been no way provided for relief against the 
rigour of the common law, but by application to the General Court; 
where by reason of the weighty affairs of the country of more public 
concernment, particular persons have been delayed to their no small 
trouble and charge; and also great expense occasioned to the public by 
the long attendance of so many persons as that court consists of, to 
hear and determine personal causes brought before them. For ease and 
redress whereof it is ordered and enacted by this court, that the magis- 
trates of each County Court within this jurisdiction, being annually 



48 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

chosen by the freemen, be and hereby are authorized and empowered 
as a Court of Chancery, upon bill of complaint or information exhibited 
to them, containing matter of apparent equity, to grant summons or pro- 
cess as in other cases is usual, briefly specifying the matter of complaint, 
to require the defendant's appearance at a day and place assigned by the 
court to make answer thereunto; and also to grant summons for witnesses 
in behalf of either party, to examine parties and witnesses by interro- 
gations upon oath, proper to the case if the judges see cause to require it ; 
and if any party being legally summoned shall refuse or neglect to make 
his appearance and answer, the case shall proceed to hearing and issue 
as is provided in cases at common law ; and upon a full hearing and 
consideration of what shall be pleaded and presented as evidence in any 
such case, the court to make their decree and determination according 
to the rule of equity, secundum equum et bonum, and to grant execu- 
tion thereon ; provided always that either part)-, plaintiff or defendant, 
who shall find himself aggrieved at the determination of the said County 
Court, shall have liberty to make his appeal to the magistrates of the 
next Court of Assistants, giving in security for prosecution and the 
reason of his appeal to the officers of the said County Court, as the law 
provides in other cases ; where the judges of the former court may have 
liberty to allege and show the grounds and reasons of their determina- 
tion, but shall not vote nor judge in the said Court of Assistants ; and 
the judgment or decree of the said Court of Assistants shall be a full 
and final issue and determination of all such cases, without any after re- 
view or appeal ; unless upon application made by either party to the 
General Court, the said court shall see meet to order a second hearing 
of the case at the County Court with liberty of appeal as aforesaid, or 
in any arduous and difficult cases to admit a hearing and determination 
b\- the General Court; and that a suitable oath be drawn up and agreed 
upon to be administered to those who shall be judges; and in all cases 
of this nature brought to the County Court, the party complaining be- 
fore his bill be filed and process granted shall give sufficient security to 
the clerk of the court to defray the necessary charge and attendance of 
the court." 

Though juries were in use as early September, 1 630, the first legis- 
lation concerning them appears to have been in 1634, w^hen it was 




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ordered " that the secretary or clerk of every court shall in convenient 
time before the sitting of the court send warrants to the constables of 
the several towns of the jurisdiction of the court for jurymen propor- 
tionable to the inhabitants of each town ; and the constable, on the 
receipt of such warrant, shall give timely notice to the freemen of their 
respective towns, to choose so many able, discreet men as the warrant 
shall require, which men, so chosen, he shall warn to attend the court 
whereto they are appointed, and shall make return of the warrant unto 
the clerk aforesaid." Jurymen were allowed four shillings per day, and all 
jurors serving at the Court of Assistants at Boston were to be summoned 
out of the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex. On the 4th of March 
1634-5, '*^ ^^^s ordered that two grand juries be summoned annually, "the 
one to informe the Courts in March, and the other to informe the court 
in September yearely, of the breaches of any order or other misdemeanor 
that they shall know or heare to be comitted by any person or persons 
within this jurisdiction, or to doe any other service of the comon- 
wealth that they shalbe enjoyned." 

It was required by an order passed on the loth of December, 1641, 
that in every town a clerk of the writs should be chosen, approved by 
County Courts, authorized " to grant summons and attachments in 
civil actions and summons for witnesses, to grant replevins and to 
take bonds with sufficient security to the party to prosecute the suit." 
They were also required to record all births and deaths of persons in 
their towns and for every birth and death they so record they shall be 
allowed three pence; and they shall yearly deliver in to the recorder of 
the court of the jurisdiction where they live a true transcript thereof, to- 
gether with so many pence as there are births and deaths to be recorded. 
It was required also that "every new married man shall likewise bring 
a certificate under the hand of the magistrate who married him unto 
the clerk of the writs, to be by him recorded, who shall be allowed three 
pence for the same ; and the said clerk shall deliver as aforesaid unto 
the recorder a certificate with a penny a name for recording the said 
marriage." 

So far as probate matters are concerned there was no change in the 
jurisdiction of the County Court over them during the colonial period, 
except during the presidency of Joseph Dudley and the administration 
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so HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

of Andros Dudley personally assumed probate jurisdiction, but dele- 
gated it in some counties to probate judges of his own appointment. 
Andros personally directed the settlement of estates exceeding fifty 
pounds and delegated others to judges appointed by him. After the 
deposition of Andrews the old probate methods were resumed and con- 
tinued until the union of the colonies in 1692. 

The executive officer of the court was at first called beadle and after- 
wards during the colonial period marshal. Those who held the office 
were James Penn, appointed by the court September 25, 1634; Edward 
Michelson, who is mentioned in the records of the court May 27, 1660, 
as having occupied the office many years; John Greene, chosen May 
27, 1681, and Samuel Gookin, appointed in 1691. 

In 1642 it was ordered "that all causes between party and party 
shall first be tried in some inferior court ; and that if the party against 
whom the judgment shall pass shall have any new evidence, or other 
new matter to plead, he may desire a new trial in the same court 
upon a bill of review, and if justice shall not be done him upon that 
trial, he may then come to the General Court for relief." In the pre- 
vious year it was ordered that " in all actions of law it shall be the lib 
erty of the plaintiff and defendant by mutual consent to choose whether 
they will be tried by the bench, or by the bench and jury, unless it be 
where the law upon just reason hath otherwise determined; the like 
liberty shall be granted to all persons in any criminal case. And it 
shall be in the liberty of both plaintift" and defendant, and likewise of 
every delinquent to be judged by a jury, to challenge any of the jurors, 
and if the challenge be found just and reasonable by the bench or the 
rest of the jury, as the challenger shall choose, it shall be allowed him, 
and tales de circumstantibus empaneled in their room." 

With regard to witnesses it was enacted in May, 1647, "that no man 
shall be put to death without the testimony of two or three witnesses or 
that which is equivalent thereto," and " that any one magistrate or com- 
missioner authorized thereunto by the General Court may take the testi- 
mony of any person of fourteen years of age, or above, of sound under- 
standing and reputation, in any case, civil or criminal, and shall keep the 
same in his own hands till the court, or deliver it to the recorder (clerk), 
public notary or clerk of the writs, to be recorded, that so nothing may 



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be altered in it. Provided that when any such witness shall have his 
abode within ten miles of tiie court, and there living and not disen- 
abled by sickness or other infirmity, the said testimony so taken out of 
court shall not be received or made use of in the court, except the 
witnesses be also present to be further examined upon it, and provided 
also that in all capital cases all witnesses shall be present wheresoever 
they dwell." And it was further ordered " that any person summoned 
to appear as a witness in any civil court between party and party, shall 
not be compelled to travel to any court or place where he is to give his 
testimony, except he who shall so summon him shall lay down or give 
him satisfaction for his travel and expenses outward and homeward ; 
and for such time as he shall spend in attendance in such case, when 
he is at such court or place, the court shall award due recompense. 
And it is ordered that two shillings a day shall be accounted due satis- 
faction to any witness for travel and expenses ; and that when the wit- 
ness dwelleth within three miles, and is not at charge to pass over any 
other ferry than betwixt Boston and Charlestown, then one shilling and 
sixpence per diem shall be accounted sufficient; and if any witness, after 
such payment or satisfaction, shall fail to appear to give his testimony 
he shall be liable to pay the parties damages upon an action of the case. 
And all witnesses in criminal cases shall have suitable satisfaction paid 
by the treasurer, upon warrant from the court or judge before whom 
the case is tried. And the charges of witnesses in all cases shall be 
borne by the parties delinquent and shall be added to the fines imposed, 
that so the treasurer having, upon warrant from the court or other 
judge, satisfied such witnesses, it may be repaid him with the fine, that 
so the witness may be timely satisfied, and the country not damnified." 

Washburn says that "verdicts were sometimes rendered that there 
were strong grounds of suspicion, but not sufficient evidence to convict, 
and upon such verdicts the court gave sentence for what appeared to 
them, on the trial, the defendant had been guilty of, although neither 
charged in the indictment nor found by the jury. This may have led 
to the adoption of that part of the oath administered to jurors in crimi- 
nal cases, that if they find the defendant not guilty, they are to say so 
and no more." 

It is unnecessary to go further in explaining the condition of judicial 
affairs in the colony before the assumption of office by Joseph Dudley 



52 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

as president of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Maine and the 
Narragansett country or the King's Province. The colony charter was 
vacated on the iSth of June, 1684, and Dudley received his commission 
May 15, 1686. He was a member of the colony and an assistant at the 
time of his appointment. William Stoughton, also an assistant, was 
commissioned deputy president, and fifteen persons, whose names have 
already been given in this narrative, were appointed coLmcillors. The 
Governor and Council were made a Court of Record for the trial of civil 
and criminal matters, and had the authority to establish courts and ap- 
point judges to preside over them. They set up a Superior Court, 
composed of a majority of the councillors, to sit three times a year at 
Boston and "Courts of Pleas and Sessions of the Peace" in the several 
counties. William Stoughton was appointed to preside in the County 
Courts of Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex, with John Richards and Simon 
Lynde as assistants. These courts were established July 26, 1686, and 
at the same time the admission of attorneys was regulated and a form 
of oath prescribed to be taken by them. Benjamin BuUivant, a physi- 
cian and apothecary, was appointed attorney-general and Giles Masters, 
Anthony Checkley, Mr. John Watson, Capt. Nathanial Thomas and 
Mr. Christopher Webb were admitted and sworn as attorneys. Bullivant 
was also appointed, November 2, 16S6, clerk of the Superior Court, 
Daniel Allen and Thomas Dudley clerks of Suffolk, and John Winch- 
comb and Nathaniel Page marshals. 

The administration of Dudley was so brief that it is unnecessary to 
say more of its judicial features. Edmund Andros was commissioned 
governor of New England and arrived in Boston on the 19th of Decem- 
ber, 1686. His commission embraced the whole of New PLngland and 
included, what the commission of Dudley did not, the Plymouth as 
well as the Massachusetts Colony. He appointed thirty nine council- 
lors, whose names have already been given, and delegated the powers 
of making and executing the laws to the Governor and Council, subject 
to the approval of the crown. He declared all public lands vested in 
the king, and required grantees to prove their title. The Governor and 
Council were made a Court of Record, and jurisdiction in cases concern- 
ing lands and not involving a sum of forty shillings was given to justices 
of the peace. He also established a " Quarterly Sessions Court," held 



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by the several justices In their respective counties, and an " Inferior 
Court of Common Pleas," to be held in each county by a judge assisted 
by two or more justices of the county, with a limitation of jurisdiction 
in Boston to twenty pounds, where the court was to sit once in two 
months, and in other counties to ten pounds, where it was to sit an- 
nually. In addition to these the "Superior Court of Judicature" was 
established, with jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters in the 
colony and in which no action could be begun for the recovery of less 
than ten pounds, unless a question of freehold was involved. This 
court was to be held in Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Plymouth, 
Bristol, Newport, Salem, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Falmouth (Portland), 
Northampton and Springfield, and Joseph Dudley was appointed its 
chief justice. Besides a Court of Chancery special courts of Oyer and 
Terminer were appointed at various times. Under Andros marshals 
became sheriffs. The Superior Court of Judicature had three judges, 
and with Joseph Dudley, the chief justice, were associated William 
Stoughton and Peter Bulkley, and afterwards at various times, Samuel 
Shrimpton, Simon Lynde, Charles Lidget, John West and John Usher. 
George Farwell was made attorney- general and clerk of the Supreme 
Court, succeeding Benjamin Bullivant, the incumbent under Dudley, and 
James Graham succeeded Farwell. James Sherlock was made sheriff. 

When the news of the English revolution reached New England and 
of the accession of William and Mary, Simon Bradstreet, the last gov- 
ernor before the administration of Dudley, resumed his office on the 
1 8th day of April, 1689, a new house of deputies was chosen and the 
administration of affairs was conducted as before the revocation 
of the charter. The Court of Assistants resumed its sessions in 
December and the County Court in Suffolk in July, 1689. Anthony 
Checkley was chosen attorney-general and John Greene marshal- 
general of the colony. No further changes occurred under the colonial 
charter. A new charter, embracing Massachusetts, Plymouth, Maine, 
Nova Scotia, and the intervening territory in one government, by the 
name of the " Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England," 
passed the seals on the 7th of March, 1691, and reached Boston May 
14, 1692. 

The new charter provided that the governor and lieutenant-gover- 
nor and secretary should be appointed by the king, that a board of 



54 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

twenty-eight councillors should be chosen by the General Court, and a 
House of Representatives should be chosen annually by the people. 

Limited space forbids the recital of the full text of the charter, but 
reference to some of its provisions will enable the reader to better un- 
derstand subsequent legislation concerning the judicial affairs of the 
province. Its opening paragraphs rehearse the charter issued by James 
the First to the " Northern Virginia Company," or, as it was afterwards 
called, " the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon," 
on the 3d of November, 1606, and the grant or patent of said council 
to the Massachusetts Company on the 19th of March, 1627-8; together 
with the charter issued by Charles the First to said company on the 4th 
of March, 1628-9, and the revocation and vacation of said charter in the 
term of Holy Trinity in the thirty- sixth year of the reign of Charles the 
Second. It then declares that in conformity with the wishes of the agents 
of the Massachusetts Company, and for the purpose of bringing the 
colony of New Plymouth under such a form of government as may put 
them in a better condition for defence, the colony of "the Massachusetts 
Bay, the colony of New Plymouth, the province of Maine, the territory 
called Acadia, or Nova Scotia," and all the territory between Nova Scotia 
and Maine, are incorporated into one province by the name of the " Prov- 
ince of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." To the inhabitants of 
the said province was given all that part of New England extending from 
three miles north of the Merrimac River on the north part, to the Atlantic, 
or Western sea, on the south part, and westward as far as the colonies 
of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the Narragansett country. "And, 
also, all that part and portion of mainland beginning at the entrance of 
Piscafaway harbor, and so to pass up the same into the river of Newich- 
wannock, and through the same into the furthest head thereof, and from 
thence northwestward, till one hundred and twenty miles be finished, 
and from Piscataway harbor mouth aforesaid northeastward, along the 
sea coast to Sagadehock, and from the period of one hundred and twen- 
ty miles aforesaid to cross overland to the one hundred and twenty 
miles before reckoned up into the land of Piscataway harbor, through 
Newichwannock river, and also the north half of the Isles of Shoals, to- 
gether with the Isles of Capawock and Nantucket." 

It was provided that all estates " which any person, or persons, or 
body politic or corporate, towns, villages, colleges or schools," hold un- 



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der grants from any General Court, shall continue to be enjoyed by 
them under their grants. 

So far as the government of the province was concerned, it declared 
that there should be one governor, one lieutenant-governor, and one 
secretary to be appointed by the crown, and twenty- eight assistants, or 
councillors, to be chosen by the General Court annually. Isaac Ad- 
dington was declared the first secretary, and a provisional board of 
councillors was appointed, consisting of Simon Bradstreet, John Rich- 
ards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, John Phillips, James Bur- 
rell, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Appleton, Bartholomew Gedney, John 
Hathorne, Elisha Hutchinson, Robert Pike, Jonathan Corwin, John 
Jolifi'e, Adam Winthrop, Richard Middlecot, John Foster, Peter Ser- 
geant, John Lynde, Samuel Heyman, Stephen Mason, Thomas Hinck- 
ley, William Bradford, John Walley, Barnabas Lathrop, Job Alcot, 
Samuel Daniel and Sylvanus Davis. 

It was provided that the governor, and at least seven of the coun- 
cillors, should meet from time to time " for the ordering and directing 
the affairs" of the province, and a General Assembly should be chosen 
consisting of two representatives, and no more, from each town. To 
the governor was given the power to adjourn, prorogue and dissolve 
the General Assembly whenever he might judge it necessary. At least 
eighteen of the councillors must be inhabitants of the territory of the 
old Massachusetts colony, four of the New Plymouth colony, three of the 
province of Maine, and one an inhabitant of the territory lying between 
the Sagadehock River and Nova Scotia. 

Authority was given to the governor, with the advice and consent of 
of the council from time to time, to nominate and appoint, " Judges, 
Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, SherilTs, Provosts, Marshals, Jus- 
tices of the Peace, and other officers, to our Council and Courts of Jus- 
tice belonging." 

It was also declared, " for the greater care and encouragement of our 
loving subjects inhabiting our said province or territory of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay, and of such as shall come to inhabit tiiere, we do by these 
presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant, establish, and ordain, 
that for ever hereafter there shall be a liberty of conscience allowed in 
the worship of God to all Christians (except papists) inhabiting, or 
which shall inhabit or be resident within our said province or territory." 



S6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

To the General Court was given the power to erect and estabh"sh 
judicatories and courts of record, or other courts, for the hearing, try- 
ing and determining " all manner of crimes, oft'ences, pleas, processes, 
plaints, actions, matters, causes and things whatsoever, arising or hap- 
pening within the province," and to the Governor and Council "the 
power to execute or perform all that is necessary for the probate of wills 
and granting administrations." 

An appeal could be had from the judgment or sentence of any court 
to the Privy Council within fourteen days, provided the amount in- 
volved exceeded three hundred pounds sterling. The General Court 
was authorized to make all manner of reasonable laws, either with pen- 
alties or without, both for the good order of the province and for its 
support and defence, but the veto power in elections, as well as in the 
enactment of laws, was conferred on the governor; and it was further 
provided, that all orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, should be trans- 
mitted to the crown for approval, and that in case any of them were 
rejected by the Privy Council within three years, they should become 
void. A further provision was added, that " the exercise of any Ad- 
miral Court jurisdiction power or authority is reserved, to be from time 
to time erected, granted and exercised by virtue of commissions under 
the great seal of England, or under the seal of the high admiral, or the 
commissioners for executing the office of high admiral of England." 

The charter was dated October 7, 1691, and, as has been stated, 
reached Boston May 14, 1692, when William Phipps, the first royal 
governor, assumed the reins of power, with William Stoughton as lieu- 
tenant-governor. An explanatory charter, chiefly relating to the elec- 
tionof a speakerof the House of Assembly was granted by King George, 
dated August 26, 1726, which contains no reference to the administra- 
tion of justice. On the 8th of June, 1692, the first General Court con- 
vened, but such was the popular excitement concerning the witchcraft 
delusion, that Governor Phipps, without any authority conferred by the 
charter, issued commissions bearing date of June 2, 1692, to a Special 
Court of Oyer and Terminer, consisting of William Stoughton, chief 
justice, and Nathaniel Saltonstall, John Richards, Bartholomew Gedney, 
Wait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall and Peter Sergeant, associate judges, 
to take cognizance of crimes in SulToIk, Essex and Middlesex. Mr. Sal- 



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57 



tonstall declined the position, and Jonathan Corwin was appointed in 
his place. Stephen Sewall was made clerk of the court; Thomas New- 
ton, their majesties' attorney ; Anthony Checkley, attorney-general; 
and George Corwin, sheriff. Washburn states that the commission to 
Checkley informed him that he was to act in the court " assigned to 
inquire of, hear and determine for this time, all and all manner of fel- 
onies, witchcraft, crimes and oft'ences how, or by whomsoever done, 
committed or perpetrated within the several counties of Suffolk, Essex 
and Middlesex." This court sat at various times between the 2d of June 
and the 17th of September, and condemned nineteen persons to be 
hung and one to be pressed to death. As the trials were outside of the 
courts of Suffolk county, their history does not come within the scope 
of this narrative. It is interesting, however, to note that no lawyer was 
connected with the court. Stoughton and Sewall were clergymen, Win- 
throp and Gedney were physicians. Sergeant a gentleman, probably 
without a profession, and Richards, and Corwin, and Checkley, the at- 
torney-general, were merchants. It may not, however, be improper to 
interpose some defence of a court upon which so muchobloquy has been 
cast, as if they were specially infected bj' a delusion, which seems to 
us in later times so unreasonable and abhorrent The fact is, that a be- 
lief in witchcraft was as universal as the belief that the Bible was the in- 
spired word of God. Theologians, especially, were convinced of its 
existence, and it is possible that to Stoughton and Sewall, the clergy- 
men on the bench, the convictions and punishments were due. In the 
1 8th verse of the 22d chapter of Exodus we find the command " Thou 
shalt not suffer a witch to live." In the 27th verse of the 20th chapter 
of Leviticus are these w^ords: " A man also, or a woman, that hath a 
familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they 
shall stone him with stones ; their blood shall be upon them ;" and in 
the 1 8th chapter of Deuteronomy, loth, iith, and 12th verses, it is 
written : " There shall not be found among you any one that maketh 
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, 
or an observer of times, as an enchanter or a witch ; or a charmer, or a 
consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all 
that do these tilings are an abomination unto the Lord ; and because of 
these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before 



S8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AXD BAR. 

thee." It is not improbable that tlie victims of dtlusion were as firm in 
their belief as any, and accepted their punishment with a conviction of 
the righteousness of its infliction. 

The first act relating to the courts was passed by the General Court 
June 28, and published on the 2d of July. It was as follows : 

" An act for the holding of Courts of Justice. 

" Forasmuch as the orderlj' regulation and well establishment of Courts 
of Justice is of great concernment, and the public occasions with 
reference to the war, and otherwise being so pressing at this season that 
this Court cannot now conveniently set longer to advise upon and fully 
settle the same, but to the intent that justice be not obstructed or 
delayed, 

" Be it ordained and enacted, by the Governor, Council and Rep- 
resentatives, convened in general assembly, and it is ordained by 
authority of the same, 

" Sec. I. That on or before the last Tuesday of July next there be a 
general sessions of the peace held and kept in each respective county 
within this province, by the justices of the same county, or three of them 
at least (the first justice of the quorum then present to preside), who 
are hereby empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the 
conservation of the peace, and whatsoever is by them cognizable ac- 
cording to law, and to grant licenses to such persons within the same 
county, being first approved of by the selectmen of each town where 
such persons dwell, whom they shall think fit to be employed as inn- 
holders or retailers of wines or strong liquors, and that sessions of the 
peace be successively held, and kept as aforesaid within the several coun 
ties at the same times and places as the County Courts or inferior 
courts of common pleas are hereafter appointed to be kept. 

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

"Sec 2. That the County Courts, or inferior courts of common pleas, 
and kept in each respective count)' by the justices of the same county, 
or three of them at least (the fiist justice of the quorum then present to 
preside), at the same times and places they have been formerly kept ac- 
. cording to law, for the hearing and determining of all civil actions 
arising or happening within the same, triable at the common law accord- 
ing to former usage; the justices for holding and keeping of the said 



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Court within the county of Suffolk to be particularly appointed and 
conimissioiiated by the Governoi, with the advice, and consent of the 
Council. And that all writs or attachments shall issue cut of the clerk's 
office of the said several courts, signed by the clerk of such court, 
directed unto the sheriff of the county, his under slieriff or deputy. 
The jurors to serve at said courts to be chosen according to former 
custom, by and of the freeholders and other inhabitants, qualified as is 
directed in their majesties' royal charter. This act to continue until 
other provision be made by the General Court or Assembly." 

Prior to tlie passage of the above act it was ordered that all the local 
laws made by the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, and 
the government of New Plymoutli, not repugnant to the laws of Eng- 
land, " nor inconsistent with the present constitution and setrlement by 
their majesties' royal charter, do remain and continue in full force in the 
respective places for which they were made and used, until the lothday 
of November next, except in cases where other provision is or shall be 
made by this Court or Assembly; and all persons are required to conform 
themselves accordingly ; and the several justices are hereby empowered 
to the execution of said laws as the the magistrates formerly were." 

The act for the holding of courts of justice was disallowed b\- the 
Privy Council on the 22d of August, 1695, because a distinction was 
made in the manner of appointing justices for the county of Suffolk 
and other counties. 

On the 25th of November, 1692, at the second session of the General 
Court, an act was passed for the establishing of judicatories and courts 
of justice within the province. It provided, 

" Sec. I. That all manner of debts, trespasses and other matters not 
exceeding the value of forty shillings (wherein the title of land is not 
concerned) shall and may be heard, tried, adjudged and determined by 
any of their majesties' justices of the peace of this province, with- 
in the respective counties where he resides ; who is hereby empow- 
ered upon complaint made, to grant a warrant or summons against the 
party complained of seven days before the day of trial or hearing, 
thereby requiring liim or them to appear and answer the said complaint, 
and in case of non-appearance to issue out a warrant of contempt 
directed to the constable or other officers, to bring the contemner before 



6o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

him, as well to answer the said contempt, as the plaintiff's action, and if 
he sees cause, to fine the said contemner ; 

" Be it further enacted and ordained by the authorit\- aforesaid, 
" Sec. 4. That there shall be held and kept in each respective county 
within the province, yearly, at the times and places hereafter named and 
expressed, four courts or quarter sessions of the peace, by justices of 
peace of the same county, who are hereby empowered to hear and de- 
termine all matters relating to the conservation of the peace, and pun- 
ishment of oflenders, and whatsoever is by them cognizable according 
to law ; that is to say, for the county of Suftblk at Boston on the first 
Tuesdays in March, June, September and December; for the county of 
Plymouth at Plymouth on the third Tuesda}s in March, June, Septem- 
ber and December; for the county of Essex, at Salem, on the last 
Tuesdays in June and December; at Ipswich on the last Tuesday in 
March, and at Newbur)- on the last Tuesday in September; for the 
county of Middlesex, at Charlestown on the second Tuesdays in March 
and December, at Cambridge on the second Tuesday in September, and 
at Concord on the second Tuesday of June; for the county of Barn- 
stable, at Barnstable on the first Tuesdays in April, July, October and 
January; at Bristol for the county of Bristol on the second Tuesdays 
in April, July, October and January ; for the county of York on the 
first Tuesday in April and July, and at Wells on the first Tuesdays in 
October and January ; and for the county of Hampshire, at Northamp- 
ton on the first Tuesdays in March and June ; at Springfield on the last 
Tuesdays in September and December; and that there be a general ses- 
sions of the peace held and kept at Edgartown upon the Island of Cap- 
awack alias Martha's Vineyard, and on the Island of Nantucket re- 
spectively, upon the last Tuesday in March and on the first Tuesday of 
October yearly from time to time. 

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
" Sec. 5. That at the times and places before mentioned there shall be 
held and kept in each respective county and islands before named within 
the province, an inferior court of common pleas, by four of the justices 
of and residing within the same county and islands respectively, to be 
appointed and commissionated thereto, any three of wliom to be a 
quorum, for the hearing and determining of all civil actions arising or 



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happening within the same, triable at tiie common law of what nature, 
kind or quality soever. 

" And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
" Sec. 6. That there shall be a Superior Court of Judicature over the 
whole province, to be held and kept annually at the respective times 
and places hereafter mentioned, by one chief justice and four other 
justices, to be appointed and commissionated for the same, three of 
whom to be a quorum, who shall have cognizance of all pleas, real, per- 
sonal or mixt, as well in all pleas of the crown and in all matters relat- 
ing to the conservation of the peace and punishment of offenders, as in 
civil causes or actions between party and party, and between their 
majesties and any of their subjects, whether the same do concern the 
realty and relate to any right of freeliold and inheritance, or whether 
the same do concern the personalty, and relate to matter of debt, con- 
tract, damage or personal injury, and also in all mixt actions which may 
concern both realty and personalt)' ; and after deliberate hearing to 
give judgment and award execution thereon. The said Superior 
Court to be held and kept at the times and places within the respective 
counties following; that is to say, within the county of Suffolk at Bos- 
ton on the last Tuesdays of April and October; within the county of 
Middlesex at Charlestown on the last Tuesdays of July and January ; 
within the county of Essex at Salem on the second Tuesday of Novem- 
ber, and at Ipswich on the second Tuesday of May ; within the counties 
of Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol at Plymouth on the last Tuesday 
of February, and at Bristol on the last Tuesday of August. 

" Sec. 7. That the trial of all civil causes by appeal or writ of error, 
from any of the Inferior Courts within the respective counties of York or 
Hampshire, the Islands of Capawock alias Martha's Vineyard and Nan- 
tucket shall be in the Superior Court to be held at Boston or Charles- 
town. 

" And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
" Sec. 14. That there be a high Court of Chancery within the province, 
who shall have power and authority to hear and determine all matters 
of equity, of what nature, kind or quality soever, and all controversies, 
disputes and differences arising betwixt co- executors, and other matters 
proper and cognizable to said court, not relievableby common law ; the 



62 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

said court to be holden and kept by the governor, or such other as 
he shall appoint to be chancellor, assisted with eight or more of the 
council, who may appoint all necessary officers to the said court; which 
said court shall sit, and be held at such times and places as the gover- 
nor or chancellor for the time being shall from time to time appoint ; 
provided nevertheless, tliat the justices in any of the courts aforesaid, 
where the forfeiture of any penal bond is found, shall be and hereby are 
empowered to chancer the same unto the just debt and damages." 

This act also was disallowed by the Privy Council on the 22d of Aug- 
ust, 1695, because the provision of the act that either party not being 
satisfied with the judgment of any of the courts in personal actions not 
exceeding ;^300 may appeal to His Majesty in council, seemed to ex- 
clude the right of appeal in real actions 

On the 9th of November, 1692, an act was passed providing 
" whereas at the session of this court in June last, an act was passed 
entitled 'an act for continuing the local laws, to stand in force till Nov- 
ember the lOth, 1692, it is ordained and enacted.' That the said act 
and every part of it be and hereby is revived and continued in full force, 
to all intents and purposes from and after the said tenth day of No- 
vember, and shall so continue until the General Assembly shall take 
further order." 

On the 1 ith of December, 1693, an act was passed in addition to the 
" Act for establishing of Judicatories and Courts of Justice within the 
province, which, among other things pertaining to forms and rules of 
courts changed the time for holding the court of quarter sessions, and the 
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in Boston to the first Tuesdays in July, 
October, January and April, and provided that there be a Court of Judi- 
cature, Court of Assize and general gaol delivery held at Kittery in the 
County of York, on Wednesday before the second Tuesday in May, 
and at Springfield on the last Tuesday in June. This act was also dis- 
allowed by the Privy Council on the lOth of December, 1696, because 
the act to which it was in addition had been disallowed. 

An act was also passed December 5, 1693, providing for a new estab- 
lishment and regulation of the chancery, but as this act was mainly 
amendatory of the act establishing judicatories, passed November 25, 
1692, it was disallowed because that act had been. 



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The next act passed concerning tlie courts was enacted February 15^ 
l6gj_4^ and provided that the Superior Court should be held at diii'er- 
ent times from those specified in tlie original act, but did not affect 
Suffolk county, and another act of a similar character was passed March 
2 in the same year. 

Various other acts were passed at various times concerning modes of 
proceeding in the courts, and on the 3d of October, 1696, an act was 
passed, of which the following are the preamble and first section : 
" Whereas, his majestie's pleasure hath been signified for the repealing 
and making void an act made and passed by the Great and General 
Court or assembly, anno one thousand six hundred ninety two, in the 
fourth year of the reign of his present majesty, and the late Queen 
Mary, his royal consort of blessed memory, entitled 'An act for the es- 
tablishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' also 
for the repealing and making void one other act, entitled ' An act for 
the establisliing of precedents and forms of writs and processes, with 
the particular reasons of his majestie's disallowance of said acts, for the 
information and direction of the General Assembly and the amendments 
and considerations necessary for the supply thereof; and, whereas, it is 
absolutely necessary that speedy provision be made, that his majestie's 
subjects may not suffer for the want of due course of justice, 

" Be it enacted, etc. : 

" Sec. I. That the before mentioned act, entitled 'An act for the estab- 
lishing of judicatories and courts of justice within this province,' and all 
and singular the paragraphs, articles, clauses and sentences thereof (ex- 
cept the paragraph for constituting a Court of Chancery, and such other 
articles, clauses and sentences in said act as have been heretofore re- 
pealed, altered or otherwise provided for, in and by any other act or 
acts of the General Assembly of this province, or which in and by the 
present act shall be altered, otherwise provided for, or declared to be 
null and void), be and hereby are revived and continued, to abide and 
remain in full force and virtue until the end of the fiist session of the 
General Assembly, to be begun and held upon the last Wednesday of the 
month of May next, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred 
ninety-seven, and no longer; provided, nevertheless, that the words 
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64 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

liberty of appeal unto his majesty or council, be anH hereby are declared 
void and of no effect." 

This act was also disallowed by the Privy Council on the 24th of No- 
vember, 1698, notwithstanding; the objectionable part of the act, which 
had been previously disallowed, was removed, and no other reason was 
given for its disallowance, than the fact that the act which it revived liad 
been disallowed. It, however, answered a purpose. The Superior 
Court of Judicature and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas had been 
established under the law which had been disallowed or repealed by 
order of the Privy Council, and judges of both courts had been ap- 
pointed. As soon as the knowledge of the disallowance came to the 
General Court the establishment of the courts and the commissions of 
the judges would be invalid, and consequently the passage of this act 
or some other was necessary to keep them alive. Before the disal- 
lowance of this revival act, which did not take place until November 24, 
1698, another act was passed on the 19th of June for the establishment 
of courts very similar to the original act of 1692, with the name of the 
Quarter Sessions of the Peace changed to a Court of General Sessions of 
the Peace and the omission of the provision for the Chancery Court. 
This act was also disallowed November 24, 1698, because the provision 
" among other things that all matters and issues in fact shall be tried by 
a jury of twelve men was contrary to the intention of an act of parlia- 
ment entitled An act for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in 
the plantation trade by which it was provided that all causes relating 
to the breach of the acts of trade may, at the pleasure of the officer or 
informer, be tried in the Court of Admiralty, to be held in any of his 
Majesty's Plantations, respectively where such offence shall be com- 
mitted ; because the method of trial in such courts of Admiralty is not 
by juries of twelve men, as by the forementioiied act for establishing of 
of courts is directed." 

Finally, at the session of the General Court, which began on the 3 1st 
of May, 1699, three acts were passed establishing courts which were 
approved by the Privy Council, and were published on the 27th of 
June. 

The first established a Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to be 
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 65 

matters relating to the conservation of the peace and the punishment of 
oft'enders. The court in Suffolk county was to be lield in Boston on the 
first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. At a convenient 
time before the sitting of the court the clerk of the peace in each county 
was required to issue warrants to the constables of the several towns, 
directing them to assemble the freemen to choose such a number of men 
for jurors as the wanants might specify. An appeal from this court 
might be taken to the Superior Court of Judicature. 

The second act established an Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be 
held in each county hy four persons to be appointed as justices of the 
court and who shall have cognizance of all civil actions within the 
county triable at common law. The court for Suffolk was to be held in 
Boston on the first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. All 
processes and writs for any suit were to issue out of the office of the 
clerk of the court in his majesty's name, under the seal of the court 
and directed to the sheriff, or in cases involving a sum less than ten 
pounds to a constable, and the jurors were to be summoned under the 
direction of the clerk of the court in the same manner as that described 
for jurors of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace. 

The third court established was a Superior Court of Judicature, Court 
of Assize and General Gaol Delivery for the whole province, to be held 
at specified times and places by one chief justice and four associate jus- 
tices to be appointed for the same, any three of whom might be a 
quorum, with cognizance of all pleas, real, personal or mixed, as well all 
pleas of the crown and all matters relating to the conservation of the 
peace and punishment of offenders, as civil causes or actions, and also 
all mixed actions which concern both realty and personalty brought be- 
fore them by appeal, review, writ of error or otherwise; and generally 
of all other matters as fully as the Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas 
and Plxchequer ought to have. The court for the county of Suffolk was 
to be held at Boston on the first Tuesdays in November and May, and 
the jurors were to be summoned under the direction of the clerk in the 
manner already described. 

An act was passed June 20, 1701-2, providing that attorneys prac- 
ticing in the courts shall be under oath administered by the clerk in 
open court as follows ; 
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66 HISTORY OF THE BEXCIf A AD BAA'. 

"You shall do no falsehood, nor consent to any to he done in the 
court, and if you know of any to be done you shall gi\e knowledge 
thereof to the justices of the court, or some of them, that it may be re- 
formed. You shall not wittingly and willingly promote, sue or procure 
to be sued any false or unlawful suit, nor give aid or consent to the 
same. You shall delay no man for lucre or malice, but you shall use 
yourself in the office of an attorney within the court to the best of your 
learning and discretion, and with all good fidelity as well to the courts 
as to your clients." The same act provided that the fee to be allowed 
for an attorney in the Superior Court of Judicature shoidd be twelve 
shillings, and in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas ten shillings. 

The judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, which continued 
during the whole of the provincial period and until February 20, 
I 78 I, were as follows: 

Chief Justices. — William Stoughton, appointed 1692; I.«aae Adilington, appointed, 
1703; Wait Wmtlirop, appointed 1708; Samuel Sewall, appointed 1718; Benjamin 
Lynde, appointed 1728; Paul Dudley, appointed 1745; Stephen Sewall, appointed 
1752; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed 17fJ0 ; Benjamin Lynde jr., a[)pointed 1771; 
Peter Oliver, appomted 1772; John Adams, appointed 1776; Willi.im Cu.shing, ap- 
pointed 1777. 

Associate Justices. — Thomas Danforlh, a[)iiointed 16SI2; Wait Winthrop. appointed 
16!I2; John Richards, appointed 1692; Samuel Sewall, appointed 1692; Elisha Cooke, 
appointed 1695; John Walley, appointed 1700; John Saffin, appointed 1701; Isaac 
Addington, appointed 1702; John Hathorne, appointed 1702; John Leverett, appointed 
1702; Jonathan Curwin, appomted 1708; Benjamin Lynde, appointed 1712; Nathaniel 
Thomas, appointed 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed 1715; Edmund Quincy, 
appointed 1718; Paul Dudley, appointed 1718 ; John (Jushing, appointed 1728; Jona- 
than Remington, appointed 1733: Richard Salton.stall, appointed 1736; Thomas Graves 
appointed 1738; Stephen Sewall, appointed 1739; Nathaniel Huhhard, appointed 1745; 
Benjamin Lynde, jr., appomted 1745; John Gushing, appointed 1747; Chambers Eus- 
sel, appointed 1752; Peter Oliver, appointed 1756; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed 
1760; Edmund Trowbridge, appointed 1707; Foster Hutchinson, appointed 1771; 
Nathaniel Ropes, appointed 1772; William Brown, appointed 1774; William Gushing, 
appointed 1775; Nathaniel P. Sargeant, appointed 1775; William Reed, appointed 1775; 
James Warren, appointed 1776; Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1775; Jedediah Foster, 
appointed 1776; James Sullivan, appomted 1776; David Sewall, appointed 1777. 

Of these, Stoughton, Winthrop, Richards, Samuel Sewall, Cooke, 
Saffin, Addington, Benjamin Lynde, Davenport, Ouincy, Paul Dudley, 
Benjamin Lynde, jr., Thomas Hutchinson, and Foster Hutchinson were 








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Suffolk county men at the time of their appointment, and Peter Oliver 
was a native of Boston, but at the time of his appointment a resident of 
Middleboro It is not proposed herein to make special allusion to these 
or others of the bench and bar in this chapter, as all will ha\ e a place in 
the biographical register contained in this volume. Of the above list of 
judges John Adams and James Warien never took their seats. 

The last session of the Superior Court under the charter was held in 
September, 1774 The first session under the Revolutionary regime 
was held in Mssex county in June, 1776. While the British held Bos- 
ton the General Court passed an act in February, 1776, providing that 
Dedham should be the shire of Sufl'ulk county, and that the courts for 
that county should be held in Dedham and Braintree. The first Suffolk 
count}' court under that act was held in Braintree in September, 1776, 
and the first court in Boston after the siege was held in February, 1777. 

Besides the standing justices of the Superior Court ot Judicature, 
special justices were appointed to act when the standing justices were 
parties in interest. The following list of special justices is presumed to 
be full and correct : 

reiin Towiisend, appointed October 24, 1712; Nallianiel Norden, appointed October 
24, 1712; John Burrill, appointed October 24, 1712; Addington Davenport, appointed 
September IG, 1715; John Clark, appointed January 7,1718; Thomas Fitch, appointed 
January 7, 1718 ; John Clark, appointed June 27, 1719 ; Thomas Fitch, appointed June 
27, 1719; Jonah Wolcott, appointed December 1."), 1720; John Gushing, appointed 
September 6, 1723; John Clark, September 6, 172:5; Jonathan Remington, appointed 
September 6, 1723; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 10, 172-5; JobAlmy, appointed 
September 1, 1726; Elisha Cooke, appointed February 23, 1726-7; Jonathan Remington, 
appointed February 23, 1726-7; Isaac Winslow, appointed June 19, 1727; John Cusli- 
ing, appointed June 19, 1727; Nathaniel Bylield, appointed June 27, 1727: Thomas 
Fitch, appointed June 27, 1727; Jonathan Remington, appointed June 27, 1727; 
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed December 12, 1728; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 
12, 1728; Thomas Fitch, appointed December 12, 1728; Theophilus Burrill, appointed 
DL'cember 12, 1728; Jonathan Remington, appointed December 12, 1728; Nathaniel 
Byfield, appointed December 19, 1728 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed December 19, 1728 ; 
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed January 11, 1732-3 ; Adam Winthrop, appointed June 22, 
1733; Thomas Cushiug, appointed June 22, 1733; Ezekiel Lewis, appointed June 22, 
1733; Theophilus Burrill, appointed April 19,1735; Jo.seph Wilder, appointed April 
19, 1735; Satnuel Thaxter, appo'uted June 27, 1735; Thomas Berry, appointed June 
27, 1735; Benjamin Prescott, appointed June 27,1735; Thomas Greaves, appointed 
February 10, 1736-7 ; Job Almy, apjiointed October 25, 1737 ; Thomas Greaves, ap- 
pointed November 10, 1737 : Benjamin Prescott, appointed November 10, 1737 ; Seth 



68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Williams, appointeil August VI, 1738 ; Benjamin Marston, ap)iointed August 12, 1738; 
William Ward, appointed August 19, 1738; Seth Williams, appointed March 2 1738-0; 
William Ward, appointed March 2, 1738-9: Edwaid Hutchinson, appointed May 2, 
1739; Joseph Wilder, appointed May 2, 1739; Stephen Sewall, appointed May 2, 1739; 
Bbenezer Burrill, appoinle<i June 15, 1839; Thomas Berry, appointed January 24, 
1739-40; Benjamin Marston, appointed January 24, 1739-40; Edward Hutchins-on, 
appointed April IS, 1743 ; Nathaniel Hubbard, appointed April 18, 1743 ; Edward Hutch- 
inson, appointed Novembers, 1743; Nathaniel Huljbard, appointed November 3, 1743; 
John Gushing, appointed October 23, 1744; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed October 23, 1744; 
John Gushing, appointed Aogust 19, 1747 ; Sylvanus Bourne, appointed August 19, 1747; 
Joseph Pynchon, appointed August 19, 1747 ; John Greenleaf, appointed April G, 1748; 
Ezekiel Cheever, appointed January 11, 1748-9: Charles Ru.ssell, appointed January 
11, 1748-9; John JeftVie.s, appointed March 2,1748-9; William Brattle, appointed 
March 2, 1748-9; Thomas Hubbard, appointed March 2, 1748-9 ; Joseph Sawyer, ap- 
pointed June 19, 1749 ; Nathaniel Sparhawk, appointed June 19, 1749 ; Ezekiel 
Gheever. appointed August 12, 1749; Joseph Richards, appointed August 12, 1749; 
Charles Russell, appointed February 23, 1749-50; Simon Frost, appointed February 23, 
1749-50 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed Avigust 24, 1753: Ezekiel Cheever, appointed 
August 24, 1753 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed September 20, 1754 ; Thomas Hutchin- 
son, appointed February 21, 1755; William Brattle, appointed June 26, 1755; Andrew 
Oliver, appointed February 13, 1756; William Brattle, appointed February 13, 1756; 
John Chandler, appointed February 20, 175G; Andrew Oliver, appointed February 20, 
1756; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed August 1, 1758; Samuel White, appointed August 
1, 1758; Timothy Ruggles, appointed February 23, 1762; Samuel Danforth, appointed 
August 19, 1762; Nathaniel Ropes, ap])ointed September 7, 1762 ; Nathaniel Ropes, 
appointed August 30, 1770; .Jedediah Foster, appointed September 17, 1770; Timothy 
Pain, appointed February 14, 1771 ; Joseph Lee, appointed February 17, 1773; Will- 
iam Browne, appointed Feliruary 17, 1773; .Joseph Lee, appointed March 4, 1773; 
William Browne, appointed March 4, 1773. 

There were also coniiiiissioners of Ojer and Terminer appointed by 
the Governor and Council to try special cases in accordance with author- 
ity given in the province charter as follows: " And we do further grant 
and ordain that it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor with 
the advice and consent of the Council or Assistants from time to time to 
nominate and appoint Judges, Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, 
Sheriffs, Provosts, Marshals, Justices of the Peace and other officers to 
our Council and Courts of Justice belonging." 

It may be that Governor Phipps considered this authority sufficient 
for his appointment of the witchcraft court in 1692 and that the judges 
sitting in that court should be called Commissioners of Oyer and Term- 
iner. The following list will show who these commissioners were at 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 69 

different periods and the purpose for which they were appointed. The 
witchcraft judges are included in the list: 

\Villiam Stoughton, John Richards, Wait Winthiop, Bartholomew Geduey, SannK'l 
Sewall, Jonathan Curwin, Peter Sergeant; appointed June 2, 1892, to take cognizance 
of all crimes in Suftblk, Essex and Middlesex (witchcnifl). 

Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel Wheelwright, Thomas Newlou ; appointed 
October 22, 1692, to try murderers in the county of Vork, 

Thomas Danforth, Wait Winthrop, Elisha Cooke, Samuel Sewall; appointed Decem- 
ber 22, 1698, to try Jacob Smith. 

John Hathorne, William Browne. .lunathan Curwiu, Benjamin Browne, John Higgin- 
son ; appointed November 23, ITO.o, to try an Indian in Salem. 

John Gardner, James Coffin, Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skifi'e, William Gayer; a|)- 
pointed June 15, 1704, to try an Indian in Nantucket. 

Joseph Hammond, Ichabod Plaisted, John Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheel- 
wright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, or any four of them; appointed November 8, 1707, to 
try Joseph Gunnison for murder. 

Wait Winthrop, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Curwin, Elisha Hutchin- 
son ; appointed March 7, 1711. 

Nathaniel Thomas, John Otis, James Warren, John Gorham ; appointed June .5, 17KJ, 
to try two Indians for capital crimes. 

Samuel Partridge, John Pynchon, John Parsons, John Stoddard; appointed Decem- 
ber 3, 1718, to try at Northampton Ovid Ruchbrock for counterfeiting bills of credit of 
the province. 

John Cushing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis ; ap- 
pointed June 23, 1743, to try an Indian at Nantucket. 

John Cushing, Sylvanus Bourne, Zacheus Mayhew, Enoch Coffin, John Otis; ap- 
pointed August 9. 1746, for a trial at Nantucket. 

As the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is practically a con- 
tinuation of the Superior Court of Judicature of the province, it will be 
proper to explain its origin and follow its career to the present day. It 
has been stated that the last appointment to the Superior Court of Judi- 
cature was made in 1777. In that year the Council and House of Rep- 
resentatives met in convention and adopted a form of constitution "for 
the State of Massachusetts Bay," which was submitted to the people and 
rejected. On the 20th of I'^ebrtiary, 1779, the General Court passed a 
resolve calling on the qualified voters to give in their votes on the ques- 
tion : Whether they chose to have a new constitution made and whether 
they will empower their representatives to vote for calling a State con- 
vention for that purpose. Both of these questions having been carried 
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70 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

on the 1st of September, 1779, in accordance with a resolve of the Gen- 
eneral Court passed on the 17th of June. This convention, of which 
James Bowdoin was president, and Samuel Barrett secretary, adjourned 
on the nth of November to meet in Boston on the 5th of January, 1780. 
On the 2d of March a resohition was passed to submit the constitution, 
which had been framed, to the people, and the convention adjourned to 
meet in the Brattle Street Church in Boston on the 7th of lune. At 
the adjourned meeting the votes were counted and on the 15th of June 
the convention resolved " That the people of the State of Massachusetts 
Bay have accepted the Constitution as it stands, in the printed form sub- 
mitted to their revision." 

Article 9th of the constitution provided that " To the end there may 
be no failure of justice or danger arise to the Commonwealth from a 
change of the form of Government, all officers, civil and military, hold- 
ing commissions under the Government and people of Massachusetts 
Bay in New England, and all other officers of the said Government and 
people, at the time this constitution shall take effect, shall have, hold, 
use, exercise and enjoy all the powers and authority, to them granted 
or committed, until other persons shall be appointed in their stead ; and 
all courts of law shall proceed in the execu'ion of the business in their 
respective departments; and all the executive and legislative officers, 
bodies and powers shall continue in full force, in the enjoyment and 
exercise of all their trusts, employments and authority ; until the Gen- 
eneral Court and the supreme and executive officers under this consti- 
tution are designated and invested with their respective trusts, powers 
and authority." 

In other parts of the constitution the court is made to assume its new 
name of Supreme Judicial Court, and thus the old court was perpetuated 
with a new title, but with the same jurisdiction, officers and authority. 
A confirmation of the continuance of the old court was declared in the 
following act passed by the General Court on the 20th of February. 
1781, entitled: "An act empowering the Supreme Judicial Court to 
take cognizance of matters heretofore cognizable by the late Superior 
Court. 

" Whereas by the laws heretofore made by the General Assembly of 
the late province, colon)' and State of Massachusetts Bay, a Superior 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 71 

Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery was 
constituted, and sundry powers and authorities are given 10 the same 
court by particular laws; And whereas by the constitution and frame 
of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the style and 
title of the same court is now the Supreme Judicial Court of the Com- 
monwealth of Massachusetts ; And the constitution aforesaid having 
provided that the laws heretofore made and adopted, should continue 
and be in force until the\- shall be altered or repealed by the legislature ; 
whence some doubts may arise whether the Supreme Judicial Court 
shall have cognizance of those matters which by particular laws were 
expressly made cognizable by the Superior Court of Judicature, Court 
of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery : 

"Sec. I. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, 
that the court which hath been, or shall be hereafter appointed and 
commissioned according to the constitution as the Supreme Judicial 
Court of the Commonwealth, shall have cognizance of all such matters, 
as have heretofore happened, or that shall hereafter happen, as by par- 
ticular laws were made cognizable by the late Superior Court of Judica- 
ture, Court of Assize, and General Gaol Delivery, unless, where the 
constitution and frame of government hath provided otherwise." 

On the 3d of July, 1782, an act was passed by the General Court 
entitled "An act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the 
Commonwealth," which provided that there should be one chief justice 
and four associates, the whole or any three of them to have cognizance 
of " pleas real, personal or mixed, and of all civil actions between party 
and party and between the Commonwealth and any of the subjects 
thereof, whether the same do concern the realty, and relate to right of 
freehold, inheritance or possession ; whether the same do concern the 
personalty and relate to any matter of debt, contract, damages or per- 
sonal injury; and alsj mi.xed actions which do concern the realty and 
personalty brought legalh' before the same court by appeal, review, writ 
of error or otherwise ; . . . and shall take cognizance of all capital 
and other offences and misdemeanors whatsoever of a public nature, 
tending either to a breach of the peace, or the oppression of the subject, 
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72 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

government ; and of every crime whatsoever that is against tlie pubUc 
good." 

The act further gave the court power to establish sucli rules respect- 
ing the admission of attorneys and the creation of barristers-at-law as 
it thought expedient, and appoint a clerk or clerks to record its proceed- 
ings. A subsequent act, passed March 12, 1784, gave to the Supreme 
Judicial Court appellate jurisprudence in all matters determined by 
judges of probate in their respective counties, and an act passed March 
16, 1786, conferred upon it jurisdiction in all questions of divorce and 
alimony. On the 27th of February, 1790, the salary of the chief jus- 
tice was fixed at £^JO and that of the associates at ^^350, " without 
the addition of any fee or perquisite whatever." The number of asso- 
ciates was increased to six in the year 1800 and the State outside of 
Suffolk county was divided into two circuits, the east including Essex 
county and Maine, and the west including all the remainder. In 1805 
the number of associates was reduced to four and so remained until 
1852, when one was added. In 1873 the number was increased to six 
and has so remained up to the present time. The salaries of the court 
as fixed by chapter 104 of the laws of 1892 are $7,500 and $500 for 
travel for the chief justice, and $6,500 and 500 for travel for each asso- 
ciate. 

The jurisdiction of the court has been changed at various times, the 
most recent changes having been the transfer of jurisdiction " in mat- 
ters of divorce to the Superior Court in 1887, the transfer of jurisdiction 
in capital trials to the same court in l89l,and the gift of concurrent 
jurisdiction to that court in 1891 in matters relating to telegraph and 
telephone wires, relating to the abuse of towns of corporate powers, re- 
lating to the construction, alteration, maintenance and use of buildings, 
and relating to the control of street railways." 

The following persons have occupied seats on the bench of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court by appointment since the adoption of the State 
constitution : 

Chief Justices. — Nathaniel Peaselee Sargent, appointed 1790; died 1791. Francis 
Dana, appointed 1791 ; re-signed 180G. Theophilus Parsons, appointed 1806 ; died 
181.3. Samuel Sewall, appointed 1814; died 1814. Isaac Parker, appointed 1814; 
died 1830. Lemuel Shaw, appointed 1830; resigned 1860. George T3-ler Bigelow, 
appointed 1860; resigned 1868. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1868; died 






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1873. Horace Gray, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. , Marcus Morton, appointed 1882; 
resigned 1890. Walbridge Abner Field, apjiointed 1890. 

Justices. — Increase Sumner, appointed 1782; resigned 1789. Francis Dana, appointed 
1785; made chief 1791. Robert Treat Paine, appointed 1790; resigned 1804. Natlian 
Cusliing, appointed 1790; resigned 1800. Thomas Dawes, appomted 1792; resigned 
1802. Theophilus Bradbury, appointed 1797; removed 1803. Samuel Sew all, ap- 
pointed 1800; made chief 1814. Simeon Strong, appointed 1801; died 1805. George 
Thacher, appointed 1801 ; resigned 1824. Theodore Sedgwick, appointed 1802; died 
1813. Isaac Parker, appointed I8O6; made chief 1814. Charles Jackson, appointed 
1813; resigned 1823. Daniel Dewey, appointed 1814; died 1814. Samuel Putnam, 
appointed 1814; resigned 1842. Samuel Sumner Wilde, appointed 1815; resigned 
1850. Levi Lincoln, appointed 1824; resigned 1825. Marcus Morton, appointed 1825; 
resigned 1840. Charles Augustus Dewey, appointed 1837 ; died 18GG. Samuel II ub- 
barti, appointed 1842; died 1847. Charles Edward Forbe.*, appointed 1848; resigned 
1848. Theron Metcalf, appointed 1848; resigned I860. Richard Fletcher, appointed 
1848; resigned 1853. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1850; made chief 1860. Caleb 
Gushing, appointed 1852; resigned 1853. Benjamin Franklin Thomas, appointed 1853; 
resigned 1859. Pliny Merrick, appointed 1853; resigned 18(54. Ebenezer Rockwood 
Hoar, appointed 1859; resigned 18G9. Reuben Atwater Chapman, appointed 1860 ; 
made chief 1868. Horace Gray, jr., appointed 1864; made chief 1873. James Deni- 
8on Colt, appointed 1865; resigned 186G. Dwight Foster, appointed 18GG; resigned 
1869. John Wells, appointed 1866; died 1875. James Denison Colt, appointed 1868; 
died 1881. Seth Ames, appointed 1869; re«igned 1881. Marcus Morton, appointed 
1869; made chief 1882. William C. Endicott, appointed 1873; resigned 1882. Charles 
Devens, jr., appointed 1873; resigned 1877. Otis Phillips Lord, appointed 1875; re- 
signed 1882. Augustus Lord Soule, appointed 1877; resigned 1881. Walbridge Abner 
Field, appointed 1881; made chief 1890. Charles Devens, jr., appointed 1881; died 
1891. William Allen, appointed 1881; died 1891. Charles Allen, appointed 1882. 
Waldo Colburn, appointed 1882; died 1885. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., appointed 
1882. William Sewall Gardner, appointed 1885; resigned 1887. Marcus Perrin 
Knowlton, appointed 1887. James Madison Morton, appointed 1890. John Lathrop, 
appointed 1891. James Madison Barker, appointed 1891. 

It has been stated above that the act estabHshing the Supreme Judicial 
Court, passed July 3, 1782, gave the court authority to regulate the 
admission of attorneys and the creation of barristers- at-Iavi'. The law 
passed November 4, 1705, already quoted, prescribing the oath to be 
taken by attorneys, appears until recent times to have furnished the 
only necessary regulation. No definite term of study seems to have 
been required as a qualification for admission to the bar. It is probable 
that so far as barristers were concerned, something like the custom in 
England prevailed. There, barristers before admission to plead at the 
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74 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

bar must have resided three j'ears in one of the inns of court, if a gradu- 
ate at Cambrid<,re or Oxford, and five years if not. These inns were 
the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn. 
In Massachusetts the rule seems to have requiied a practice at one 
period of three, at another of four, and still another of seven years in 
the inferior courts. 

Before the act was passed establishing the Supreme Judicial Court 
the following entry was made in the records of the Superior Court of 
Judicature : 

" Suflfollc, ss. : Superior Court of .Tuilicature at Boston, third Tuesday of February, 
1781, pr<=sent, William Gushing, Nathaniel 1^. Barg-eant. David Sewall and James Sulli- 
van ; and now at this term the fullowinL' rule is made by the court and ordered to be 
•entered, viz.: Whereas, learning and hteraiy accomplishments are necessary as well to 
promote the happiness as to preserve the freedom of the people, and the learning of the 
law when duly encouraged and rightly directed being as well peculiarly subservient to 
the great and good purpose aforesaid, as promotive of public and private justice; and 
the court being at all times ready to bestow peculiar marks of approbation upon the 
gentlemen of the bar, who, by a close application to tlie study of the science they pro- 
fess, by a mode of conduct which gives a conviction of the rectitude of their minds, and 
a fairness of practice that does honor to the profession of the law, shall distinguish 
themselves as men of science, honor and integrity: Do order that no gentleman shall 
be called to the degree of Barrister until he shall merit the same, by his conspicuous 
bearing, ability and honesty; and that the ('ourt will, of iheir own mere motion call to 
the Bar such persons as shall render themselves wortliy as aforesaid ; and that the man- 
ner of calling to the Bar shall be as follows: The gentleman who shall be a candidate 
shall stand within the bar, the Chief Justice, or in his absence the senior Justice, shall, 
in the name of the Court, repeat to him the qualifications necessary for a Barrister at 
Law ; shall let him know that it is a conviction in the mind of the Court of his being 
possessed of these qualifications that induces them to confer tlie honor upon him ; and 
shall solemnly charge him so to conduct himself as to be of singular service to his coun- 
try by exerting his abihties for the defence of her constitutional freedom; and so to de- 
mean himself as to do lionor to the Court and Bar." 

The Supreme Judicial Court made the following entry in its records: 

" Suffolk, ss. : At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston the last Tuesday of Au- 
gust, 178.3, present, William Cushing, Chief Justice, and Nathaniel P. Sargeant, David 
Sewall and Increase Sumner, Justices, ordered that Barristers be called to the Bar by 
.special writ to be ordered by the Court, and to be in the following form: 

'' Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

"To A B Esq., of , Greeting: We well knowing your ability, learning and in- 
tegrity, command you that you appear before our Justices of our Supreme Judicial 
Court, next to be holden at — — , in and for our count)' of , on the Tuesday of 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 75 

, then and there in our said Conrt to take upon you the state and degree of a Bar- 
rister at Law. Hereof fail not. VVitnes.s — — , Esq., our Chief Justice at Boston, the 

day of , in the year of our Independence, . By order of the Court. 

, Clerk. 

"Which writ .>;hall be faiily engrossed on parcliment and delivered twenty days be- 
fore the session of the same Conit by tlie Shend'of the same couniy to the person to 
whom directed, and being produced in Court liy the Barrister and there read by the 
Clerk, and proper certificate thereon made shall be redelivered and kept as a voucher of 
his being legally called to the Bar; and the Barristers shall take rank according to the 
date of their respective writs." 

It is believed that no barristers were called after 1789, and in 1806 
the Supreme Judicial Court adopted the following rule by which ap- 
parently counsellors were substituted for barristers : 

" Suffolk, ss. At the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston for the counties of Suffolk 
and Nantucket the second Tuesday of March, 180G, present Francis Dana, Cliief Jus- 
tice; Theodore Sedgwick, George Thatcher and Isaac Parker, Justices, ordered: First, 
no attorney shall do the business of a counsellor unless he shall have been made or ad- 
mitted as such by the Court. Second, all attorne3's of this Court who have been ad- 
mitted three years before the sitting of this Coiiit .shall be and hereby are made 
counsellors and are entitled to all the rights and j.rivileges of such. Third, no attorney 
or counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a previous examination." 

In I 836 the distinction between counsellor and attorney was abolished. 
It is difficult to say how early the barrister occupied a position in oui: 
courts. It is known, however, that in 1768 there were twenty- five in- 
Massachusetts. Of these eleven were in Suffolk, Richard Dana, Benjamin 
Kent, James Otis, jr., Samuel Fitch, William Read, Samuel Swift, Benjamin 
Gridley, Samuel Quincy, Robert Auchmuty, and Andrew Cazneau, of 
Boston, and Jonathan Adams, of Braintrce ; five were in Essex, Daniel 
Farnhani and John Lowell, of New buryport, William Pjnchon, of Salem, 
John Chipman, of Marblehead, and Nathaniel Peaselee Sargeant, of 
Haverhill; one was in Middlesex, Jonathan Sewall ; two in Worcester, 
James Putnam, of W^orcester, and Abel Willard, of Lancaster; 
three in Bristol, Samuel White and Robert Treat Paine, ofTaunton, and 
Daniel Leonard, of Norton ; two in Pljinouth, James Hovey and Pelham 
Winslow, of Plymouth, and one in Hampshire, John Worthington of 
Springfield. After that date the following barristers were called : 
Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, David Sewall, of York, Moses Bliss, 
of Springfield, Zcphaniah Leonard, of Taunton, Theodore Bradbury, cf 



76 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Falmouth (Portland), David Wejer, of Falmouth, Mark Hopkins, of 
Great Barrington, Simeon Strong, of Amherst, John Sullivan, of 
Durham, Daniel Oliver, of Hardwick, Frances Dana, of Cambridge, 
Sampson Salter Blowers, of Boston, Daniel Bliss, of Concord, Samuel 
Porter, of Salem, Joshua Upham, of Brookfield, Shearjashub Bourne, 
of Barnstable, James Sullivan, of Biddeford, Jeremiah D. Rogers, of 
Littleton, Oaks Angier, of Bridgewater, John Sprague, of Lancaster, 
Caleb Strong, of Northampton, Elisha Porter, of Hadley, Theodore 
Sedgwick, of Sheffield, Benjamin Hichborn, of Boston, Theophilus 
Parsons, of Newburyport, Jonathan Bliss, of Springfield, William Tudor, 
Perez Morton and William Wetmore of Boston, and Levi Lincoln, 
of Worcester. No barristers were called after 1789 and the fifty-five 
whose names are given above are believed by the writer to be all ever 
called to the bar in Massachusetts. 

Tlie reports of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massa- 
chusetts are contained in one hundred and fifty-four volumes. Ephraim 
Williams as reporter edited one volume including decisions from the 
September term, 1804, in Berkshire to the June term, 1805, in Lincoln. 
Dudley Atkins Tyng, the ne.\t reporter, edited si.xteen volumes, cover- 
ing the period from the March term, 1806, in Suffolk to the Suffolk 
March term, 1822, Octavius Pickering, who succeeded Tyng, edited 
twenty-four voluines beginning with the Berkshire September term, 
1822, and ending with decisions in Essex in 1839. Theron Metcalf, the 
successor of Pickering, covered with twelve volumes the period 
from the Suffolk and Nantucket March term in 1840 to the Hampden, 
Hampshire and Franklin September term in 1847. Luther Stearns 
Cusliing reported twelve volumes from the Suffolk and Nantucket term 
of 1848, to the Suffolk term of November, 1853. Horace Gray, jr., in 
sixteen volumes covered the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket 
term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of November, i860. Charles Allen 
in fourteen volumes reported the decisions from January, 1861, to the 
Suffolk term in January, 1867. Albert G. Browne reported in thirteen 
volumes from the Berkshire September term of 1867 to the Suffolk 
March term of 1872. Albert G.Browne, jr., and John C. Gray, jr , 
edited jointly two volumes with decisions from the Suffolk March 
term in 1872 to the Suffolk March term of 1873. Albert G. Browne, 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 77 

jr., again, alone, reported three volumes from the Worcester September 
term 1873, to the Norfolk January term 1874. John Lathrop edited 
thirty volumes with decisions from the Berkshire September term 1874 
to June, 1887. William V. Kellen followed with volumes containing 
decisions ending with November, 1 89 1. 

The Inferior Court of Common Pleas, as has been stated, was finally 
established by the act published June 27, 1699, to be held in each 
county by four judges appointed for the same. The jurisdiction of this 
court has been already described in the laws which were at various times 
disallowed by the Privy Council, and need not be repeated. The 
court went into operation after the original disallowed act was passed in 
1692, and as the disallowance only acted as a repeal, the court was kept 
alive b)' subsequent acts until tlie final approval of the act of 1699. 

The judges of the court for Suffolk county at various times were as 
follows : 

Elisha Hutchinson, appointed December 7, 1G92 ; John Foster, appointed December 7, 
1692; Peter Sergeant, appointed December 7, 1692; I.saac Addington, appointed De- 
cember 7, 1692; Jeremiah Dumraer, appointed July 2, 1702; Penn Towii.seiid, appoint- 
ed August 14, 1702; Thomas Palmer, appointed June 11, 1711; Edward Lynde, ap- 
pointed December 9, 1715 ; Adam VVinthrop, appointed December 9, 1715 ; William 
Dudley, appointed December 26, 1727; Nathaniel By field, appointed December 29, 
1731 ; Elisha Cooke, appointed December 29, 17-31 ; Anthony Stoddard, appointed 
January 21, 1733; Edward Hutchinson, appointed October 27. 174(t; Eliakim Hutch- 
inson, appointed December 31, 1741 ; Edward Winslow, appointed Oclober 20, 1743; 
Samuel Watts, appointed April 6, 1748 ; Thomas Hutchinson, appointed April 3, 1752; 
Samuel Welles, appointed January 8, 1755; Foster Hutchinson, appointed April 1, 
1758; William Reed, appointed May 9, 1770; Nathaniel Hatch, appomted January 10, 
1771; Joseph Green, appointed July 3, 1772; Thomas Hutchinson, jr., appointed De- 
cember 31, 1772; Benjamin Gridley, appointed May, 1775; Samuel Dexter, appointed 
October 31, 1775; John Hill, appointed October 31, 1775 ; Samuel Niles, appointed Oc- 
tober 31, 1775; Samuel Pemberton, appointed October 31, 1775; Thomas Cushmg, ap- 
pointed February 8, 177G. 

This completes the lists of judges who served prior to the law passed 
July 3, 1782, establishing the Court of Common Pleas. 

The special justices during the same period were : 

Samuel Checkley, appointed December 18, 1725; Anthony Stoddard, appointed De- 
cember 18, 1725 I Francis Fulham, appointed February 3, 1731-2 ; Thomas Greaves, ap- 
pointed February 3, 1731-2 ; Hugh Hall, appointed February 3, 1731-2; Josiah Quin- 
<:y. appointed December 31, 1734 ; Samuel Danforth, appointed February 21, 1734-5 ■ 



78 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Francis Fo.xcroft, appointed February 21, 1734-5; John Quiucy, appointed April 6, 
1748; James Minot, appointed April 6, 1748; Benjamin Lincoln, appointed January 24, 
1770; Joseph Willianj?, appointed January 24, 1770; Thomas Gushing, appointed Oc- 
tober 31, 1775 ; Josepli Pahuer, appointed October 31, 1775 ; Richard Cranch, appointed 
1780; Joseph Gardner, appointed 1780; Edmund Quincy, appointed 1780. 

The cliief justices during the same period were: Eiisha Hutchinson, 
Penn Townsend, Thomas Palmer, Adam Winthrop, Edward Hutchin- 
son, Nathaniel Byfield, Eliakim Hutchinson, Samuel Dexter and 
Thomas Gushing. 

The new law, passed July 3, 1782, after the adoption of the constitu- 
tion, changed the name of the court to " Court of Common Pleas," and 
provided that it should be kept in each county by four judges, appoint- 
ed from within the county, who should have cognizance of all civil ac- 
tions of the value of more than forty shillings, with the right of appeal 
for all parties to the next Supreme Judicial Court held within the same 
county. It bore the same relation to its predecessor, the Inferior Court 
of Common Pleas, that the Supreme Judicial Court, when established, 
bore to the Superior Court of Judicature. 

The judges of the court, which continued until June 21, 181 i, were 
the following : 

Oliver Wendell, appointed February 6, 1783, standing justice ; William Heath, ap- 
pointed January 28, 1785, special justice; Suthell Hubbard, appointed January 28, 1785, 
special justice; Samuel Barrett, appomted April 2G, 1787, special justice : Samuel Bar- 
rett, appointed July 15, 1788, standing justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed August 6, 
1788, special justice; Thomas Crafts, appointed July 9, 1793, standing justice ; Wd- 
liam Dennison, appointed 1798, standing justice; George Richards Minot, ap- 
pointed Jai.uary 9, 17D9, standing justice ; Samuel Cooper, appointed January 9, 1799, 
special justice; William Sherburne, appointed January 9, 1799, special justice ; Shear- 
jaslmb Bourne, appointed June 18, I8OO, standing justice. 

In the year 1800 the law provided that there should be one chief 
justice and three justices, and the court so continued through the period 
of its existence with the following appointments to its bench: 

George R. Minot, appointed 1800, chief justice; Shearjashub Bourne, appointed 
June 18, 1801, chief justice; Samuel Cooper, appointed January 7, 1802, special jus- 
tice; William Wetmore, appointwl February 17, 180C, special justice ; William Wt-t- 
more, appointed May 26, 1800, chief justice ; Joseph Ward, appointed July 2, 1807. .■spe- 
cial justice; John Phillips, appointed August 29, 1809, special justice; Robert Gardner 
appointed March 15, 1811, special justice. 



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On the 2ist of June, 181 1, it was enacted that the Commonwealth, 
except Nantucket and Dukes county, should be divided into six cir- 
cuits as follows: the middle circuit composed of Suffolk, Essex and 
Middlesex counties ; the western circuit composed of Worcester, Hamp- 
shire and Berkshire counties; the southern circuit composed of Nor- 
folk, Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable counties; the first eastern cir- 
cuit composed of York, Cumberland and Oxford counties ; the second 
eastern circuit composed of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset counties; 
and the third eastern circuit composed of Hancock and Washington 
counties. 

It also provided that "There shall be held and kept in each county, 
in the several circuits aforesaid, at such times and places as are now by 
law appointed for holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the several 
counties, a Circuit Court of Common Pleas, to consist of one chief jus- 
tice and two associate justices, each of whom shall be an inhabitant of 
the Commonwealth ; and any two of them shall be a court 
with original jurisdiction of all civil actions . . (excepting only 
such actions, wherein the Supreme Judicial Court or where justices 
of the peace now have original jurisdiction) ; and shall also have ju- 
risdiction of all such offences, crimes and misdemeanors, as before the 
passage of this act were cognizable by the respective Courts of Com- 
mon Pleas." They also had appellate jurisdiction in the case of sen- 
tences or judgments of a justice of the peace. It was fuither pro- 
vided " that all actions, suits, matters and things which may be pend- 
ing in the several Courts of Common Pleas on the second of Decem- 
ber (181 1), and all writs, executions, warrants, recognizances and proc- 
esses returnable to" the Common Pleas Court shall be returnable to 
the Circuit Court of Common Pleas. 

The judges of this court appointed in the middje circuit of which 
Suffolk county formed a part were : 

Samuel Dana, chief justice, of Groton ; William Wetmore, a.ssociate, of Bo.ston ; 
Stephen Minot, associate, of Haverliill. 

Suffolk county, by an act passed February 26, 18 14, was taken 
out of the circuit and was given a court of its own, which will be 
mentioned hereafter. 

The first session of the Circuit Court was held at Cambridge, on the 
l6th of December, 181 1, and its last session at Concord on the i ith of 



8o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

June, 1821. On the I4tli of February, 1821, an act was passed estab- 
lishing the late Court of Common Pleas, as a substitute for the Circuit 
Court of Common Pleas, to take effect from and after the first day of 
August in that year. It provided for the appointment of four justices, 
one of whom should be commissioned chief justice, with practically the 
same jurisdiction wliich had been conferred on its predecessor, the In- 
ferior Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court of Common Pleas, ex- 
cept that it was a court of the Commonwealth and not limited to any 
county or circuit. The court continued in existence until abolished by 
the act passed April 5, 1859, establishing the present Superior Court. 
On the first of March the number of associate justices was increased to 
four, on the 18th of March, 1845, to six, and on the 24th of May, 1851, 
to seven. 

The judges of the court at various times were as follows: 

Chkf Justices. — Artemas Ward, appointed 1821 ; re.^igned 1839. John Mason Wil- 
liams, appointed 1839; resigned 1844. Daniel Wells, appointed 1844; died 1854. 
Edward Mellen, appointed 1854; court aliolished 1859. 

Associate Justices. — Solomon Strong, appointed 1821 ; resigned 1842. John Mason 
Williams, appointed 1821 ; chief justice 1839. Samuel Howe, appointed 1821; died 1828. 
David Cummins, appointed 1828; resigned 1844. Charles Henry Warren, appointed 
1839; resigned 1844. Charles Allen, appointed 1842; resigned 1844. Pliny Merrick, 
appointed 1843; resigned 1848. Jo.shua Holyoke Ward, appointed 1844 ; died 1848. 
Emory Washburn, appointed 1844; re.signed 1.S47. Luther Stearns Cushing, appointed 
1844 ; resigned 1848. Harrison Gray Otis Colby, appointed 1845 ; resigned 1847 ; 
Charles Edward Forbes, appointed 1847 ; Supreme Court 1848. Edward Mellen, 
appointed 1847; chief justice 1854. George Tyler Bigelow, appointed 1848; 
Supreme Court, 1850. Jonathan Coggswell Perkins, appointed 1S48 ; court abolished 
1859. Horatio Byington, appointed 1848; died 1856. Thomas Hopkinson, appointed 
1848- resigned 1849. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, appointed 1849; resigned 1853. 
Pliny Merrick, appointed 1850 ; Supreme Court 1854. Henry Walker Bishop, appoint- 
ed 1851 ; court abolished 1859. George Nixon Briggs, appointed 1853 ; court aboli,«hed 
1859. George Partridge Sanger, appointed 1854; court abolished 1859. Henry Mor- 
ris, appointed 1855; court abolished 1859. David Aiken, appointed 1856; court aljol- 
ished 1859. 

The Superior Court was established April 5, 1859, as the successor 
of the Court of Common Pleas and with practically the same jurisdic- 
tion, with one chief justice and ten associate justices. The number of 
associates was increased to eleven May 19, 1875, to thirteen Febru- 
ary 27, 1888, and to fifteen May 6, 1892. The judges of this court 
up to the present time, August, 1892, have been as follows: 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 8r 

Chief Justices. — Charles Allen, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. Selh Ames, ap- 
pointed 1867; Supreme Court 1869. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1869; resigned 
1890. Alberl Mason, appointed 1890; incumbent. 

Associate Jiistices. — Julius Rockwell, appointed 1859; resigned 1886. Otis Phillips 
Lord, appointed 1859; Supreme Court 1875. Marcus Morton, jr., appointed 1859; Su- 
preme Court 1869. Seth Ames, appointed 1859; chief justice 1867. Ezra Wilkinson, 
appointed 1859 ; died 1882. Henry Vose, appointed 1859 ; died 1869. Thomas Rus- 
sell, appointed 1859; resigned 1867. John Phelps Putnam, appointed 1859; died 
1882. Lincoln Flagg Brigham, appointed 1859; chief justice 1869. Chester Ishain 
Reed, appointed 1867; resigned 1871. Charles Devens, jr., appointed 1867; Supreme 
Court 1873. Henry Austin Scudder, appointed 1869; resigned 1872. Francis Hen- 
shaw Dewey, appointed 1869; resigned 1881. Robert Carter Pitman, appointed 1869; 
died 1891. John William Bacon, appointed 1871 ; died 1888, William Allen, ap- 
pointed 1872; Supreme Court 1881. Peleg Emory Aldrich, appointed 1873; incum- 
bent. Waldo Colburn, appointed 1875 ; Supreme Court 1882. Wm. Sewall Gardner, 
appointed 1875; Supreme Court 1885. Hamilton Barclay Staples, appointed 1881 ; 
died 1891. Marcus Perrin Knowlton, appointed 1881; Supreme Court 1887. Caleb 
Blodgett, appointed 1882; incumbent. Albert Mason, appointed 1882; chief justice 
1890. James Madison Barker, appointed 1882 ; Supreme Court 1891. Charles Pei kins 
Thompson, appointed 1885; incumbent. John Wilkes Hammond, appointed 1886; 
incumbent. Justin Dewey, appointed 1886 ; incumbent. Edgar Jay Sherman, ap- 
pointed 1887 ; incumbent. John Lathrop, appointed 1888; Supreme Court 1891. James 
Robert Dunbar, appointed 1888; incumbent. Robert Roberts Bishop, appointed 1888;. 
incumbent. Daniel Webster Bond, appointed 1890; incumbent. Henry King Braiey, 
appointed 1891 ; incumbent. John Hopkins, appointed 1891; incumbent. Elisha Burr 
Maynard, appointed 1891 ; incumbent. Franklin Goodridge Fessenden, appointed 1891 ; 
incumbent. John W. Corcoran, appointed 1891 ; incumbent. James B. Richardson. 
1891 ; incumbent. 

Among the most important clianges in the jurisdiction of this court 
have been the following recent ones : By chapter 332 of the laws of 
1887 exclusive jurisdiction was given to it "in all cases of divorce and 
nullity or validity of marriage." By chapter 379 of the laws of 1S91 it 
was given jurisdiction in capital crimes, and by chapter 293 of the same 
year, jurisdiction in matters relating to telegraph and telephone wires 
given to the Supreme Court by chapter 27 of the public statutes, in 
matters relating to the abuse by towns of corporate powers given to 
the Supreme Court by the same chapter, relating to the construction, 
alteration, maintenance and use of buildings, given to the Supreme 
Court by chapter 104 of the public statutes and relating to the control 
of street railroads, given to the same court by chapter 113. The salaries- 
of the chief justices of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Superior 
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82 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Court are $7,500 and $500 for travel for the former, and $6,500 and 
$500 for travel for the latter; and for the associate justices, $7,000 and 
$500 for travel for those of the former, and $6,000 and $500 for travel 
for those of the latter. 

The law establishing the Superior Court abolished not only the Com- 
mon Pleas Court, but also the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk 
and the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, whose functions and 
powers it assumed as well as those of the Court of Common Pleas. These 
two courts will be referred to hereafter. 

The Court of General Sessions of the Peace was the third court es- 
tablished June 27, 1699. The act establishing it provided that it should 
be held in each county by the justices of the peace of the same county, 
who were empowered to hear and determine all matters relating to the 
conservation of the peace. The court for Suffolk was to be held on the 
first Tuesdays in July, October, January and April. This court con- 
tinued without material change until June 19, 1807, its powers having 
been renewed after the adoption of the constitution by an act passed 
July 3, 1782. By an act passed at the above date, June 19, 1S07, it 
was provided that this court should be held in the several counties by 
one chief justice and four associates for Suffolk, six for Essex, six for 
Middlesex, six for Hampshire, four for Berkshire, four for Norfolk, four 
for Plymouth, four for Bristol, two for Barnstable, two for the county of 
Dukes county, two for Nantucket, four for York, four for Cumberland, 
four for Oxford, four for Lincoln, six for Kennebec, six for Hancock, 
and two for Washington. These justices were to act as the General 
Court of Sessions, instead of justices of the peace, and to have and per- 
form all the duties of the old court. On the 19th of June, 1809, the 
jurisdiction of the General Court of Sessions of the Peace was trans- 
ferred to the Court of Common Pleas. Up to that time the judges in 
Suffolk county had been : 

William Dennison, appointed September 28, 1807, chief justice ; David Tilfieii, ap- 
pointed September 28, 1807, associate; Russell Sfurpis, appointed September 28, 1807, 
associate ; Samuel Clap, appointed September 28, 1807, associate. 

On the 25th of June, 181 1, an act was passed providing " that from 
and after the first day of September next, an act made and passed on 
the nineteenth day of June, in the j'ear of our Lord one thousand eight 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 83 

hundred and nine, entitled 'An act to transfer the powers and duties of 
the Court of Sessions to the Courts of Common Pleas, and for other 
purposes,' be and the same is hereby repealed," and that said General 
Court of Sessions should be revived. After the revival, on the 30th of 
August, 181 1, William Dennison was again appointed chief justice and 
David Tilden and Russell Sturgis associates. Discretion was given to 
the governor to appoint one chief justice, anC not more than four nor 
less than two associates in any county. 

On the 28th of February, 18 14, still another act was passed repealing 
the act of revival of the General Court of Sessions, except so far as Suf- 
folk, Nantucket and the count}' of Dukes county were concerned, and 
transferring their jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, 
which had been established on the 21st of June, iSii. By this act the 
governor was authorized to appoint two persons in each county to be 
session justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in their respective 
counties, and to sit with the justices of the Circuit Court in tne adminis- 
tration of all matters within their county over which the Courts of Ses- 
sions had jurisdiction. The administration of county affairs was con- 
ducted by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas until February 20, 1819, 
when the act which transferred the powers of the Court of Sessions to 
that court was repealed, and it was provided by law that the Court of 
Sessions in each county should beheld by a chief justice and two asso- 
ciates. The Court of Sessions for Suffolk county continued until Feb- 
ruary 23, 1822, when it was abolished by an " act to regulate the ad- 
ministration of justice within the county of Suffolk and for other pur- 
poses." In addition to those alreadj' mentioned as judges at various 
times in the changing conditions of the court in Suffolk county, were 
Josiah Batchelder, appointed July 2, 1808; Benjamin Homans, ap- 
pointed May 18, 1812; William Little and Edward Jones, appointed 
May_25, 1812; William Smith, appointed January 20, 1814, and Ben- 
jamin Rand, appointed May 25, 1819. 

The Courts of Justices of the Peace have been handed down from the 
earliest days of the province and were first established by the act for 
the establishing of judicatories and courts of justice within the province, 
passed November 25, 1692, and disallowed by the Privy Council Au- 
gust 22, 1695. They were again established by an act passed June 18. 



84 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1697, and afterwards confirmed by repeated legislation. Their civil and 
criminal powers were so similar to those of justices of tiie Common- 
wealth, that it is not proposed to set them forth more fully than they 
have already been in an earlier part of this narrative. 

The Boston Court of Common Pleas was established by an act passed 
P'ebruary 26, 1814. At that time Suffolk county was a part of the mid- 
dle circuit. The act provided that after the 28th of March, 18 14, a 
Court of Common Pleas should be held at Boston for the county of 
Suffolk- on the first Tuesdays of January, March, May, July, September 
an(_l November, to be called " the Boston Court of Common Pleas." It 
was to have one judge with a jurisdiction over all causes of a civil nat- 
ure whicli had been cognizable by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas. 
It was also to have original and concurrent jurisdiction in all civil ac- 
tions in the county of Suffolk under the sum of twenty dollars, and to 
hold a court to be called the Town Court for the summary trial without 
jury of all such actions on Wednesday of every week. The clerk of 
said court was to be called " Recorder" and have power to hold the 
court in case of the deatli or absence of the judge. This court continued 
until it was abolished b)' the act establishing a Common Pleas Court for 
the Commonwealth February 14, 1821. The judges of this court at 
various times were as follows : 

Harrison Gray Otis, appointed March 16, 1814; William Minot, appointed Marcli 2, 
1818; William Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818; Artemas Ward, appointed ilay 11, 
1819. 

"An act to establish a Municipal Court in the Town of Boston" was 
passed March 4, 1800. The following are some of its provisions : "That 
there shall be holden within and for the Town of Boston, on the first 
Monday of every month, by such learned, able and discreet person as 
the governor shall appoint and commission pursuant to the constitu- 
tion, a court of justice by the name of the Municipal Court for the Town 
of Boston ; that said court shall have full power to adjourn from day to 
day and shall have cognizance of all crimes and offences committed 
within the town of Boston, which are now cognizable in the Court of 
General Sessions of the Peace ; and cognizance of all crimes and of- 
fences against the By-Laws of the said Town ; of frauds, deceits, mo- 
nopolies, forestalling, regrating, thefts aud nuisances." 



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The court was presided over by one judge until March I, 1843, when 
it was provided by law that the judges of the Common Pleas Court 
should be ex-ofificio the judges of the Municipal Court. When the Su- 
perior Court of the county of SufTolk was established by an act passed 
May 21, 1855, the powers of the judges of the Common Pleas Court in 
relation to the Municipal Court were transferred to the new court, and 
when the Superior Court was established, April 5, 1859, the Municipal 
Court was finally abolished. The judges of this court at various times 
were : 

George Richards "Minot. appointed 1800; Thomas Dawes, jr., appointed 1802; Josiah 
Qulncy, appointed January 16, 1822; Peter O. Thaclier, appointed May 14, 182.'5. 

On the 2istof May, 1855, an act was passed to establish the "Su- 
perior Coin-t of the County of Suffolk," which provided for the appoint- 
ment of four justices, one of whom should be chief justice, with jui is- 
diction " in all cases, and in the same manner, and to the same extent, 
in which the Court of Common Pleas now has jurisdiction in said county, 
whether original and exclusive, concurrent or appellate ; and they shall 
also have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases in which the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas now has concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Judicial 
Court in said county, wherein the damages demanded or the property 
claimed shall not exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen hundred 
dollars; and no action in which the said Superior Court may have juris- 
diction under this act shall be brought in the Supreme Judicial Court in 
the county of SufTolk, except the damages therein demanded, or the 
property claimed, shall exceed in amount or value the sum of fifteen 
hundred dollars, and when the plaintiff, or some one in his behalf, shall 
before service of the writ, make oath or affirmation before some justice 
of the peace, that the matter sought to be recovered actually exceeds in 
amount or value the said sum." 

The act provided for six terms per year in Boston, and at any term 
to suit public convenience, two sessions might be held. The city of 
Boston was to pay the expenses of the court, the justices were to be 
ex-officio justices of the Municipal Court, the terms of the Common 
Pleas Court in the count}- of SufTolk were abolished and "judges of 
the said Superior Court and of the Court of Common Pleas might inter- 
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86 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

to rules of practice." This court was also abolished by the act estab- 
lishing the present Superior Court passed April 5, 1859. The judges 
of this court were as follows : 

Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Josiah 
Gr. Abbot, appointed October 13, 1855, resigned 1858; Stephen G. Nash, appointed Oc- 
tober 13, 1855, court abolished 1859; Charles P. Huntington, appointed October 13, 
1855, court abolished 1859 ; Marcus Morton, jr., appointed March 14, 1858, vice Abbot ; 
Charles Allen, chief justice, appointed March 19, 1858, court aboIished,1859. 

A Police Court was established in Boston by an act passed February 
23, 1822, the most important provisions of which for the purposes of 
this narrative were as follows: "That the town of Chelsea shall con- 
tinue to be a part of the county of Suffolk, for all purposes relating to 
the administration of justice, as though this act had not been passed, 
excepting that the town of Chelsea shall not be liable to taxation for 
any county purposes, until the legislature shall otherwise order; and 
excepting also as hereinafter provided, concerning the jurisdiction of 
justices of the peace. That the Court of Common Pleas in the county 
of Suffolk shall have jurisdiction in all matters and things, which in re- 
lation to the town of Chelsea, or the inhabitants thereof, were cogniz- 
able by the Court of Sessions in the county of Suffolk before the passing 
of this act. 

" That there shall be and hereby is established within and for the 
city of Boston, a Police Court to consist of three learned, able and dis- 
creet persons to be appointed and commissioned by the governor pur- 
suant to the constitution, and the session justice shall preside in said 
court; and a court shall be held daily at nine of the clock A. M. and at 
three of the clock P. M., by some one or more of said justices, and at 
any other terms when necessary to take cognizance of all crimes, of- 
fences and misdemeanors, whereof justices of the peace may take 
cognizance by law, and of all offences which may be cognizable by one 
or more of said justices, according to the by-laws, rules and regulations 
which may be established by the proper authority of the cit}- of 
Boston. 

" That a court shall be held by one or more of said justices on two 
several days in each week, and as much oftener as may be necessary, to 
be called and styled the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk ; which 



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court shall have original, exclusive jurisdiction and cognizance of all 
civil suits and actions, which before, and until the passing of this act, 
might by law be heard, tried and determined before any justice of the 
peace within and for the county of Suffolk; and an appeal shall be al- 
lowed from all judgments in said justice's court in like manner as ap- 
peals are now allowed by law, from judgments of justices of the peace 
in civil actions in the said county of Suffolk." 

The final provision of the act was "that it shall be of no force or 
effect unless a certain act establishing the city of Boston," passed at 
the present session, shall be accepted by the inhabitants of the town 
of Boston pursuant to the provision therein made. 

The Police Court and the Justice's Court described in the above act 
remained distinct, one exercising criminal and the other civil jurisdiction, 
with the same judges for both, until i860 when it was enacted in the 
general statutes that "all cases and proceedings pending in or return- 
able to the Justice's Court for the county of Suffolk, and the records 
and jurisdiction of said court are transferred to the Police Court." 
The judges who served at various times in this court were : 

Benjamin Whitman, appointed .Tune 10, 1822, senior justice ; William Simmons, ap- 
pointed June 10, 1822 ; Henry Orne, appointed June 10, 1822 ; John G-. Rogers, ap- 
pointed August 10, 18.31 ; James C. Merrill, appointed February 19, 1834 ; Abel Gushing, 
appointed June 30, 1843 ; Thomas Russell, appointed February 26, 1852 ; Sebeus C. 
Maine, appointed November 3, 1858; George D. Wells, appointed May 31, 1859; Ed- 
win Wright, appointed July 9, 18G1 ; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 28, 1861. 
special justice. 

The Police Court was abolislied by an act passed May 29, 1866, es- 
tablishing the Present Municipal Court of the city of Boston. That 
act provided that " there shall be established a court to be called the 
Municipal Court of the city of Boston, which shall have the same 
powers and jurisdiction in all actions and proceedings at law, whether 
civil or criminal as the Police Court of the city of Boston now has, ex- 
cept as hereinafter provided " — that " all cases pending at the time this 
act shall take full effect, whether civil or criminal, in the Police Court of 
the city of Boston, shall be transferred to and have day in the proper 
day and term of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston ; and all 
writs, processes, complaints, petitions and proceedings whatev,er which 
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88 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

returnable to, entered and have day in the proper day and term of 
said Municipal Court, that there shall be appointed, commissioned and 
qualified, agreeably to the constitution, . . three suitable persons as 
justices of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, one of whom 
shall be appointed, commissioned and qualified as chief justice thereof, 
one or more of whom shall hold a court for criminal business daily, ex- 
cept Sundays or legal holidays, in the forenoon at nine o'clock, and in 
the afternoon except on Saturday at three o'clock, or some hour there- 
after, and a court for civil business weekl}% each term of which shall 
begin on Saturday. 

By chapter 41 of the laws of 1882 the number of associate justices 
was increased to three and by chapter 419 of the laws of 1888 to four. 
The judges of the court have been the following: 

Jolm W. Bacon, appointed Jvily 2, 1866, chief justice ; Francis W. Hurd, appointed 
July 2, 1866, associate ; Mellen Chamberlain, appointed June 29, 1866. associate; Mellen 
Chamberlain, appointed December 1, 1871, chief justice ; Joseph M. Chuicbill, appointed 
March 3, 1871, associate; William E. Parmenter, appointed December 12, 1871, asso- 
ciate; John Wilder May, appointed October 12. 1878, chief justice ; William E Par- 
menter, appointed January 24, 1883, chief justice; W. J. Forsaith, appointed January 
23, 1872, special; W. J. Forsaith, appointed March 8, 1882, associate; Matthew J. 
McCafferty, appointed January 24, 1883, associate; George Z. Adams, appointed July 
11, 1882, special ; John H. Hardy, appointed June 3, 1885, associate ; Benjamin R. Curtis, 
appointed April 28, 1886, associate ; Frederick D. Ely, appointed October 10, 1888, asso- 
ciate ; John H. Burke, appointed February 11, 1891, associate. 

Within the present limits of Suffolk county there are the following 
Municipal, Police and District Courts: 

1. The Municipal Court of the city of Boston, the establishment of 
which has been already stated with a jurisdiction including wards 6, 7, 
8, 9, 10, II, 12, 16, 17, 18, and the following judges: William E. Par- 
menter, chief justice, William J. Forsaith, John H. Hardy, Frederick D. 
Ely and John H. Burke, associate justices, and George Z. Adams, spe- 
cial justice. 

2. The Municipal Court of South Boston was established May 26, 
1874, and now has a jurisdiction including wards 13, 14, 15, with the 
following judges: Robert 1. Burbank, justice, and Joseph D. Fallon 
and Charles J. Noyes, special justices. 

3. The Municipal Court of the Charlestown District was originaJly 
established as the Police Court of the city of Charlestown, April 4, 1862, 



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but assumed its present name pursuant to the act uniting Charlestown 
with Boston passed May 14, 1873. It has jurisdiction over wards 3, 4, 
S, with the following judges : Henry W. Bragg, justice, and Joseph H. 
Cotton and Simon Davis, special justices. 

4. The Municipal Court of the Highland District was established by 
an act passed June I, 1867, uniting Roxbury with Boston, under the 
name of the Municipal Court of the Southern District of the city ot 
Boston, and acquired its present title pursuant to an act passed May 26, 
1874. It has jurisdiction over wards 19, 20, 21, 22, and the following 

judges: Solomon A. Bolstor, justice, and George R. Wheelock and 
Walter S. Frost, special justices. 

5. The Municipal Court of the Dorchester District was established 
June 10, 1870. It has jurisdiction in ward 29 and the following 
judges: Joseph R. Churchill, justice, and George M. Reed, and George 
A. Fisher, special justices. 

6. The Municipal Court of the J?righton District was established May 
26, 1874. It has jurisdiction in ward 25, and the following judges: 
Henry Baldwin, justice, and James H. Rice and Charles A. Barnard, 
special justices. 

7. The Municipal Court of the West Ro.xbury District was established' 
May 26, 1874. It has jurisdiction in Ward 23, and the following judges: 
James M. F. Howard, justice, and George R. Fowler and Henry Aus- 
tin, special justices. 

8. The Police Court of Chelsea was established February 27, 1855. 
It originally included Chelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop 
in its jurisdiction, but in 1886 Winthrop was added to the jurisdiction 
of the District Court of East Boston. The judges of the court are 
Albert D. Bosson, justice, and William H. Hart and Frank E. Fitz, 
special justices. 

9. The East Boston District Court was established as the Municipal 
Court of the East Boston District, May 26, 1874, and was re-established 
under its present name by an act passed February 16, 1886, Its juris- 
diction extends over Wards l and 2, and the town of Winthrop, which 
until the organization of this court was included within the jurisdiction 
of the police court of Chelsea. Its judges are William H. H. Emmons, 
justice, and James L. Walsh and Albert E. Clary, special justices. 

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90 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

It will be proper here to state that by an act passed May 3, 1850, 
Chelsea, North Chelsea (Revere), and Winthrop, parts of Suffolk county, 
were placed under the jurisdiction of the county commissioners of Mid- 
dlesex. Suftblk county, of course, has no commisioners. 

In the city of Boston the board of aldermen have all the powers and 
duties of county commissioners, except in relation to trials by jury and 
recovery of damaijes in such trials, in cases of laying out and discon- 
tinuing highways, and appeals from assessors for abatement of taxes. 

It has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that under the 
colonial charter matters relating to the probate of wills and the admin- 
istration of estates of deceased persons were within the jurisdiction of 
the county court. This jurisdiction was disturbed during the brief ad- 
ministrations of Dudley and Andres, but after the overthrow of Andros 
the old method was resumed and continued until the province charter 
went into operation. By that charter probate affairs were placed in the 
hands of the Governor and Council, wlio claimed and exercised the right 
to appoint judges and registers of probate in the various counties. The 
following is believed to be a correct list of persons holding these offices 
in Suffolk county by appointment under the provincial charter, and 
until the first law was passed relating to probate affairs after the adop- 
tion of the constitution : 

Judges of Probate. — William Stoughton, appointed June 18, 1602 : Elisha Cooke, Aug- 
gust 8, 1701 ; Isaac Addington, November 19, 1702 ; Samuel Sewall, December D, 1715 ; 
Jo.seph Willard, December 19, 1728 ; Joseph Willard, November 5, 1741 ; Edward 
Hutchinson, February 12, 1745-6; Thomas Hutchinson, April 3, 1752; Thomas Hutch- 
inson, Novembers, 1761: Foster Hutchinson, Augusts, 1769; Thomas Gushing, 1775; 
Olivei' Wendell, November 16, 1780. 

Retjisters of Probate. — Isaac Addington, appointed June 18, 1G92; Paul Dudley, No- 
vember 19, 1702; Joseph Marion, December 19, 1715; JohnBoydell; Benjamin Rolfe, 
October 19, 1722, (Boydell absent); John Boydell, December 19, 1728; John Boydell, 
December 15, 1732; Andrew Belcher, December 21, 1739; Andrew Belcher, Novem- 
ber 5, 1741; John Payne, July 14, 1749, (Belcher absent) ; John Shirley, January 25, 
1754; John Payne, September 20, 1754, (Shirley absent); John Payne, January 11, 
1755, (Shirley absent); John Payne, Marcli 28, 1755; John Cotton, March 28, 1755; 
William Cooper, 1759; John Cotton, 1759; William Cooper, 1761; John Cotton, 1761 ; 
William Cooper, October 30, 1776. 

On the 1 2th of March, 1784, an "Act for establishing Courts of Pro- 
bate " was passed, providing that a court shall be held in the several 




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counties, and that a judge and registcf shall be appointed in each 
county ; that the Supreme Judicial Court shall be the Supreme Court 
of Probate with appellate jurisdiction of all matters determinable by the 
probate judges. 

Under this act and until 1838, when the offices of judges and regis- 
ters of probate and insolvency were created, the following officers ad- 
ministered the affairs of the court : 

Judges of Probate. — Oliver Wendell, appointed November 16, 1780, (held over) ; 
James Sullivan, May 27, 1788; Thomas Dawes, Februarj' 19, 1790; George Richards- 
Minot, February 1, 1792 ; Thomas Dawes, jr., January 26, 1802 ; Joseph Hall, Septem- 
ber 6, 1825; John Heard, March 15,-1836; Willard Phillips, May 3, 1839; Edward 
Greeley Loring December 17, 1847 ; John P. Putnam, March 27, 1858. 

Registers of Probate. — William Cooper, appointed October 30, 1776, (held over); 
Perkins Nichols, November 19, 1799; John Heard, May 26, 1806; David Everett, 
October 22, 1811; John Heard, June 20, 1812; Oliver B. Peabody, March 15, 1836; 
Horatio M. Wilhs, February 8, 1842; Thomas Gill, April 1, 1852; Horatio M. Willis, 
July 1, 1853 ; William C. Browne, February 28, 1855. 

An amendment to the constitution, ratified by the people on the 23d 
of May, 1858, provided that at the annual election and in every fifth 
year thereafter, the register of probate of each county should be chosen 
by the people. Pursuant to this amendment William C. Browne, then 
holding the office, was chosen register. In 1856 a Court of Insolvency 
was established by law in each county, and Isaac Ames was appointed, 
June 16, 1856, judge of insolvency for Suffolk county and Charles W. 
Storey, register. In 1858 the offices of judge and register of probate 
and those of judge and register of insolvency were abolished and the 
offices of judge and register of probate and insolvency were created. 
In the same year it was provided that the register of probate and in- 
solvency should be chosen by the people in that year and every fifth 
year thereafter. Isaac Ames was appointed judge of probate and in- 
solvency May II, 1858, and at the election in November William C. 
Browne, the former register of probate, was chosen register. The suc- 
cessor of Judge Ames was John W. McKim, the present incumbent, 
who was appointed March 27, 1877. Mr. Browne was rechosen for five 
years in 1863, and was succeeded by William S. King, who was chosen 
in November, 1870. At the death of Col. King, Patrick R. Guiney suc- 
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92 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1877, Elijah George, the present incumbent, was appointed register and 
subsequently chosen by the people. 

In the history of the office of judge of probate of Suffolk county an 
event occurred, to which it may be interesting to refer. Edward Greeley 
Loring, who held the office from 184710 1858, was removed upon the ad- 
dress of the two Houses of the Legislature on the ground that holding 
the office of judge of probate was incompatible with holding the office 
of United States commissioner, both of which had been held by him 
some years. As United States commissioner he had heard an appli- 
cation for the rendition to his alleged master of Anthony Bujns, a fugi- 
tive slave, who was arrested May 26, 1854, and rendered judgment in 
accordance with the application. This act aroused the indignation of the 
people to such an extent that his removal from office was demanded. 
His removal was attempted at various times by the Legislature on the 
ground that he had violated the provisions of the 13th section of the 
459th chapter of the laws of 1855, which declared " that no person who 
holds any office under the laws of the United States which qualifies him 
to issue any warrant or other process, or to grant any certificate under 
the acts of Congress passed in 1 793 and 1850, or to serve the same, shall 
at the same time hold any office of honor, trust or emolument under the 
laws of the Commonwealth." Resolves in favor of his removal on this 
ground had been several times reported by a special committee and had 
failed either to pass the Legislature, or, if passed, to receive the approval 
of the governor, and the chief argument against the resolves was the 
claim that the law of 1855 was unconstitutional. 

In 1858 a renewed attempt was made, and the writer of this narrative, 
then a member of the Senate, was made chairman of the committee to 
whom the petitions for removal were referred. The late Joseph M. 
Churchill, of Dorchester, was chairman on the part of the House, in 
V/'hich branch the petitions had been presented, and he was requested by 
tlie committee to draft a report in favor of the passage of an address. 
The writer, believing that a removal would never be accomplished on 
the grounds that had been successfully attacked either by the Legisla- 
ture or the executive, and also believing that the report of Mr. Churchill 
would repeat those grounds and thus be defeated, determined to write a 
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of constitutionality, but would commend themselves also to the minds 
of men whose anti-slavery sentiments were not especially strong. 

At the next meeting of the committee, after the House chairman had 
read his report, the writer asked permission to read his own, and after 
its reading it was at once accepted by a majority of the committee. In 
order that a record may be here made of the final controlling reasons 
for a legislative act which has been misunderstood, the report is made a 
part of this narrative as follows: 

"House of Representatives, March 9, 1858. 

"The joint special committee to whom were referred the several pe- 
titions for the removal of Edward Greeley Loring from the office of 
judge of probate for the county of Suffolk have considered the same and 
report. 

" The constitution provides that 'all judicial officers duly appointed, 
commissioned and sworn shall hold their offices during good behavior 
e.xcepting such concerning whom there is a different provision made in 
the constitution ; provided nevertheless the governor with the consent 
of the council may remove them upon the address of both houses of the 
Legislature.' The exercise of this right in the hands of the governor 
and council and the branches of the Legislature is unrestricted. Any 
reasons, unless they may be such as are based on misconduct and mal- 
administration in office which may seem sufficient, will justify removal 
by address. 

"In the year 1840 Edward Greeley Loring was appointed commis- 
sioner of the United States to take bail and affidavits pursuant to the 
acts of Congress passed in 1812 and 1817. In 1846 he was appointed 
judge of probate for the county of Suffolk. At that time under the 
act of Congress of 1793 jurisdiction in all cases of the extradition of 
fugitives from service or labor was vested in any magistrate of a county, 
city or town corporate. The duties imposed on a commissioner in 1840, 
though enlarged by acts of Congress subsequently, were of such a char- 
acter that perhaps no valid reason existed why the offices of judge of 
probate and commissioner of the United States should not be held, 
and their separate functions discharged by one and the same person. 

" But by the act of Congress passed in 1850 the jurisdiction in ques- 
tion was transferred to the commissioners of the United States, and in 



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the language of that act Edward Greeley Loring as one of the commis- 
sioners was ' required to exerciee and discharge all the powers and 
duties conferred by this act.' This transfer increased the duties and 
responsibility of the commissioners and so changed their character that 
the holding of that office became in the opinion of your committee in- 
compatible with the holding of the office of judge of probate ; that a 
faithful discharge of the duties of the one became inconsistent with the 
proper discharge in all cases of the duties of the other. 

" A single illustration will suggest the conflict which might arise in 
the exercise of the powers and duties imposed by the two offices. A 
slave mother dies in Massachusetts and her children are brought before 
the Court of Probate for the appointment of a guardian. The judge of 
probate by the laws of Massachusetts is for the time their protector and 
friend, and while the hearing is pending the same judge in the capacity 
of commissioner is called upon to issue a warrant for their seizure as the 
property of a southern slave owner. 

" Again the constitution provides that ' the judges of probate of wills 
and for granting letters of administration shall hold their courts at such 
place or places or fixed days as the convenience of the people shall re- 
quire, and the Legislature shall from time to time hereafter appoint such 
times and places.' These times and places have been fixed b\' the Leg- 
islature agreeable to the wants and convenience of the people. 

" It must be apparent that the assumption or occupation by any judge 
of probate of any office whose duties might interfere with the discharge 
of his probate duties at the times and places thus constitutionally pre- 
scribed is improper, and after due notice is a sufficient cause of removal. 
It cannot be denied that a judicial officer under the laws of the United 
States whose duties are compulsory upon the incumbent may be in- 
compatible with a judicial office under the laws of Massachusetts whose 
duties are no less compulsory. Now no limit is to be presumed to the 
amount of duties which a commissioner may be called upon to perform. 
If the discharge of the duties of commissioners were voluntary under 
the act of 1850, the mere occupation of the office might be unobjection- 
able, but in the language of Judge Loring in his protest in 1855 'the 
duty of commissioners of the Circuit Court ©f the United States under 
the law of 1850, is imperative upon tliem,' ai>d 'an application made 



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pursuant to law to any one commissioner fixes that duty on liim and 
after such appHcation he can neither decHne it nor evade it.' It is clear 
then that even if such applications were rare, they might be made at 
the very time fixed by the law for the performance of his probate duties, 
and if numerous the)' might prevent their performance altogether. The 
fact that during the trial of Anthony Burns such a conflict existed as 
compelled Judge Loring in the discharge of duties as commissioner to 
adjourn the Court of Probate and postpone its business, sufficiently con- 
firms the incompatibility in question. 

" But the duties of commissioners in connection with the extradition 
of fugitive slaves are not the only duties which might conflict with the 
proper discharge of the duties of judge of probate. Pursuant to several 
acts of Congress passed subsequently to the appointment of Judge Lor- 
ing as commissioner in 1840, he is liable to be called to act in cases of 
extradition of fugitives from foreign countries, and issue warrants and 
hold preliminary examinations in cases of revolts, mutiny and afirays 
on shipboard, and a great variety of crimes and offences committed on 
sea and land within the jurisdiction of the United States. These duties 
enlarging from year to year aid still further in constituting the office of 
United States commissioner such an office as cannot with propriety be 
held by a judicial officer under the laws of Massachusetts. When we 
add to this interference of official duties their opposite and conflicting 
natures the incompatibility is the more manifest. 

"This incompatibility has been long since recognized by the laws of 
the Commonwealth and by the members of successive legislatures. The 
law of 1843, though applicable to magistrates of this Commonwealth in 
the performance of the duties imposed upon them by the act of Con- 
gress of 1793, was clearly indicative of the determination of the people 
of Massachusetts that no magistrate in judicial office should participate 
in the extradition of slaves The sentiment and spirit of that law are 
as clearly violated whether that participation is had by a magistrate of 
Massachusetts as such acting under the law of 1793, or by a commis- 
sioner of the United States acting under the law of 1850, who is at the 
same time a judicial officer under the laws of the Commonwealth. In con- 
formity with the spirit of this law the Legislature declared by resolves in 
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in their legal enactments in relation to the delivering up of fugitive slaves 
remain unchanged' and ' that the people of Massachusetts in the main- 
tenance of these their well-known and invincible principles expect that 
their officers and representatives will adhere to them at all times, on all 
occasions, and under all circumstances.' 

" The law of 1855 in a more positive manner recognizes the same 
principle and applies it to the condition of things existing in conse- 
quence of the law of Congress passed in 1850. In direct contraven- 
tion of the terms and spirit of this law, Judge Loring now holds the two 
offices of judge of probate and United States commissioner. Indeed, 
the whole current of sentiment and law in Massachusetts during the last 
fifteen years has enunciated the principle that no officers of this Com- 
monwealth shall engage in the extradition of slaves, or occupy any of- 
fice among whose dutie- such extradition may be counted. The same 
doctrine has been endorsed and confirmed by the address of two Legis- 
latures to the governor of the Commonwealth for the removal of the 
judge who has disregarded and violated it. 

" For these reasons, in the opinion of the committee, the Legislature 
is called upon to address the governor to remove Edward Greeley Lor- 
ing from the office of judge of probate for the county of Suffolk. They 
do not feel obliged to base their grounds for his removal upon the law 
of 1855, and, indeed, to establish the entire validity of these grounds, 
in their opinion it is not necessary to regard that law, except so far as it 
is declaratory of the sentiment of the people. If that law is constitu- 
tional, it is sufficient to say that its violation is a valid reason for the 
address. If it is unconstitutional, they hold that the principle so long 
acknowledged which dictated its enactment, is also abundant cause and 
justification. 

"Ample notice has been given to Judge Loring of the wishes of the 
people as expressed through their representatives, and ample time af- 
forded him to respect and yield to them. While judge of probate he 
still holds the office of United States commissioner in defiance of the 
sentiment of the Commonwealth, and his removal by address is the only 
remedy which the constitution recognizes or provides. 

" Your committee therefore respectfully recommends that the accom- 
panying address be sent to the governor, requesting him with the consent 



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of the Council to remove Edward Greeley Loriiig from the office of 
judge of probate for the county ofSuftolk. 

"And your committee further recommends that a joint committee 
consisting of two on the part of the Senate and five on the part of the 
House be appointed to present said address to the governor." 

The address was adopted by the Legislature and presented by the 
writer as chairman of the committee appointed for the purpose, to Na- 
thaniel P. Banks, then governor, who with the advice and consent of the 
Council promptly caused the removal. 

The committee reporting the address to the Legislature consisted of 
Wm. T. Davis and Joseph W. Cornell, on the part of the Senate, and 
Joseph M. Churchill, Dexter F. Parker, George Stevens, W. F. Arnold, 
and William Page, on the part of the House. Mr. Page made a minor- 
ity report in opposition to the address, and Messrs. Churchill, Parker, 
Arnold, and Cornell reported that while they concurred in the report 
they favored the removal for the additional reason " that the said Ed~ 
ward Greeley Loring in violation of the provisions of the 13th section 
of chapter 489 of the acts of 1855, holds the office of judge of probate 
for the county of Suffolk, and also the office of United States commis 
sioner with power to issue process and grant certificates under the act 
of Congress approved September 18, A. D. 1850, known as the fugitive 
slave act." 

It is not proposed to include in this narrative sketches of the United 
States courts sitting within the county of Suftblk, but some reference to 
admiralty affairs before the adoption of the constitution may be appro- 
priate. Under the colony charter the Court of Assistants held admi- 
ralty jurisdiction, and under a law passed by the General Court in 1673, 
were authorized to hear and try cases without a jury. Under the prov 
ince charter the crown reserved the power of establishing admiralty 
courts and appointing their officers. The words of the charter are: 
" Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared that nothing herein shall 
extend or be taken to Erect or grant or allow the Exercise of any Ad- 
mirall Court Jurisdiccon Power or Authority, but that the same shall be 
and is hereby reserved to Us and Our Successors and shall from time to 
time be Erected Granted and exercised by vertue of Commissions to be 
yssued under the Great Seale of England or under the Seale of the High 
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98 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Adiiiirall or the Commissioiieis for executing the Office of High Ad 
niirall of England." 

The admiralty judges under the province charter having jurisdiction 
in Massachusetts were Adam Winthrop, appointed in 1699; William 
Atwood, appointed in 1701 ; Roger Mompesson, appointed in 1703; 
Nathaniel Byfield, appointed in 1703 ; John Menzies, appointed in 171 5 ; 
Robert Auchmuty, appointed in 1728; Natlianiel Byfield, appointed in 
1728; Robert Auchmuty, appointed in 1731; Chambers Russell, ap- 
pointed in 1747; Robert Auchmuty, jr., appointed in 1767, who held 
office until the Revolution. At a later date during the Revolution there 
appears to have been a Maritime Court, divided into three districts, of 
which Timothy Pickering was judge of the Middle District, Nathan Cush- 
ing of the Southern, and Timothy Langdon of the Northern. The wri- 
ter has not been able to learn much concerning this court, nor does 
he consider it necessary to investigate it for the purposes of this narra- 
tive. 

Witli some reference to the attorney-generals who have served the 
province and State, to the sheriffs, and county attorneys of the county 
of Suffolk, all of whom are intimately associated with the judicial sys- 
tem and to the court-houses in use at various times, this sketch of the 
courts will close; and it v\ill be only necessary before bringing this 
chapter to an end to allude to the condition and character of the Suffolk 
bar at different periods of its history. 

The first attorney- general appears to have been Benjamin Bullivant, 
who received a reappointment to that office in 1686, and was succeeded 
by George Farwell, who served until June 20, 1688. During the re- 
maining time of the administration of Andros, James Graham held the 
office, and was succeeded by Anthony Checklej-, June 14, 1689. Ciieckley 
was reappointed untler the pro\ince charter b\' Governor Pliipps, Oc- 
tober 28, 1692. Paul Dudley was appointed July 4, 1702, and in the 
opinion of Judge Washburn, Thomas Newton succeeded Dudley in 
1718, and served until May 28, 1721. The successors of Newton un- 
der the province charier were John Overing, 1722; John f\ead, 1723; 
John Overing, 1728 ; John Read, 1733; William Brattle, 1736; John 
Overing, 1739; Jeremiah Gridley, 1742; John Overing, 1743; James 
Otis, 1748; Edmund Trowbridge, 1749; Jonathan Sewall, 1767, the 
last attorney-general under the charter. 



Introductory chafter. 9y 

The office of solicitor-general was created in 1767, and given to Jona- 
than Sewall before his appointment as attorney- genera], and when he 
was appointed to that office in the same year, Samuel Ouincy was ap- 
pointed solicitor-general, who held the office until the Revolution. 
When the office of solicitor-general was revived, Daniel Davis was ap- 
pointed in 1808 and continued in office until June i, 1832, when the 
office was abolished by an act passed March 14, 1832. 

Since the adoption of the constitution the following persons have held 
the office of attorney-general : 

Robert Treat Paine, appointed duiing ihe Revolution ami held over; James Sullivan, 
February 12, 1790; Barnabas Jiidwell, .lime 1;"), ISO? ; Perez Jlorton, September 7, 
ISIO; .James T. Austni, May 21, 18:i2 (office aboli.shed in 1843); John Henry Clifrord, 
181!i (office revived); Rufus Choate, January 22, 18.53; ,lohn Henry Clillbrd, May 211, 
1854; Stephen Henry Phillips, chosen 1S.5S; Dwight Fociter, 18(>l; Chester I. Reed, 
1864 (resigned); Charles Allen. 1S()7; Charles R. Train, ls72; George Marston, 
1879; Edgar J. Sherman, 1883 (lesigi.ed); Andiew .1. Waterman, 18s7; Albert E. 
Pillsbury, I8!ll (incumbent). 

During the colonial period there was no officer bearing the title of 
sheriff until the time of Andros, when James Sherlock acted in that ca- 
pacity and officiated in the Superior Court of Judicature in 1688, over 
which Joseph Dudley presided as chief justice, with William Stoughton 
and Peter I>ulkley as associates. The following persons have served as 
sherift" of Suffolk countv under the province charter ;ind under the con- 
stitution : 

Samuel Gookin, appointed Alay 27, 1G92; (jiles Dyer, Oclober 23, 1702; William 
Dudley, August 27, 1713; William Payne, February 19, 1714-1.5; William Dudley, 
.March 2, 1714-1:5; William Payne, December 9. 1715 ; Edward Winslovv, December 
12, 1728; Benjamin Pollard, October 2l), 1743; Stephen Greenleat, January 3, 1757 ; 
William Greenleaf, 1775; Jo.seph Henderson, December 14, 1780; Jeremiah Allen, 
April 14, 1701; Samuel Bradford, June 16, 18(19; Jo.seph Hall, October 13, 1818; 
Charles Pinckney Sumner, September G. 1S25 (resigned) ; Joseph Eveleth, April 11, 
1839; Henry ('rocker, February 4, 1.^52 (resigned); Joseph Eveleth, M.iy 21, 1853 ; 
.lobn .\[. Clark, February 28, 1855; John B. O'lSrien, chosen 188.3 (incumbent). 

The office of county attorney, or as at various times it has been called, 
attorney of the State, Commonwealth attorney, and district attorney, 
was established in 1807, and that year James T. Austin was appointed 
attorney of the State. In 1811 he was reappointed as county attorney, 
and served until 1830. On the 5th of July in that yeai Samuel Dunn 



loo HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

P.uker was appointed county attorney, and served until 1S52. On the 
4th of February in that year, John C. Park was appointed Common- 
wealth attorney, and served until the 30th of September, 1853, when ■ 
George Partridge Sanger was appointed. George W. Cooley was ap- 
pointed to succeed Mr. Sanger September 5, 1854, and served until the 
26th of February, 1 86 1, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed dis- 
trict attorney. Mr. Bradley declined, and George Partridge Sanger was 
appointed March 21, 1861. John Wilder May succeeded May 18, 1869, 
and Oliver Stevens, the present incumbent, in 1875. 

A few words concerning the buildings in which the courts have been 
held at various times in Boston will not be inappropriate. Thomas 
Lechford, writing in 1 640, said that the General Court and the Great 
Quarter Courts were held in the Meeting House. At that time the 
Meeting House stood on the site of J^y's building on Washington 
street, in front of Young's Hotel. It had previously stood on the site 
of Brazier's building on State street. Between these two sites Capt. 
Robert Keayne lived, on the corner of Washington and State streets, 
and the market place was on the site of the old State House. Captain 
Keayne died in 1656, leaving to the town of Bjston .£^300 " for a town 
house, a conduit and a market place, with some convenient room or 
two for the courts to meet in both summer and winter, and so for the 
townsmen and commissioners in the same building or the like and a 
convenient room for a library and a gallery or some other handsome 
room for the elders to meet in ; also a room for an armory." A wooden 
building was consequently erected and finished in 1658 on the old market 
place set on twenty-one pillars, leaving an open space on the ground 
for a market place and room above for town purposes. The General 
Court allowed to Boston one single country rate, provided the courts 
could be held in this building In 1667 it was repaired at a cost of 
^680, one-half of which was paid by the country, one- quarter by the 
county, and one- quarter by the town. 

In 171 I It was burned, and a new building constructed of brick in 
1712-13, one- half of the cost being paid by the province and one- halt 
b}' the county and town. In 1747 it was again partially burned, but 
the walls of the present old State House are supjiosed to be the same 
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Court street, on the site now occupied by the nortlierly end of the stone 
building recently abandoned by the courts. 

In 1810 a court house was built on School street on the site of the 
present city hall and occupied until the stone building in Court square 
was completed in December, 1S36. The old Municipal Court continued 
to be held in the brick building on Court street until June 20, 1822, 
when it was removed to Leveiett street, thence to the School street 
building in 1831, and to the Court street building in 1837. The Police 
Court was held in Leverett street from the time of its establishment in 
1822 to 1837, when it removed to the Court street building. 

The United States Courts were held in the School street building 
until rooms were furnished in the Court squace house, and later for 
a term in Bowdoin square until the Masonic Temple was bought by 
the United States and fitted for their use. 

There was practically no bar in Suffolk Cfumty during the colonial 
period. It is probable that John Winthrop, Richard Bellingham, John 
Humphrey, Herbert Pelham, Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Lechford 
had been educated as lawyers in Engl.ind, but of these Pelham and 
Lechford returned home after a few years' residence, and the others 
were chiefl}' occupied as magistrates and not as attorneys. The skill 
with which the colony laws were drafted shows these few men to have 
been learned and able. Edward Randolph, the secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts colony under President Dudley, wrote home to England in 
January, 1687-8: " I have wrote you of the want we have of two or three 
honest attorneys (if any such thing in nature), we have but two ; one 
is West's creature, came with him from New York and drives all before 
him. He also takes extravagant fees, and for want of more the country 
cannot avoid coming to him, so that we had better be quite without 
them, than not to have more." 

The Mr. West referred to in the letter of Randolph was John West, 
who came from New York and was appointed deputj' secretary under 
Randolph, who was secretary under Andros. He was a practitioner in 
the courts, but, probably, not an educated lawyer. He managed as 
deputy secretary to deceive and financially prey upon his chief, and it 
is quite possible that he is one of the attorneys referred to in the above 
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102 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1688 came on he was arrested with Andros and with him sent to Eng- 
land. The other attorney was probably George Farwell, who also came 
from New York and was made attorney- general by Andros. He also 
was arrested with Andros at the Revolution and sent to England in 
February, 1689. 

Another of the attorneys in the early colonial days was Thomas Mor- 
ton, of Merry Mount, who came from England in 1625, and returned in 
1628. Me was probably an educated lawyer and styled himself " of 
Clifford's Inn, Gentleman." He returned to Massachusetts in 1643, was 
arrested for misconduct and after a year's imprisonment was released on 
the ground of age and insanity. 

The real practitioners in the courts, however, under the colonial char- 
ter were not lawyers. Mr. Joseph Willard, the late clerk of the courts, 
stated in an address before the Worcester bar in 1829, that among the 
leading practitioners were Joim Coggan, a merchant; Amos Richard- 
son, a tailor; John Watson, a merchant; and Benjamin RuUivant, an 
apothecary and perhaps physician. In fact, the business of practicing 
in the conrts was looked upon as so objectionable that a law was passed 
in 1662 excluding every one " who was a usual and common attorney 
in an Iiifeiior Court from a s^^at in the house of deputies." 

It was largely the custom for parties to manage their own suits, and 
litigation with its consequent burden upon the machinery of the courts 
became so easy and trials so tedious that the General Court ordered in 
1656 "that when any plaintiff or defcr.dant shall plead by himself or his 
attorney for a longer time than one liour, the party that is sentenced or 
condemned shall pay twenty shillings for every hour so pleading more 
than the common fees appointed by the court for the entrance of actions, 
to be added to the execution for the use of the country." 

Under Andros the courts were authorized to make rules for the reg- 
ulation of court proceedings, and a table of court fees was established, 
which is here copied from Washburn's Judicial History of Massachusetts, 
as follows .• 

"For commissioners of small causes, attachments or summons, I''. 

Subptena for witnesses, 3''. 

Entry, y 4''. 

Filing papers, each paper, 2''. 



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Judgment, 6''. 

Confessing judgment, P. 

Execution, 2^ 

Marshal's fees on every verdict, r\ 

Each justice per diem paid out of the fines, 5 \ 

In civil actions, entry, 5 ". 

Jur)' on verdict not less than 6" 6''. 

Entering and approving bonds, 2\ 

Superior Court jury, verdict not less than 6" 6''. 

Entry of action, lo^ 

Confessing judgment, 2\ 

Additional entry fee if over /'20, 10 ^ 

Entry of judg.nent, 2^ 

Marshal's fee in every verdict, i". 

Governor and council, entry of appeals, 2^ 6''. 

Entry of actions, £ i." 

One of the earliest well educated lawyers in Massacluisctts was Jlen- 
jamin Lynde, senior. He graduated at Harvard in 1686, and in 1692 
went to London, where he became a student at law in the Middle Tem- 
ple, and was called to the bar in 1697. ^s is stated elsewhere in this 
narrative, he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature 
in 1712, and was the first trained lawyer on the bench of that court. 

In the early days of the province attorneys were recognized as offi- 
cers of the court, and in I 701 the law was passed prescribing a form of 
oath to be administered to them on their admission to the bar. By a 
law passed in 1708, parties were prohibited from employing more than 
two attorneys, and no attorney was permitted to refuse his services pro- 
vided he were tendered the legal fee. 

Under the provincial charter the office of court practitioner became 
more respected as the men holding it became more numerous and bet- 
ter educated. The ministers, and merchants, and doctors on the bench 
of the Superior Court, without business experience and with little states- 
manlike skill, gradually gave place to more educated men and in many 
instances to such as were trained in the law. The increasing volume of 
mercantile transactions called for wiser counsel and a profounder knowl- 
edge of law, to aid and advise and plead the cause of those who were 



I04 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

engaged in them. It is interesting to observe the gradual evolution of 
the profession of the law from a condition of obscurity and almost con- 
tempt to a field in which the ablest men entered for the exercise and 
display of their powers. Coggan, and Richardson, and Watson, and 
liullivant, and Checkley, and their comrades in the courts had left the 
legal arena, and such men as Newton, and Read, and Davenport, and 
Gridley, took their places, and as the Revolution approached still abler 
men appeared ujion the scene. 

Mr. George Dexter, in the course of some exceedingly interesting re- 
marks made by him at the November meeting of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society in 1881, concerning the bar in the earlier part 
of the last century, says: "There seems to have been no regu- 
lar time of study prescribed for admission to the bar. The earliest 
reference I have found to this matter, is an entry in the diary of Judge 
Lynde, under date of August 4, 1718 ; ' My dear Benjamin went to his 
uncle, Colo. S. Brown, for three years.' This was presumably for the 
purpose of preparing for his profession, but the father, having himself 
received a special legal education, may have required more than the 
ordinary professional training for his son. John Adams, who was ad- 
mitted an attorney November 2, 1758, had studied with Mr. Putnam, 
of Worcester, very little more than two years, and had taught a school 
there at the same time that he pursued his legal studies." Judge 
Washburn expresses the opinion that the requirement of three years 
study was adopted a short time before the Revolution, on the recom- 
mendation of the Essex bar. This, however, can hardly be true, as the 
order of barristers undoubtedly existed in the province as early as 1761, 
and the three years study seems connected with the establishment of 
that order. John Adams writes in his diary of 1761, that, "brother 
Samuel Quincy and I were sworn before the Supreme Court," and Jo- 
siah Quincy, jr., speaks of Adams and Quincy being called by the court 
in 1761, to be barristers at law. In order to become barristers, the re- 
quirements were three years preliminary study, two years practice in 
the Inferior Court of Common Rleas, and two years subsequent practice 
in the Superior Court. 

It has been stated in an earlier part of this narrative that the term 
barrister was abolished in 1 806, and counsellors were for the first time 



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recognized. At the March term of the Supreme Judicial Court foi 
Suffolk county in that year, the following rules were adopted and may 
be found in the second volume of the Massachusetts Reports. 

Regula Genkralis. 

Ordered by the court' that hereafter no motion for a new trial shall be sustained 
where the party moving it shall be entitled to a review of right, unless the right of re- 
view shall be relinquished on record, excepting when the verdict shall have been given 
against the direction of the court in matters of law. 

Eegulae Genkrales. 

1. No attorney shall do the business of counsellor, unless he shall have been made 
or admitted as such by the court. 

2. All attorneys of the court who have been admitted three years before the sitting 
of the court, shall be and are hereby made counsellors, and are entitled to all the rights 
and privileges of such. 

3. No attorney or counsellor shall hereafter be admitted without a previous exam- 
ination. 

4. The court will from time to time appoint from the barristers and counsellors a 
competent number of exammers, any two or more of whom shall examine all candi- 
dates for admission to practice as counsellors or attorneys at their expense; and when- 
ever a candidate shall upon examination be by them deemed duly qualified, they shall 
give a certificate in the form following : * * *. 

5. If after an examination, the examiners shall refuse such a certificate as aforesaid,, 
they shall be required to give a certificate of their refusal, and the candidate may ap- 
peal from the decision of the examiners lo a justice of the court, who will thereupon 
examine him, and either confirm or reverse the decision of the examiners; and in case 
of reversal the candidate may apply to the court for admission. 

6. If upon'an examination such certificate shall be refused, it shall be conclusive, un- 
less there be an appeal es aforesaid, so that no other examiners shall thereafter be ap- 
pealed to without the express permission and direction of the court. 

7. No examiner shall undertake to examine any candidate who was in whole, or in 
part instructed by him in his oflice. 

8. The following described persons shall be candidates for examination and admis- 
sion to the bar as attorneys, that is to say — firstly, all who have been heretofore admit- 
ted as attorneys in any Court of Common Pleas in the Commonwealth, and who at 
the time they shall apply for examination, shall be in regular practice therein ; and 
second, all such as have, besides a good school education, devoted seven years af tiie 
least to literary acquisition, and three years thereof at the least in the office, and under 
the instruction of a barrister or counsellor practicing in the court. 

9. Before the examiners shall proceed to examine any person for admission as an at- 
torney who has not been admitted at a Court of Common Pleas, it shall be certified to 
them by a counsellor or barrister, or by counsellors or barristers, that the candidate has. 

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been in the office and under the instruction of a counsellor or barrister, for the term of 
three years at the least. 

10. The certificate, as well of barristers and counsellors, as to attorneys, or the certifi- 
■cate of the examiners as to attorneys and counsellors, shall be returned to the clerk and 
■by him recorded. 

11. Any person who has been admitted as an attorney, and as such practiced two 
years, may be a candidate for admission as a candidate and examined therefor. 

12. Every counsellor may practice as an attorney. 

13. Whenever an action shall hereafter be entered in court, the attorney or attor- 
neys for the plaintiff or appellant shall become such of record, and within the first two 
days the attorney or attorneys for the defendant or appellee shall cause themselves to 
become such of record. 

1 4. In all cases where parties do not appear in their proper persons, after the first 
■day there shall be an attorney or attorneys of record for the defendant or appellee, and 
none for the plaintiff or appellant, the defendant or appellee on motion shall have 
judgment as on a discontinuance ; and whenever after the first two days there shall be 
an attorney or attorneys on record for the plaintiff or appellant, and none for the de- 
fendant or appellee, the plaintifi' or appellant .shall on motion liave judgment accord- 
ing to the nature of the case. 

15. Hereafter the court will not hear any argument against on a question of law 
ari.sing on special pleadings, as special verdict, case stated, or motion in arrest of judg- 
ment, unless the material papers shall have been copied and delivered to the judge 
respectively at or before the commencement of the term. 

16. All who are now attorneys of the court shall be allowed to advocate causes on 
issue of fact for the term of three years from the time they were admitted as attorneys 
lespectively, although they were not counsellors." 

The examiners appointed pursuant to the above order were The- 
ophilus Parsons, Christopher Gore, Samuel Dexter, Harrison Gray- 
Otis, Wilham Sullivan and Charles Jackson. 

At the September term, i8o6, in Berkshire, the court amended the 
above rules by adding, " that any person who shall have received an 
education comprising equal advantages with that expressed in the 8th 
rule of the court, adopted at the March term, although varying in the 
mode or circumstances, may be examined for admission as an attorney, 
on obtaining a license therefor from the court or a judge ; and if ap- 
proved by two examiners shall receive a certificate from them conform- 
able in substance to the 4th rule." 

At the March term, 1807, in Suffolk, the rules were still further 
amended by the order " that all gentlemen proposed by the bar for 
admission as attorneys of the court, before the establishment of the 
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may be admitted as attorneys of the court in the same manner as they 
might have been before the establishment of the said rules; and after 
admission they shall be considered as attorneys of this court from the 
time at which they were proposed for admission, and before the pub- 
lication of the said rules, and this rule is to extend to all attorneys who 
have been heretofore admitted attorneys of the court, having been pro- 
posed for admission before the publication of the said rules." 

At the March term in Suffolk, in i8iO, the court repealed the Reg- 
ulae Generales of 1806, with their amendments, and adopted the follow- 
ing substitute : 

1. That any person may be admitted an attorney of this court who shall have had 
a liberal education and regular degree at some public college, and shall afterwards 
have commenced and pursued the study of the law in the oiiice, and under the instruc- 
tion of some counsellor of the court for three years; and shall afterwards have been ad- 
mitted an attorney of the Court of Common Pleas for the county in which such coun- 
sellor with whom he lias studied the law as aforesaid shall dwell ; having first been 
recommended by the bar of the said county to the Common Pleas as having a good 
moral character, and as suitably qualified for such admission ; and shall afterwards have- 
practiced law with fidelity and ability in some Court of Common Pleas witHin the State- 
for the term of two years, and shall then be recommended by the bar for admission as 
an attorney of this court, when holden for the county in which the person so rec- 
ommended shall dwell. 

2. Any person not having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who 
shall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in the -ofBoe of some coun- 
sellor as aforesaid for the term of five years, shall be considered as having a qualifica- 
tion for admission equivalent to the having had a liberal education, and a regular de- 
gree as aforesaid. 

3. Any person having a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, who 
^hall afterwards have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State, 
in the ofiBce of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State for one year :it 
the least, and afterwards shall pursue the study of the law in the office of some coun- 
sellor of this court for the term of two years, shall be considered as having a qualifica- 
tion for admission, equivalent to the having commenced and pursued tlie study of the- 
law for three years in the office and under the instruction of some counsellor of this- 
court. 

4. Any person not having had a liberal education and a regular degree as aforesaid, 
who shall have commenced and pursued the study of the law in any other State, in the 
oflice of an attorney of the highest judicial court of such State, for the term of two- 
years at the least, and shall afterwards have pursued the study of the law with some 
counsellor of this court for the term of three years, shall be considered as having a qual- 
ification for admission equivalent to the having had a lilieral education and a regulnr 
degree as aforesaid, and to the having pursued the study of the law for three years its 
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5. The bar shall not recorameiul for admission as an attorney any person, either to 
any Court of Common Pleas or to this court, unless he be qualified for such admission, 
agreeably to the provisions of these rules. But the bar may recommend for admission 
as an attorney to the Common Pleas any person now duly qualified by the rules here- 
by repealed for examination and admission as an attorney of this court ; and further the 
bar may also recommend to the Court of Common Plens, for admission as an attorney 
thereof, any person who before the establishment of these rules had commenced, and 
is now pursuing the study of the law with some counsellor of this court, when such 
person would by virtue of the rules hereby repealed, be qualified for examination and 

' admission as an attorney of this court. 

6. If the bar of any court shall unreasonably refuse to recommend either to this 
court, or to any Court of Common Pleas, for admission as attorney, any person suit- 
ably (jualified for such admission ; or if after the recommendation of the bar, the Com- 
mon Pleas shall unreasonably refuse to admit as an attorney the person so recommend- 
ed, such person submitting to an examination by one of the justices of this court, pro- 
ducing to him sufficient evidence of his good moral character, may be admitted as an 
attorney of this court on the certificate of such justice that he is duly qualified there- 
for, and hag pursued the study of the law agreeably to the provisions of the rules. 

7. Any person who shall have been admitted an attorney of the highest judicial 
court of any other State in which he shall dwell, and afterwards shall become an in- 
habitant of this State, may be admitted an attorney or counsellor of this court, subject 
to the discretion of the justice thereof, after due inquiry and information concerning 
liis moral character and professional qualification. 

8. Any person who now is, or who shall be, an attorney of this court, having prac- 
ticed law therein with fidelity and ability as an attorney thereof for two years, may 
be admitted a counsellor of this court, when holden for the county in which such at- 
torney shall dwell, on the recommendation of the bar of such county, or without such 
recommendation, if it be unreasonably refused; unless such person was admitted an 
attorney of this court because he had been unreasonably refused admission as an attor- 
ney of the Court of Common Pleas; in which case he shall not be recommended nor 
admitted as a counsellor of this court until he has practiced law as an attorne}' thereof 
for the term of four years. 

9. All issues in law and in fact, ami all questions of law arising on writs of error, 
certiorari and mandamus, or special verdicts, or motions for new trials and in arrest 
of judgment, shall be argued only by the counsellors of this court. And the counsel- 
lors of this court may also practice as attorneys." 

In 1836 it was provided by law that any citizen of the Common- 
wealth or any aUen who liad expressed his intention pursuant to law 
to become a citizen, of twenty-one years of age, of good moral charac- 
ter might become an attorney after three years study, and on the recom- 
mendation of an attorney be examined for admission. .In 1876 it was 
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and in 1 89 1 a law was passed providing tliat "any person who has 
been or shall hereafter be removed from practice as an attorney by the 
Supreme Judicial, or Superior Court dfthe Commonwealth for deceit, 
malpractice, or other gross misdemeanor, and who shall continue to 
practice law or receive any fee for his services as attorney or counsel- 
lor at law rendered after such removal, or who shall hold himself out 
or represent or advertise himself as an attorney or counsellor at law, 
and every person not regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or 
counsellor at law in accordance with chapter 159 of the Public Statutes, 
who shall represent himself to be an attorney or counsellor at law or 
legally qualified to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth by 
means of a sign, business card, letter head or otherwise, shall be pun- 
ished for each offence by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or 
by imprisonment not exceeding six months, and upon a second or any 
subsequent conviction by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by 
imprisonment not exceeding one year." 

During the existence of the old Bar Association which was formed 
in 1770 the rules of the association regulated admissions to the bar. 
The date of the formation and dissolution of the first Suffolk Bar Asso- 
ciation is unknown. Indeed its existence is only inferred from a 
vote passed at the first meeting of the association above referred to, 
" that the secretary wait on Judge Auchmuty and request of him the 
records of a former society of the bar in the county, and invite him to 
meet with this societ)' in the future if he sees fit." Judge Auchmuty 
was attorney general from 1761 to 1767 and probably the first associa- 
tion was dissolved between these dates. 

The second association was formed on the evening of Wednesday, 
January 3, 1770, at the Bunch of Grapes tavern on the corner of 
State and Kilby streets, kept at that time by Mr. Ingersoll and after- 
wards by John Marston. The gentlemen present were Benjamin Kent, 
James Otis, Samuel Fitch, William Reed, Samuel Swift, Samuel Ouincy, 
John Adams, Andrew Casneau, and Daniel Leonard, all of whom were 
barristers, and Francis Dana. Josiah Ouincy and Sampson Salter Blow- 
ers, attorneys, and it was voted " that the barristers and attorneys at the 
Superior Court, belonging to this and the neighboring towns will form 
themselves into a society or law club, to meet at Mr. Ingersoll's on the 



no HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

evening of the first Wednesday of every month for the year ensuing." 
Benjamin Kent, as the oldest barrister, presided and John Adams was 
chosen secretary. At the meeting on the first Wednesday in October, 
1770, it was voted that " Francis Dana, Josiah Ouincy and Sampson 
Salter Blowers be recommended to the Superior Court to be admitted 
as barristers, they having studied and practiced the usual time." On 
the 2ist of November it was voted that Samuel Sewall, who produced 
a certificate from the clerk of the Inferior Court that he was admitted 
as attorney in that court on the first Tuesday in January, 1767, be rec- 
ommended for admission as attorney to the Superior Court. 

At the meeting held on the 2d of January, 1771, it was voted " that 
whenever the defendant's counsel shall point out to the plaintiff's any 
defect in his writ or declaration, he shall have liberty to amend upon 
payment of six shillings before plea pleaded. But it he will put the de- 
fendant's counsel to plead and the writ or declaration is adjudged in- 
sufficient, he shall then pay eighteen shillings for the amendment in 
case the amendment is allowed him by the court, and the defendant 
shall choose costs instead of an imparlance. This rule to extend only 
to such defect in writs and declarations as shall be owing to mistake or 
inadvertence, or other fault of the counsel who drew the writ, or his 
clerk." 

It was agreed at a meeting held February 6, 1771, among other 
matters, " that we will not take any young gentleman to study with us 
without previously having the consent of the bar of this county; that 
we will not recommend any persons, to be admitted to the Superior 
Court as attorneys who have not studied with some barrister three 
years at least, nor as attorneys in the Superior Court who have not 
studied as aforesaid and been admitted at the Inferior Court two years 
at least, nor recommend them as barristers till they have been through 
the preceding degrees and been attorneys at the Superior Court two 
years at least, except those gentlemen who are already admitted in this 
county as attorneys at Superior and Inferior Courts, and that they 
must be subject to the rule so far as is yet to come." To this agree- 
ment it was added " that the consent of the bar shall not be taken but 
at a general meeting of the bar for the county, and shall not be given 
to any young gentleman who has not had an education at college, or a 
liberal education equivalent in the judgment of the bar." 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. in 

At the July meeting, 1772, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, and 
Jonathan Williams Austin were recommended to be sworn as attor- 
neys. One of the rules of the association was that no member should 
receive a student in his office without the consent of the bar. Among 
those entered in various offices according to the records of the associa- 
tion were Thomas Edwards in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1772; Jon- 
athan Williams in the office of John Adams, 1773; Edward Hill in the 
office of Mr. Adams, 1773 ; John Trumbull in the office of Mr. Adams, 
1774; Nathaniel Brattle in the office of Mr. Blowers, 1774; Nathan 
Rice and John Thaxter in the office of Mr. Adams, 1774; Joshua 
Thomas and Jonathan Mason in the office of Josiah Quincy, 1774; 
Henry Goodwin in the office of William Tudor, 1778; Rufus Emory in 
the office of John Lowell, 1778 ; Fisher Ames in the office of William 
Tudor, 1778; George Richards Minot in the office of William Tudor, 
1780; Peter Clarke in the office of Increase Sumner, 1780; William 
Hunter Torrens in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Edward Sohier in 
the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; Joseph Hall in the office of Benjamin 
Hichborn, 1781 ; Edward Wendell in the office of John Lowell, 1781 ; 
David Leonard Barnes in the office of James Sullivan, 1782; Edward 
Gray in the office of James Sullivan, 1783 ; John Brown Cotting in the 
office of John Lowell, 1783 ; Samuel Quincy, jr., in the office of Chris- 
topher Gore, 1783 ; Harrison Gray Otis in the office of John Lowell 
1783; John Rowe in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1783 ; Richard Brook 
Roberts in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1783 ; Samuel Cooper Johon- 
not in the office of Mr. Sullivan,. 1784; W^illiam Hill in the office of Mr. 
Gore; Fortesque Vernon in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1784; John 
Merrick in the office of Thomas Dawes, 1784; John Lowell, jr., and 
S. Borland in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1786; James Sullivan, jr., in the 
office of Mr. Sullivan, 1786 ; Thomas Russell in the office of Mr. Lowell, 
1786 ; Isaac Parker in the office of Mr. Tudor, 1787 ; William Cranch in 
the office of Thomas Dawes, 1787; Samuel Andrews in the office of Mr. 
Hichborn, 1788; William Lyman in the office of Mr. Sullivan, 1788; 
Nathaniel Higginson in the office of William Wetmore, 1788 ; Phineas 
Bruce in the office of Mr. Hichborn, 1788 ; Bossenger Foster in the of- 
fice of Mr. Parsons, 1788; Edward Clarke in the office of Mr. Lowell 
1789; John Lathrop in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1789; Robert Paine in 



112 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

in the office of Mr. Paine, 1789; Josiah Quincy in the office of Mr. Tu- 
dor, 1790; Nathaniel Fisher in the office of Mr. Robbins, 1790; Eben- 
ezer Gay in the office of Mr. Gore, 1790 ; James Prescott, jr., in the of- 
fice of James SuUivan, 1790; Samuel Haven in the office of Mr. Ames, 
1790; William Sullivan in the office of James Sullivan, 1792; John 
Williams in the office of Mr. Otis, 1792 ; John Ward Gurley in the of- 
fice of Mr. Lowell, 1796, provided his literary qualifications are found 
satisfactory on examination by Messrs. Minot, Otis and Quincy, he not 
having received a college education ; Samuel A. Dorr in the office of 
Judge Sullivan, 1797; John Heard and Benjamin Wood in the office of 
John Davis ; Holder Slocum, jr., in the office of George Richards Minot ; 
Nicholas Emery in the office 6f Samuel Livermore, 1798; Charles 
Pinckney Sumner in the office of Judge Minot, 1798 ; Richard Sullivan 
in the office of William Sullivan, 1798; Humphrey Devereux in the of- 
fice of Mr. Lowell, 1798; Thomas Paine and Thomas O. Selfridge in 
the office of Mr. Paine, 1799; Artemas Sawyer in the office of Mr. Gay, 
1799 ; William Hyslop Sumner in the office of John Davis, 1799; Henry 
Cabot in the office of Mr. Amory, 1800; Nathaniel Sparhawk in the 
office of George Blake ; Charles Lowell in the office of Mr. Lowell, i8oo; 
Luther Richardson in the office of Mr. Paine, 1801 ; David I. Greene 
and Mr. Skinner in the office of William Sullivan, 1800; George Sulli- 
van in the office of James Sullivan, 1800; Warren Dutton in the office 
of Mr. Lowell, 1800; Alpheus Baker in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1801 ; 
Samuel Mather Crocker in the office of Mr. Gray, 1801 ; Lemuel Shaw 
in the office of Mr. (David) Everett, 1801 ; John Knapp and Thomas 
Welsh in the office of John Davis, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, Benjamin 
Wells and William Smith Shaw in the office of Mr. Otis, 1801 ; John 
Codman and James Elliott in the office of Mr. Lowell, 1802 ; Timothy 
Fuller in the office of Charles Paine, 1802 ; Timothy Boutelle in the of- 
fice of Mr. Gay, 1802 ; David Bradley in the office of Mr. Heard, 1802 ; 
Aaron Emmes in the office of Mr. Everett, 1802 ; James T. Austin in 
the office of William Sullivan, 1802 ; William Minot in the office of Jo- 
seph Hall, 1803. 

In the case of Holder Slocum, jr., which was referred to Messrs. Ed- 
wards, Davis and Gray, in order that he might be examined as to liis 
literary qualifications, he not having received a collegiate education, the 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 113 

committee reported "that they find Mr. Slocum has so far attended to 
the Latin language that a moderate degree of attention and practice will 
probably enable him to render it sufficiently familiar for the purposes of 
his intended profession. He has paid no attention to the Greek, and 
has not been sufficiently instructed, in the opinion of your committee, in 
logic, metaphysics and mathematics. He has read some approved wri- 
ters in history, and has attended considerably to the French language. 

" It is the opinion of the committee that on his remaining in an office 
three years from the present time, with an attention for part of the time, 
under the direction of his instructors, to history and metaphysics, and oc- 
casionally to the Latin language, it will be proper, at the expiration of 
that period, if he continues the assiduity and attention which he has 
hitherto manifested, to allow of his admission to the bat." 

Others recommended to be sworn as attorneys besides those already 
mentioned were Josiah Quincy, 1772; Nathaniel Coffin, 1773 ; Increase 
Sumner, Benjamin Hichborn, William Tudor, Jonathan William Austin, 
John Bulkle}', Perez Morton, 1774; Christopher Gore, Samuel Dag- 
get, 1778; Jonathan Mason, 1779; Royal Tyler, Thomas Dawes, James 
Hughes, 1780; Benjamin Lincoln, Jonathan Fay, Fisher Ames, Rufus 
Amory, George R. Minot, 1781 ; David Leonard Barnes, 1783 ; Thomas 
Edwards, John Thaxter, Joseph Hall, Edward Sohier, Edward Walker, 
1784; Edward Gray, 1785; Samuel Ouincy, John Rowe, Harrison 
Gray Otis, 1786; Fortescue Vernon, Thomas Williams, 1787; John 
Merrick, Joseph Bartlett, Thomas Crafts, 1788; John Lowell, jr., Isaac 
Parker, William L\ man, Samuel Andrews, Joseph Blake, 1789; Phineas 
Bruce, William Cranch, 1790; James Prescott, jr., 1791 ; George Blake, 
Robert Paine, 1792; John Callender, Josiah Ouincy, Francis Blake, 
Joseph Rowe, 1793; William Sullivan, John Williams, 1795; Isaac 
Story, 1796; William Thurston, 1797 ; Ezekiel Bacon, Samuel A. Dorr, 
John Heard, Foster Waterman, 1798; Charles Davis, Charles Gushing, 
Jotham Bender, John W. Gurley, 1799; Holder Slocum, jr., Richard 
Sullivan, Humphrey Devereux, Nathaniel Sparhawk, Artemas Sawyer, 
Thomas Paine, 1801 ; Arthur M. Walter, 1802 ; Warren Dutton, Aaron 
H. Putnam, Israel Munroe, Benjamin Wells, John Knapp, 1803 ; Thomas 
Welsh, jr., George Sullivan, 1804. 
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114 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Among the votes passed by the association were the following : 

" That in all cases when a gentleman shall be proposed as a student, 
who has not had a college edncation, he shall always undergo an ex- 
amination by a committee appointed by the bar previous to his admis- 
sion as a student." 

"That all students of colleges out of the State be not admissible to 
the bar, until they shall have studied one year longer than those edu- 
cated at Harvard University." 

" That no student be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas 
for admission without having studied within the county one year at least 
of his time." 

"That the sum to be paid by a student at law to his instructors shall 
be one hundred pounds lawful money at least." 

The above matter relating to the old Bar Association is taken from 
the "Record Book" of the association in the possession of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, wliich readers may find more fully described 
in the nineteenth volume of the proceedings of the society. The entries 
close with 1805, but the writer has reason to believe that the associa- 
tion continued until 1836, when the enactments in the revised statutes 
seemed to render its existence no longer necessary. 

After the dissolution of the old association, no other was formed in 
Suffolk county until 1875. On the 20th of October, in that year, Joseph 
A. Willard, clerk of the Superior Court, was requested by Sidney Bart- 
lett, William Gaston, Henry \V. Paine, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Jo- 
siah G. Abbott, Edward D. Sohier, and thirty-one others, to call a 
meeting of the signers to consider the formation of a bar association. 
A meeting was held in the first session Superior Court-room on the 
20th of February, 1876, at which Sidney Bartlett presided, and Albert 
E. Pillsbury acted as secretary. A committee consisting of the pres- 
ident and secretary, together with Charles Theodore Russell, Walbridge 
A. Field, Seth J. Thomas, and John D. Long, was chosen to report a 
plan of organization. On the 27th of May a constitution was adopted, 
and on the lotli of June the following officers were chosen: President, 
Sidney Bartlett; vice-presidents, Henry W. Paine, William Gaston, 
William G. Russell; treasurer, Richard Olney; secretary, Albert E. 
Pillsbury ; executive committee, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Horace 





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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 115 

C. Ihitchins, Gustavus A. Somerby, Robert M. Morse, jr , Heniy M. 
Rogers; judicial committee, Richard H. Dana, jr., Charles R. Train, 
Seth J. Thomas, George O. Shattuck, Walbridge A. Field, Robert D. 
Smith, Thomas L. Livermore, J. Lewis Stackpole, Samuel A. B. Ab- 
bott, Moses Williams, jr. 

The constitution provided for a council, consisting of the president, 
vice-president, treasurer, and secretary, ex- officio, and twenty- one others, 
divided into classes of seven each, one of which was to be chosen an- 
nually for a term of three years, who were to have the sole and entire 
management of the association and of its income and property, and in 
1885 tlie number of vice-presidents was reduced to one, and the execu- 
tive committee and judicial committee were abolished. The present of- 
ficers are: President, John Lowell; vice-president, Richard Olney ; 
treasurer, C. P. Greenough ; secretary, Robert Grant; council, William 
G. Russell, George O. Shattuck, Augustus Russ, Solomon Lincoln, 
Causten Browne, Moses Williams, chosen in 1S91 ; Henry W. Putnam, 
Henry M. Rogers, A. Lawrence Lowell, Joseph B. Warner, Charles T. 
Gallagher, Frederick Dodge, chosen in 1890; Lewis S. Dabne}-, Albert 
E. Pillsbury, John C. Ropes, Moorfield Storey, Samuel Hoar, Clement 
K. Fay, Edward W. Hutchins, chosen in 1889. 

With this slight reference to the present Bar Association, this intro- 
ductory chapter must close. The writer is aware of the inadequacy of 
his treatment of the subject to which it relates, but he trusts that the 
limited space at his command will be considered at least a partial ex- 
cuse. 



Biographical Register 



BENCH AND BAR. 



CHARLES L. ABBOTT, son of Levi and Harriet E. Abbott, was born in Boston, 
October 6, 1856, and educated at its public schools. He prosecuted his law stud- 
ies with Josiah W. Hubbard, a member of the SuITolk Bar, and was admitted to the bar 
in Boston in 1880. He married, January 15, 1891, Anna E. Pierce, and lives in Ar- 
lington. 

Thomas Coffin Amory was the son of Jonathan and Mehitable (Sullivan) Amory, of 
Boston, and was born in that city October 16, 1812. His mother was a daughter of 
Governor James Sullivan. He attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, and 
was fitted for college in Boston by Charles Chauncey Emerson and Louis Stackpole. 
He graduated at Harvard in 18.30 and after studying law with his uucle, William Sul- 
ivan, was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1834. He was a member of the 
Boston Common Council from 1830 to 1841, an alderman at various times, and a rep- 
re.sentative in 1859. He published a memoir of James SuUivan in 1858, "The Military 
Services and Public Life of General John Sullivan " in 1868, and at various times " The 
Transfer of Erin, or the Acquisition of Ireland by England," the " Life of Admiral 
Coflin," the " Siege of Newport," and numerous pamphlets and poems. He died in 
Boston August 20, 1889. 

Thomas Johnston Ho.mer was born in Roxbury before it was anne.xed to Boston, 
and is the son of Thomas Johnston and Mary Elizabeth (Fisher) Homer. He was fitted 
for college at the Roxbury Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He 
studied law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge, and in the office of Arthur Lincoln 
and William S. Hall, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in Jan- 
uary, 1883. He lives unmarried in Roxbury, and is one of the examining counsel of 
the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company. 

Adi.s Ballou Underwood was born in Milford, Mass., May 19, 1828. His ancestors 
came to this country before 1637 and lived in Hingham, from whence subsequently 
they removed to Watertown. His father was Orison Underwood, who was brigadier- 
general of the militia, and his mother was Miss Hannah Bond Cheney. He attended 
the University Grammar School, Providence, R. I., and graduated from Brown Univer- 
sity in 1849, standing with James B. Angel, now president of Ann Arbor University', 



ii8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

at the head of his class. He studied law with Hon. Charles R, Train at Franiingham, 
and afterwards with Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas of Worcester, and subsequently at the 
Law School of Harvard Universit3', which lie left to "O abroad and study in the uni- 
versities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He was admitted to the bar October 10. 18.53, in 
the Supreme -Judicial Court at Worce.ster, Mass., and be;.ian the practice of law :n his 
native town of Milford. Soon after this he took as his partner. H. M. Staples, after- 
wards judge on the Superior Bench. In 1856 he left Milford and formed a partnership 
at Boston with Charles R. Train with whom he practiced law until the breaking out of 
the war. He was married June 5, 1856, at Newton, to Miss Jane L., daughter of 
Joseph and Hannah T. Walker. On April 29. 1861, he aided in the enlistment of a 
regiment of Massachu.setts Volunteers and in the following month received a commis- 
sion as captain in the Second Regiment then being rai.sed by George H. Gordon at 
Brook Farm. In July, 1862, he became major in the.'J.'kl Massachusetts Regiment and 
in July of the same year was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. After the resignation 
of Colonel Maggi, in April, 1863, he was commissioned as colonel of this regiment and 
was in command at the battle of Gettysburg. Joining the army of the Cumberland 
with his regiment, he took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, 
October 28, 1863, and in a desperate charge up the mountain was badly wounded in 
his right thigh. General Hooker, in his olficial report of this battle, says : "Colonel 
Underwood was desperately wounded. If only in recognition of his meritorious serv- 
ices?, his many martial virtues and great personal worth, it would be a great satisfaction 
to me to have this officer advanced to the grade of brigadier-general." The recommend- 
ation of General Hooker was immediately complied with and he was commissioned 
as brigadier-general of volunteers, November 6, 1863. His wounds, which made him 
a cripple for life, were slow in healing, but upon his recovery he again went into active 
service and was present at the grand review in Washington when the army was dis- 
banded. Upon his resignation from the ami)' in 1865, he was breveted major-general 
"for meritorious service during the war," and on his return to Boston, in 1806, was 
appointed surveyor of that port, which position he lield continuously until August, 
1886. From 1856, when he began the practice of law in Boston, unfl 1886, he was a 
resident of Newton, but upon leaving the custom house, he removed his residence to 
Boston and resumed the practice of law, associating with him his son. William Orison 
Underwood. About a year and a half after this, upon January 14, 1888, he died at his 
home in Boston, at the age of fifty-nine years and seven months, leaving a widow, 
one son and two daughters. General Underwood spent a large part of his time in 
literary pursuits, gave occasional addresses upon the war and was the author of the his- 
tory of the 33d Massachusetts Regiment. He was a prominent Freemason, was de- 
partment commander of the Grand Army of the State of Ma.ssachusetts in 1873. 
During Governor William Claflin's term of olfice he was chief of stafi'. While a resi- 
dent of Newton he served in the town government as chairman of the School Com- 
mittee, was a warden of Grace Church and was one of the original trustees of the 
Public Library. 

JouN fyKwis B.^TKS, the son of Lewis B. and Louisa D, Bates, was born in North 
Easton, Ma.ss., September 18, 1859. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. iiq 

Boston Colleg-e, and the Boston University Law School. He graduated from the last 
ill I880 and in September of that year was admitted to the bar in Boston. He has been 
ill 1891 and 1892 a member of the Boston Common Council and makes East Boston his 
place of residence. He married at Jamestown, N. Y., July 12, 1SS7, Clara Elizabeth 
Smith. 

Ch.\rles Clarence Bartox, son of Pliny L. and Marj' A. Barton, was born in Salis- 
bur}', Conn., September 14, 1844. He was educated at the Amenia University, 
Amenia, N. Y., Trinity College, and the Boston University Law School. He was 
;ulmitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April, 1873, and lives in Newton, in which 
place he has been president of the Common Council and School Board. He married 
Emma C. Drew in Boston. August 24. 1870. 

FnANcis Bassett, sou of William and Betsey (Howes) Bassett, was born in that part 
of Yarmouth, Mass., which is uow Dennis, September 9, 1786. He was fitted for col- 
lege at the Sandwich Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law 
with Luther Lawrence and Timothy Bigelow and was admitted to the Common Pleas bar 
September 28, 1813, and the Supreme Court bar March 6, 1816. He was a representative 
from Boston in 1818, '19, '20, '24, '28, '29 and an overseer of Harvard College from 1853 
to 1863. He was appointed in 1830 clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the 
second circuit and of the United States District Court. In 1845 he resigned and trav- 
eled in Europe. He married, December 8, 1858, Francis (Cutter) Langdon, widow of 
Woodbury Langdon, of Portsmouth, N. H., and daughter of Jacob and Miriam (Cross) 
Cutter, of that city. He died in Boston, May 2.^, 1875. 

William Brioham, son of Charles and Susanna (Baylis) Brighaui, was born in Graf- 
ton, Mass., September 26, 1806. Ue was fitted for college at Leicester Academy in a 
^ingle year, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. After graduation he read law in 
Boston with George Morey, and was admitted to the Suttblk bar in October, 1832, and 
Soon bad a sufficient amount of professional employment. He was a representative 
from Boston in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1841, 1849, and 1866. In 1856 he was a member of 
the Republican Convention at Philadelphia, and on the 29th of April, 1835, he delivered 
the centennial address at Grafton, which was published. In 1836 he was selected by 
Governor Everett to compile and edit the laws of Plymouth Colony, published in the 
same year. For many years before his death he lived in the summer season in the old 
homestead at Grafton, and devoted himself with much zeal to agricultural pursuits. 
Several of his addresses before agricultural societies have been published. He married, 
June 11, 1840, Margaret Austin Brooks, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Tufts) Brooks, 
of Charlestown. His children are William Tufts, born May 24, 1841 (H. C. 1862) ; 
Cliarles Brooks, born January 17, 1845 (H. C. 1866): Edward Austin, born February 
23, 1846; Mary Brooks, born December 26, 1851; Arthur Austin, born June 8, 1857. 
He died in Boston, July 9, 1869. In 1853 he was chosen a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Historical Society, and was one of the most useful and valuable members of 
that body. His knowledge of the early history of Massachusetts was accurate and 
e'xtensive. A lecture by him, delivered .January 19, 1869, on the colony of New Ply- 



120 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

mouth and its relations to Massachusetts, — one of a course before the Lowell Institute, 
by members of the Historical Society, and published in a volume called " ilassachusetis 
and its Early History," — is highly creditable both to his research and insight. Mr. 
Bi igham bad a large practice, was a sound lawyer, a safe adviser, and enjoyed in a high 
degree the confidence and attachment of his clients. 

George Minot, son of Stephen and Rebecca (Trask) Minot, was born in Haverhill, 
.lanuary 6, 1817. His father was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, county 
altorney of Essex, and died in 1861. He fitted for college at the Haverhill Academy 
and the Phillips Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 18oC. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in the ofiice of Rufus Choate and was admitted to the bar in 
Boston, April 15, 1839. He was solicitor of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, 
the editor of a "Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu- 
setts," associate editor and editor of the United States Statutes at large, associate re- 
porter of the decisions of LeW Woodbury in the first circuit of the United States Court, 
and editor of nine volumes of English Admiralty Reports. He married first in 1844, 
Emily P., widow of Dr. Richard Ogle, of Demerara, and daughter of Dr Gallup, formerly 
of Woodstock, Conn.; and second, November 21, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Judge 
Thomas Dawes. He died in Reading, Mass., April 16, 1858. 

William Henry Miller, son of William and Annie Miller, was born in York county. 
Me., January 20, 183i. He was educated at Limerick Academy, in Maine, and 
studied law with L S. Kimball, at Sanford, Me. He was admitted to the bar of York 
county about 18G6, and in Middlesex county, Mass., about 1868. He married at iSan- 
ford in 1S68, Emily M. Kimball, and resides in Melrose. 

John W. McKim was born in Boston, November 25, 1822. He graduated at Union 
College, and after studying law in the ofiice of Dent & Grammer in Washington, began 
practice in that city. He was a member of the Washington City Council in 1850. He 
afterwards moved to Ohio and was at one time district attorney of Defiance county in 
that State. In the war he was captain and brevet-major, and for a time stationed in 
Boston in the quartermaster's department. He was admitted to the bar in Boston 
April 8, 1867, and in 1870 and 1871 was a representative. In 1874 he was appointed 
liy Governor Talbot judge of the Municipal Court in the West Roxbury district, and in 
March, 1877, was appointed judge of Probate and Insolvency for Sufiblk county, which 
office he now holds. 

Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Mass., May 4, 171J6, and died in Yellow Springs, 
0., August 2, 1859. He graduated at Brown University in 1810, and after studying 
law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., was admitted to the bar in 1823, and in the 
Suffolk county Supreme Judicial Court January 13, 1826. He began practice in Dedham, 
and was a representative from that town from 1828 to 1833. In the latter year he 
moved to Boston, and represented Sufiblk county in the Senate from 1834 to 1837, the 
last two years officiating as its president. From 1837 to 1848 he was secretary of" the 
Massachusetts Board of Education. In 1848 he was chosen representative to Congress 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. t2i 

as the successor of John Quincy Adams, and served until 1S52, when he was chosen 
president of Antioch College, which office he filled until his deatli. 

Charles Russell Lowell, born October 30, 1S07, was the eldest son of Rev. Dr. 
Charles Lowell (H. C. 1800). His mother was Harriet Brackett Spence, daughter of 
Keith Spence and Mary Waill, of Portsmouth, N. H. After graduatmg at Harvard in 
1826, he studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the office of Mr. Charles 
Gr. Loring in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar at the October term of lS'i9. 
In about four years he abandoned the legal profession, and went into business. Prov- 
ing unsuccessful in this, he found employment in the Bo.ston Athenicum, where he 
passed the last eighteen years of his life, and where his services were greatly prized. 
He died of apoplexy, while on a visit to Washington, D. C, June 2;', 1870. He 
married, April 18, 1832, Anna Cabot, daughter of the late Patrick T. Jackson, of 
Boston. They had four children, viz., Charles Russell Lowell, jr. (H. C. 1854), dis- 
tinguished as a scholar in college, and afterwards the renowned cavalry ofTicer in the 
war of the Rebellion ; James Jackson Lowell (H. C. 1858), and the first scholar in his 
class, and an officer who died nobly in the service of his country; and two daughters. 

Thornton Kirkland Lothrop, a descendant from Rev. John Lothrop, who came from 
England in 1634-, and settled first in Sc'tuate, and afterwards in Barnstable, is the 
son of Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, LL.D,, of Boston, and Mary Lyman (Buckrainster) 
Lothrop, was born in Dover, N. H., June 3. 1830. He was fitted for college at llie 
Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard ui 1849. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1853. He was a 
representative in 1859, and assistant United States district attorney from April, 1801, 
to July, 1865, and was a member of the State Boird of Health in 1886 and 1887. He 
married, April 30, 1866, Anna M., daughter of Samuel and Ann (Sturgis) Hooper, and 
resides in Boston. 

Edward P. Loring, son of Ira and Betsey Loring, was born in Norridgewock, 
Mass., March 2, 1837. After graduating at Bowdoin College, he studied law m the 
office of Stephen D. Lind-sey of Norridgewock and at the Albany Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in Somerset county, Me., in April, 1861, and in SufiTolk county, 
Mass., April 14, 1808. In Fitchburg, where he has his residence, he has been clerk and 
special justice of the Police Court and was a representative from 1872 to 1874. He 
was a member of the Senate in 1883 and 1884, and is now with an office in Boston 
acting as controller of county accounts by appointment of the governor. He married 
in Waterville, Me., July 15, 1868, Hannah M. Stark 

Isaac Newton Lewis, son of William and Judith M. (Whittemorej Lewis, was born 
in Walpole, Mass., December 25, 1848. There were then no free high schools, and in 
his town no opportunities to obtam any thing beyond a common school education. 
After teaching a year in a private high and classical school, he entered the Eliot High 
School, in Boston, assisting the head master in the preparation of young men for col- 
lege, and entered Harvard College in the class of 1873, and graduated with the degree 
of A. B. On graduation he went abroad for further study and recreation, visiting 
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122 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

(rreat Britain, France and Germany, and returning taught in liigh school and academy, 
till entering the Boston University Law School, he was graduated with an LL. B. in 
187G. He had, on examination, been admitted to the Suffolk bar at Boston on January 
31, preceding. Again he went abroad, and on his return, on examination, received 
the degree of A.M. from the Boston University,' the first person on whom this degree 
was ever conferred by that institution. In 187G he opened an office in Boston, and 
has continued it to the present time. He was one of the original members of the Nor- 
folk Bar Assoniation, and besides contriliuting to magazines and the press, is the author 
of several books from " In Memonam," while in Harvard, to " Pleasant Hours in Sun- 
ny Lands," written after his return from a tour around the world in 1S88. 

John Lathrop, son of John P. and Maria M. Lathrop, was born in Boston, Februar}' 
8, 1835. He graduated at Burlington College, New Jersey, in 1853, and at tlie Har- 
vard Law School in 1S55. After further pursuing his studies in the office of Charles Gr., 
Francis C, and Caleb William Loring in Boston, he was admitted to the bar of Suf- 
folk in 1856, and to the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1872. In tlie war of 18G1 
he was captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts regiment in 1862 and 1863, was reporter 
of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1874 to 1S8S, associate justice of 
Superior Court from 1888 to 1891, and was appointed associate justice of the Supreme 
Judicial Court, January 28, 18'JI, which position he now holds. Besides his general 
practice, he has been a lecturer at the Harvard and Boston Law Schools, and the ed- 
itor of several law books, and a contributor to various legal periodicals. He married 
in Boston, June 24, 1875, Eliza D., daughter of Richard G. Parker, and resides in 
Boston. 

William Bradbury Kingsburt, son of Aaron Kingsbury, was born in Roxbury, 
December 14, 1806. He fitted for college at Mr. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1827. After a short time spent in reading law, he en- 
tered into commercial life in Boston, in the firm of Kendall & Kingsbury, on Liver- 
pool Wharf, and is thougiit by the editor to have never been admitted to the bar. In 
1831 he married his cousin, Frances F. Fenner, of Providence, R.I. The firm of Ken- 
dall & Kingsbury was unfortunate in business, and was dissolved in 1836. He was 
afterwards employed in managing trusts, and became treasurer of the Roxbury Gas 
Company, which office he retained till his death. He was also alderman of Roxbury 
in 1846. He died at Roxbury, April 6, 1872. 

i'uKscoTT Keyes, son of John S. ;uid Martlia L. (Prescottj Keyes, was born in Con- 
cord, Mass., March 26, 1858. He fitted for college at the Concord High School and 
with a private tutor, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law in the Har- 
vard Law School and in the office of Charles R. Train, and was admitted to the Sufiblk 
bar in June, 1882. He has held the office of chairman of the Selectmen, and other 
offices in Concord, where he lives, and was married July 6, 1881, to Alice Reynolds, of 
Concord. 

Albert H. Hopkins, son of Henry S. and Phcebe E. Hopkins, was born in Foster, 
R. I., November 10, 1845, and educated at public and private schools. He was ad- 



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mitted to the bar in Sufiblk, January 30, 1875, and the Minnesota District Court, Manli 
26, 188(1, He was tor a number of years a member cSf the Massachusetts Repubhcan 
State Committee and two years chairman of the Committee of Ward Fifteen, in Boston. 
He married, Augusts, 1879, Emily L. Randolph, of Providence, R. 1.. and resides in 
the Allston district of Boston. 

George M. Hobbs, son of William and ilaria (Miller) Hobbs, was born in Waltham, 
April 11, 1827, and after attending the public schools entered Harvard and graduated 
in 1850. After leaving college he was a private tutor in Upper Marlborough, Md., 
and taught school in Alexandria, Va. After a short period in the Harvard Law 
School he was admitted to the bar in Suttblk, March 6, 1S57, and became an associate 
with Edward Avery, of Boston, in business. He was a representative in 1868, has 
been a member of the School Boards of Roxbury and Boston twenty-three years, two 
years the president of the Boston board and two years a member of the Board of Water 
Commissioners. In connection with Mr. Avery, his partner, he has published a work 
on " Bankruptcy.'' He married, October 26, 1859, Annie M. Morrill. 

David Blakely Hoar, son of John Emory and Ann Borodale (Blakely) Hoar, was 
born in Pawlet. Vt., August 19, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied 
law with Alfred Hemenway and James P. Farley and at the Harvard Law vSchool, and 
was admitted to the bar in Suffolk in May, 1879. His place of residence is Brookline. 

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, son of Samuel and Sarah fShermanj Hoar, was born in 
Concord, Mass., February 21, 1816. He received his early education at the Concord 
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, with 
Emory Washburn, of Worcester, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
the bar in Worcester, September 3, 1839. He was a justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas from 1849 to 1853, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1859 to 1869, 
attorney-general of the United States under President Grant, a member of the joint 
high commission which made the treaty of Washington with Great Britain, and has 
been State senator, representative in Congress, regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 
fellow of Harvard College and member and president of the Board of Overseers. 
Among the important cases in which he has been counsel has been the " Andover 
case," in which he was of counsel for the " Visitors." He married at Concord, Novem- 
ber 26, 1840, Caroline Downes Brooks, of that town, and he has always made Concord 
his place of residence. 

Calvin P. Hinds was born in Barre, September 1, 1817, and died in Boston, April 
18, 1892. He studied law in the olfice of Fi.sher A. Kingsbury, of Weymouth, and was 
admitted to the bar at Dedham in 1844. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council in 1853 and 1854, and a representative in 1856. 

William Allen Hates, son of John Lord and Caroline Sarah (Ladd) Hayes, was 
born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law with 
George Partridge Sanger, at the Harvard Law School, from which he received the de- 
gree of LL.B., and in the offices of Abbott & Jones and others, and was admitted 



124 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AXD BAR. 

to the bar m Boston, August 16, 1868. He was assistant United States district at- 
torney under George I'. Sanger. His residence is in Cambridge. 

Charles Pelh.^m Greenodgh, son of William Whitwell and Catlierine Scollay (Cur- 
tis) Greenough, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 29, 1844. He was fitted for col- 
lege at the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He attended the 
Harvard Law School and pursued his law studies further in the office of Eopes & Gray, 
in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1809, and has been 
secretary, treasurer and member of tlie council of tlie Sutlblk Bar Association. He has 
been counsel for the Boston Gas Light Company and other large corporations. He has 
published an edition of "Story on Agency " and a '' Digest of Gas Cases." He married 
in Boston, .Tune 11, 1874, Mary, daughter of Judge Henry Vose and resides in Brook- 
line. 

Ebe.nezer Gay, son of Ebenezer and Mary AUyne (Otis) Gay, of Hingham, was born 
in that town March 27, 1818. He received his education at the Derby Academy and 
Willard School in Hingham, and studied law with his father, in the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of William Brigham in Boston. He was admitted to the bar 
in Boston, April 14, 1840, and was in the State Senate in 1862. He married in Worces- 
ter, in 1852, Ellen Blake Blood, and lives in Boston. 

Thomas Flatley was born in Ireland and died in Boston February 2.5, 1892, at the 
age of forty-one years. He was educated at a private classical school and the Queen's 
University, and came to America a young man to engage in mercantile pursuits. He 
entered, however, the university at Georgetown, D. C, from which lie graduated, and 
then taught for a time at Worcester College. After a visit to Europe he studied law in 
Washington and served as private tutor in the families of General Erving, General 
Vincent, and Senator Carpenter. He then came to Boston and entered the practice of 
law, making Maiden his residence. He was appointed deputy collector under Mr. 
Saltonstall, the collector of Boston. 

John Minot Fiske, son of John Minot and Eliza Maria (Winn) Fiske, was burn in 
Boston, August 17, 1834. He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- 
uated at Tale in 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of 
Seth J. Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 23, 1858. He was a mem- 
ber of the Boston Common Council in 1862-.3. He was appointed deputy naval officer 
under Amos Tuck in the Boston custom house. In November, 1863, he was appointed 
deputy collector by John Z. Goodrich, collector, and on the 1st of June, 1864, married 
at Stockbridge, Isabella Landon, a daughter of Mr. Goodrich. He is still deputy col- 
lector and resides at Cambridge. 

Joseph James Feelv, son of James and Catherine Feely, was born in Boston, May 7, 
1862, and educated at the public schools of Walpole, Mass., and at the Boston Latin 
School. He took a three vears' course in the Boston University Law School and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston in 1884. Living in Norwood, he is also a member of 
the Norfolk Bar Association. He has been a member of the School Board of Norwood 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 125 

and is now assistant district attorney for the sonfheastern district of Massachusetts, 
iiickiding Norfolli and Plvraouth counties. 

RioMAUD Sullivan Fay, son of Samuel Phillips Prescott and Harriet (Howard) 
Fay. was born in Cambridge June 16, 1806. He was fitted for college by Rev. Mr. Put- 
nam, of Andover, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law with his father and 
at the law school at Northampton, and after his admission to the bar was associated 
in practice at different times with Jonathan Chapman and Franklin Dexter. After a 
visit to Europe in 1835, he abandoned law and devoted himself to the management 
and care of manufacturing corporations, indulging himself in the recreation of agri- 
culture. He married. May 30, 1832, Catherine, daughter of Dudley L. Pickman, of 
Salem, and died in Liverpool, England, July 6, 1865. 

Alexander Hill Everett, son of Rev. Oliver Everett, was liorn in Boston, March 
19, 1790, and died in Canton, China, .Tune 29, 1847. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He studied law with 
John Quincy Adams and was admitted to the bar in Boston in March, 1815. While 
a law student he went in 1809 to St. Petersburg as attache under John Quincy Adams, 
minister to Russia, and resided there three years. In 1811 he went to England, and in 

1812 returned home. At the close of the war after his admission to the bar he spent a 
year at the Netherlands as secretary of legation under William Eustis, of Massa- 
chusetts, the American minister. He succeeded Mr. Eustis in 1S18 with the rank of 
charge d'affaires and remained at the Netherlands until 1824. In 1825 he was ap- 
pointed minister to Spain and was accompanied by Washington Irving as his attache. 
Returning from Spain in 1829 he was for a time proprietor and editor of the North 
American Beview, ar.d from 1830 to 1835 was a member of the lower branch of the 
Legislature. In 1840 he was sent on a confidential mission to Cuba, and in 1845 United 
States commissioner to China, holding office until his death. Mr. Everett's literary 
career was too prolific to trace. Besides contributing largely to magazines and peri- 
odicals he published in 1821 " Europe, etc." ; in 1822 " New Ideas on Population, etc." ; 
in 1827 ■' America, etc." ; in 1845 a volume of essays, and in the same year a volume of 
poems and memories of Joseph Warren and Patrick Henry as contributions to Sparks's 
American Biography. 

George B. Exolish, son of Thomas and Penelope (Bethiine) English, was born in 
Cambridge, March 7, 1787. and died in Washington, September 20, 1828. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1807 and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1811, He abau; 
doned practice and devoted himself for a time to the study of theology, publishing in 

1813 "The grounds of Christianity examined " and a response to his critics entitled 
'• Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook," He was afterwards a newsnaper editor 
lieutenant of marines in the United States service and an officer of artillery under 
Ismail Pacha in Egypt. In 1S27 he returned to Washington and remained there until 
his death. 

John Harvard Ellis, son of George E. and Elizabeth Bruce (Eagerj Ellis, was l)orn 
in Charlestown, January 9, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. He studied law 



126 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Francis E. Parker, of Boston, and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston, October 4, 1865. He contributed to the " Law Maga- 
zine" articles on Lord Brougham and James Otis and others, and in 1867 edited a vol- 
ume entitled "The works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse," with notes and an 
able introduction. He married, March 25, 18G9, Grace Atkinson, daughter of James L. 
Little, of Boston, and died Ma}' 3, 1870. 

Frederick; D. Ely, son of Nathan and Amelia Maria (Partridge) Ely, was born in 
Wrentham, Mass., September 24, 1838. He was fitted for college at Day's Academy in 
Wrentliam and graduated at Brown University in 1859. He studied law in the office of 
Waldo Colburn, at Dedhani, and was admitted to the bar in Dedham in October, 1802. 
He has held the offices of grand marshal and deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of 
Masons in Massachusetts, trustee of the Dedham Institution for Savings, director in the 
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 
Dedham, and chairmanship of the Dedham School Committee. He was in the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives in 1873, in the Senate in 1878-79, and a member 
of the Forty- ninth Congress. He was appointed associate justice of the " Municipal 
Court of the City of Boston," October 10, 1888, and is now on the bench. He married 
first in Boston, December 6, 1866, Eliza, daughter of Setli and Harriet E. (Rice) Whit- 
tin, and second at Dedham, August 10, 1885, Anna, daughter of Lyman and OUve 
Emerson. His residence is in Dedham. 

Charles Ronello Elder, son of Charles L. and Roxanna Elder, was born in Sabatus, 
Me.. October 21, 1850, and was educated in the public schools and at the Hebron Acad- 
emy. He studied law with Alvah Black, in Paris, Me., and at the Boston University 
Law School, from which he graduated in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Paris 
in 1875, and in Boston in June, 1876. He married first, June 15, 1881, at Belloivs 
Falls, Vt., Mary Gertrude Flint, and second at New Bedford, February 28, 1888, Marie 
T. Wood. His residence is in Maiden. 

Thomas Stetson Harlow, son of Bradford and Nancy (Stetson) Harlow, was born in 
Castine, Me., November 15, 1812, and after the usual course of study at the public schools 
and academy, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1836. He studied law in the office of 
Kent k. Cutting, of Bangor, and afterwards in Louisville, Ky., where he was admitted 
to the bar in 1839. In 1842 he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county and since 
that time he has practiced in both Middlesex and Suffolk counties. He was associated 
.with John A. Bolles in the defence of James Hawkins indicted for murder, in which the 
court reversed the ruling in the famous Peter York case. In the Peter York case the 
court decided, Justice Wilde dissenting, that the homicide being proved, and nothing 
further shown, the presumption of law is that it is malicious and an act of murder. 
The burden of proof is on the accused to show excuse or extenuation. (See 9th of Met- 
calf, page 93.) In the Hawkins case the court held that the murder charged must be 
proved and that the burden is on the Commonwealth to prove the whole case. At the 
time of this decision York was in prison under sentence of death and in consequence 
of it his punishment was commuted Ijy the governor to imprisonment for life. (See 





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3d of Gray, page 464.) Mr. Harlow has been police justice in Paducali, Ky., special 
justice of the first eastern Midillesex District Court, and ten years a member of the 
School Committee of Medford. lie married Lucy J. Hall, November 7, 18-1.'!, and 
resides in Medford. 

Nathan Hale, son of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale, was born in Boston, 
November 18, 1818, and died in Boston, Januaiy 9, 1871. He was fitted for college at 
the Boston Latin School and the English High School, and graduated at Harvard in 
1838. After leaving college he was occupied for a time as assistant topographical en- 
gineer on the State map of Massachusetts. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in the office of Charles Pelham Curtis, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, 
July 14, 1841. For many years he was associated with his father. Nathan Hale, in 
editing the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in ISGS was appointed profe-sor in Union 
College, Schenectady, which position he held until the appointment of Dr. Alden as 
president. At his death he left nearly ready for the press a "General Survey of the 
History and Progress of English Literature from the Earliest Days." 

George Francis Cheever, son of James W. and Lydia (Dean) Cheever, was born 
in Salem, Mass., November 30, 1819, and fitted for college at the Salem Latin School. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1836, and after a study of law in the Harvard Law School 
was admitted to the bar in Salem, and also in Boston, September 2, 1843. With poor 
health he moved to Natchez, and after a visit to the A>:ores, began practice in Salem. 
He died in Pepperell, Mass., Aprils, 1871. 

Seth Edward Spracu'e, son of Peleg and Sarah (Deming) Sprague, was born in 
Hallowell, Me., April 12, 1821, and died in Boston June 26, 1869. He was educated 
partly at Hallowell and partly at the school of Stephen Minot Weld, at Jamaica Plain, 
near Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and at the Harvard Law School in 
1844, and was admitted to tlie bar in Boston, Septembers, 1844. While a student at 
law he was appointed clerk of the United States District Court, which position he held 
until a few mouths before his death. He married in Boston, September 11, 1848, Har- 
riet Bordman, daughter of William and Susan Buggies (Bordman) Lawrence. 

Edward Morrell, was a son of Dr. Robert Morrell, who served with Andrew Jack- 
son in Louisiana during the war of 1812, and of his wife Laurette (Toussard) Morrell, 
daughter of General Toussard, an artillery officer of Napoleon's army, who emigrated 
to this country and was employed on our coast fortifications. The subject of this 
sketch lived on his father's plantation in San Marcos, Cuba, until about 183.5, when he 
was fitted for college by M. L. Hurlbut, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He stud- 
ied law in the Harvard Law School, in the office of George T. Davis, of Greenfield, 
Mass., and in that of Sohier <fc Welch, in Boston. He was admitted to the Ijar in Bos- 
ton in July, 1847, and practiced in Boston until 18.52, when he moved to Philadelphia. 
He married in 1860, Ida, daughter of John Hare Powell, of Philadel|ihia, atul died at 
Newport, September 3, 1871. 

Edward Augustus Crowninshiei.d, son of Benjamin William and Mary (Boardman) 
Crovvninshield, was born in Salem, Febiuary 2.5, 1817, and died in Boston February 



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128 HISTOR\ OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

20, 1859. He fitted for college at the Round Hill School and graduated at Harvard in 
1S3C. He studied law in the office of Franklin Dexter and William Howard Gardi- 
ner, and after admission to th"e liar, devoted himself to bibliography. He married, Jan- 
uary 15, 1840, Caroline Maria, daughter of Francis Welch, and resided in Bo.^ton. 

Addington Davenport, son of Eleazer and Ilelieoca (Addington) Davenport, was 
liorn August 3, 1670, and was graduated at Harvard in 1689. He was clerk of the first 
House of Representatives under the charter of 1692, and in 1695 was appointed clerk of 
the Superior Court of Judicatnre. He was afterwards appointed clerk of the Court of 
Common Pleas for the county of Suffolk and register of deeds. In 1714 lie was elected 
a member of the Council, and was a Representative in 1711, '12, '13. In 1715 he was 
appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and remained on the bench till 
his death in 1736, at the age of sixty-six. He does not appear to have been a trained 
lawyer, but as a member of the judiciary he is entitled to a place in this register. He 
married, November 10, 1698, Klizabeth, daughter of John and Elizalieth (Norton) 
Wainwright, of Ipswich. 

Francis Calley Gray, son of William Gray, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19. 
1790, and died in Boston December 29, 1856. He graduated at Harvard in 1809, and 
was admitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas, November 11, 1814, and in the 
Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1816, after a course of study in the office of Will- 
iam Prescott. His life was chiefly devoted to literary pursuits. He was the private 
secretary of John Quincy Adams, American minister at Russia, a contributor lo the 
North American Review, and the orator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 
1816. In 1840 he was the poet of the society. In 1818 he delivered an oration on the 
4th of July before the authorities of the town of Boston. He was a member of the 
Mas.sachusett.< Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, presi- 
dent of the Athenffium, trustee of tlie State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, fellow of 
Harvard from 1826 to 1830, representative in 1822,'23,'26,'28,'29,'31,'43, a member of the 
Council in 1839, vice-president of the Prison Discipline Society, chairman of the direc- 
tors of the State Piison, and a recipient of a degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1841. 
He resided in Boston and was unmarried. 

Samuel Eliot Guild, son of Bbiijaniin Guild, was born in Boston, October 8, 1819, 
and died at Nahant, July 16, 1862. He fitted for college at the private school of Henry 
Russell Cleveland, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law in the Harvard 
Law School and in the office of William Gray and Theophilus Parsons, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston, July 7, 1842. He married, February 9. 1847, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Henry Gardner Rice, of Boston. 

Robert Roberts Bishop, son of Jonathan Parker and Eliza Harding Bishop, was 
born in Medfield, Mass., March 31, 1834, and received his early education at Phillips 
Academy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of 
Peleg W. Chandler, and Brooks & Ball in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 
Boston November 24, 1857. He was a representative in 1874, and a member of the 



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Senate from 1878 to 1882, tlie last three years of which period he was president. He 
was of counsel in the reorganization of the New York and New England Railroad Com- 
pany, and in the Andover case, and was tlie Republican candidate for governor of Mas- 
sachusetts in 1882. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court March 7, 1888, and 
is now on the bench. He married, December 24, 1857, at HoUiston, Mass., Mary Helen 
Bullard, and resides in Newton. 

Everett Watson Burdett, son of Augustus P. and Marian (Newman) Burdett, was 
born in Olive Branch. Miss., April 5, 1854, and was educated at private schools and at 
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. He studied law with Charles Allen, now justice 
of the Supre.me Judicial Court, and at the Boston University Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1878. He was assistant LT. S. attorney for Massa- 
chusetts from 1878 to 1880, and since that time his practice has been specially connected 
with the subject of electric lighting. He married, April 15, 1885, Maud Warren, of 
Boston, where he now resides. 

Selwtn Z. Bowman, son of Zadock and Rosetta (Cram) Bowman, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., May 11, 1840. He fitted for college at the Charlestown High 
School and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law with David H. Mason in 
Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
1862. He has been three years State representative ; two years senator; four years 
in Congress, and seven years city solicitor in Somerville. He married in Lexington, 
June 20, 1866, Martha E. Tufts, and lives in Somerville. 

Chester Ward Clark, son of Amasa F. and Belinda Clark, was born in Glover, Vt., 
August 9, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and in the Glover 
Academy. He studied law with Barron C. Moultoo in Boston, where he was admitted 
to the bar March 12, 1878. His practice is confined chiefly to commercial and probate 
law in the counties of Suffolk and Middlesex. 

David H. Coolidge, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Hill) Coolidge, was born in Boston, 
February 7, 1833, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he gradu- 
ated in 1854. He studied law in the office of Peleg W. Chandler and at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, September 15, 1857. He has been 
commissioner of insolvency fifteen years, a trustee of the City Hospital, and was a 
member of the Common Council in 1863-4 and a representative in 1865. He married 
in Brookline, Januar}' 6, 1858, Isabella ShurtlefF, and lives in Boston. 

Charles Pelham Curtis, son of Thomas and Helen (Pelham) Curtis, was born in 
Boston, June 22, 1792, and died in Boston, October 4, 1864. He fitted for Harvard at 
the Boston Latin School and graduated m the class of 1811. He studied law with 
William Sullivan and was admitted to the bar in Boston in September, 1814, in the 
Court of Common Pleas, and in December, 1816, in the Supreme Judicial Court. He was 
a member of the Common Council in 1823, '24, '25, '26, and a representative in 1842. 
He married first, March 5, 1816, Anna Whroe, daughter of Wm. Scollay, of Boston, and 
second, November 12, 1846, Margaret McKean, daughter of Thomas Stevenson, 01 
Boston, and widow of Dr. Joseph William McKean, of the same city. 
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I30 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Charles Pelham Curtis, jr., son of Charles Pelham and Anna Whroe (Scollay) 
Curtis, was born in Boston, Juiy 29, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1845. He 
studied law in the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston, January 16, 1849. He has been United States commissioner. He 
married in Boston, April 2.5, 1852, Caroline G. Cary, and lives in Swampscott, Mass. 

James Dana, son of Samuel and Sebeeca (Barrett) Dana, was born in Charlestown, 
Mass., November 8, 1811, and was educated at the Groton Acadmey and at Harvard, 
where he graduated in 1830. He studied law with his father and with George F. 
Farley in Groton, and was admitted to the Vjar in Middlesex in December, 1833. He 
practiced in Groton first and then Charlestown, of which city he was mayor in 1858-9- 
60. He was colonel of the Fourth Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division of Massachu- 
setts militia and afterwards brigadier-general of the Third Brigade. He moved to the 
Dorchester district of Boston in 1875, and there died, June 4, 1890. He married first, 
June 1, 1837, Susan Harriet, daughter of Paul and Susan (Morrill) Moody, of Lowell; 
second, Margaret Lance, daughter of Levi Tower, of Newport, R, I., and third, Julia, 
daughter of William and Mary (Parks) Hurd, of Charlestown. 

William Whittos Dwyer, son of Henry Law and Jane (Wbitton) Dwyer, was born 
in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at the Dublin High School. He was admitted to prac- 
tice on certificate of qualification from the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the 
Superior Courts of Common Pleas. After coming to Boston he was admitted to the 
bar there in October, 1875, and has been an associate justice of the East Boston Munici- 
pal Court. He married in 1870, in Dublin, Maud Christina Walsh, and now resides in 
Somerville. 

Mioah Dyer, jr., son of Micah and Sally Dyer, was born in Boston in 1829, and 
studied law with Stephen G. Nash, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted 
to the bar in Boston, ila}' 13, 1850. He has been a representative two years. He mar- 
ried in Manchester, N. H., Julia K. Dyer, and resides in Boston. 

Benjamin Winslow Harris, son of William and Mary Winslow (Thomas) Harris, wa? 
born in East Bridgewater, Mass., November 10, 1823, and was educated at the public 
schools and at the Andover Phillips Academy. He prosecuted his law studies at the 
Harvard Law School, and in the offices of Welcome Toung, of East Bridgewater, and 
John P. Putnam, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 12, 1850. He 
was senator from Plymouth county in 1857, the last year of the old county senatorial 
system, and a representative in 1858. He was district attorney for the southeastern dis- 
trict of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1866, and collector of internal revenue from 1866 to 
1872. He was a representative in Congress for the second Ma.sisachusetts district from 
1873 to 1883, and as chairman of the committee on naval affairs rendered a valuable 
service to the country. He was appointed September 7, 1887, judge of Probate and 
Insolvency for Suffolk county.'which office he still holds, while engaged in general prac- 
tice in Suffialk and Plymoutli counties. He married, June 3, 1850, Julia Anne Orr, add 
lives in East Bridgewater. 

Tno.MAS Greaves Cart, son of Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Cary, was bom in Chelsea, 
Mass., September 7, 1791, and died at Nahant, Mass. July 3, 1859. He graduated at 



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Harvard in 1811, and after studying law with Peter Oxenhridge Thacher. was admitted 
to the bar in Boston, in the Court of Common Pleas, July '26, 1814, and in the Supreme 
Judicial Court, July, 1816. He married. May 30, 1820, Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas 
H. Perkins, and moved to Brattleboro, Vt., wliere after one year's practice he moved to- 
New York and engaged in the Canton trade as a partner in the house of T. G. & W. F. 
Gary. In 1830 he returned to Boston and joined the house of J. & T. H. Perkins, and 
after the dissolution of the firm was appointed treasurer of the Hamilton and Appleton 
Manufacturing Companies. In 1838'he became a special partner in the house of Fay & 
Farwells, and so continued until the dissolution of the firm in 1851. He was a senator 
from Suffolk in 1846, '47, '52, '53, director of the Hamilton Bank, trustee of the Institu- 
tion for the Blind, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, and fourth of July orator in Boston in 1847. 

Elijah George, son of William E. and Elizabeth (Deveau) George, was born in New 
Rochelle, N. Y., September 6, 1850. The father was born m England, and the mother was 
a descendant of one of the Huguenot families, who settled New Rochelle and named it 
from the French town. He was educated at the schools in New York and studied law 
in the office of Uriel H. & George G. Crocker, of Boston, and in the Boston University 
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Boston November 28, 1874, and to prac- 
tice in the United States Supreme Court in 1886. He was appointed assistant register 
of Probate and Insolvency for Suffolk county by Judge Isaac Ames in 1875. On the 
death of P. R. Guiney he was appointed, April 3, 1877, by Governor Rice register of 
Probate and Insolvency, and has held that office by election to the present time. He 
married at Washington, D. C, in 1876, Susan Virginia Howard, and lives in Boston. 

WiLLARD HowLAND, SOU of Jairus and Deborah L. (Fish) Howland, was born in Pem- 
broke, Mass., December 3, 1852, and received his early education in the public schools 
of Woburn and Kingston, and at the Boston University. He studied law in the office 
of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston, and in the Boston Universit}' Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston November \\\ 1878. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives, in which as a member of the judiciary committee 
and chairman of the committee on street railways he rendered intelligent and impor- 
tant service. He married. August 24, 1874, Lottie A. S. Barry, and resides in Chel.sea. 

Francis Willis Adams, son of William and Marj' M. Adams, was born in Boston, 
July 23, 1855, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of D. W. Gooch, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston, January 31. 1882. He married in Boston, October 5, 1885, 
M. Elizabeth Morse. 

Cdrtis Abbott, son of Daniel and Sarah Abbott, was born in Randolph, Vt., No- 
vember 4, 1841, and was educated at East Bethel, Randolph, Royalston and South 
Woodstock, Vt. He studied .law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of E. 
K. Burnham, Wayne county, N. Y., and James M. Keith, Boston, and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston in 1867. He was first lieutenant in Company H, Second U. S. 
Sharpshooters, in the war, and wrote a sketch of the company for fhe report of the 
adjutant-general of Vermont. He married, August 31, 1883, at Newton, Maria. 
Lorriaux. 



132 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Walttr Irving Badger, son of Erastus B. and Fanny B. Badger, was born in Bos- 
ton, January 15, 1859, and graduated at Yale in 1882. He studied law in tlie office of 
Solomon Lincoln and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the 
bar in Boston in September, 1885. His business has been chiefly connected with cases 
in which the Boston and Maine Railroad was concerned. He married, at New Haven, 
October 6, 1887, Elizabeth Hand Wilcox. 

Andreas Blume, son of Jo.seph and Katharine Blunie, was born in Weil, Grand 
Duchy of Baden, Germany, December 8, 1837, and was educated at Miami University, 
Oxford, 0. He studied law in the office of William S. Leland in Boston, and at the 
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 4, 1866. He 
was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1883 to 1887, and in 1888-89 a 
member of the Massachu.setts House of Representatives. He married Sibyl T. Blume, 
Octolier 1, 1875. 

RouERT TiLLiNGHAST Babson, son of William and Mary Isabel Babson, was born in 
(rloucester, Mass., February 3, 18G2, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied 
law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar in Essex county 
in October, 1885. 

.John Kino Bekry, son of Nehemiah Chase and Hannah Howe (King) Berry, 
was born in Randolph, Ma,ss., November 8, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. 
He studied law with his father and at the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the 
•l)ar in Boston in January, 1880. He married Ellen M. Brown in Providence, R. I., 
March 4, 1884. 

H. Eugene Bolles, son of William and Cornelia C. (Palmer) BoUes, was born in 
Waterford, Conn., January <>, 1853, and graduated at the Boston University Law 
School in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 20, 1874. Prior to 
1888 he was counsel for the New York and New England Railroad for several years. 
He married Elizabeth C. Howe at Boston, September 9, 1882. 

Elisua Bassett, son of Thomas and Fannie (Sears) Bassett, was born in Ashfield, 
Mass., June 6, 1818, and was educated in the schools and academies of that town. He 
studied law with Charles L. Woodbury, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 
12, 1847. In 1840 he entered the office of Francis Bassett, clerk of the United States 
District Court, as an assistant. During the incumbencies of Seth E. Sprague. Edward 
Dexter and Clement Hugh Hill, successors of Francis Bassett, he continued in the office 
as assistant,, and on the resignation of Mr. Hill was appointed clerk. He resigned 
March 19, 1890, and died October 4, 1891. He married, first, in 1842, Mary Ann Joy, 
of Plainfield, and second, in 1860, in Boston, Mary Elizabeth Cox. 

Benjamin Edward Bates, son of Benjamin E. and Sarah C. (Gilbert) Bates, was born 
in Boston, December 27, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in the office of Warren & Brandeis, and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston, February 2, 1887. 

W'arrkn Allds, son of Isaac N. and Abigail AUds, was born in Antrim, Hillsboro 
county, N. H., and was educated in the public schools. He studied law with James H. 
Bancroft and Jerome F. Manning in Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Val- 
paraiso, Ind., September 1, 1880, in 'Madison, Wis., to the State courts and the United 





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States Court for the Western District of Wisconsin in November, 1881, and in Boston, 
February 23, 1882. He married in Dover, N. H., October 6, 1884, Nellie K. Hoity. 

Gerard Bement, son of Samuel and Sarah Emerson (Kent) Bement, was born in 
Lowell, July 17, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex in 1882. He married 
Katherine B. Pfaff in Boston, January 12, 1887. 

Samuel Walker McCall, son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in 
East Providence, Penn., February 28, 1851, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1874. He 
studied law in the office of Staples & Gelding, in Worcester, where he was admitted to 
the bar. He came to Boston in 1876, and in 1888-89 was editor of the Boston Daily 
Advertiser, and a member of the House of Representatives. He married Ella Esther, 
daughter of Sumner S. Thompson, in Lyndonville, Vt., May 2.3, 1881, and lives in 
Winchester. 

Leonard Adgustu.? Jones, son of Augustus Appleton and Mary Partridge Jones, was 
born in Templeton, Mass., January 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1855, having 
fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law with Caleb W. Loring in 
Boston, and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to 
the bar in Boston, February 1, 1858. Previous to his study of the law he taught in the 
High School in St. Louis one year. In his early practice in Boston he was a partner 
of John Lathrop, now a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and of Edwin Hale Ab- 
bott. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review, 
the Christian Examiner, the Monthly Law Reporter, the Southern Law Revieio, the Cen- 
tral Law Jovrnal and the American Law Review, of the last of which he has been one 
of the editors. He has published the following legal works : Two volumes of " Mort- 
gages of Real Property," one volume of "Mortgages of Personal Property," one vol- 
ume of " Corporate Bonds and Mortgage.^," one volume of " Pledges, including Collat- 
eral Securities," two volumes of " Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Mar- 
itime," one volume of "Forms in Conveyancing," and one volume of "Index to Legal 
Periodical Literature," and has edited Volumes IX and XXI of " Myer's Federal De- 
cisions." In 1891 he was appointed Commissioner for Massachusetts on uniform laws 
between the States. He married Josephine, daughter of Artemas Lee, at Templeton, 
December 14, 1867, and lives in Boston. 

Roger Wolcott, son of J. Huntington Wolcoit, was born in Boston, July 13, 1847, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He is a descendant of Roger Wolcott, who, in 1745, 
commanded the New England forces in the capture of Louisljurg, and who was one of 
the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After his admission to the bar he served 
in the Boston Common Council in 1877, '78, '79, and from 1882 to 1884 was a member of 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and is an overseer of Harvard College. 
At present he is the candidate of the Republican party of Massachusetts for lieutenant- 
governor. 

Joseph Ly.van. son of Joseph and Anne Jean (Robbins) Lyman, was born in North- 
hampton, Mass., August 17. 1812, and was fitted for college at the Round Hill School in 
that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1830, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
October, 1833. He gave up the law and after studying engineering was engaged in im- 



134 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

portant mining and railroad operations, which severe injuries, the result of an accident, 
obliged him to abandon for literary pursuits. He married Susan BulBnoh, daughter of 
Joseph Coolidge, of Boston, and died at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, August 14, 1871. 

Samdel Parkman Shaw, son of Robert G. Shaw, was born in Boston. November 19, 
1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. After completing his law studies he re- 
moved to Parkman, Me., and subsequently to Waterville and Portland. In 1863 he 
removed to Cambridge, and died in Paris, France, De/ember 7, 18G9. He married 
Hannah Buck in 1841. 

CnARLKS Jackson, son of Charles and Fanny (Cabot) Jackson, was born in Boston, 
March 4, 1815. He fitted for college at the schools of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham and 
William Wells, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with Charles G. 
Loring in Boston and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1836. He however 
abandoned the profession and after studying engiueering turned his attention to the 
manufacture of iron and called himself an iron master. He married Susan C, daugh- 
ter of Dr. James Jackson, of Boston, February 16, 1842, and died in Boston July 30, 
1871. 

Isaac Chadncey Wyman, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Wyman, was born in 
Marblehead, January 31, 1830, and graduated at Princeton College in 1848. He grad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and concluded his law studies in the offices of 
Benjamin F. Hallett and Charles Grandison Thomas in Boston and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston, June 6, 1851. He has been many years president of the Marblehead 
National Bank and Savings Bank, and lives in Salem, unmarried, with his law office in 
Boston. 

Henry Augustus Wtman, son of Henry A. and Fanny F. Wyman, was born in 
Skowhegan, Me., February 3, 1861, and was educated m the schools of that town. He 
studied law in the ofBce of Edward H. Bennett, in Boston, and m the law school of the 
Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1885. He has 
been second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, first assistant United States 
attorney, and lecturei- on criminal law in the Boston University Law School. He mar- 
ried Anne C. Southworth at West Stoughton, February 13, 1891, and resides in Bos- 
ton. 

ALrHONZo Adkleert Wyman, son of Oliver C. and Caroline Mitchell (Chandler) 
AVyman, was born in West Acton, Mass., January 29, 1862. He was fitted for college 
at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He studied law with 
Henry W. Paine and W. W. Vaughan, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- 
ton in July, 1885. He has been engaged on Gould & Tucker's Notes on the United 
States Revised Statutes. He married Laura Aldrich in West Acton, July 28, 1886, 
and resides in that town. 

TnoMAS F. Nutter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was born m Hallo- 
well, Me., March 6, 1823, and was educated at the Hallowell High School. He studied 
law with his brother, Charles C. Nutter, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 
Boston, December 31, 1851. He married Adelaide Read at Portland, Me., February,. 
18, 1862, and Uvea in Boston. 



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Charles Coffin Pitts, son of Coffin and Louisa Pitts, was born in Boston, June 7, 
1865, and was educated at the North Easton High School. He studied law at the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, August 2, 1887, 
and to the Circuit Court of the United States, December 21, 1891. His residence is in 
Boston. 

George Baxter Upham, was born in Claremont, N. H., April 9, 1855, and graduated 
at Cornell University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted 
to the bar in Boston, February 8, 1877, and has made a specialty of corporation law. 
His residence is in Boston. 

William Orison Underwood, son of Adin Ballou and Jane L. (Walker) Underwood, 
was born in Newton, Mass., May 5, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He 
studied law in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, in the Boston University Law 
School, and the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1S86. 
He has been a lecturer in Harvard College. He married Bessie Shoemaker in Phila- 
delphia, November 18, 1886, and lives in Lynn. 

Francis Henry Underwood, was born in Enfield, January 12, 1825, and was educated 
partly at Amherst. He taught school in Kentucky, studied law, and was admitted to 
the bar. He returned to Massachusetts in 1850 and was closely indentified with the 
anti-slavery movement. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852, and sub- 
sequently, after eleven years' service as clerk of the Superior Court in Boston, he re- 
signed to engage in literary pursuits. He was thirteen years a member of the School 
Board, and in 1885 vvas appointed consul at Glasgow, from whose University he received 
the degree of LL.D. in 1888. 

Stephen H. Tyng, son of Dudley Atkins and Catherine M. (Stevens) Tyng, was 
born in Hoboken, N. J., August 2, 1851, and was educated at Kenyon College and the 
University of Michigan. He studied law at the Boston Univer.sity Law School and was 
admitted to the bar in Middlesex, in September, 1875. Besides his active business in 
the courts he has made frequent contributions to the press. He married Lizzie Wal- 
worth in Boston, September 8, 1880, and lives in Lexington. 

Charles L. B. Whitney was born in Springfield, Mass., October 21, 1850, and fitted 
for college in the High School of that city. He graduated at Harvard in 1871 and after 
a year's study at Leipsic, in Germany, studied law in the office of Jewell, Field & Shep- 
»rd, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1876 and was admitted 
to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1877. Soon after his admission he became a partner of 
WiUiam Gaston, and so continued until the condition of his health compelled him to 
abandon legal work. He married, in 1882, Lottie J. Byam, daughter of E. G. Byam, 
of Charlestown, and died at his residence in Brookline, September 14, 1892. 

Lewis W. Howes, son of Samuel and Sarah (Abbot) Howes, was born in Sidney, 
Me., where he spent his boyhood and youth attending the public schools and in occu- 
pation on a farm, and finally at the University at Kent's Hill in Maine. He then went 
to Belfast where he studied law with his uncles, Nehemiah and Howard B. Abbot and 
was admitted to the Waldo County Bar, and to a partner.ship with liis uncle Nehemiah. 



136 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

He afterwards moved to Rockland and held the ofBce of county attorney of Knox 
county eight or nine years, until he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar, May 25, 1867. He married, first, Clementine E., daughter of Rev. John 
Allen, and second, in June, 1887, Delia A. Varney, of Boston, wliere he now lives. 

William Tudor was born in Boston, March 28, 1750, fitted for college at the public 
schools, and under Master Lovell, graduating at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with 
John Adams in Boston, and was admitted to practice in the Inferior Court of Common 
Pleas, July 27, 1772. At a meeting of the Sufiolk bar, on the 2Gth of July, 1774, it 
was voted to recommend him for admission to the Superior Court. He served on the 
staff of Washington as judge advocate, with the rank of colonel, served in both 
brandies of the Massachusetts General Court, and 1809-10 was secretary of the Com- 
monwealth. Among the students in his office at various times were Henry Goodwin, 
Fisher Ames, George Richards Minot and John Rowe. He married Delia Jarvis, March 

5, 1778, and lived in Boston, where he died, July 8, 1819. A memoir of Mr. Tudor 
may be found in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of which he 
was one of the founders. 

Henry James Tddor, son of the above, was born in Boston, April 8, 1791, and died 
in that city, Nov. 27, 1864. He was fitted for college by Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, of 
Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied law with James Savage and 
Charles Jackson and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in Boston, 
in April, 1816. He married Fannie H., daughter of William Foster, of Boston, August 

6, 1844. 

George Julian Tufts, son of Henry and Clarissa H. Tufts, was born in Eden, Mt. 
Desert Island, Me., and was educated at the Boston Latin Scliool, and graduated at 
Tuft's College in 1874. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston, December 27, 1875. He has been engaged as counsel 
in many important cases, among which may be mentioned Westcott vs. N. Y. & N. E. 
R. R., reported in 152 Massachusetts Reports; Commonwealth vs. Conners and others, 
conductors of Met. Railroad Company, indicted for issuing counterfeit horse car tick- 
ets, and Commonwealth vs. Abby A. Conner, christian scientist, charged with man- 
slaughter. He married Isabella L. Parker in Medford, September 3, 1876, and lives in 
the Roxbury district of Boston. 

John Moore Tuohay was educated at the Boston University and admitted to the 
bar in 1881, in Boston, where he now lives. 

William Dall Turner, sou of John B. and Ellen A.Turner, was born in Brookline, 
Mass., November 15, 1863, and was fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, 
Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1884, and after studying law at the Harvard Law 
School, was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1886. After admission he went to Pa- 
latka, Florida, and practiced law there one year with Sumner C. Chandler, now of New 
York, and then returned to Boston, where he has since lived and practiced. In March, 
1890, he was appointed solicitor for the Metropolitan Sewage Commissioners in a case 
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in 153 Massachusetts Reports; and later he was counsel for heirs-at-law in Greece, ir> 
the case o£ the will of Photius Pisk. He lives in Boston and has interested himself in 
introducing the Torrens or Australian system of registration of titles to land. 

William H. H. Tcttle graduated at Williams College and studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, and in the office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson. He was admitted to 
the bar in Middlesex in October, 1877, and was a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives in 1890-91. His home is in Arlington. 

Charles Hitchcock Tyler, son of Joseph R. and Abbie L. Tj'ler, was l.iorn in Cam- 
bridge, October 11, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 188G. He studied law at the 
Boston University Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston, January 1, 1889. He lives in Winchester. 

RoTALL Tyler was born in Boston, July 18, 1757, and died in Brattleboro, Vt., 
August 16, 1826. He studied law with John Adams and was admitted to practice in 
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1780. He served with General Benjamin Lin- 
coln in Shay's Rebellion and in 1790 settled in Guilford, Vt, where he became, in 1794, 
a justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1800, chief justice. He was a voluminous writer 
as well as lawyer and judge. 

Dudley Atkins Tyng, son of Dudley Atkins, was born in that part of Newbury 
■which is now Newburyport, September 3, 1760, and died in Newburyport, August 1, 
1829. He wa''s educated at Duramer Academy under Master Moody arid graduated at 
Harvard in 1781, receiving a degree of LL. D. in 1823. In 1780, while in college, he 
was selected with John Davis, of Plymouth, to assist Dr. Williams in observing, on 
Penobscot Bay, an eclipse of the sun. After leaving college he was private tutor in the 
family of Mrs. Selden, in Virginia, and while there studied law with Judge Mercer 
and wae admitted to the bar in Virginia. In 1784 he returned to Massachusetts and 
was admitted to the bar in Es.sex and afterwards had an office in Boston. He changed 
his name to Tyng, as the inheritor of tlie estate of James Tyng, of Tyngsboro, ilass. 
He was collector of Newburyport for a time and in 1805 was appointed reporter of 
the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His reports are con- 
tained in the volumes two to seventeen inclusive of the Massacliusetts Reports and cover 
the period from the March term in Suffolk in 1806 to the March term in Suffolk in 1822. 
He was the father of Rev. Stephen Higginson Tyng, rector of St. George's Church in 
New York more than thirty years. 

David Wver, a native of Charlestown, graduated at Harvard in 1758, studied law 
with James Otis in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1762. The maiden 
name of his wife was Russell. 

Edwin Wright, son of Jesse Wright, of Lebanon, Conn., was born March 7, 1821, 
and graduated at Yale in 1844. After leaving college he came to Boston and w'as mas- 
ter of the Eliot Grammar School from 1845 to 1848. He was admitted to the bar in 
Boston, and in 1857 and 1867 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives. On the 9th of July, 1861, he was appointed special justice of the Boston 
Police Court, and January 7, 1862, a justice of the same court. In 1877-9 he was 
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lecturer m the Boston University Law Scliool, on medical jurisprudence, and married, 
October 29, 1850, Helen Maria, daugliter of Paul and Almira (James) Curtis, of Boston, 
where he now resides. 

Carroll Davidson Wright was born in Dunbarton, N. H., July 25, 1840, and 
was educated at Washington, Alstead and Chester, Vt. He studied law with Will- 
iam P. Wheeler, of Iveene, N. H., and with Worthington & Willey in Boston. Early 
in the war he enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth N. H. Regiment, of which he became 
colonel in December, 1864. He resigned in 18G5 and was admitted to the bar in New 
Hampshire in the same year. He afterwards moved to Boston and was in the Massa- 
chusetts Senate in 1871-2, and chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor from 1873 to 
1888. In 1880 he was the Massachusetts supervisor of the United States census, and 
in 1885 w-as appointed to investigate the public records of towns, parishes, counties and 
courts. In the same year he was made first commissioner of the Bureau of Labor in 
the Department of the Interior at Washington. In 187G he was presidential elector on 
the Republican ticket and in 1875 and 1885 had charge of the Massachusetts State 
census. He was a lecturer in the Lowell Institute in 1879 on labor questions, and in 
1881 university lecturer at Harvard on the factory system. He received the degree of 
A. M. from Tufts College in 1883. 

Erastds Worthington was born in Belchertown, Mass., October 8, 1779, and died 
at Dedham, June 27, 1842. He graduated at Williams College in 1804 aud was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1807. He moved to Dedliam, where he prac- 
ticed law from 1809 to 1825, was a representative from that town in 1814-15, and 
wrote the history of Dedham from its settlement in 1635 to May, 1827, the year of its 
publication. 

Albert Parker Worthen, .son of Samuel K. and Sarah F. Worthen, was born in 
Bridgewater, N. H., September 8, 1861, and was educated at the New Hampshire In- 
stitution. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston in 1885. He lives unmarried in Weymouth, Mass. 

Thomas Tvson Woodrdff, son of Isaac O. and Arethusa H. Woodroufl", was born in 
Quiucy, 111., January 7, 1839, and was educated at St. Paul's College at Palmyra, Mo. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, 
August 13, 1886. His home is in Boston, and he is unmarried. 

■ E. H. Woodman was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 6, 1847. aud was educated at 
tho Gilmanton Academy and at Boscawen. He graduated at the Boston University 
Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the bar. He went to Concord. N. H., in 
1878, and was the mayor of that city in 1882 aud several succeeding years. He was a 
member of the New Hampshire Legislature, treasurer of the Peterboro and Hillsboro, 
and the Franklin and Tilton Railroads, clerk of the Concord and Claremont Railroad, 
treasurer of the Concord Gas Light Company, and president of the Mechanics' National 
Bank. He died at Concord, March 21, 1892. 

Joshua Upbam was born in Brookfield, November 14, 1741, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1763. He practiced law in New York and Boston, and moving to New Bruns- 



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wick became judge of the Supreme Court of that province. He was the father of the- 
late Charles W. Upham, of Salem. He died in London in 1808. 

EnoENE Charles Upton, son of Charles and Anna C. Upton, was born in Gardner, 
Mass., August 23, 1859. He was fitted for college at the Gardner High School, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Oren S. Knapp and' 
Heman W. Chaplin, and was admitted to the bar there January 25, 1885. He married' 
Alice M. Hyde at Gardner, Septembers, 1884, and has his home in Maiden. 

Edward Preston Usher, sou of Roland Green and Caroline Mudge Usher, was- 
born in Lynn, Mass., November 19, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 187.3. He 
graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 18S0, and was admitted to the bar in 
Essex county in 1879. He is, or has been president of the Grafton and Upton Rail- 
road, of the Milford and Hopedale Street Railroad, and of the Hopedale Electric Car 
Co., and is the author of a book on " Sales of Personal Property." He married Adela 
L. Payson, and lives in Grafton, Mass. 

Sherman Leland Whipple, son of Solomon Mason and Henrietta (Hersey) Whipple, 
was born in New London, N. H., March 4, 1862, and was educated at the Colby Acad- 
emy, New London, and at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at Con- 
cord, N. H., and graduated from the Tale College Law School in 1884. He was 
admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1884, in New Hampshire in August, 1884, and in 
Boston in 1885. He resides in Brookline. 

Stephen Blake Wood, son of William T. and Sophia M. Wood, was born in West 
Cambridge, Mass., April 5, 1854, and was educated at the Arlington High School and 
Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1879. He studied law with Charles 
Allen and Jabez Fox, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, .June 22, 1882. He mar- 
ried Amy Louise Blandy, June 27, 1885, and lives in Arlington. 

John H. Ponce, son of Phillip and Margaret Ponce, was born in Cambridge, Novem- 
ber 1, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of that city and at the College of 
the Holy Cross, in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, March 18, 1881. 
He has been a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives and 
where he married Nellie L. Kelley, July 7, 1885. He has been attorney for nine years 
of the Cambridge Co-operative Bank. 

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Thomas Bdtler Pope, son of Lemuel and Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, was born in 

Boston, Januar}' 22, 1814, and died in Roxbury, January 15, 1862. His father was- 

many years president of the Boston Insurance Company. He was fitted for college at 

the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He studied law at the 

Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the 

bar in Boston in 1836, and for a time was associated in business with Charles Henry 

Parker. He married, June 3, 1846, Gertrude, daughter of John Binney, of Boston. 

George Doane Porter, son of Jonathan and Catherine (Gray) Porter, was born io 
Medford, Mass., June 21, 1831. He was fitted for college by his father, and graduated 



I40 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

at Harvard in 1851. He studied law with William Brigham and was admitted to tlie 
bar in Boston in June, 1854. He practiced in both Boston and Medford for a time and 
afterwards in Medford alone. He married Lucretia A. Holland August 8, 1860. 

Nahdm Mitchell, son of Gushing and Jennet (Orr) Mitchell, was born in East Bridge- 
water, February 12, 17G9, and died in Plymouth, August 1, 1853. He fitted for college 
with Beza Hay ward, of Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. During his 
college course he taught school in "Weston and afterwards in Bridgewater and Plymouth. 
He studied law in Plymouth with Joshua Thomas, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- 
ton. He practiced in East Bridgewater, and among his students were Ezekiel Whit- 
man, afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and Elijah Hayward, 
afterwards justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was representative from 1798 to 
18t)3 and in 1809 and 1812. senator in 1813, member of the Council from 1814 to 1820, 
State treasurer from 1822 to 1827, member of Congress from 1803 to 1805, one of the 
commission in 1800 to establish the Massachusetts and Rhode Island line, and in 1823 
to establish the Massachusetts and Connecticut line. From 1811 to 1821 he was judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit and the last two years its chief 
justice. He published in 1840 a history of Bridgewater, and was the author of the 
Bridgewater Collection of Music, which has run through thirty editions. He married 
in 1794, Nabby, daughter of Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater. 

William Howard Mitchell, son of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, was born 
in North Yarmouth, Me., August 14, 1861, and was educated at the Wesleyan Univer- 
sity at Middletown, Conn., from which he graduated in 1885. He studied law with Ed- 
win L. Dyer, of Portland, Me., and at the Boston University Law School, graduating 
in 1887, and was admitted to the b.ir in Boston in August. 1887. He married Har- 
riet Louise Orcutt at Melrose, Mass., October 2, 1889, and makes Melrose his home. 

Walter Samuel Pinkham, son of George F. and Ellen J. Pinkham, was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., August 21, 1865, and fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, 
Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1890. His home is in Wollas- 
ton, a part of Quincy. 

CHRiSTorHER G. Plunkett was born in Boston, August 29, 1859, and was educated 
in the public schools of Medford, to wliich town his father moved with his family after 
his return from the war. He studied law in the office of John F. Colby in Boston, and 
in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Novem- 
ber. 1881. He has been auditor of the town of Medford. 

RoSEWELL Bigelow Lawrence, sou of Daniel Warren and Mary Ellen (Wiley) Law- 
rence, was born in Medford, Mass., January 31, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Stearns & Butler, in Bos- 
ton, where he was admitted to the bar in February, 1882. He lives in Medford. 

William Baxter Lawrence, son of Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. Lawrence, was 
born in Cliarlestown, Mass., November 15, 1856, and litted for college at the Boston Latin 



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School and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He stiidied law at the Harvard Law School 
and after graduating, in 1882, traveled in Europe and was admitted to the bar in Boston 
in 1883. He was a selectman of Medford in 1889-90, representative in the Legislature 
1891-92, grand master of the Grand Council R. & S. Masters of Massachusetts 1801-92, 
is past D. D. grand master of Grand Lodge, F. & A. Masons, of Massachusetts, past 
master of Mt. Hermon Lodge, F. & A. Masons, past H. P. of Mystic R. A. Chapter, 
and trustee of the Medford Savings Bank. He married Alice May, daughter of J. 
Henry Sears, in Dorchester, October 2, 1883, and lives in Medford. 

John Patrick Leahy, son of John and Mary E. Leahy, was born in Boston, March 
13, 1861. He was educated under private instruction, in the public schools and in the 
Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. 
He married Josie C. Wilkinson at Boston, July 27, 1889, and lives in the Dorchester 
district of Boston. He has been engaged to some extent in lecturing and in writing 
for newspapers and magazines. 

Joseph Lee, son of Henry and Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee, was born in Brook- 
line, Mass., March 8, 1862. He graduated at Harvard in 1883, was a student in the 
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in December, 1887. Besides his law 
practice he has engaged somewhat in literary pursuits in connection with newspapers 
and magazines. His residence is in Brookline. 

William H. Leonard, son of Hartford P. and Lucy A. Leonard, was born at Man- 
hattan, Kans., Nov. 10, 1860, and after graduating at Amherst, studied law in the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1884. He 
married Charlotte A. Richardson at Raynham, Mass., May 5, 1886, and lives in Brain- 
tree, Mass. 

George V. Leverett, son of Daniel and Charlotte Leverett, was born in Charlestown, 
Mass., in 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He graduated also at the Harvard 
Law School in 1869, and finished big law studies in the office of Chandler, Thayer & 
Hudson, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, December 23, 1871. He is the official 
attorney of the American Bell Telephone Company. He married Mary E. L. Tebbetts 
at Cambridge in 1888, and now lives in that city. 

John Woodburt, son of John P. and Sarah E. (Silsbee) Woodbury, w.as born in 
Lynn, Mass., January 26, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck & Munroe of Boston, and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He married Jennie R. Churchill iu Boston, 
February 18, 188.5, and lives in Lynn. 

Levi Woodbury was born in Francestown, N. H., December 22, 1789, and died at 
Portsmouth, N. H., September 4, 18.51. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, and 
studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in 
Francestown iu 1812, where he practiced until 1816. In 1817 he became judge of the 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire. In 1819 he moved to Portsmouth, and in 1823-4 
was governor of his native State. He was speaker of the New Hampshire House of 
Representatives in 1825, and chosen United States senator, serving from 1825 to 1831, 



142 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

when he was appointed by Andrew Jackson secretary of the navy. Under Van Buren 
he served as secretary of the treasury, and was again chosen United States senator, 
serving from 1841 to 1845, when he was appointed justice of the United States Supreme 
Court, and remained on the bench until his death. 

A. Nathan Williams, son of James G-. and Sarah N. Williams, was born in Bowdoin- 
ham. Me., October 26, 1857, and was educated in the Maine public schools and at St. 
Charles College in Maryland. He studied law with Charles W. Larrabe in Bath, Me., 
and was admitted to the bar in Bath, August 23, 1883, to the bar of the United States 
Supreme Court. January 10, 1889, and to the Suffolk bar, June 3, 1800. He lives in 
Boston. 

William Gordon Stkarns, son of Asahel and Frances Wentworth Stearns, was born 
in Chelmsford, Mass., November 22, 1804. He graduated at Harvard in 1824, and 
studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1827. He was admitted to the 
bar in Boston in March, 1830, and in 1834 became partner of Theophilus Parsons. In 
1844 he was appointed steward of Harvard College and remained in office twenty-six 
years. He died January 31, 1872. 

John Glidden Stetson, son of Joseph and Margaret Stetson, was born in Newcastle, 
Me., February 28, 1833, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1854. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 31, 1860. 
He practiced in Portland from June, 1860, to February, 1864. He was appointed clerk 
of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, October 1, 1866, and has 
been clerk of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since its 
organization, June 16, 1891. He has been also United States Commissioner for the 
District of Massachusetts since October 15, 1872. He has heard nearly all the cases re- 
ferred to a Master in Chancery by the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts 
District, from 1873 to 1883, and a large number since. His reports as Master have been 
prepared with great care and many of them are in print. He married Delia H. Libby, 
in Portland, Me., January 26, 1SG5, and lives in Boston. 

Charles Godfrey Stevens, .son of Godfrey and Hannah (Poole) Stevens, was born 
in Claremont, N. H., September 16, 1821, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He 
was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 23, 1845, was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Convention for the revision of the Constitution in 1853, a member of the Senate 
in 1862, draft comrai-ssioner for Worcester in 1862-3, and made president of the First 
National Bank of Clinton in 1864, and appointed in 1874 judge of the Second Wor- 
cester District Court. He married Laura A., daughter of Bli and Hepzibah (Floyd) 
Russell. 

Hazard Stevens, son of Isaac \. and Margaret L. Stevens, was born in Newport, R. 
L, June 9, 1842, and received his early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at 
Ghauncey Hall School, Boston. He graduated at Harvard. He studied law with 
Edward Evans in Olympia, W. T., and was admitted to the bar in Olympia in 1872, 
and in Boston, March 13, 1875. He was, during the war, private, lieutenant and ad- 
jutant of the 79th New York Volunteers, in September and October, 1861, and after- 



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■wards captain, major, assistant adjutant-general, brevet lieutenant-colonel, colonel and 
brigadier-general. He was collector of internal revenue for Washington Territory from 
1867 to 1871. After coming to Boston he was representative from the Dorchester 
district in 1885-86. His residence is in Dorchester. 

Oliver Stevens, son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens, was born in North 
Andover, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1848. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of H. H. Fuller in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 
1850, and is now district attorney of Suffolk county. He married Catherine Stevens 
at North Andover in 1855, and lives in Boston. 

Oliver Crocker Stevens, son of Calvin and Sophia Tappan (Crocker) Stevens, was 
born in Boston, June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Dwiglit and Latin Schools in 
Boston, and Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 187G. He studied law with 
Albert E. PiUsbury in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, from which 
he received the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, 
July 8. 1879, to the United States Circuit Court, July 26, 1880, and to the United 
States Supreme Court, March 4, 1884. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of 
Bowdoin College. He married Julia Burnett, daughter of John Gregory and Ann 
Eliza (Brainard) Smith, of St. Albans, Vt.. and lives in Boston. 

WiLLiA.M BuKNUAM Stevens, SOU of William F. and Mary J. G. (Burnham) Stevens, 
was horn in Stoneham, Mass., March 23, 1843, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Ando- 
Ter, for Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1865. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in the office of Sweetser & Gardner m Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston, July 3, 1867. He was district attorney for the Northern 
District of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1890, and is president of the Stoneliam Five 
Cent Savings Bank. He has written a historical sketch of Stoneham, and lives in that 
town. He married A. Josie Hill, October 20, 1868, and Mary W. Green, September 
30, 1873. 

Caleb Morton Stimson, son of Samuel and Susanna Stimsoii, was born in Newton, 
Mass., April 13, 1804. He fitted at the Milton Academy for Harvard, where he grad- 
uated in 1824. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Lemuel 
Shaw in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, April 1, 1828. He lived in 
Newton and died at Newton Lower Falls, July 6, 1860. 

Frederick Jes0p Stimson, son of Edward S. and Sarah Tufts (Piichardson) Stimson 
was born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He stud- 
ied law with Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the bar in Boston in May, 1879 
to the New York Supreme Court in June, 1SS6, and later to the United States Circuit 
Courts. He has been aesistant attorney-general of Massachusetts, was appointed by 
Mayor Grace of New York, in 1887, on a committee to revise the New York constitution, 
and in 1891, by Governor Russell of Massachusetts, on the commission on the unification 
of laws. He has published " American Statute Law '' and " Stimson's Law Glossary " 
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144 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

William Mauban Stookbridge, son of John 0. and Mary T. N. Stockbridge, was 
born in Boston, July 9, 1856, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and 
in the office o£ B. F. Brooks, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 
1882. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

James Alden Stockwell, son of Albert Samuel and Fannie E. (Bryant) Stockwell, 
was born in Stoneham, September 16, 1860, and was educated at the Wilbraham Acad- 
emv and Boston University, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1888. 

Charles B. Stone, son of Bradley and Clarisa Hosmer Stone, was born in West Ac- 
ton, Mass., July 17, 1818. He studied law in New York and Boston, and was aduiit- 
ted to the bar in Boston in 1890. He has been a selectman and member of the School 
Board in West Acton, where he resides. He married Marietta C. Wetherbee at Box- 
boro, Mass., December 25, 1870, and Isabella D. Lewis at Stow, Mass., May 18, 1881, 
and live.s in West Acton. 

Frederic Mather Stone, son of Joshua 0. and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Stone, was 
born in Brookline, Mass., October 19, 1861, and fitted at the Friends' Academy in New 
Bedford for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in February, 1886, and in Boston 
n 1887. He lives in Boston. 

G-EORGE Fisher Stone, son of Warren Fiiy and Mary (Williams) Stone, was born in 
Groton, Mass., December 25, 1850, and studied l.iw with George Stevens in Lowell, 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 1874. He practiced four years in 
Hudson, had an office in Boston in 1876, moved to Bradford, Penn., and was superin- 
tendent of schools there prior to_1888, after which he spent three years in Pittsburg and 
Harrisburg and in North Carolina. In 1891 he moved to Olympia, Wash. He married 
Emma Cecilia Branch, d.aughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Hosmer) Aldrich, of Groton, 
Mass. 

William Stodghton was born in Dorchester in 1G31 or 1632, and graduated at Har- 
. yard in 1050. He was first a clergyman in 1671, a magistrate or assistant from 1671 
to 1676, an agent of the Massachusetts colony to England in 1677, chief justice of the 
Superior Court from 1692 to 1701, a member of the Council from 1693 to 1701, lieuten- 
ant-governor from 1692 to 1701. He was at various times a selectman of Dorchester, 
and died there July 7, 1701. He was never married. 

Almon a. Strout, son of Blisha and Mary Strout, was born in Lemington, York 
county. Me., and was educated iii the puljlic schools and at the Bridgton and Fryburg 
Academies. He studied law with Joel Eastman,Jof New Hampshire, and with Howard 
& Strout in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1859, and later 
became a member of the Suffolk bar. Before moving to Boston he was a member of 
the Maine Legislature. He married Mary R. Sumner at Grand Rapids, Mich., Decem- 
ber 23, 1862, and lives in Boston. 

Miohal J. SuGHRnE, son of John and Julia Sughrue, was born in Nashua, N. H.' 
August 27, 1857, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Boston Uni- 






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versity. He studied \vcn at the Boston University Law Soliool, and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston in 1888. He has Vjeen assistant district attorney for Sufl"ollc, and lives 
in tlie Dorchester district of Boston. 

CORNEL10S P. Sullivan was born in Boston, April 22, 18(51. He was educated at the 
Quincy Grammar School, the English High and Latin School, and graduated from the 
Harvard Law School in 1885, and the same year was admitted to the bar in Boston. 

James Sullivan, son of John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan, was born in Berwick, 
Me., April 22, 1744, and was educated chiefly by his father. He studied law with his 
brother John at Durham, N. H., and before 1782 was a member of the Suffolk liar. 
Before coming to Boston he practiced ten years in Biddeford. He was a member of 
Provincial Congress from Biddeford in 1774-5, and a member of the General Court in- 
1775-6. On the 20th of March, 1776, he was appointed a justice in the Superior Court 
of Judicature and resigned in 1782. In 1778 he moved from Biddeford to Groton, and 
in 1779 was a delegate from Groton to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. 
In 1782 he was a delegate to Continental Congress, in 1787 a member of the Executive 
Council, in 1788 judge of probate, in 1790 attorney-general, in 1S07 he was chosen gov- 
ernor, and died while in office in Boston, December 10, 1808. 

George-Sullivan, son of James and MehitaUe (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Boston, 
February 22, 1783, and died at Pan, France, December 14, 186G. He attended the 
Boston Latin School, studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston 
in July, 1804. He was secretary of James Bowdoin, minister to Spain. He practiced 
law in Boston and was a member of the State Senate. He moved to New York and- 
continued in practice there. He married, January 26, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Thomas 
L. Winthrop and had two sons, George R. J. and James, both of whom took the name 
of Bowdoin in accordance with the will of Sarah, daughter of William and niece of 
James Bowdoin. 

Jere.miah J. Sullivan, son of John and Mary (Donohue) Sullivan, was born in Water- 
town, Mass., September 16, 1850, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1872. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of 
George S. Hale, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, June 27, 1874. He 
has been a selectman, member of the School Board and Board of Health in Watertown, 
where he lives. 

Richard Sullivan, son of James and Mehitable (Odiorne) Sullivan, was born in Gro- 
ton, July 17, 1779, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard where he gradu- 
ated in 1798. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
ISOl. He was senator from Sufiblk in 1815 to '17, a member from Brookline of the 
State Convention of 1820, a member of the Executive Council in 1820-21 and was the 
candidate of the Federal party in 1823 for lieutenant-governor with Harrison Gray 
Otis for governor, and was defeated. He -was an overseer of Harvard from 1821 to 
1852. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sever) Russell, of Boston, 
Jlay 22, 1804. and died in Cambridge, December 11, 18G1. 
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Richard Sullivan, son of Jeremiah O. and Joanna (Morrison) Sullivan, was born in 
Durham, Conn., February 24, 1856, and came with his father, an infant, lo Boston. 
He attended the Comins Grammar School in Roxbury, the Boston College, and grad- 
uated from the Boston University Law School in 1882. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1883. He also studied at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles T. 
& Thomas H. Russell in Boston. Pe was a member of the Boston Common Council 
in 1887, '88, '89, '90 and twice the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the 
board. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

Thomas Francis Strange, son of Pierce and Anne Strange, was born in Manchester, 
N. H., December 24, 1859. In his infancy his parents moved to Boston where he was 
educated in the public schools, and graduated at the Boston University Law School, 
with the degree of LL. B., in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in the same 
year. lie liegan practice with the law firm of Gargan, Adams & Swasey, and in Octo- 
ber, 1884, opened an office alone. He has been commissioner of insolvency by both ap- 
pointment and election, a member of the Boston School Board and an active member of 
the Democratic party in State and city politics. He resides in Boston. 

Anthony C. Daly was born in Boston, October 4, 1853, and was educated in the pub- 
lic .schools. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in April, 1875, was a representative 
in 1878, and moved to the west. 

Richard Dana, son of Daniel, who was son of Richard, the ancestor who settled in 
Cambridge in 1640, was born in Cambridge, July 7, 1699, and died in Cambridge, May 
17, 1772. He graduated at Harvard in 1718 and began practice in Marblehead, con- 
tinuing it in Charletsown and Boston. He married a sister of Judge Edmund Trow- 
bridge. 

Francis Dana, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, June 13, 1743. He grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1762, and after studying law with Edmund Trowbridge was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1767, and practiced in Boston. He was a delegate to the Provin- 
cial Congress in 1774, and in 1776 a member of the Executive Council. In the same 
year he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and again in 1778. He was sec- 
retary to John Adams, appointed in 1779 to negotiate peace, and in 1781 was ap- 
pointed minister to St. Petersburg where he remained two years. In 1783 he returned 
to Boston and was chosen, in 1784, a delegate to Congress. On the 18th of January, 
1785, he was appointed by Governor Hancock judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, 
and on the 29th of November, 1791, was appointed chief justice. He retired from the 
Bench in 1806 and died in Cambridge, April 25, 1811. 

Richard H. Dana, son of Francis Dana, was born in Cambridge, November 15, 1787, 
and died in Boston, February 2, 1879. Entering Harvard College in the class of 1808, 
he did not finish his course but received a degree fifty-eight years later, in 1866, and a 
degree of LL. D. from Williams College, in 1867. He studied law in the office of his 
cousin, Francis Dana Channing in Boston, and in the office of Robert Goodloe Harper, 
of Baltimore, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1811. He practiced 
for a time in Sutton, but finally settled in Cambridge and through life devoted himself 



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chiefly to literature. He was a frequent contributor to the North' American Review 
and published his first poem, " Ths Dying Raven," about 1825. His first volunae of 
poems was published in 1827, and in 1856 a revised edition of his poetical and prose 
writings was issued. At an earlier date, in 1839-40, he delivered a course of lectures 
on Shakespeare, in Boston, New York and Philadelphia. He was the father of Richard 
II. Dana, jr., and Edmund Trowbridge Dana. 

RiOHARD H. Dana, jr., son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 1, 
1815, and graduated at Harvard in IS37. His "Two Years before the Mast" was pub- 
lished in 1840, and had a very large circulation. He studied law with Joseph Story 
and was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1840. In 1841 he published "The Sea- 
man's Friend," and later, "To Cuba and Back." His contributions to reviews and other 
periodicals were numerous. In 1859-60 he went round the world, and in 1866 re- 
ceived from Harvard the degree of LL. D. In 1866 he published a new edition of 
Wheaton's " International Law," and about that time was a lecturer on international 
law at the Harvard Law School. In 1876 he was nominated by President Grant min- 
ister to England, but his nomination was not confirmed. He was at one time United 
States district attorney for Massachusetts District. He went to Europe in 1878, and 
died in Rome, January 7, 1882. 

Edmund Trowbridge Dana, son of Richard H. Dana, was born in Cambridge, August 
29, 1818, and died in Cambridge, May 18, 1869. He graduated at the University of 
Vermont in 1839, and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He began practice with 
his brother, Richard H. Dana, jr., went to Europe where he continued his studies, giving 
special attention to Roman civil law. In 1854 he received a degree from the Univer- 
sity of Heidleberg, and returned home in 1856 and continued in practice until his 
death. 

Richard H. Dana 3d, son of Richard H., jr., and Sarah (Watson) Dana, was born in 
Cambridge, January 3, 1851, and received his early education in the public schools of 
Cambridge, and at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated at Harvard in 
1874, and at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and after a time spent in the office of 
Brooks, Ball & Storey in Boston, was admitted to the bar there in Noveml>er 1877. 
He has been interested in the purity of elections, and has contributed many articles ta 
magazines and newspapers, chiefly on the civil service, the Australian Ballot Law and 
Election Expenses Law. He married Edith, daughter of Henry W. Longfellow the 
poet, at Cambridge, January 10, 1878. 

Samuel Dana, son of William and Mary (Green) Dana, was born in that part of Cam- 
bridge which is now the Brighton District of Boston, January 14, 1738-9, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1755. He studied divinity, and June 3, 1761, was settled as the- 
minister of Groton. On account of his loyal sentiments on the approach of the Revo- 
lution he was dismissed, and moved to Amherst, N. H., where he studied law with 
Joshua Atherton, and was admitted to the bar of Hillsboro county in New Hamp.ihire 
in 1781 and at a later date in Suffolk county, Mass. In 1785 he was appointed register 
of probate for Middlesex, afterwards judge of probate, and resigned December 21, 1702. 



148 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

In 1793 he was a member of the Senate. His name is on the roll of admission to the 
bar of Suffolk by the Supreme Court without date. He died at Amherst, April 2, 1798. 

Edwin H. Darling, son of Timothy and Lucy Darling, was born in Calais, Me., Jan- 
uary 28. 1838, and was educated in Nassau, N. P., and New York and at Williams Col- 
lege. He studied law with George F. Shipley, of Portland, and with Doolittle, Davis 
& Crittenden in New York, and was admitted to the bar in New York in April, 1861, 
and in Boston, January, 5 1872. He is or has been a member of the Boston School 
Board. He married Georgie A. Smith, at New Market, N. H., February 7, 1882, and 
lives in Boston. 

George A. Dary, son of George L. and Rebekah G. Dary, was born in Taunton, 
Mass., November 30, 1842, and was educated at the Taunton High School. He studied 
law with Samuel E. Sewall in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there December 14, 
1872. He married Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Eraslus S. Tuttle, and lives in Boston. 

William Nathaniel Davenport, son o£ William J. and Almira (Howard) Davenport, 
was born in Boylston. Mass.. November 3, 1856, and was early educated in the public 
schools of that town. He studied law in the Law School of the Universit}' of Michigan 
and in the office of James T. Joslin, of Hudson, Ma.ss., and Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- 
boro, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex, June 30, 1883. He has been 
clerk of the Police Court of Marlboro, was a representative in 1885-86, and senator in 
1880-90. He married Lizzie M. Kendall at Boylston, January 1, 1887, and makes 
Marlboro his home, with an office in Boston. 

Charles Francis Davis, son of Francis W. and Anna Finney (Houlton) Davis, was 
born in Boston, September 6, 1830, and died in Boston, October 16, 1867. In earl}' life 
he spent ten years in Antwerp, and studied law with Edward F. Hodges in Boston. 
He was as one time alderman m Boston, and a member of the Executive Council. 

Charles Thornton Davis, son of Charles A. and Mary (Thornton) Davis, was born in 
Concord, N. H., January 12, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in the ollice of Hopkins & Bacon, of Worcester, and 
was admitted to the bar in Worcester, December 31, 1886. He married Frances P. An- 
derson at Portland, Me,, September 12, 1888, and lives in Boston. 

Hasiirouck Davis, son of John and Elizabeth (Bancroft) Davis, was born in Worce.s- 
ter, April 19, 1827, and graduated at Williams College in 1845. He first studied divin- 
ity and was settled in Watertown over the Unitarian parish in that town. He after- 
wards studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 9, 1854, and went 
to Chicago in 1855. During the war he passed through the several grades, and was 
brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was drowned at .sea on his way to Europe in 
the steamship Cambria, October 19, 1870. 

Everett Allen Davis, son of Lewis W. and Sarah Nickerson Davis, was born in 
Pawtucket, R. L, October 11, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College, and studied 
law in the law school connected with that institution, and in the office of Judge Daly, 
of New York, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. V., in 1878, and in Boston, 



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February 2, 1887. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
in 1884-85 and 1890. He married Georgiana Whiting in Tisbury, Mass., December 26, 
1878, and Hves in Boston. 

James Clarke Davis, son of George T. and Harriet T. (Russell) Davis, viras born in 
Greenfield, Mass., January 19, 1838, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Greenfield with Davis & Allen, 
and in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston January 16, 
1861. He was assistant attorney-general under Charles Allen, and member of the 
Boston School Board from 1882 to 1887. He married Alice W. Paine, at Worcester, 
June 3, 1873, and resides at Jamaica Plain. 

John Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, Mass., 
January 25, 1761, and died in Boston, January 14, 1847. He graduated at Harvard in 
1781, and in 1788 was the youngest member of the convention which adopted the con- 
stitution. He was a member of both House and Senate in Massachusetts, and in 1795 
was appointed by Washington comptroller of the currency. He was afterwards United 
States attorney, and in 1801 was appointed by John Adams judge of the United States 
Di.strici Court, which position he held forty years. In 1802 he received the degree of 
LL. D. from Dartmouth, and in 1842 the same degree from Harvard. He was presi- 
dent of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1818 to 1835, and many years a 
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosoph- 
ical Society. He was the author of many published works, of which his edition of 
Morton's New England Memorial, with elaborate notes, and the Pilgrim ode, "Sons of 
Renowned Sires," are the best known. He married in 1786 Ellen, daughter of William 
Watson, of Plymouth. 

Simon Davis, son of Silas and Mercy E. Davis, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Sep- 
tember 25, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law in the Harvard 
Law School and in the office of George V. Leverett, of Boston, and was admitted to 
the bar in Boston in May, 1880. He is a member of the Boston School Board and 
special justice of the Municipal Court in the Charlestown District of Boston. He mar- 
ried Helen M. Goldthwait at Boston, November 12, 1884, and lives in Boston. 

Stanton Day, son of J. S. and E. P. (Young) Day, was born in Downeville, Cal., 
and was educated in Chauncej' Hall School, Boston, and at Harvard, where he gradu- 
ated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Edward 
W. Cate, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1SS5. He lives in Brook- 
line, Mass. 

Thomas Kemper Davis, son of Isaac P. and Susan (Jackson) Davis, was born in Bos- 
ton, June 20, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He studied law with Daniel 
Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 1830. He was a man of 
superior scholastic attainments, and entered the profession with the promise of a bril- 
liant career. An unfortunate accident, however, inflicted injuries on his brain which 
precluded further advancement. After a number of years in retirement he died in 
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William Davis, son of Nathaniel Morton and Harriet Lazell (Mitcliell) Davis, was 
born in Plymouth, Mass., May 12, 1818. He fitted at the Boston Latin School for Har- 
vard, from which he graduated in 1837. He studied law with his father in Plymouth 
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 18, 
1841. He settled in Plymouth where he became active as a Whig politician, and chair- 
man of the Board of Selectmen. He was also at one time president of the Pilgrim So- 
ciety. He married Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell in Plymouth 
in 1850, and died in Boston, February 19, 185.3. 

William Nye Davis, son of John Watson and Susan Holden (Tallman) Davis, was 
born in Boston, December 2, 1830, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1851. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of 
Shattuck Hartwell and Wra. H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
March, 1855. He married Mary C, daughter of William Howard Gardiner in Boston, 
March 24, 1856, and died in Nice, February 24, 1863. 

George Thomas Davis, at one time a member of the Suffolk bar, but more especially 
associated with Greenfield and the Franklin county bar, the son of Wendell and Caro- 
line (Smith) Davis, was born in Sandwich, Mass., January 12, 1810, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1829. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Dan- 
iel Wells and James 0. Alvord in Greenfield. Benjamui R. Curtis and David Aiken were 
students at the same time in the office. After his admission to the bar he begap prac- 
tice in Taunton in 1832, but in 1833 removed to Greenfield, where he became associated 
in business with his former instructors with a firm name of Wells, Alvord & Davis. 
Mr. Wells was appointed to the Common Pleas bench, and Mr. Alvord died in 1839, and 
Mr. Davis afterwards, until his retirement from business in 18G5, had various associates. 
Among these were Charles Devens, late judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, Charles 
Allen, a judge at present on the same bench, Wendell Thornton Davis, a brother, James 
C. Davis, his son, David Aikin, and Samuel 0. Lamb. Mr. Davis rose rapidly to a lead- 
ership of the bar in the river counties of Ma.ssachusetts. He was distinguished not 
alone for his legal abilities, but also for his remarkable conversational powers. Thack- 
eray on his visit to America, meeting him for the first time at a private dinner, laid 
down his knife and fork and paid tri!»ute in exclamations of wonder at the brilliancy of 
his conversation. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1839-40, in 1861 
a representative and represented the Franklin district in Congress from 1851 to 1853. 
He married Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel P. Russell, of Boston, October 16, 1834, 
and Mrs. Abba I. Little, of Portland, and daughter of Daniel Chamberlain, of Boston, 
April 26, 1865. He died in Portland, June 17, 1877. 

William Thomas Davis, son of William and Joanna (White)Davis, was born in Plym- 
outh, Mass., March 3, 1822, and was fitted by Isaac N. Stoddard, teacher of the Plym- 
outh High School, for Harvard, where he graduated in 1842. After studying medi- 
cine for a time he studied law in the office of his brother, Charles G. Davis in Boston, 
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston. November 9, 
1849. He retained an office and lived in Boston until 1853, when he returned to Plym- 
outh and became largely associated with its interests. He has served six years on the 





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Scliool Board of Plymouth, been chosen seventeen times as selectman, declining twice, and 
servins as chairman eleven years, and has presided as moderator at more than seventy 
meetings of the town. In 1858 and 185"J he was State senator, has been president of 
the Plymouth Bank, Plymouth Gas Company, Old Colony Insurance Company, direc- 
tor of the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad Company, and president of the Pilgrim So- 
ciety. He was presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1872, and a delegate to 
the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 187G. He is the author of "Ancient 
Landmarks of Plymouth," of a ''History of Plymouth," the editor of two volumes of 
the Plymouth town records with notes, and has contributed to county histories, histor- 
ies of Newburyport, Newbury, Marshfield, Plympton, and many other towns, as well 
as sketches of the bench and bar of Plymouth, Essex and Middlesex counties. He mar- 
ried Abby Burr, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Cotfin (Goodwin) Hedge in Plymouth, 
Novomber 19, 1849, and makes Plymouth his home. 

Andrew Cunningham Davison, son of Henry and Mary Davison, was born in Boston, 
June 5, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. He studied law with George Blake 
and was admitted to the bar in Boston. From 1818 to 1828 he was assistant teache 
in the Adams School in Boston. He died in Lexington, January 27, 1856., 

Delavan Calvin Delano, son of Eber Carpenter and Betsy Delano, was born in 
Hanover, N. II., February 1. 1869, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 188-t. He 
studied law in the ofBce of William H. Colton at Lebanon, N. H., and Wilbur H. Pow- 
ers, of Boston, and graduated at the Boston L'niversity Law School in 1887. in which 
year in June he was admitted to the bar in Boston. He hves unmarried in West 
Somerville. 

Louis Emil Dexfield, son of Frank and Margaret Denfield, was born in Westboro, 
Mass., September 26, 185-t, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law with 
A. G. Biscoe in Westboro, Mass., and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in 
April, 1881. He was town clerk of Webster, Mass., two years, assessor in Westboro 
three years, and member of the School Board in the same town six years. He married 
Etta May Kelly in Westboro, where he now lives, October 26, 1887, and practices in 
Boston. 

William Willis, son of Benjamin and Mary (McKinstry) Willis, was born in Haver- 
hill, Mass., August .'il, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with 
Peter 0. Thacher in Boston, and was admitted in Bo,ston to the Common Pleas, January 
8, 1817, and to the Supreme Court, January, 1819. He practiced in Boston until April, 
1819, when he moved to Portland and continued there alone in business until 1835, 
when he formed a partnership with William Pitt Fessenden which continued twenty 
years. In 1855 he was in the Maine Senate, in 1859 Mayor of Portland, in 1860 presi- 
dential elector, and in 1867 received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin. He devoted 
much time to historical pursuits, and was the author of a history of Portland and many 
other publications. He married Julia, daughter of Ezekiel Whiteman, of Portland, Sep- 
tember 1, 1823, and died in Portland, February 17, IS70. 

Arnold A. Ra.vd, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, was born in 
Boston, March 25, 1837, and was educated at the school of Epes S. Dixwell in Boston, 



152 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

in Vevay and in Paris. He studied law in the office of his father and at tlie Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 6, 1874. He was 
commissioned, October 30, 1861, second lieutenant of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, 
and was afterwards captain and assistant adjutant-general, lieutenant-colonel of the 
Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry, and in 1864, colonel. In 1885, with N. J. Bradlee, he 
formed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Co. of which he is vice-president and mana- 
ger. He married, in 1877, Annie Eliza Brownell of New Bedford, and lives in Boston. 

Henry Harrison Spraguk, son of George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague, was born in 
Athol, Mass., August 1, 1841, and received his early education at the Athol High School 
and at the Chauncey Hall School in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1864 and 
went to Champlain, N. Y'., as a private tutor. In 1865 he entered the Harvard Law 
School and was at the same time a proctor of the college. In 1890 he was chosen a 
member of the Board of Overseers of the college. In the fall of 1866 he entered the 
law office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, and February 25, 1868, 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was chosen in 1873 to the Common Council of Bos- 
ton and served in 1874, 1875 and 1876, and in 1875 and 1876 was one of the trustees of 
the City Hospital on the part of the Council. In 1878 he was chosen one of the trustees at 
large and continued as such until the incorporation of the City Hospital in 1880, when 
he was appointed a trustee by the mayor. He has since held this position by successive 
reappointments, and since 1878 has also acted as secretary of the board. He was a 
member of the House of Representatives from Boston in 1881, 1882 and 1883. He 
was elected a member of the Ma,s.sachusetts Senate for the Fifth SufJblk District for 
the year 1888, and drafted and introduced the new ballot act. He was elected again 
in 1889 and in 1890, and in 189U was elected president of the Senate. He was again 
elected to that body for the year 1891, and was a second time its presiding officer. In 
1884 he was a member of the executive committee of the Municipal Reform Associa- 
tion, and senior counsel of itie association for the purpose of securing the passage by 
the Legislature of 1885 of the amendments to the charter of the city of Boston, by 
whicli the executive authority of the city was vested in the mayor. In 1S67, in con- 
nection with a few others, he brought about a return to new and active operations of 
the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, and has since continued as a member of the 
Board of Government, acting as secretary from 1867 to 1879, and since 1879 as vice- 
president of the society. In 1880 he engaged with others in the organization of the 
Boston Civil Service Reform Association, and served on the executive committee of 
that body until the year 1889, when he was elected president of the association, which 
office he still holds. He was for many years a manager of the Temporary Home for 
the Destitute, or Gwynne Home, and was one of the '' Committee of Fifty " on the 
Museum of Fine Arts. He has been since 1879 one of the trustees of the Boston 
Lying-in Hospital, and recently has served upon the executive committee of the board. 
He has been since 1883 secretary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, is a 
member of the Massachusetts Historic Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, 
the Bar Association and the Harvard Law School Association, and a member of the 
"■eneral committee of the Citizens' Association of Boston. He is also one of the trustees 
appointed to hold the buildings recently purchased and improved for the Women's Ed- 



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ucational and Industrial Union, and acts as treasurer of the trustees. In 1884 he pub- 
lished a treatise entitled, "Women Under the Law of Massachusetts; their Rights, 
Privileges and Disabilities," and in 1890 he published a pamphlet entitled, "City Gov- 
ernment in Boston ; Its Rise and Development." He resides in Boston. 

Joseph Fernald Wiggin, son of Joshua and Dorotliy Wiggin, was born in Exeter, N. 
H., March 30, 1838, and was educated in the public schools and at Phillips Exeter Acad- 
emy. He studied law with W. W. Stickney, of Exeter, and at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar of Rockingham county, N. H., in October, 1862, 
and to the Suffolk bar November 4, 1891. He was judge of probate for Rockingham 
county from 1871 to 1876 ; one of the commissioners in 1877 to revise the general laws 
of New Hampshire; moved to Maiden, Mass., in 1880, where he was a member of the 
School Board from 1885 to 1887, mayor from 1888 to 1891, and city solicitor in 1892. 
He married Ruth H. HoUis, at Milton, Mass., July 6, 1888, and lives in Maiden. 

Edward Wioglesworth was born in Boston, January 14, 1804, and died there Octo- 
ber 14, 1876. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with William Pres- 
cott, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1826, and was ad- 
mitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in October, 182.5, and to the Supreme 
Judicial Court, January 10, 1828. After practicing a short time he entered his father's 
counting room, and devoted him.self to business, relieved by an active interest in lit- 
erary and charitable pursuits. He was a descendant of Michael Wigglesworth, who 
was born in England in 1631, and died in Maiden. Mass., in 1705. 

Samcei. StiMNER Wilde was born in Taunton, February 5, 1771, and died in Boston, 
June 22, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1789. He studied law in Taunton with 
Judge Paddleford, and was admitted to the bar in 1792, probably in Boston, as his 
name is on the roll of admissions by the Supreme Court in Suffolk before 1S07. He 
began practice in Waldoboro, Me., but moved in 1794 to Warren, Me., and in 1799 to 
Hallowell. In 1815 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in 
1820, when Maine was set off as a State, he moved to Newburyport, and in 1831 to 
Boston, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was a member of the Hartford 
Convention, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, twice a presidential 
elector, and in 1844 a member of the Executive Council. He received the degree of 
LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1817, Harvard in 1841, and Dartmouth in 1849. He resigned 
his seat on the bench in 1850 at the ageof seventy-nine. He married Eunice, daughter 
of David Cobb, of Taunton. 

Joseph Willard, son of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Sheafe) Willard, was born in Cam- 
bridge, March 14, 1798, and died in Boston, May 12, 1865. He fitted for college at 
Phillips Exeter Academy under Mark Newman, and at Wm. Jennison's private classical 
and mercantile school, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He studied law with Charles 
Humphrey Atherton in Amherst, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in 1819. Prac- 
ticing first in Walthom and Lancaster, he moved to Boston in 1829. In 1839 he was 
appointed joint clerk with George C. Wilde of the Supreme Judicial and Common Pleas 
courts, and in 1856 clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk. Upon the 
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154 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

organization of the Superior Court for the Commonwealth, he was appointed clerk and 
so continued until his death. He was the author of a history of Lancaster and the Life 
of Simon WUlard. He married Susanna HickUn, daughter of Capt. Isaiah Lewis, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1830. 

James Thomas Josltn, son of Elias and Elizabeth (Stearns) Joslin, was born in 
Leominster, Mass., June 23, 1834, and was educated at the Leominster public schools 
and the Lawrence Academy at Grroton. He read law with Charles H. Merriara in 
Leominster and Nathaniel Wood and Goldsmith F. Bailey in Fitchburg, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Fitchburg in June, 1859. He was in the Leominster School Board 
in 1856-7. He began the practice of law in North Marlboro', near Hudson, in August, 
18C0, and was postmaster in that town in 1863-4; he was grand master I. O. O. F., 
in Massachusetts, in 1880, and in 1866 council for petitioners for the incorporation of 
the town of Hudson. He married, at Leominster, October 14, 1861, Annie Catherine 
Burrage, and lives in Hudson. 

Paul Willard, son of Paul and Martha (Haskell) Willard, was born in Lancaster, 
Mass., and died in Charlesf^wn, March 18, 1856. He fitted for College at Westford 
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law in Worcester with Cal- 
vin Willard and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He began practice in Charlestown 
and in September, 1822, was appointed postmaster of that town, and in 1823 was cho- 
sen clerk of the Massachusetts Senate and was the incumbent of that office until 1829. 
He is believed to have had at one time an office in Boston and for that reason is in- 
cluded in this register. 

Aaron Hobart Latham, son of Eliab and Susan Adams Latham, was born in East 
Bridgewater, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the bar of Plymouth county March 4, 1879. He has been a member of the School 
Board in Brookline, where he lives. He married Minnie G. Bearce at North Livermore, 
Me., September 20, 1882. 

Thomas E. Grover, son of Thomas and Roana Grover, was born in Mansfield, Mass., 
February 9, 1847, and was educated at private schools. He studied law with Ellis 
Ames, of Canton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, September 7, 1889. He 
has been engaged in editorial newspaper work, and was trial justice for several years. 
He married Frances L. Williams at Canton, Mass., September 17, 1871, and while prac- 
ticing in Boston resides in Canton. 

LoREN Erskink Grisvvold, son of Daniel C. and Adelaide E. (Griswold) Griswold, 
was born in Boston, January 3, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law Scliool and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1886. 

James Russell Reed, son of James and Mary J. (Magee) Reed, was born in Boston, 
January 4, 1851. He was educated at the Phillips School, Latin School and at Harvard 
College, from which he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the Harvard Law 
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was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 5, 1876. He has been chairman of the School 
Committee of Lexington, and assistant district attorney. He married Eleanor Frances 
Prescott at Boston, February 16, 1892, and has a liou.se in Boston and one in Burling- 
ton, Mass. 

Samuel Willard Reed, son of Samuel and Caroline Reed, was liorn in Weymouth, 
Mass., December 31, 1849, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He 
studied law with Charles A. Reed, of Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in Taunton, 
September 29, 1873. He has been on the School Board of Weymouth, and secretary of 
the Weymouth Historical Society. 

William G-ardner Reed, soii of I.saac and Lydia B. (McDonald) Reed, was born in 
Waldoboro, Me., May 4, 1858, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1882. He studied law in 
the Boston TJniver.sity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in January, 
1885. He was a member of the Boston Comnion Council in 1888, and of the Board of 
Aldermen in 1889-90. He married Mary Lorine Hagar at Richmond, Me., October 18, 
1882, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

Fletcher Ladd, son of William Spencer and Mira Barnes Fletcher Ladd, was born in 
Lancaster, N. H., December 21, 1862, and fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Dart- 
mouth College, from which he graduated in 1884, and also studied at the Heidelberg 
University in Germany. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1890, and was admitted to the bar in Concord, N. 
H., in March, 1889. He lives in Cambridge. 

Nathaniel Watson Ladd, son of Daniel and Lucy Ann Ladd. was born in Derry, 
N. H., January 7, 1848, and was educated at the Pinkerton Academy and in the Dart- 
mouth College class of 1873. He studied law in Boston in the ofBce of Abbott, Jones 
& McFarlane, and at the Boston University Law School in the class of 1875, and was 
admitted to the bar in Boston, November 8, 1875. He was a member of the Boston 
Common Council in 1886-87, and a member of the Massaclnmetts House of Represent- 
atives in 1890-91. His residence is in Boston. 

Elias Merwin, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Clark) Merwin, was born at New 
Haven, Conn., April 25, 1825. He received his early education at a boarding school in 
White Plains, N. Y., and at thirteen entered AVesleyan University, and graduated 1n 
1841. He studied law in Lenox in the office of Henry Walker Bishop, and at the 
Harvard Law School. After leaving the law school he went to Pittsfield and was ad- 
mitted to the Berkshire bar in 1843. In 1851 he came to Boston and was associated 
with Benjamin R. Curtis until the appointment of Mr. Curtis to the United States Su- 
preme Bench. The business of Mr. Merwin was chiefly in the Supreme and Circuit 
Courts, in both of which he was counsel in many important cases. Among these may 
be mentioned the suit of Abbott vs. the Essex Company, which he argued before the 
United States Supreme Court at the age of thirty. In 1854 he was appointed Profes- 
sor of Equity in the Boston University Law School. He married Anne, daughter of 
Dr. H. H. Childs, of Pittsfield, December 23, 1847, and died in Boston, March 27, 1891. 



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NiNiAN C. Betton, son of Samuel and Ann (Ramsay) Betton, was born in New- 
Boston, N. H., January 10, 1787, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1814. He studied 
law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October 
7, 1817, and to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819. He was at one time State 
representative and member of the Boston Common Council. He married Wealthy 
John.son, daughter of Silas and Mary (Thornton) Betton, in January, 1821. His wife 
was his cousin and granddaughter of Ur. Matthias Thornton, a signer of the Declar- 
ation, chief justice of the Common Pleas Court and justice of the Supreme Court of 
New Hampshire. Mr. Betton died in Boston November 19, 185(i. 

George E. Bettox, son of Ninian C. and Wealthy Johnson (Bettim) Betton, was 
born in Hanover, N. H., November 28, 1821, and was educated at Dartmouth. He 
studied law in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston October 
6, 1846. He is chiefly engaged in patent cases. He is immarried and liv^es in 
Boston. 

J.wiiis L. English, son of Thomas and Penelo]')e (Bethune) English, was born in 
that part of Cambridge which is now Brighton, November 6, 1800. He was educated 
at the school of George Ripley in Waltham, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 
1S27. After leaving college he was for a time private secretary of William H. Pres- 
cott. the historian, and studied law with Judge William Prescotf He was admitted 
to the bar in Suffolk in 1830, and in Middlese.\ in October, 1833, and was many years 
a partner of William Howard (Jardiner. After admission to the bar he lived in Boston 
till 1863, then in Cambridge till 1868, and then at Jamaica Plain, where he died 
I'ebruary 9, 1S,S3. He married, September 13, 1841, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of 
David Steele of Goftstown, N. H. 

J.\MKs S. English, son of James L. and Rlizaljeth (Steele) English, was born in 
Boston March 6, 1844, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law witli his 
father, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, where he now lives, September 11. 
1870. 

Patrick H. Cooney, son of Lawrence and Catherine Cooney, was born in Stock- 
bridge, Mass., December 20, 1845, and was educated at the Natick High School and 
the West Newton English and Classical School. He studied law with John W. Bacon, 
()f Natick, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, November 24, 1868. He lives un- 
married in Natick. 

Francis O. Dorr was born in Boston September 21, 1805, and fitted at the Boston 
Latin School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1825. After graduation he taught 
a private school in Plymouth two- years, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
April, 1830. He began practice in Boston, soon moved to Pittsfield, thence in 1833 
to Troy, and finally to New York, where he continued in practice tmtil 1856, when 
he moved to Fort Madison, O. In 1871 he returned to Troy and continued in practice 
until 1886. He died at Lansingburg, N. V., in March, 1892. 

JosiAn W. HriiKARi) was born in Springfield, Vt. , and studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and in the offices of Governor Colby of Newport, N. H., and O. P. Chan- 
dler of Woodstock, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in December, 1850, 
and for a time was associated in business with Isaac Story. He continued in prac- 
tice in Boston until his vacation in the summer of 1892, when he died in his native 
town on the 16th of September, in that year. 




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Frederick Augustus Farley was born in Boston June 25, 1800, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1818. He studied law and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas 
Court October 19, 1831, and to the Supreme Court in 1824. After practicing law a 
year or two in Boston he entered the Harvard Theological School, from which he 
graduated in 1818. In 1818 he was settled over one of the Unitarian churches in Provi- 
dence, R. I. , immediately after leaving the Divinity school, and in 1841 was installed over 
the Church of Our Saviour in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained twenty-two years. 
After his retirement from clerical service he engaged in literary work and was the 
author of " Unitarianism in the United States," " Unitarianism Defined" and a 
"History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair of 1864." He married 
Jane Sigourney in Boston in 1830. 

Samuel W. Clifford, son of Samuel AV. and Mary A. Clifford, was born in Boston 
July 29, 184."). He received his early education at the Boston Latin School and from 
Dr. E. R. Humphreys as a private tutor, and graduated at Trinity College, Hart- 
ford, Conn., in 1868. He studied law with Robert S. Hart, Mount Kisco, N. Y., and 
was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., in December, 1869, in Boston in October, 
1870, to the United States Supreme Court May 3, 1878, and to the United States 
Circuit Court, Mass. Dist., December 2, 1878. Among the important cases in which 
he has been counsel may be mentioned the Commonwealth vs. Thomas R. Smith for 
murder in 1886. He married MjTa A. Fiske, of Cleveland, O., August 10, 1889, arid 
lives in Boston. 

Sami'ei. Adams Dork, son of Ebenezer Dorr, was born in Medfield, July 1, 1775, and 
graduated at Harvard in 179o. He studied law with James Sullivan, and at a meet- 
ing of the SuiTolk bar July 9, 1798, on motion of William Sullivan, it was voted to 
recommend him for admission to the Court of Common Pleas, and he was admitted 
accordingly. He abandoned the law and engaged in business, and died in Boston 
Februar}^ 35, 1855. 

William Henry Clifford, son of Nathan and Hannah (Ayer) Clifford, was born in 
Newfield, Me., in 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1858. He studied law 
with George F. Shepley in Portland, and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Boston, and 
was admitted to the bar in Portland and Boston. He has been United States com- 
missioner in the Maine district, and is the author of four volumes of Clifford's Reports 
for the First United States Circuit. He married Ellen E. Brown at Portland in 1866, 
and practices in Portland where he resides, and also iri Boston. 

William Choate, son of Frederick W. Choate, was born in Beverly and graduated 
at Harvard in 1881. He read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 
Boston in 1885. In 1888 he became associated with William V. Dana in Boston un- 
der the firm name of Choate & Dana. He was several years a member of the 
Beverl}' School Board, and the founder of the Beverly Co-operative Bank. While on 
his way to the Bermudas he was taken sick in New York and died at St. Luke's 
Hospital, in that city, in the early part of February, 1893. 

Asaph Churchill, a descendant of John Churchill, who settled in Plymouth in 
1643, and a son of Zebidee and Sarah (Cushman) Churchill, was born in Middleboro, 
Mass., May 5, 1765, and graduated at Han,'ard in 1789. He studied law in Boston 
with John Davis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He was a member of 



158 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1810 to 1H13. He married Mary, 
daughter of Dr. Edward and Mehitable (Blodgett) Gardner, of Charlestown, and died 
in Milton June 30, 1S41. 

AsAi'it Churchill, son of tlie above, was born in Milton .\.\m\ 20, 1814, and grad" 
uated at Harvard in 1H31. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar in Norfolk county in 1834. He was a member 
of the Senate from Norfolk county in 1857. He married first Mary Buckminster, 
daughter of Darius and Harriet (Buckminster) Brewer in Dorchester, May 1, 1838, 
and second, June 3, 1862, Mary Anne Ware, of Milton. He died in Milton, November 
39, 1893. 

JosEi'H Gkeen Cugsweli,, son of Francis and Anstiss (Manning) Cogswell, was born 
in Ipswich, Mass., September 27, 1786. He was fitted for college at the Atkinson 
Academy, N. H., and at Exeter, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1806. He 
studied law in Dedham and Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- 
uary, 1813. He removed to Belfast, Me., and in 1813 was appointed Latin tutor at 
Harvard, where he remained two years. From 1831 to 1833 he was instructor in 
mineralogy at Harvard, and librarian, and from 1833 to 1834 was associated with 
George Bancroft in the management of the Round Hill School at Northampton. 
From 1834 to 1836 he was principal of a Seminary in Raleigh, N. C, and in 1854 was 
appointed librarian of the Aster Library in New York, which position he held until 
1863, when he removed to Cambridge, and there died November 36, 1871. He mar- 
ried Mary, daughter of Governor John T. Gilman, of New Hampshire, April 17, 1812. 

Francis Augustus Brooks, son of Aaron and Abby Bradshaw (Morgan) Brooks, 
was born in Petersham, Mass., May 28, 1824. He fitted for college at the Leicester 
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1843, the youngest member of his class. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of his father in Petersham, 
and of Aylwin Ik Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester 
county in 1845. He remained in Petersham until 1848, when he removed to Boston 
and soon entered upon an active and lucrative practice. He has been president of 
the Vermont and Canada and the Nashua and Lowell Railroads, and has been of 
counsel in important railroad suits, among which are those with the Vermont 
Central Railroad in Vermont, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad, which, after 
ten years' litigation in the Massachusetts and United States Courts, are still 
unfinished. Together with his legal pursuits he studies and investigates the 
various questions which from time to time occupy the public mind, and has 
found time to elaborate and publish his views. In 1890 he published a pam- 
[ihlct, entitled "Political and Financial Errors of our Recent Monetary Legis- 
lation," and in 1891 another in criticism of the Legal Tender decisions of the Su- 
preme Court. His contributions to the daily journals have been numerous, and those 
especially on the Force Bill have attracted attention. As a lawyer he is keen, skill- 
ful and persistent, and as a writer, clear, forcible and convincing. He married at 
Groton, Mass., September 14, 1847, Frances, daughter of Caleb and Clarissa (Var- 
num) Butler. Aaron Brooks, the father of Mr. Brooks, was a graduate of Brown 
University in 1817, a leading lawyer of Worcester county, and a representative to 
the General Court in 1834-35. Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Brooks, was a gradu- 
ate at Dartmouth in 1800, a lawyer by profession, principal of the Groton Academy 
eleven years, postmaster thirteen years, and the author of a history of Groton. 



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Albert D. Bosson, son of George C. and Mary Jane (Hood) Bosson, was born in 
Chelsea, November 8, 1853. He was fitted for college at the Chelsea High School 
and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Brown University in 18Tfi. He 
studied law in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey and at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He was 
special justice of the Chelsea Police Court from 1882 until he was appointed justice in 
September, 1893. He was mayor of Chelsea in 1891 and has been, or is now, presi- 
dent of the County Savings Bank of Chelsea, vice-president of the Winnisimmet Na- 
tional Bank, and treasurer of the Gloucester Street Railway Company. He married 
at Chelsea, where he lives, Alice Lavinia, daughter of C. A. Campbell, May 18, 1887. 

John McLean Betiiune was born in Boston September 13, 1815, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston 
in February, 1873. 

JosiAii Hknkv Bkntcin, jr., son of Josiah Henry and Martha Ellen (Danforth) Ben- 
ton, was born in Addison, Vt., August 4, 1848. He was educated at the academy in 
Bradford, Vt., and at the Literary and Scientific Institution of New London, N. H. 
During the war of 1861 he served in the Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volunteers. 
He studied law with Roswell Farnham, of Bradford, Vt., and at the Albany Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in Albany, 
May 5, 1866, and afterwards in Massachusetts. He was assistant clerk and clerk of 
the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871, and has been di- 
rector of the Northern Railroad in New Hampshire from 1878 to the present time. He 
has been general covinsel of the Old Colony Railroad since 1878 and connected with 
all the important railroad litigation in New Hampshire for the past ten years ; also 
counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in its suits against the Bell Tele- 
phone Company, and engaged in other important corporation suits. He has made 
constitutional arguments before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire on the char- 
acter and limitations of the Executive Veto Power, and before the governor of 
Massachusetts on the question of what constitutes a fugitive from justice under the 
extradition clause of the United States Constitution. During the last six years he 
has lectured in the Boston University Law School on "Corporation and Railroad 
Law," and is the author of pamphlets on " Inequalitj' of Tax Valuation in Massa- 
chusetts," the "British Post-office," "Points in Vermont History," and "The Veto 
Power — What is it ?" He married Mary Elizabeth Abbot at Concord, N. H., Sep- 
tember 3, 1875, and lives in Boston. 

Akthir James McLeod, .son of James B. and Ann (Smith) McLeod, was born in 
Brookfield, Queen's county. Nova Scotia, and was educated atGoreham College. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- 
ton in May of that year. He has been commissioner of the Sujireme Court of Nova 
Scotia and is engaged in Boston, where he lives, in general practice. He married in 
Nova Scotia, Eunice Waterman. 

Arthur F. Means, son of John W. and Sophia Romncy (Wells) Means, was born 
in Boston September 17, 1857, and studied law at the Boston University Law School 
and in the office of Charles T. Gallagher. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 
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1882-3, and is president of the Alumni of the Boston University Law School. He is 
engaged in equity, insolvency and general practice. He married Katie A. Snow, 
April 13, 1881, in Boston, where he resides. 

TmiN McKiNSTHv Mi-.KKiAM, son of Adolphus and Caroline (McKinstry) Merriaiu, 
was born in Southbridge, Mass., September 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 
1880. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George F. 
Hoar, of Worcester, and in that of Shattuck & Munroe, of Boston, and was admit- 
ted to the bar in Boston in July, 1890. He has been clerk of the committee of the 
LTnited States Senate on Privileges and Elections. He married Annie Chapman 
Davenport, February 4, 1888, and has his home in South Frammgham. 

Pltnv Merrick, son of Pliny and Ruth (Cutter) Merrick, was born in Brookfield, 
August 2, 1794. He fitted for college at Leicester andMonson academies and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law with Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and was 
admitted to the Worcester cotmty bar in September, 1817. He practiced in Swan- 
sea and in Tauntmi, where he was a partner of Marcus Morton, senior, and in 1824 
went to Worcester and was district attorney there until 1843. He was appointed in 
1850 judge on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1858 an associate justice 
on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. While on the bench he removed to 
Boston, and in 18C4 resigned his seat. In 18.53 he received the degree of LL.IJ. 
from Harvard and was an overseer of that college from 1852 to 1856. He was senior 
counsel, with Edward D. Sohier his junior, for John W. Webster, in his trial for 
murder. He married IMary Rebecca, daughter of Isaiah Thomas, and died in Boston 
February 1, 1867. 

James CusiiiNr, Mekrii.i., son of Rev. Giles and Lucy (Gushing) Merrill, was born 
in Haverhill, Mass., September 27, 1784, and fitted for college with his father and at 
Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1807, and studied law with 
John Varnum, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county, at Salem, 
in September. 1812, and to the Suffolk count}- bar in March, 1815. He occupied a 
Ijrominent position many years as a lawyer in Boston and was appointed, February 
19, 1834, justice of the Boston Police Court, a position which he resigned in 1852. He 
was a member of the Senate and House of Representatives at various times, a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a Greek scholar of high attamments. 
He married November 28, 1820, Anna, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of 
Haverhill, and died in Boston, October 4, 1853. 

Moody Merrill, son of Winthrop and Martha (Noyes) Merrill, was born in Cam]> 
ton, N. H., June 27, 1836, and was educated at the public schools and at the Thet- 
ford, Vt., Academjr. He studied law with William Minot in Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1863. He was a member of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives from 1869 to 1871, a senator in 1873-4, a member of the 
Boston school board from 1868 to 1874, and president of the Highland Street Railway 
from 1872 to 1887, when it was consolidated with the West End Railway. He was 
counsel for John Moran, indicted for murder in 1867. He married Martha M. Bur- 
gess in Boston in 1869, and lives in the Highland District of Boston. 

Nehemiah Thomas Merritt, Jr., son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Jlerritt, 
was born August 21, 1859, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He studied 



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law in the office of his brother, William F. Merritt of Boston, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar June 13, 1881. He has been clerk of the Municipal Court of the Dor- 
chester District of Boston, where he lives unmarried, since May 1, 188o. 

William Frederick Merritt, son of Nehemiah Thomas and Mary E. Merritt, was 
born in 'Belfast, Me., January 10, 18.53. He was educated in the public schools of 
Boston and Belfast and at the University of Vermont. He studied law in Boston with 
Horace G. Hutchins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1874. He is un- 
married and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

HeiNry Clifford Meserve, son of Joseph M. and Martha C. Meserve, was born in 
Augusta, Me. , April (i, IS.'iS, and was educated at Tufts College, from which he grad- 
uated in 1881. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in Boston 
with Henry W. Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1884. He is, 
or has been, assistant clerk of the Supreme Court in Suft'olk county, and lives unmar- 
ried in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

Josnu.\ How..\RD MiLi.ET"r, son of Rev. Joshua and Sophronia (Howard) Millett, was 
born in Cherryfield, Me., March 17, 1843, and was educated at Waterville College, 
now Colby University, Me. He studied law with Isaac F. Redford and William A. 
Herrick in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar December 15, 1870. 
He became a member of the firm of Redfield, Herrick & Millett, and so continued 
until the death of Judge Redfield in 1870. In Maiden, where he resides, he has 
been a member of the School Board, trustee of the Public Library, representative to 
the General Court in 1884-8.5, and president, since 1875, of the Crosby Steam Gauge 
and Valve Company in Boston. He married in 1867 at Dorchester, Rosina Maria 
Tredick. 

Artiur N. Milliken, son of Ebenezer C. and Charlotte J. Milliken, was born in 
Boston February 8, 1858, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin .School, graduat- 
ing at Amherst in 1880. He studied law in the Boston University Law School in the 
class of 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April of that year. He married 
Mabel M. Marsh June 9, 1888, in Boston, where he now lives. 

TIlo^L\s Letcheord, with the exception of Thomas Morton, was the first trained 
lawj-er in Massachusetts. He came from England in 1637, and after four years' res- 
idence returned in 1641, and became a member of Clements Inn. On his return he 
published a book called "Plain Dealing, or News from New England," which con- 
tains much interesting matter concerning the condition of the colony at the time of 
his visit. It is now a rare work only found on the shelves of a few libraries and bibli- 
ographers. 

Thomas Morton came to New England in 1635, but was sent back by the few col- 
onists then here in 1638. He returned in 1643, but owing to his misconduct he was 
obliged to retire beyond the limits of the Massachusetts colony, and finally died at 
Acomenticus, old and partially insane. 

JoH.N WiNTHROP was born at Groton, England, January 32, 1588, and was the son 
of Adam and Anne (Browne) Winthrop. He spent two years at Trinity College, and 
married April 36, 1605, Mary, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, who, 
after the birth of six children and eleven years of married life, left him a widower. 
A second wife died a year and a half after marriage, and in 1618 he married for a 
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third wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Tyndal, of Great Maplested. He was 
many years in the profession of law, and in 1682 was admitted to the Inner Tem- 
ple. It is nnnccessary to trace the career of a man of whom so much has been said 
and written. It is sufficient to say that his place in this register is due to the fact that 
from 1630 to 1633, and in the years 1637, '38, '39, '42, '43, '46, '47, '48 he was the 
governor of the Massachuesetts Colony, in 1636, '44, '45 deputy governor, and that in 
1634, '3.'), '40, '41 he was one of the a.ssistants, and thus connected with the judiciary 
of the colony. He died in Boston March 26, 1649. 

John WiNiHRop, jr., son of the above, was born in Groton JIanor, on February 12, 
1606. He was edvicated at Bury St. Edmvmd's School and Trinity College, Dublin 
and entered the Inner Temple in 1628. He came to Massachusetts in 1631 and was 
one of the assistants of the Colony from 1632 to 1649 inclusive. In 1650 he moved to 
Connecticut and in 1657 was made governor of that Colony, holding the office con- 
tinuously, excepting one year, until his death, which occurred in Boston while there 
on public business, April o, 1676. He married JIartha, daughter of Thomas Fones, 
of London, in 1631, and in 1635, Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Reade, of Wickford, 
England. 

W.MT Still Winthrop, son of John Winthrop, the governor of Connecticut and 
grandson of John the governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston February 27, 
1642, and went with his father to Connecticut in 1650, returning in 1687, and was ap- 
pointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature December 23, 1692, and chief jus- 
tice in 1701, resigning the same year to become an agent of the province. In 1708 he 
was again appointed chief justice, and died in Boston November 7, 1717. 

RonERT Ch.^rles WiNTHRcii'. SOU of Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin (Tem- 
ple) AVinthrop, was born in Boston, May 12, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1828. 
He studied law with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Octo- 
ber, 1831. He was in his early career a member of the Massachusetts House of Re]]- 
resentatives six years, three of which he was speaker, and ten years a member of 
the United States House of Representatives, two of which he was speaker. In 1850 
he was United States Senator by^ appointment to fill a vacancy. Until his recent 
resignation he was many years president of the Massachusetts Historical Societj-. He 
is one of the counsellors of the George Peabody benefaction, and since his retirement 
from active political life has enhanced a reputation, already brilliantly won, by ora- 
tions and addresses, which on various public occasions he has been called on to de- 
liver. Among them the most notable have been his Pilgrim Anniversary oration at 
Plymouth, December 21, 1870, the Boston Centennial oration, July 4, 1876, the Corn- 
wallis oration at Yorktown in 1881, and his oration at the dedication of the Washing- 
ton Monument in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 
1855 and from Bowdoin in 1849, and from Cambridge, England, in 1874. He mar- 
ried first March 12, 1832, Eliza Cabot Blanchard, second, November 6, 1849, Laura 
(Derby) Wells, daughter of John Derby and widow of Arnold Wells, and third Adelc 
(Granger) Thayer, daughter of Francis Granger, of Canandaigua, N. Y. , and widow 
of John E. Thayer of Boston. 

An.vM WiNiiiROV, son of Adam and great-grandson of Gov. John Winthrop, was 
born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a delegate from Boston 
in the General Court and was appointed judge of the Inferior Co'.irtof Common Pleas 
December 29, 1715, holding the office until 1741. He died October 2, 1743. 





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Thomas Dudley was born in Northampton, England, in 157(i, and came to New- 
England in 1630 as deputy governor of the Colony, and continued in that office until 

1634, when he was governor, and held that position also in 1640-1645 and 1650. In 
1637, '38. '39, '46, "47, '48, '51, '53 he was again deputy governor, and assistant in 

1635, '36, '41, '42, '43, '44, and died July 31, 1653. 

John Haynes was born in Essex, England, and settled in Cambridge in 1633. In 

1634 and 1636 he was an assistant and in 1635 governor. In 1636 he removed to 
Connecticut ajid was repeatedly chosen governor of that Colony. He died at Hart- 
ford, Conn., March 1, 1654. 

Henry Vane, son of Sir Henry Vane, was born in Hadlow, England, in 1612. In 

1635 he came to Massachusetts. In 1636 he was governor of the Colony and in 1637 
returned to England, where he was a member of Parliament in 1640. After the 
death of Cromwell he was again a member, and on the restoration was tried for 
treason and beheaded June 14, 1662. 

Richard Bellingham, a lawyer by profession, was born in England in 1593, and 
came to Massachusetts in 1634. He was deputy governor in 1635, 1640, 1653 and 1655 
to 1664, and governor in 1641, 1654. and 1665 to 1672. and assistant in 1636-39, 1642- 
52. He died December 7, 1672. 

John ENDiCf>TT was born in Dorchester, England, in 1590. He came to Salem in 
1628 as local governor and surrendered his position and authority to Winthrop on his 
arrival with the charter of the Colony in 1630. He was governor in 1629, 1644, 1649, 
1651, 1655; deputy governor in 1641-43, 1650 and 1654, and assistant in 1630-34, 
1636-40, 1645-48, and died March 15, 1655. 

John Lkverett, son of Thomas Leverett, was born in England in 1616, and came 
to Boston in 1633. He was employed in a military capacity for a time, was speaker 
of the House of Deputies and major general of the Colony. He was governor of the 
Colony from 1673 to 1678; deputy governor in 1671-72, and assistant in 1665-70. He 
died March 16, 1679. 

Simon Bkadstreet was born in Horbling, England, in 1603, and received a part of 
his education at Emanuel College, Cambridge. He came to Massachusetts in 1630. 
He married in England a daughter of Governor Dudley, and for a second wife a 
daughter of Emanuel Downing. He lived in Ipswich, Andover, Boston, and finally 
Salem, where he died in 1697. He was governor from 1679 to 1692, exclusive of the 
period covered bj^ the administration of Dudley and Andros, secretary in 1630, and 
assistant from 1630 to 1678. 

Alfred Hemenway, son of Fisher and Elizabeth J. Hemenway, was born in Hop- 
kinton, Mass., and graduated at Yale College in 1861. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13, 1863. He has been offered 
a seat on the Supreme Bench by both Governor Ames and Governor Brackett, but 
he declined it. He is associated in business with ex-Governor John D. Long. He 
married at Detroit, Mich., October 14, 1871, Myra L. McLanathan, and lives in 
Boston. 

John Herheri, son of Samuel and L. Maria (Darling) Herbert, was born in Went- 
worth, N. H., November 2, 1849. He was fitted for college at the English High 
School in Boston and graduated at Dartraoutli in 1871. He studied law in Rumney, 



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N. H., with his father, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, N. H., in 1875, and 
in 1879 or 1880 to the Suffolk bar. He is, or has been, president of the Appleton 
Academy Association, secretary and first vice-president of the Mystic Valley Club, 
treasurer and director of the Citizen Publishing Company, president of the E. F. 
Cowdrey Company, director of the Merchants Co-operative Bank and of the Globe 
Investment Company. He has been the editor of 'J he DartmoKth and a frequent 
contributor to the daily journals. He married Alice C. Guy at Peacham, Vt., August 
1, 1872, and lives at Somerville. 

RoREKT F. Herrick, SOU of Frederick C. and Josephine C. Herrick, was born in 
Medford, Mass., August 8, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1890. He studied law 
in the Boston University Law School and in the offices of J. B. Richardstm and 
George L. Huntress, and was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in January, 1.S8H. His 
residence is in Boston. 

Hknrv Edson Hersey, son of Stephen and Maria (Lincoln) Hersey, was born in 
Hingham, May 28, 1830, and fitted at the Derby Academy for Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1850. He studied law in Charlestown, N. H., with Edmund Lambert 
Cushing and in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler and John P. Putnam, and was ad- 
mitted to the vSuff'olk bar September 15, 1854. He practiced in Boston and Hingham. 
He married, March 20, 1856, Catharine, daughter of Colonel H. H. Sylvester, of 
Charlestown, N. H., and died in Hingham, February 24, 1863. 

• Ira Charles Hersev, son of David and Eliza Fitz Hersey, was born in Foxboro', 
Mass., March 17, 1859. He was educated at the public schools and graduated at 
Brown University. He studied law in the office of Frederick D. Ely and at the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in October, 1886. 
His home is in Foxboro'. 

Francis Snow Hesseltine, son of Peter Hale and Sarah Snow Hesseltine, was born 
in Bangor, Me., December 10, 1833, and educated at Waterville Academy and at 
Waterville College, now Colby University. He studied law with Judge Fox in Port- 
land, Me. , and wasadmitted to the bar in Augusta in October, 1865. After admis- 
sion he moved to Savannah, Ga., where he practiced law and was register in 
bankruptcy until 1870, when he was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, and 
opened an office in Boston. He was married in Waterville, Me., in 1861, and lives 
in Melrose. 

John Joseph Hiugins, son of Michael and Sabina (Patten) Higgins, was born in 
Boston May 17, 1865, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law 
with Gilman Marston and E. G. Eastman, of Exeter, N. H., and graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1890. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 18, 1890, 
and lives in Somerville. 

Richard Hildreth, son of Rev. Hosea and Sarah (McLeod) Hildreth, was born in 
Deerfield, Mass. , June 38, 1807, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1826. He studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and 
was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in October, 1830. He began practice in Newbury- 
port and moved to Boston, where from July, 1832, to October, 1834, he was the editor 
of the Boston Atlas, and its correspondent from May, 1836, to November, 1839. In 
1840 he went to Demerara, and in 1849 and the three succeeding years his history of 



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the United States was issued from the press. He was afterwards connected with the 
New York Tribune, and in 1861 was appointed consul at Trieste, a position which 
he held until his death, which occurred in Florence, Italy, July 11, I860. He married 
Caroline Neagus, of Deerfield, June 7, 1844. 

D.wiD Armstrong Hincks, son of E. Franklin and Martha J. Hincks, was born in 
Mansfield, Mass., June 8, 1857, and was educated at the public schools. He read 
law in the office of E. F. Johnson, of Marlboro', Mass., and at the Boston University 
Law School, from which he graduated in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1885. He is unmarried and lives in Somerville. 

Gkorcf. Ci..\rent>on Hodges, son of Edward Fuller and Anne Frances (Hammatt) 
Hodges, was born in Boston October 14, 1857, and fitted at the Boston Latin School 
for Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law in New York with Evarts, 
Southmayd & Choate and at the Harvard Law School, and \\-as admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in February, 1883. His residence is in Lincoln. 

George Foster Hodges, son of Almon Danforth and Martha (Comst(ick) Hodges, 
was born in Providence R. I., January 13, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1855. 
He studied law with Peleg AV. Chandler and at the Harvard Law School. He en- 
listed for three months in the Charlestown City Guards at the opening of the war of 
1861, and was afterwards adjutant of the Eighteenth -(three years) Massachusetts 
Regiment. He died unmarried at Hall's Hill, near Washington, January 30, 1863. 

Moses Holbrook, son of Oren and Willebe Holbrook, was born at Stratford, N. 
H., November 17, 1844, and was educated at the Lancaster, N. H., Academy. He 
read law with Henry W. Bragg in Charlestown, Mass., and at the Law School of the 
University of Michigan, and was admitted to the Middlesex county bar in June, 1871. 
He married at Boston in 1874 Emma C. Talpy, and lives in Maiden. 

Fk.vnk G. Holcombe, son of Franklin and Mary (Gibbons) Holcombe, was born in 
Southwick, Mass., December 26, 1853, and was educated at the public schools, at 
Wilbraham Academy and Wesleyan University. He studied law in the office of 
Whitney & Dunbar, of Westfield, Mass., and at the Boston University Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Inez Maynard 
December 35, 1879, at Northboro', Mass., and lives in Winchester. 

Wii.i.iE Perkins Hoi.coMiiE, son of Walter C. and Abigail J. (Perkins) Holcombe, 
was born in Sunderland, Vt., August 19, 1861, and was fitted at the Westfield High 
School for Amherst, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law with Leonard & 
\\'ells in Springfield, Mass., and in the Boston University Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886; he lives in Boston. 

Henry Ware Holland, son of Frederic May and Harriet (Newcomb) Holland, was 
born in Rochester, N. Y., March 30, 1844. He was educated by a tutor and at a pri- 
vate school, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices 
of George S. Hale, Albert G. Browne and William E. Parmenter, and was admitted 
to the bar m Boston February 12, 1869. Mr. Holland has been on the editorial 
staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser, the Boston 'Transcript and Outing, one of 
the editors of "Bennett's and Holland's Digest," contributor to the New York 
Nation, and was the author of "William Dawes." He is unmarried, and lives in 
Boston. 



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Elmer Parker Howe, son of Archclaus and M. H. Janette (Brigham) Howe, was 
born in Westboro November 1, 18.")!, and was educated in the Worcester Polytechnic 
School, class of 1871, and at Yale College, class of 18T6. He read law with Hillard, 
Hyde & Dickinson in Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1S78 ; he was associated with the firm of 
Hyde, Dickinson & Howe until 1849. He makes patent law a specialty. 

WiLi.i.vM E\i;rett HnciiiNS, son of William and Mary Stearns Hutchins, was born 
in Cambridge, Mass., January' IB, 1858, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, 
where he graduated in 1879. He read law in Boston with William Gaston and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He has been a member of the Cambridge 
city government, was maiTied in 1882 and lives in North Cambridge. 

Freedom Hutchinson, son of Edwin F. and Elizabeth Ann (Flint) Hutchinson, was 
born in Milan, N. H., August 6, 1847, and was educated at the Nichols Latin School 
and Bates College, Lewiston, Me. He read law with Hutchinson & Savage in Lewis- 
ton and was admitted to the bar in Auburn, Me., in April, 1876, and in Boston, May 
9, 1876. He married Abbie Laighton Butler in Boston, Febrtiary 15, 1886, and lives 
in Boston. 

Fred Joiiiam Hitchinson, son of Jotham P. and A. Elizabeth Hutchinson, was 
born November 27, 1856, and fitted at the Nashua High School for Dartmouth, where 
he graduated in 1876. He studied law with N. B. Bryant and C. W. Bartlett in Boston, 
and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 
28, 1882. He has taken an active interest in military affairs and is an officer in the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married E. Gertrude Denison in Bos- 
ton, June 28, 1884, and lives in Hyde Park. 

Eben Hutchinson, son of Eben and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, was born in 
Athens, Me., August 2, 1841, and was educated at the academies in Somerset, Bloom- 
field and Waterville, Me. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the 
bar in Maine in 1862. He enlisted as private in the Twenty-fourth Maine Volunteers 
in the civil war and was promoted through the several grades to the rank of lieutenant- 
colonel. In 1866 he moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the bar on the 9th 
of October of that year, and afterwards settled in Chelsea. In 1874 he was appointed 
special justice of the Chelsea Police Court, and November 6, 1880, standing justice, 
which position he resigned in 1892. In 1875 and four succeeding years he was city 
solicitor, representative in 1878, and senator in 1879-80. He married in Skowhegan, 
Me., November 11, 1863, Rachel W., daughter of Edward C. and Mary R. (Hum- 
phrey) Lane, who died in February, 1880. He maiTied second, August 30, 1882, Abbie 
A. Lane. 

JoHX Sylvester Holmes, son of Rev. Sylvester and Esther (Holmes) Holmes, was 
born in New Bedford in 1822. He studied theology at Andover in 1846, and after- 
wards law, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in June, 1848. He abandoned prac- 
tice in the last years of his life on account of failing health and died in Boston, May 
13, 1892. 

Nathaniel Holmes, son of Samuel and Mary Annan Holmes, was born in Peter- 
boro, N. H., July 2, 1814, and graduated at Hai"\'ard in 1837. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk liar in September, 1839, and moved to St. Louis. He was judge of the Su- 



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preme Court of Missouri from ISO") to 1868, and professor of law in the Harvard Law 
School from 1868 to 18T2. His literary career has been chiefiy marked by his elab- 
orate argument in denial of the reputed authorship of what are known as Shake- 
speare's works. After resigning his professorship at Cambridge lie returned to St. 
Louis for a time and now resides in Cambridge. 

Edw.\rd Otis How.ard, son of Cyrus and Cornelia A. (Bassett) Howard, was born 
in Winslow, Me. , March 11, 18.12, and was educated at Colby University and at Bow- 
doin College, where he graduated in 18T4. He studied law with S. S. Brown in Wa- 
terville and Fairfield, Me., and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Me., in August, 
1876, and to the Suffolk bar Januar)' IT, 1881. He married Dorcas S. Hall at Wins- 
low, Me., September 25, 18T8, and lives in the Roxbury District. 

ARCiiiii.\LD MiKR.^Y Howe, son of James Murray and Hamet Butler (Clarke) Howe, 
was born in Northampton, Mass., May 20, 1848, and fitted at the public schools in 
Brookliue, Mass., for Harvard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, of Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. He was a member of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives in 1891. He married Annie S. , daughter of Epes S. Dix- 
well, and lives in Cambridge. 

Cii.\RLES Fr-\nkli.v; Howe, son of James and Sarah B. Howe, was born in Strafford, 
Vt. , April 13, 1836, and was educated at the public and private schools in Lowell, 
Mass. He studied law with Brown & Alger in Lowell and was admitted to the Mid- 
dlesex bar in April, 1859. He was register in bankruptcy under the LTnited States 
bankrupt law, and in 1879 an alderman in Lowell. He has been twice married, at 
Lowell, April 3, 1862, and again at Lowell, January 15, 1873. He resides in Boston. 

Is.\.'\c Redington Howe, son of David and Elizabeth (Redington) Howe, was born 
in Haverhill, March 13, 1791, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1810. He studied law with George Bliss, of Springfield, and William 
Prescott, of Boston, and was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1821. He manned 
Sarah, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, June 16, 1816, and died 
in Haverhill, January 15, 1860. 

TnuM.AS Hutchinson, son of Thomas, who was a councillor from 1715 to 1739, ex- 
cepting the years 1724 and 1727, was born in Boston September 9, 1711, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1727. He was selectman and representative, lieutenant governor 
and governor of the Province, and from 1761 to 1769 was chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of Judicature. He published a historj- of Massachusetts up to 1750. In 1774 he 
went to England and died in Brompton, June 3, 1780. He married Margaret San- 
ford, May 16, 1734. 

Incre.\seNowei.l was born in England and came to Massachusetts in 1630. He was 
an assistant from the time of his appointment in England in 1629 to 1655, secretary 
of the Colony from 1639 to 1649, and at one time ruling elder of the church in 
Charlestown. He died in Boston, November 1, 1655. 

Sami'ei. Noweli., son of the above, was born m Boston November 12, 1634, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1653. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, treasurer of 
Harvard from 1682 to 1686, and went to England as an agent of the Colony in 
1688, and died in London in September of that year. 



1 68 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

William Pvn'chon was born in Springfield, England, in 1590, and was one of the 
assistants appointed by the crown. He contin^^ed in office until 10:^6, and served 
again from l(i4'2 to lOod. In 1633 he went to England and died in Wraysbury, October 
29, 1663. 

Cir.\RLEs ErsTis Hi iiii.\kii, son of Samuel and JIarv Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was born 
in Boston, August T, 1S43, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Yale College, 
where he graduated in liS(!2. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the 
offices of Dwight Foster and Henry W. Paine in Boston, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 27, 1S66. He married Caroline D. Tracy in Boston in 1872. and 
lives in Cambridge. 

J.vMLs Humphrey, son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Jones) Humphrey, was born in 
Weymouth, Mass., January 20, 1819, and was educated at the Derby Academy, at 
Hingham and Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law in Boston with D. W. 
Gooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. He was a representative in 1853 
and 1869, senator in 1872, county commissioner from 1875 to 1882, and has been jus- 
tice since 1882 of the East Norfolk District Court. He married at Hingham, Decern' 
bcr 2:5, 1860, Susan Humphrey Cushing, and has his residence in Weymouth. 

Charles Phelps Huntincton, son of Rev. Dana and Elizabeth W. (Phelps) Hunt- 
ington, was born in Litchfield, Conn.. May 24, 1802, and was fitted at the Hopkins 
Academy in Hadley for Harvard, where he graduated in 1822. He stiidied law at the 
law school in Northampton, and was admitted to the bar in Hampshire county; he 
began practice in Northampton, but removed to Boston and was appointed in 1855 a 
justice of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, which office he held until the court 
was abolished in 1859. He married first Helen Sophia Mills, who died March 3, 
1844, and second, January 3, 1847, Ellen, daughter of David Greenough. 

Wi-NFiELi) Scon Hl'tchinso-N", son of Stephen D. and Mary (Atkinson) Hutchinson, 
was born in Buckfield, Me., May 27, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 
1867. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. 
Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He mar- 
ried Adelaide S. Berry, of Brunswick, Me., January 1, 1870, and lives in Newton. 

Henry D\\ ight Hyde, .son of Benjamin D. and Eveline (Wright) H}-de, was born 
in Soutlibridge, Mass., April 27, 1838, and graduated at Amherst in 1861. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1864. He married Imuran Charles at Brimfiekl, 
October 9, 1866, and lives in Boston. 

LoLiis FiSKE Hyde, son of Alvin and Josephine (Manning) Hyde, was born in War- 
ren, Mass., June 20, 1866, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in the office of H. D. Hyde, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston. 

George West Jackson, son of William F. and Abby C. (West) Jackson, was born in 
Roxbury, Mass., January 8, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law 
at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He 
lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

CiLARi.Es Walter Janes, son of Walter and Catherine C. (Guild) Janes, was born in 
Medfield, Mass., April 2, 1858, and was educated in the English High and other 



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schools in Boston. He read law with Augustus Russ and was admitted to the SvifTolk 
bar January 17, 1888. He makes mercantile law a specialty. His residence is in Boston. 

H.vKKY James Jaquith, son of Benjamin F. and Harriet A. Jaquith, was born in 
Boston, April 14, ISoo, and was educated at the Institute of Technology in Boston. 
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1890. He married Mary A. H. Taylor at Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1882, and 
resides at Wellesley. 

Eugene M. Johnson, son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson, was born in 
Boston, June 4, 184.5, and was educated in the Lynn public schools for Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar April 11, 1871. He married Miss Nora J. Brown. 

Henrv Augustus Johnson, son of John and Harriet Johnson, was born in Fair- 
haven, Mass., February 17, 183,5, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1849 or 1850. He 
has held various offices of trust, and contributed frequently to magazines and daily 
journals. He married Elizabeth S. Hitch and lives in Braintree. 

Mcisiis G. Howe, son of Moses and Frances D. Howe, was born in Portsmouth, N. 
H., August 13, 1836, and was educated at the Phillips Andover Academy. He read 
law with IthamerH. Beard in Lowell and was admitted to the barthere July 18, 1851. 
He has been an alderman in Cambridge, where he lives, and married in 1857, at 
Lowell, Lydia W. Varnum. 

Wii,i.i.\M RussEi.L HowL.\Ni), SOU of William and Caroline G. (Ru.ssell) Howland, was 
born in Lynn, Mass., February 19, 1863, and attended the Lynn High School. He 
entered Harvard, but left college on account of sickness and did not graduate. He 
graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1885, and read law also in the office of 
Morse & Allen in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Januarj', 1886. He 
has been two years a member of the Common Council in Cambridge, where he lives, 
and is now a member of the School Board. 

Edward F. H.\y.\es was born in Boston, February 14, 1858, and attended the pub- 
lic schools and Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and Bos- 
ton University Law School, graduating from the last in 1883. He was a representa- 
tive in 1884. 

Henry Bi..\tchford Hubbard, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Coit) Hubbard, was 
born in Boston, January 8, 1833, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1854. He read law with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and 
at the Harvard Law School, but may not have been admitted to the bar. He was 
clerk, engineer and treasurer of the Cambridge Water Works until 1859, when he was 
attached to the coast survey as magnetic and astronomic assistant. While visiting 
his brother in Chicago he died there February 13, 1863. 

Sa>u;ei. Hubbard, born in Boston, June 3, 1785, graduated at Yale in 1803. He first 
practiced in Biddeford, Me. , but came to Boston in 1810, and was associated in busi- 
ness with Charles Jackson. In 1843 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial 
Court, and continued on the bench until his death in Boston, December 34, 1847. 

Naihaniei, Dean Hubbard, son of Henry and Sally (Dean) Hubbard, was born in 
Charlestown, N. H., January 14, 1831, and fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Acad- 
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170 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

emy and Leicester Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and after a course 
of study in the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar May 10, 1844. In lSo2 
he abandoned the law and joined his brother, Aaron D. Hubbard, in the banking 
business in Boston, with the firm name of Hubbard Brothers. He married, April 38, 
1863, Anne B., daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothinghara, D. D., and died 
in Boston, October 7, 1865. 

Woodward Hidson, son of Frederic and Eliza Woodward Hudson, was born in 
Xew York city, January S."), 1858, and graduated at Har\'ard in 18T9. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 23, 1882. 
He married Bessie Van Mater Keyes at Concord, Mass., August 31, 1880, and lives 
in Concord. 

George Lewis Huntress, son of James Lewis and Harriet Paige Huntress, was 
born in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1848, and was educated at Phillips Andover 
Academy and Yale College, from which he graduated in 1870. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in the office of Ives & Lincoln in Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 18T2. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council in 1881 and 1882. He married Julia A. Poole at Metuchen, N. J., Sep- 
tember 30, 1875, and lives in Winchester. 

Frederick Ellsworth Hurd, son of George A. and Laura A. Hurd, was born in 
Wolfboro', N. H., February 25, 1861, and was educated at the Boston Latin School 
and the Boston LTniversity. He read law in Boston with John Hardy and Samuel 
J. Elder, and was admitted to the SufTolk bar in June, 1.S84. He is assistant district 
attorney for Suffolk, and lives in Boston. 

Edw.-\rd J. Jenkins, son of John and Sabina Jenkins, was born in London, Eng- 
land, December 20, 1854, and coming to America an infant was educated in the Bos- 
ton public schools. He studied law in the Boston Universit)- Law School, from which 
he graduated in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 30, 1881, and 
to bar of the United States Court December 23, 1881. He has been a member of the 
Boston School Board and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
tives in 1877-79; he was a commissioner of insolvency from 1879 to 1885, and in 1881 
was the Democratic candidate for clerk of the Superior Civil Court. In 1885-6, '88, 
he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was its president during the 
whole period of his membership. In 1885 he was trustee of the Public Library and 
in 1887 a member of the Massachusetts .Senate. While in the Legislature he was a 
consistent and earnest friend of labor and the laboring man, and supported b}' speech 
and vote every measure calculated to promote in the highest degree the welfare of 
the Commonwealth. The abolition of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, the 
abandonment of the contract system of labor, the regulation of the liabilities of em- 
ployers for compensation for personal injuries of employees, the operation of the 
East Boston ferries by the city, the regulation of the observance of the Lord's day to 
conform to present social conditions, the establishment of Labor Day as a legal holi- 
day, the regulation of the hours of labor, the prevention of fraud at primary meet- 
ings and elections, the creation of a Board of Public Works for the city of Boston, 
the liberal constniction of public parks, the preference of discharged soldiers and 
sailors in appointments to office, and generous ajipropriations for charitable purposes, 
all enlisted his sympathy and secured his support and vote. Mr. Jenkins is in the 
vigor of nianhiiod with a promise of professional and political advancement. 



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Wiu.iAM WiiiTTEM Jenness, SOU of Joseph and Hannah Whittem, was born in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., August 25, 1861, and was educated at the Pittsfield, N. H., Academy, 
Bates College, Lewiston, Me, and the Boston University Law School. He con- 
tinued his law studies with Thomas Cogswell at Gilmanton, N. H., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Concord, N. H., July 19, 1888, and in Boston July 17, 188S. He 
lives in Ouincy, Mass. 

Charles Francis Jenney, son of Charles E. and Elvira F. (Clai'k) Jenney, was 
born in Middelboro', Mass., September 16, 1860, and was educated at the public 
schools and at the Boston University Law School. He further continued his law 
studies in the office of James K. Cotter at Hyde Park, and was admitted to the Nor- 
folk county bar October 4, 1883. He has been representative, trustee of the Public 
Library in Hyde Park, where he lives, and where he married Jlary E. Bruce, October 
1-2, 1886. 

BvKON B. JoHNSo.N, son of Charles and ilaria W. Johnson, was born in Needham, 
Mass., November 30, 1833, and was educated in the Weston public schools, the Law- 
rence Academy at Groton and the Boston Law School, being the oldest member of 
the first class of that school. Subsequently, while pursuing his law studies, he was 
employed for nearlv si.K years as an agent of the State, in caring for all cases of 
juvenile offenders in the courts, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, June 2.5, 
1873. From 1861 to '63 he was United States mail agent, and from 1863 to '66 chief 
examiner of returns in the Ordnance Bureau, United States War Department, assist- 
ant State visiting agent from 1869 to '74. town auditor of Waltham, Mass., two years, 
chief deputy United States marshal from 1879 to '83. first mayor of Waltham in 188.5, 
member of the Waltham School Board from 1888 to '92, and rechosen in 1892 for three 
years. He is also a trustee of the Waltham Public Library. He married Lf)uisa H. 
Cutter at Weston, Mass.. May 4, 1856, and lives in Waltham. 

Edward F. Johnson, son of Noah and Letitia Margaret (Claggett) Johnson, was 
born in Hollis, N. H., October 21, 1A42, and was fitted by David Crosby for Dart- 
mouth, where he graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar in Boston, May 11, 1866. He is judge of the Police Court of 
Marlboro'. He married Belle G. Carleton at Lynn, Mass., June 1, 1870, and lives in 
Marlboro'. 

Ralph Edgar Joslin, son of James Thomas and Annie C. (Burrage) Joslin, was 
born in Marlboro', Mass., August 26, 1864. He fitted at the High and other schools 
of Hudson for Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1886. He read law in the 
office of James T. Joslin in Hudson and graduated at the Boston University Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Hudson School Board since 1890, and practices in Boston and Hudson, a 
member of the firm of J. T. & R. E. Joslin. He is the author of a hi,storical sketch of 
Hudson and other sketches. He maiTied at Hudson, where he lives, February 8, 
1892, Fanny Melissa, daughter of George W. and Melissa A. (Metcalf) Davis. 

Fred Joy, son of Albion K. P. and Clara A. Joy, was born in Winchester, Mass., 
July 8, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law with Henry W. 
Paine in Boston and at the Boston Universitj' Law School, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. He resides in Winchester. 



1^2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Frank Warton Kaan, son of George and Maria AVarton Kaan, was born inMeclford, 
September 11, 1861, and was educated in the Sonierville public schools and at Har- 
vard in the class of 1883. He gi-aduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1888, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1887. He lives in Somerville. 

Patrick M. KE.vriNG was born in Springfield, Mass., March 15, 18fi0, and was edu- 
cated at the Houghton Grammar School and at Springfield High School, and at Har- 
vard in the class of 1883. He read law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of 
Thomas \. Gargan in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188-5. 

Frank Merriam Keezer, son of David and Henrietta Keezer, was boi-n in Jamaica 
Plain, Mass., April 10, 1868, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the 
Boston University. He read law with Wilbur H. Powers in Boston and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He has been assistant clerk of the West Roxbury 
Municipal Court and a contributor of legal articles to magazines and the daily jour- 
nals. He married in West Roxbur\% April 29, 1891, Martha M. Whittemore and lives 
in I )orchester. 

Edward Francis Johnson, son of John Johnson, was born in Woburn, October 
22, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November 1881. He was the first mayor 
of Woburn and is justice of the Fourth Eastern Middlesex District Court. He has pub- 
lished a record of Woburn births, deaths and marriages from 1640 to 1872. He mar- 
ried, September 26, 1882, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mar\- (Tidd) 
Simonds, and lives in Woburn. 

George Tyler Bigeeow, son of Tyler and Clara, daughter of Colonel Timothy 
Bigelow, of Boston, was born in Watertown, October 6, 1810, and was fitted at the 
Boston Latin School for Harvard, where he gi'aduated in 1829. After leaving college 
he was nearlj^ a year a private tutor in the family of Henry Vernon Somerville at 
Bloomsbury, Md., and then returned to Watertown, where he read law with 
his father, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1833, after a short 
further period of study in the office of Charles G. Loring, of Boston. He began prac- 
tice in Watertown with his father, and remained there eighteen months, moving to 
Boston in June, 1835. In Boston he acquired a fondness for military life, and in May, 
1837, became ensign of the New England Guards, and afterwards captain and col- 
onel in the Volunteer Militia, which last position he occupied three years. In 1843 
he associated himself in business with Manlius S. Clarke, and in 1844 defended Abner 
Rogers, indicted for the murder of the warden of the State Prison, and secured his 
acquittal on the ground of insanity. He was a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives five years and senator in 1847-8. In 1848 he was appointed by 
Governor George N. Briggs judge of the Common Pleas Court, and in 1850 judge of 
the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1860, on the resignation of Lemuel Shaw, he was 
made chief justice by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks, and occupied that position until 
his resignation in 1868. After his resignation he was chosen actuary of the Massa- 
chusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, and remained in that office until his 
death, April 13, 1878. He married, November 5, 1839, Anna, daughter of Edward 
Miller, of Quincy. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 18.53. 

John Chii'Man Gray, son of William and Elizabeth (Chipman) Gray, was born in 
Salem, December 26, 1793, and graduated frorn Harvard in 1811, receiving the degree 



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of LL.D. from his alma mater in ISofi. He was admitted in Boston to the Common 
Pleas Court July 6, 1815, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He 
was the Phi Beta orator in 1821, the Fourth of July orator in Boston in 1822, a mem- 
ber of the Common Council from 1824 to 1828, representative in 1838-30, '34, '38-41, 
43-44, '48, '52, a member of the Executive Council in 1832, a member of the Senate in 
1835-36, 1845-46, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and an overseer 
of Harvard College from 1847 to 1854. He married Elizabeth Pickering, daughter 
of Samuel P. and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner, of Boston, and died in Boston 
March 3, 1881. 

Hf.xrv Morris, son of Oliver Bliss Morris, was born in Springfield, -Mass., in 1814, 
and graduated at Amherst College in 1832. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and 
after studying with his father settled in Springfield. In 1855 he was appointed 
judge of the Common Pleas Court and remained on the bench until the court was 
abolished in 1850. He married Mary Wariner May 16, 1837, and died at his home in 
Springfield June 4, 1888. 

FR.'iNcis Edw.vrd P.arkf.r, son of Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, was born in Portsmouth, 
N. H., July 23, 1821, and fitted for college at PhiUips Exeter Academy. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1841 and became usher in Boston Latin School. In 1845 he graduated 
at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1846, 
and associated himself with J. Eliot Cabot. He was a member of the Senate in 1865. 
He died January 18, 1886. 

Lrcifs Manlu's S.vrcent, son of Daniel Sargent, was born in Boston June 25, 
1786. He fitted for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard in 1804. He 
did not graduate with his class, but received in 1842 the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts. He studied law with Samuel Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
March 14, 1815. He published a volume of verse in 1813, and was the author of a 
verj' interesting series of articles in the Boston Transcript entitled " Dealings with 
the dead, by a sexton of the old school." He married, April 3, 1816, Mary, daughter 
of Barnabas Binney, of Philadelphia, and for a second wife in 1825 Sarah Cutter, 
daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston. He died in West Roxburj' June 6, 1867. 

Henry Winthrop S-\rcent, son of Henry Sargent, was bom in Boston November 
26, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law in Boston and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833. He moved to New York and entered the 
banking business, retiring in 1839 to his estates on the Hudson, and dying in Fish- 
kill-on-the-Hudson November 10, 1882. 

George Dexter, son of Edmund and Mary Ann (Dellinger) Dexter, of Fulton, ()., 
was born in Fulton July 18, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He graduated 
also from the Harvard Law School in 1860, and became a resident graduate at Cam- 
bridge. It is not known with certainty whether he became a member of the bar. In 
May, 1864, he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth LTnattached Regiment, in 1869 was 
appointed tutor of modern languages at Harvard, and in 1870 steward of the college, 
resigning the next year. He married, September 17, 1868, Lucy Waterston, daughter 
of Charles Deane, of Cambridge, and died at Santa Barbara, December 18, 1883. 

George Stillm.\n Hill.\rd, son of John and Sarah (Stillman) Hillard, was born in 
Machias, Me. , September 22, 1 808, and received his early education at the Derby Acad- 
emy in Hingham, Mass., and the Boston Latin School. He graduated at Harvard in 



174 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1828, and studied law at Northampton and in the Harvard Law School and in the 
office of Charles P. Curtis, of Boston. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court 
in April, ISJHS, and to the Supreme Judicial Court April 3, 1835. He became early in 
Ills career editor of the C/ir/sfian Regis fcr and of 'Ca.e. Jurist. In 183.") he was repre- 
sentative, in the Common Council in 184.5^7, and the last two years its president; a 
member of the Senate in 1850, of the Constitutional Convention in 1853 and in that 
year appointed city solicitor, which office he held two years ; in 1868 he was appointed 
United States attorney and served till 1871, when he became the senior member of 
the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson. He was a trustee of the Boston Public Library 
from April 11, 1872, to November 23, 1876; the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1835, 
and the Phi Beta orator in 1843. He received the degree of LL. D from Trinity Col- 
lege in 1857. He married Susan Tracey, daughter of Judge Samuel Howe, of North- 
ampton, and died in Brookline January 21, 1879. 

J.^MES Warren, son of James and Penelope (Winslow) Warren, was born in Plym- 
outh September 28,1726. He succeeded Dr. Joseph Warren as president of Provincial 
Congress, and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1776, but 
never took his seat. He married in 1754 Mercy, daughter of James Otis, of Barn- 
stable, and sister of James (His the orator. He died in Plymouth November 27, 1808. 

Ch.\rles Henry W.\rrkn, son of Henry and Mary (Winslow) Warren, was born in 
Plymoiith, September 29, 1798, and fitted for college at the Sandwich Academy, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with Joshua Thomas in Plymouth 
and Levi Lincoln, of Worcester, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar. He began 
practice in New Bedford with Lemuel Williams, continuing with Thomas Dawes 
Elliot, and from 1832 to 1839 was district attorney for the five southern counties of 
Massachusetts. In October, 1839, he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas 
Court and resigned in 1844, when he moved to Boston and associated himself in the 
practice of law with Augustus H. Fiske and Benjamin Rand. He remained in practice 
only two years, being engaged during that time in a successful defense of Rev. Joy 
H. Fairchild, indicted and tried for adulter)-. In 1846 he was chosen president of the 
Boston and Providence Railroad, and resigned in 1867. He was a member of the 
Senate and its president in 1851, and president of the Pilgrim Society from 1845 to 
1852. He married December 27, 1825, Abby, daughter of Barnabas and Eunice 
Dennie (Burr) Hedge, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth, to which place he moved 
in July, 1871, on the 29th of June, 1874. The writer of this sketch was informed by 
Judge Warren that as a judge he took no notes, and as a lawyer never had a brief, 
and that as district attorney he never lost an indictment, and only in two instances 
failed to cimvict. His wonderfully retentive memory enabled him to recall with 
verbal accuracy the testimony of witnesses, and to build on it his ai'gument or charge, 
with a readiness which repeated references to notes would have only served to check. 

John Ai.iuon Andrew, son of Jonathan and Nancy Green (Pierce) Andrew, was 
born in Windham, Me., May 31, 1818. He received his early education at the Gor- 
ham Academy, under Rev. Reuben Nason, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1837. He 
studied law in the office of Henry H. Fuller, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 2(i, 1840. He held no office until 1859, when he represented Boston 
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Up to that time he had been devoted 
to his business, taking occasional interest in pelitics and closely identified with the 





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anti-slavery movement. In 186U he was chosen governor of Massachusetts, being in- 
augurated Januar}' 5, 1861, and continuing in office until January 5, 1866, on which 
day he delivered a valedictory address to the Legislature. It would be superfluous 
to narrate the career of Governor Andrew through the war, as indelibly stamped as 
it is on the pages of our history. The magnitude of his labors may be approximatelv 
measured by the fact that, during his administration, he was the author of letters, 
which, public and private, fill thirty-five thousand pages. After his retirement from 
the State House he was offered the presidency of Antioch College, which he declined. 
He married December "io, 1848, Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham, 
and died in Boston, October i5(), 186T. His body was deposited in the cemetery in 
Hingham. 

Xath.an H.\le, son of Rev. Enoch Hale, a native of Coventr\-, Conn., and Octavia 
Throop, daughter of Benjamin Throop, was born in Westhampton. Mass., August 
l(i, 1784, and was a nephew of Nathan Hale, one of the Revolutionary mart\TS. He 
was fitted for college by his father and graduated at Williams College in 1804. He 
studied law in Troy, iST. Y. , and in Boston in the ofiace of Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, 
and was admitted in Boston to the Common Pleas Court in Jul}', 1810, and to the Su- 
preme Judicial Court in March, 1813. While studjdng law he was instructor in math- 
ematics in Phillips Exeter Academy, from 1805 to 1810. In the early days of his 
practice in Boston he was assistant editor of the Weekly Messenger, and in 1814 be- 
came the proprietor and editor of the Boston Daily Ad-ueriiser, which was at that 
time the only daily paper in Boston. In 1825 he published a map of New England, 
in 1828 a pamphlet on the Protection policy, in 1830 was a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention, was the first president of the Western Railroad from Worcester to 
Albany, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts His- 
tory Society, representative from 1819 to 1822, a senator from 1828 to 1830, and re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1853. He married, September 16, 1816, 
Sarah Prescott, daughter of Rev. Oliver Everett and sister of Alexander Hill, and 
Edward Everett. He died in Boston, February 9, 1863. 

Ben'J.\mix Robbins Curtis, son of Benjamin and Lois (Robbins) Curtis, was bom in 
Watertown, Mass., November 4, 1809. and attended the school of Samuel Worcester 
at Newton, and Mr. Angler's school at Medford, graduating at Harvard in 1829. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School and read law in the offices of John Nevers at 
Northfield, and Wells & Alvord at Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county 
bar in 1832. He first settled in Northfield, but moved to Boston in 1834. In 1846 he 
was made a Fellow of Harvard, was a representative in 1851 , and in the same year was 
appointed a judge of the United States Supreme Court, resigning in 1857. In 1871, 
with William M. Evarts and Caleb Cushing, he was appointed counsel for the United 
States before the Board of Arbitration at Geneva and declined, and in 1873 one of five 
commissioners to re\-ise the city charter. In 1868 he was one of the counsel for An- 
drew Johnson in his impeachment trial. He received the degree of LL. D. from 
Harvard in 18.52, and from Brown University in 1857. He married. Maj- 8, 1833, 
Eliza M. Woodward, of Hanover, N. H., who died in 1844, and January 5, 1846, Anna 
Wroe, daughter of Charles Pelham Curtis, of Boston, and August 29, 1861, Maria 
daughter of Jonathan Allen, of Pittsfield. He died September 15, 1874. 



176 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

George Bemis, son of Seth and Sarah (Wheeler) Bemis, was born in Watertown, 
Mass., October IH, 1816, and fitted for Harvard \\-ith Mrs. Samuel Ripley, in AV all- 
ham, graduating at Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1839. He was associated 
with George T. Bigelow in the defense of Abner Rogers, and with Attorney-General 
John H. Clifford, for the government, in the trial of John W. Webster. He was the 
author of the following pamphlets: " Precedents of American Neutrality," "Hasty 
Recognition of Rebel Belligerency and Our Right to Complain of It," "American 
Neutrality, its Honorable Past, its Expedient Future," "Mr. Reverdy Johnson, 
the Alabama Negotiations and Their Just Repudiation by the Senate of the United 
States." He died in Nice, Jantiary 5, 1878, and bequeathed S'"'l),""0 to Harvard for 
the establishment of a professorship of public and international law. 

J.\MEs S.w.'iGE, son of Habijah Savage and Elizabeth, daughter of John Tudor, was 
born in Boston, July 13, 1784, and fitted for college at Washington Academy, Machias, 
Jle. , and at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1803, 
and received a degree of LL. D. from his alma mater in 1841. He studied law in 
the oflice of Isaac Parker in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in Jan- 
uary, 1807, after further study in the offices of Samuel Dexter and William Sullivan 
in Boston. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1811, the Phi Betaora- 
tion in 1812, was a representative in 1813 and 1821, a member of the Constitutional 
Convention in 1820, a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and Executive Council, 
of the Boston Common Council and Board of Aldermen. He revised the volume of 
charters and general laws of the Massachusetts Colony and the Province of Massachu- 
setts Bay, was overseer of Harvard from 1838 to 1853, librarian of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society from 1814 to 1818, its treasurer from 1820 to 1839, its president from 
1841 to 1835, the founder of the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Bos- 
ton in 1817, and its secretary, treasurer, vice-president and president through a period 
of forty-five 3'ears. He married in April, 1823, Elizabeth Otis, daughter of George 
Stillman, of Machias, Me., and widow of James Otis Lincoln, of Hingham, and died 
March 8, 1873. 

John Lothkot Mohkv, son of Thomas Motley and Anna, daughter of Rev. John 
Lothrop, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814, and attended the Boston 
Latin School, Green's School at Jamaica Plain, and the Round Hill School at North- 
hampton. He graduated at Harvard in 1831, and afterwards studied at the Univer- 
sities of Berlin and Gottingen. In 1839 he published " Morton's Hope;" in 1841 he 
was secretary of legation with Mr. Todd, minister to Russia; in 1845-7-9 he wrote 
articles for the North A?iirrka?i Jii'v/fii' on Russia, on Balzac and on the polity of 
the Puritans, and in 1849 published "Merry Mount." The " History of the Rise of 
the Dutch Republic" followed, then the " History of the United Netherlands," and 
later the "Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of 
the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War." He was appointed 
by President Lincoln minister to Austria in 1861, and in 1869 by President Grant 
minister to England. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1860, and 
honorary degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and other universities. He married 
March 2, 1837, Mary Elizabeth Benjamin, and died near Dorchester, England, May 
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Park Bknjamin was born in Demerara, August 14, 1809. He entered Har\-ard, 
where he remained two years, and then entered Trinity College, where he graduated 
in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1834. In 1837 
he removed to New York and devoted his time to literary pursuits. He was at vari- 
ous times associated editorially with the Neiu England Magazine, the American 
Monthly Magazine, the New Yorker, the Brother Jonathan, the New World, 
the Western Continent, and the American Mail. He died in New York, Septem- 
ber 12, 1864. 

Joel Parker was born in Jaffrey, N. H., January 25, 1793, and graduated at Dart- 
mouth in 1811. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 181."), and in 1833 
was appointed judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. From 1838 to 1848 
he was chief justice, and at a later date >vas appointed professor in the Harvard Law 
School. He resigned in 1868, and died August 17, 1875. He was representative two 
years in New Hampshire, and in both that State and Massachusetts was on a com- 
mission to revise the statutes. He was professor of medical jurisprudence at Dart- 
mouth from 1845 to 1857, and occupied the same position in the Columbia Law School 
in Washington. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dartmotith and Harvard 
in 1848. He married Mary M. Parker. 

Theron Metcalf, son of Hanan and Mary (Allen) Metcalf, was born in Franklin, 
Mass., October 16, 1784. He was educated at the public schools and at Brown Uni- 
versity, from which he graduated in 1805. He studied law '(\-ith Mr. Bacon in Can- 
terbury, Conn., and at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., then the only law school 
in the United States, and established by Tappan Reeve, chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and after a year's 
further study with Seth Hastings, of Mendon, he was admitted to the Norfolk bar in 
Dedhara by the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in September, 1808, and by the Su- 
preme Judicial Court in 1811. After a year's practice in Franklin, Mass., he moved 
to Dedhara in October, 1809, and on the 5th of November in that year married Julia, 
daughter of Uriah Tracey, late United States senator from Connecticut. In April, 
1817, he was made county attorney for Norfolk, and held the office twelve years. He 
was representative in 1831, '33-4, and senator in 1835. He at one time edited the 
Dcdham Gazette, and in October, 1828, opened a law school in Dedham, and among 
his students were John H. Clifford and Seth Ames. In December, 1839, he was ap- 
pointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, and moved to Bos- 
ton. His reports fill thirteen volumes and cover a period from the Suffolk March 
term, 1840, to the Essex November term, 1847. He was appointed judge of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court, February 25, 1848, and served until 1865, when he resigned. 
He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1844, and from Harvard in 1848. 
He died in Boston, November 13, 1875. 

Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch, 
was born in Salem, June 17, 1805, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He read law 
in the office of Benjamin R. Nichols, of Salem, and was admitted in Boston to the 
Common Pleas Court in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court January 12, 1828, 
after a further course of study in the office of William Prescott. After admission he 
was for a time associated with Franklin Dexter, but finally made conveyancing a 
specialty, and in that department won a notable reputation. He published Suffolk 
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1 78 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Surnames in \Xu. He married, in 1833, Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Francis, 
and died April l(i, 1S61. 

William Smith Sjlaw, son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Smith) Shaw, was born in 
Haverhill, August 12, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. After leaving col- 
lege he was private secretary of John Adams, and afterwards studied law in the office 
of William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804. He was the 
editor of T he Monthly Anthology, which was issued from 1803 to 1811. In 1806 he 
was appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts, and held 
the office twelve years. He died in Boston unmarried, April 35, 1826. 

BoRLiMAN Hall, son of Joseph F. and Mary M. Hall, was born in Bangor, Me., 
April 18, 1856, and was educated at Colby University and the Boston University Law 
School. He continued his law studies with William H. McLellan, attorney general 
fif Maine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1880. He has been 
assistant United States attorney, and a member of the Boston School Board. 
He has been entrusted with the defense in many important criminal cases and has 
always conducted it with skill and almost unvaried success. Among these cases 
were the United States vs. Edward J. Reed, Commonwealth vs. Bostwick, Common- 
wealth vs. Nelson, Commonwealth vs. Wilson, which won for him a substantial repu- 
tation. He lives in East Boston. 

Ch.\rles F. H.\ll, son of William M. and Ann Klizalieth Hall, was born in Sebago, 
Me., and was educated at Colby University, Waterville, Me. He studied law at the 
Boston University Law School and in the office of William Gaston in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married Ellen C. Burgess 
August 12, 1884, and lives in Dorchester. 

James Milton H.-vll, son of James Eartlett and Elvira (Clement) Hall, was born in 
Harverhill, Mass., December 29, 1861, and was educated at the public schools and at 
Harvard College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law in the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of Prince & Peabody in Boston, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He lives in Boston. 

Abraham S. Cohen, son of Mendell and Pauline Cohen, was born in Liverpool, 
England, March 23, 1863, and after attending the Boston University studied law in 
the offices of J. W. Pickering, John Herbert and John E. Wetherbee in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Minnie Levi in Boston. 

Walter Channing Burhank, son of Robert I. and Elizabeth W. Burbank, was born 
in Boston June 9, 1865, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard 
College, graduating in 1887. He studied law in the Boston L'^niversity Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1889. He makes a specialty in his 
practice of real estate and probate cases. He married Louise '\'. Roche in New York 
October 23, 1890. 

Edward Fuller Hoik;ics, son of Harry and Anne Fuller Hodges, of Clarendon, 
Vt., was born January 3, 1816, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1835. He 
studied law with Judge Bennett in Vermont and afterwards in Maine, where he was 
admitted to the bar. He returned to Vermont in 1845 and practiced law in Rutland 
until 1846, when he moved to Boston and was there admitted to the Suffolk bar 
October 13, 1846. He remained in Boston until 1863, when he opened an office in New 



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Vork city, retaining also his oflfice in Boston. In November, 1866, he resumed his 
Boston practice and was council in many important cases connected with revolver, 
telegraph, sewing machine and Goodyear rubber patents, and with the Sudbury 
River flowage. He married at Bangor, Me. , July 7, 1845, Anne Frances, daughter 
of William Hammatt, and died in Bost jn February 38, 1883. 

He.nrv M. Avers, son of Charles W. and Amelia B. Avers, was born in Philadel- 
phia April 3, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1888. He has been conspicuousl)' connected with the oppo- 
sition to legislation against oleomargarine. He married Mary C. Warren, daughter 
of William F. Warren, president of Boston University, September 3, 1890, and lives 
at Wilbraham. 

Fk.^nk Brewster, a descendant of Elder William Brewster and son of Benjamin and 
Annie W. Brewster, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 28, 1857, and was edu- 
cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 
1.S79. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of 
William C. Loring. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1 883. He 
is an instructor at the Harvard Law School on the peculiarities of Massachusetts Law 
and Practice. 

Alfred Stevens H.mx, son of Edward and Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall, was born in 
West Westminster, Yt., April 14, 1850, and was educated at the Kimball LTnion 
Academy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in ■ 1873. He studied law 
at the Boston LTniversity Law School and in the offices of Cross & Burnham in Man- 
chester, N. H., and of T. L. Livermore and Nehemiah C. Berrjr in Boston, and at 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 20, 1875. 
He has held town offices in Winchester, where he resides, and has been connected 
with the Vermont Central Railroad litigation. He married Annette M. Hitchcock 
at Putney, Vt., October 18, 1876, who died September 26, 1887. 

Edwin B. H.\ee, son of Aanm and Mary Hale, was born in Orford, N. H., June 16, 
1839, and was educated at the Kimball LTnion Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at 
Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1865. He attended the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suff'olk bar September 15, 1875. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878-9, and was, for a few j-ears, 
superintendent of public schools in Cambridge, where he resides. He is not married. 

Benj.^min a. Lockh.-\rt, son of Ephraim and Lucy Lockhart, was bom in Horton, 
Nova Scotia, and was educated at Acadia College and Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia, 
and at the Boston University Law School. He also studied in Boston in the office of 
Bennett & Burbank, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He married 
Leonora M. Martin, widow of William H. Martin, at Cambridgeport, February 8, 
1892, and makes Cambridgeport his home. 

WiLi.i.v.M CoDDiNGTON" was bom in England in 1601 and came to Massachusetts with 
Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant from 1629 to 1636, and in 1638 went to Rhode 
Island, where, in 1640, he was chosen governor. After the incorporation of the 
Providence Plantations he was made president in 1648, but did not enter upon his 
duties. In 1649 he went to England and secured a commission to govern the islands 



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of Rhode Island and Conanicut. He finally united with the Colony and died No- 
vember 1, 1678. 

Roi-.ER LiTDLOw was born in England. He was deputy governor in 1()34, and as- 
sistant from 1639 to 1033. He was a lawyer and in 1635 removed to Connecticut. In 
16r)4 he moved to Virginia and died there not many years after. 

Sir Rich.\rd S.m.tonst.m.l, son of Samuel and Anne Ramsden Saltonstall, was bap- 
tized at Halifax, England, April 4, l.")S6, and was lord of the manor at Ledsham. 
He married three wives: Grace, daughter of Robert Kaye, of Woodsome; second, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas West, and third, Martha Wilford. He was one of 
the original patentees of the Massachusetts Colony and after his first wife died he 
came to New England with Winthrop in 1630, bringing his children. He was an as- 
sistant from 1629 to 1633. He began the settlement of Watertown, returned to Eng- 
land in 1631 and died about 16.)8 or 1659, giving in his will a legacy to Harvard 
College. 

RicHARii S.\i.-roNsr.M.i„ son of Sir Richard by his first wife, was born at Woodsome, 
county of York, England, in 1610, and came to New England with his father in 1630 
and returned with him to England in 1631. He married in England about 1633 Mu- 
riel, daughter of Brampton and Muriel (Sedley) Gurdon, of Assington, Suffolk, and 
again came to New England in 1635 and settled in Ipswich. He was an assistant 
from 1637 to 1649 and again in 1664. He died on a visit to England at Hulme. April 
29, 1694. 

N.vrH.\MKL S.\LTi).Nsi Ai.i., SOU of Richard and Muriel Saltonstall, was born in Ips- 
wich in 1639. He was an assistant from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed by Gov- 
ernor William Phipps one of the judges of the Oyer and Terminer Court organized 
in 1692 to try the witches and refused to serve. He was named in the Provincial 
Charter as one of the Council and continued a member until 1694. He grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1659 and settled in Haverhill. In 1702 he was appointed judge 
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county and remained on the bench 
until his death, which occurred May 21, 1707. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Rev. John W^ard, of Haverhill. 

RicH.\RD S.'VLTONST.'iLL, SOU of Richard and Mehitable (Wainwright) Saltonstall, was 
born in Haverhill, June 24, 1703, and graduated at Harvard in 1722. He was a mem- 
ber of the Council from 1743 to 1745, and was a judge of the Superior Court of Judica- 
ture from December 29, 1736, till his death, October 20, 1756. He had three wives, 
the last of whom was Mary, daughter of Elisha Cooke. 

LEVERF.rr S..\LTONST.\LL, Son of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall and Anna, his wife, who 
was the daughter of Samuel W^hite, of Haverhill, was born in Haverhill, June 13, 
1783. He was fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1802, 
receiving from his Alma Mater a degree of LL. D. in 1838, a degree of A. B. from 
Yale in 1802, and of A. M. from Bowdoin in 1806. He studied law with Ichabod 
Tucker in Haverhill and with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Essex bar 
in 1806 and to the Suffolk bar in the same year. He was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Senate and its president in 1831, and also a member of the House of Represent- 
atives. He was the first Mayor of Salem and in 1838 was chosen member of Congress, 
serving until 1843. He was president of the Bible Society, of the Essex Agricultural 




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Society, of the Essex Bar Association, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Soci- 
ety, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Harvard Board of Over- 
seers. He married, March 7, 1811, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Sanders, of 
Salem, and died in Salem, May 8, 184.5. 

Leverett Saltonstai.l, son of Leverett and Mary Elizabeth (Sanders) Saltonstall, 
was born in Salem. March 16, 182.5, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. In 1S47 he 
graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 
28, 18.50. In 1854 he was on the staff of Governor Emory Washburn. In 1862 he re- 
tired from the law, but continvied conspicuous in public affairs. From 1876 to 1889 he 
was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a portion of the time its presi- 
dent. In 1S76 he was appointed a commissioner of Massachusetts to the Centennial 
Exposition in Philadelphia, and from December, I.S80, to February, 1890, he was col- 
lector of the port of Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society 
and has been president of the Unitarian Club. He married in Salem, October 19, 
1854, Rose S., daughter of John Clarke and Harriet (Rose) Lee, and has his residence 
at Chestnut Hill near Boston. 

RiCH.-\Ri) MiDDi.EcoTT S.vLTO.NST.M.L, Son of Leverett and Rose (Lee) Saltonstall, 
was born at Chestnut Hill near Boston, October 28, 1859. Among his distinguished 
ancestors was Elisha Cooke, whose wife, Jane Middlecott, was a great-grand- 
daughter of Governor Edward Winslow. She was also great-grand-daughter 
of Governor John Leverett. Thus it will be seen from whom his father and 
grandfather took their names and from whom he took his middle name. He 
graduated at Harvard in 1880 and studied law at the Harvard Law .School and in the 
office of William Caleb Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. 
He married at Medford, October 17, 1891, Eleanor, daughter of Peter C. Brooks, and 
lives at Chestnut Hill. 

EzR..i W^ESTOX S.wii'soN, son of Sylvanus and Sjdvia (Church) Sampson, was born in 
Duxbury, December 1, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. He was admitted to 
the .Suffolk bar Januarj' 29, 1836, and began practice in Braintree. On the death of 
Jairus Ware he was appointed clerk of the courts in Norfolk county and served till 
his death at Dedham, January 15, 1867. He married, October 8, 1820, Selina Wads- 
worth, of Duxbury. 

John Henry T.m.-k, son of Thomas and Mary F. (Burke) Taff, was born in Boston 
August 20, 1857, and was educated at the Boston Latin .School and at Harvard Col- 
lege. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles F. 
Donnell}^ in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He married Sarah 
J. ^Velch in Boston August 20, 1884, and lives in Boston. 

EucRNE T.\PPAN, son of Daniel Dana and Abigail (Marsh) Tappan, was born in 
Marshfield, Mass., July 4, 1840, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in 
Meriden, N. H., and at Williams College. He read law with Bacon & Aldrich in 
Worcester, and was admitted to the AVorcester barSn 1871. He married, Alice R. 
Crosby, at Centreville, in Barnstable, Mass., December 24, 1872, and lives in Win- 
chester. 

John Henuv T.wi.ok, .sim of Hugh and Mary J. Taylor, was born in Boston 
October 13, 1.S53, and was educated in the public schools. He read law with Causten 



1 82 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

Browne and Jabez S. Holmes in Boston,' and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April fS, 
187'). He has been commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 
and examiner in equity for the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District. 
He married, Annie B. Middleby in Boston, September 1, 1874, and lives in Chelsea. 

JiiiiN Oscar Teele, son of Samuel and Ellen Chase Teele, was born in Wilmot, 
N. H., July 18, 1839, and was educated at the New Hampton and New London 
Academies, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1878, receiving a degree later in conse- 
rjuence of his being in New Orleans when the war broke out. He studied law with 
(Jeorge W. Nesmith, Austin F. Pike and Daniel Barnard in Franklin. N. H., and in 
New Orleans in 1861-3. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 18();i, and 
in Massachusetts in the same j'ear, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives in 1886-7. He married, Feliruary 28, lS<i8, at Waltham, Mass., Mary 
P. Smith, and lives in Boston. 

George Thacher, son of Peter, was born in Yarmouth, Mass., April 1'2, 17.")4, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with Shearjashub Bourne in Barn- 
stable, was admitted to the bar in 1778, and began practice in York, Me. In 1782 he 
moved to Biddeford. He was a member of Congress from 1788 to 180), and a district 
judge in Maine. He was appointed m 1801 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and 
continued on the bench until January, 1824, when he resigned. He was a member of 
the convention in 1819 which framed the constitution of Maine. He married 
Mary, daughter of Samuel Phillips Savage, of Weston, Mass., and died in Biddeford 
Me.,' Aprife, 1824. 

Josei'H Stevens Buckminster Thacher, .son of Peter Oxenbridge and Charlotte I. 
(McDonough) Thacher, was born in Boston May 11, 1812, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1832. He attended the Harvard Law School and began practice in Boston. In 
1830 he moved to Natchez and became judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, hold- 
ing the office until his death at Natchez November 30, 1867, 

OxEMiRHjoE Thacher, son of Oxenbridge Thacher, was born in Milton in 1720, and 
graduated in Harvard in 17S8. He first studied divinity and afterwards law, and 
became a leading lawyer of his town. He was a representative from 1763 to his 
death, which took place in Boston July 8, 1765. 

Sylvanus M. Thomas, son of Sylvanus and Agnes Jackson Thomas, was born in 
New Bedford, March 23, 1850, and graduated at Brown University, 1871. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, 
and was admitted to the bar in Taunton in January, 1874, where he has been city 
solicitor three years. He married at Taunton, where he lives, Emily Hayman, 
November 18. 1891. 

Saml el Thaicher was bom in Boston July 1, 1776, and graduated at Harvard in 
1793. He \vas admitted to the bar before the close of the last century, and was a 
member of Congress from 1803 to 1805. He was many years a representative and 
overseer at Harvard. He died in Boston Jvily 18, 1872. 

Benj.vmix Bussey Thatcher, son of Samuel, was born in ^Varren, Me., October 8, 
18119, and graduated at Bowdoin in 1826. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831, 
but devoted himself chiefly to literature. He published, besides fugitive poems and 
articles in the magazines, a " Biography- of North American Indians," "Memoirs of 



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Phillis Wheatley," " Memoir of S. Osgood Wright," " Tales of tlie American Revolu- 
tion," etc. He died in Boston July 14. 1840. 

Cii.\RLKs Sedgwick R.'\ckekm.\n, son of Frederick \V. and Elizabeth D. Rackerman, 
was born in Lenox, Mass., June 21, 1S.'57, and was educated at the Lenox High 
School, the Cambridge High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
He studied law with Francis V. Balch in Boston, at the Harvard Law School and 
the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jiuie, 1881. He is a vice- 
president of the Conveyancer's Title Insurance Company and a director in the Water 
Company of Milton, where he lives. Mr. Rackerman is grandson of Charles Sedg- 
wick, the clerk of the courts in Berkshire county for thirty years, and great-grandson 
of Theodore Sedgwick, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and speaker of the 
National House of Representatives. 

Felix Rackerm.-\n, son of Frederick W. and Elizabeth Ij. Rackerman, was burn in 
Lenox, Mass., June 17, 1861, and was educated at Cornell University in the class of 
18H2. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the ofhces of Robert T. 
Lincoln in Chicago and Francis V. Balch in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 
Chicago in 1885 and in Boston in 1880. He married Julia, daughter of Dr. Francis 
Minot, of Boston, in 1886, and lives in Milton. 

TiioM..\s F. Reddv, son of Thomas and Catherine Reddy, was born in Boston Feb- 
ruary 22, I860, and was educated at the Boston University. He read law in Boston 
in the office of F-. V. Balch and at the Boston L^niversity Law School, from which he 
graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. In prac- 
tice he makes a specialty of probate cases and conveyancing. He has been a writer 
for the Anifrkan Law Rcvieiv, and some of his articles have, by their thorough- 
ness and comprehensiveness, commended themselves to the profession. He lives in 
Boston. 

Charles Montgomery Reed, son of Charles and Sophia Williams Reed, was born 
in Brookline, Mass., March 11, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1867. He read 
law with Latham & Kingman in Bridgewater and at the Harvard Law School, from 
which he graduated in 1870. He was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 
1869. He married Maria Ames Carlisle, July 3, 1878, at Boston, where he lives. 

George Hammon Reed, son of Hammon and Sylvia J. Reed, was born in Lexing- 
ton, Mass., January 31, 1858, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law 
in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson in Boston, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1880. He has served on the School Committee 
in Lexington, where he lives. He married S. Augusta Adams at Lexington, Novem- 
ber 5, 1884. 

John P. J. Ward was born in Boston, August 5, 1857, and educated at the May- 
hew and English High School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was a member of the Boston 
Common Council in 1879. 

J. Otis Wardwell, son of Zenas C. and Adriana S. (Pillsbury) Wardwell, was 
born in Lowell, March 14, 1857, and was educated at the Georgetown High School, 
New London Institution, and the Bost(m University. He studied law with J. P. and 
B. B. Jones in Haverhill, and with Samuel J. Elder in Boston, and was admitted to 



184 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the Essex bar in September, 1879. He has been a member of the Haverhill Council 
and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1887 to '91 inclu- 
sive. He was married in Bristol, Vt., December 24, 1887, and lives in Haverhill. 

Henry W.\kD\\ kll, son of Moses and Amy Swasey (Farley) Wardwell, was born in 
Ipswich, Mass., April 28, 1840, and was educated at the Peabody public schools and 
at Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1866. He studied law in Boston 
with Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
August 1, 1870. He has been in the Salem Council and Board of Aldermen, and was 
a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879 and '81. He mar- 
ried Sarah Osborne Fitch at Peabody, October 6, 1875, and lives in Salem. 

George L.vngdon Shorey, son of John L. and Sarah B. Shorey, was born in Lynn, 
Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with Augustine 
Jones, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 1875. He married Mary F. 
Alley, June 15, 1875, and lives in Lynn. He was counsel in the somewhat notable 
case of Chester Snow, of Harwich, vs. John B. Alley, in which there were six trials 
— two disagreements, three verdicts for about one hundred thousand dollars each, 
and a final verdict for $58,000. There were in the case one reversal by the Su- 
preme Covirt and two settings aside by the judge of the Superior Court. In the first 
three trials Mr. Shorey was alone, and in the last three junior with Colonel IngersoU 
as senior counsel. 

Fr.-\nk How.aki) Shorey, son of John and Cornelia (Guild) Shorey, was born in 
Boston, November 2, 1837, and fitted at the High School in Dedham for Dartmouth 
College, where he remained two years, and finally graduated at Harvard in 1858. He 
studied law in Boston with Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, and was admitted to the 
bar in Boston, June 20, 1859. He died at Dedham, January 24, 1862. 

RoscoE Henry Thompson, son of Oakes and Livinia (Banks) Thompson, was born 
in Hartford, Me., May 1, 1836, and was educated at the Hebron Academy and the 
Wesleyan Seminary. He studied law with ElbridgeG. Harlow, of Canton, Me., and 
A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the bar of Paris, Me., and to 
the Suffolk bar, December 9, 1871. He was postmaster of Canton, Me., under the 
the administration of Buchanan, town clerk and treasurer three years, and first 
special justice of the Municipal Court of the East Boston District ten years. He mar- 
ried Helen Crafts at Craftsmont Farm, Jay, Me., June 27, 1872. He has a residence 
in New York city and in Jay, Me. 

S.^MUEi. LoTHROP Thorndike, SOU of Albert and Joanna (Batchclder) Thorndike, 
was born in Beverly, Mass., December 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sidney 
Bartlett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 11, 1855, and to the fnited 
States Supreme Court in 1867. He was register of bankruptc)' under the law of 
1867, and is a director in various railroad and manufacturing companies. He mar- 
ried Anna Lamb, daughter of Judge Daniel Wells, and lives in Cambridge. 

Charles CorEL.\ND Niiter, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Copeland) Nutter, was 
born in Hallowell, Me., January 12, 1820, and fitted at the Hallowell Academy for 
Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1839, at the head of his class. He studied 
law at Hallowell in the office of Henrv W. Paine, and in Boston in the offices of 



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Sprague & Gray and of Sidney Bartlett, and was admitted ttj the Siift'olk hzx in July, 
1841. He practiced some years as partner with William Hilliard, under the firm 
name of Hilliard &r Nutter, and subsequently, from 1848 to 18T1, with his brother, 
Thomas F. Nutter, under the style of C. C. & T. F. Nutter. He was commissioned 
as master in chancery by Governor John H. CliiTord, and held a commission by re- 
newals until he retired from practice on account of ill health in 18T1. He died in 
Boston in 1884. 

D.\.\iEL J. She.a. was born in Boston, March 31, 18-JT. He was educated at the 
Brimmer School, the English ftigh School, the Latin School and the Harvard Law 
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and died September 3, 1888. 

R. W. Shea was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 14, 1851, and came with his 
parents an infant to Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. He gradu- 
ated at the Boston University Law School in 18T7, and was admitted to the Norfolk 
bar in 188(1. He was subsequently admitted to the bar in Chicago. 

Joseph Gili!Ert Thokp, son of Joseph Gilbert and Susan A. Thorp, was born in 
Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., August IT, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Shattuck &- Munroein 
Boston, and wasadmitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1882. He married Annie A. 
Longfellow, at Cambridge, October 14, 1885, and lives in Cambridge. 

Ch.^ri.es Giueo.v Davis, son of William and Joanna (White) Davis, was born in 
Plymouth, May 30, 1820. He was educated in his \-outh in the public schools of Plym- 
outh, at the private school of Samuel Willard, in Hingham, and under the direction 
of John A. Shaw of Bridgewater. He graduated at Harvard in 1840, and studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth, and Hub- 
bard & Watts in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth m August, 1843. 
He opened an office in Boston and practiced alone until January 1844, when he be- 
came associated with William H. Whitman, late clerk of the courts of Plymouth 
county, and later with Seth Webb and George P. Sanger. In 1846 he identified him- 
self with the anti-slavery movement and aided in the election of Charles Sumner to 
Congress, and in the campaign of 1848 against the election of General Taylor to the 
presidency and in favor of Van Buren and Adams, whose nomination for president 
and vice-president he assisted as a delegate to the Buffalo convention in securing. In 
1851 he was tried before Benjamin F. Hallet, L^nited States commissioner, for assist- 
ing in the rescue of Shadrack, a fugitive slave, from the hands of the officers in the 
court-house in Boston. He was acquitted of the charge, but never denied that he 
rendered the assistance for which he was arrested. He was one of the organizers of 
the Free Soil party and later of the Republican part)-, and was a delegate to the na- 
tional convention in Philadelphia in 1850 which put John C. Fremont in nomination. 
During the Know-Nothing years 1854-5 he was chairman of the Republican State com- 
mittee. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853 from Plymouth, 
to which place he moved in 1852, and in 1863 a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives from that town, a trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege many years, president of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and assessor 
of internal revenue from 1862 to 1869. In 1872, having abandoned the Republi- 
can party, he was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention, which nominated Horace 
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i86 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Greeley for the presidency, and has been a Democratic candidate for Congress. In 
1M74 he was appointed by Governor Talbot judge of the Third District Court of 
of Ph'mouth county, and still holds that position. He married in Plymouth, where 
he now resides, November 19, 1845, Hannah Stevenson, daughter of John B. and 
Mary (Howland) Thomas. ■ 

Daniel D.wis, son of Daniel, was born in Barnstable, May 8, 1762. He studied law 
in Barnstable with Shearjashub Bourne, and was admitted to the bar in 1783. Im- 
mediatelv after admission he settled in Falmouth, now Portland, and was one of the 
five lawyers at that time practicing in the whole District of Maine. The other four 
were George Thacher, Roland Cushing, Timothy Langdon, and William Lithgow. 
He was six years in the House, six years in the Senate. From 1796 to 1801 he was 
United States attorney for Maine, and in 1800 was appointed by Governor Strong 
solicitor general, and held that ofSce until 1882, when the oftice was abolished. In 
1804 he removed to Boston, and after his retirement he became a resident in Cam- 
bridge, where he died October 37, 1835. He married in 1786 Louisa, daughter of Rev. 
James Freeman, D. D. , of King's Chapel, Boston. He received an honorary degree of 
Master of Arts from Harvard in 1797. and was for a time president of the Board of 
Overseers of Bowdoin College. 

Josi.iH S. Dean, son of Benjamin and Mary A. Dean, was born in Boston, May 11, 
1860, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, the Harvard Law School, and in the offices of his father, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. He was a member of the Boston Com- 
mon Council in 1891-3, and he was associated with L. S. Dabney as attorney for the 
South Boston Railroad, and with the late Judge Abbott in the overissued stock cases 
of the same road. He married at Bradford, England, August 3, 1888, May Lilian, 
daughter of Prof. Walter Smith, and lives in Boston. 

Alexander Fairfield Wadsworth, son of Alexander and Mary E. H. Wadsworth, 
was born in Boston, January 28, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied 
law in the offices of John J. Clarke, Lemuel Shaw, jr., and William I. Bowditch in 
Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar November 31, 1863. and was a common councilman in 1875. He married 
Lucy Goodwin in 1876 in Boston, where he lives. 

William Cushing W.ait, son of Elijah Smith and Eliza Ann (Hadley) Wait, was 
born in Charlestown, Mass., December 18, 1860, and fitted at the Medford High School 
for Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law- School 
in 1885, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 31, 1885, and to the LTnited States 
Circuit Court May 15, 1888. He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Law articles 
on "Representations as to Character, etc.," "Statute of Frauds," "Jettison," and 
" Marine Insurance." He married Edith Foote Wright, January 1, 1889, at Medford, 
where he lives. 

John F. Wakefield, son of John H. and ilinerva M. Wakefield, was born in Tay- 
lorsville, Penn., May 9, 1852, and w-as educated at the New London Institution in 
Xew Hampshire, the Franklin Academy, and the Maiden High School. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law Sch-iol, and in Boston in the office of John C. 
Crowley, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1875. He has made a specialty 




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of marriage and divorce laws in Massachusetts. He married Laura A. Seaward in 
Chelsea December 14, 1876, and lives in Boston. 

JoN.VTHAN Fav Barrett, son of Joseph and Sophia (Fay) Barrett, was born in Con- 
cord, Mass., January 28, 1817. He en':ered Harvard in 1834, and leaving college in 
the autumn of 1835, began to study la v in the office of Jonathan Chapman and Rich- 
ard Sullivan Fay in Boston, and finished his studies at the Harvard Law School. He 
was admitted to the bar in July, 1838, and practiced in Boston until his death, which 
occurred suddenlv while in his office January 23, 1885. He married Lydia Ann Lor- 
ing, April 27, 1848, and he alwaj-s retained his residence in Concord. 

Lewis S. Dabnev, son of Frederick and Roxana (Stackpole) Dabney, was born in 
Fa)-al, December 31, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. His father was vice- 
consul at Fayal and died there in 1857. He studied law with Horace Gray and Chas. 
F. Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1863. He served in the 
war of 1861 in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, from November 1862 to January 
1865, and was mustered out as captain. Beginning practice in 1865 he was Assistant 
district attorney with Richard H. Dana, jr., in 1866, He married, April 22, 1867, 
Clara, daughter of George T. Bigelow. 

Timothy J. Dacev was born in Boston, October 11, 1849, and was educated at the 
Eliot Grammar School, the English High School, and at the College of the Holy 
Cross in Worcester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted 
to the bar in Boston, June 28, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common Coun- 
cil in 1873-3, representative in 1874, a senator in 1875-6, a member of the Board of 
Trustees of the City Hospital, a delegate to the national Democratic convention at 
St. Louis in 1876, a member of the Boston School Board in 18,80-1-3-5-6-7, and 
three years president of the Board. In Januan-, 1877, he was appointed assistant 
district attorney for Suffolk. He died December 15, 1887. 

Frank Ei.uot Dickerman, son of Ouincy E. and Rebecca M. Dickerman, was born 
in Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1864. and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He 
studied law in the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Richardson & 
Hale, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. In Somerville, where he lives, he 
has been president of the Common Council, and a member of the School Board. He 
married Minnie L. Despeaux at Somerville November 11, 1891. 

Albert Dickerman, son of Wyat and Lois Dickerman, was born in Stoughton, 
Mass., February 21, 1831, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown 
University. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office 
of Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1854. He has 
been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He married Mary 
Aborn Smith, May 31, 1864, in Boston, where he lives. 

Henry Sweetser Dewey, son of Israel Otis and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey, 
was born in Hanover, N. H., November 9, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth College 
in 1878. He studied law in the Boston Lfniversity Law School, from which he grad- 
uated in 1882, and in Boston in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1883. He was a member of the Boston Common Council 
from 1885 to 1887, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1889 
to 1891, member of the First Corps of Cadets from 1880 to 1.889, and was commis- 



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sioned judge advocate on the staff of the First Massachusetts Brigade with the rank 
of captain, February 20, 1889. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

John J..\mks Devkkkix, son of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux, was born 
in Salem, June 12, 1790. His father was a native of Waterford, Ireland, where he 
was born in May, 1766, and coming to New England married, September 12, 1792, 
Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Ives) Crowninshield. John James was educated 
at the private school of Robert Rogers in Salem and at the Branch School established 
by an association of gentlemen under the direction of Benjamin Tappan. He grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1816 and engaged in commercial pursuits until 1829, when he 
studied law with iJavid Cummins, of Salein, and was admitted to the Suffollc bar in 
October, 1831. After a few years practice in Boston he moved to Xew York and after 
three years residence there moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until his death, 
which occurred in Salem, March 16, 18.~)(i. 

Henry Gardner Denny, son of Daniel and Harriet Joanna (Gardner) Denny, was 
born in Boston, June 12, 1833, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at 
Harvard College, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in Boston in the offices of Francis O. Watts and Owen G. Peabody, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1856. He has been a useful and trusted citizen 
in many ways, having served as treasurer of the Ph. B. K. Society (Alpha of Massa- 
chusetts) twenty-three years, treasurer of the Society for Promoting Theological Ed- 
ucation thirteen years, treasurer of the Home for Aged Women eleven years, chair- 
man of the Dorchester School Board, auditor of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, member and cabinet-keeper of the Massachusetts Historical Society, mem- 
ber of the committee to examine the Harvard College Library thirty years, member 
of the committee on rhetoric, logic and grammar at Harvard ten years, trustee of 
the Dorchester Atheneum, treasurer of the Harvard Musical Association and director 
of other institutions and societies. He lives in Boston unmarried. 

Sidney B.-\rti.f.tt, son of Dr. Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in 
Plymouth, Mass., February 13, 1799. He was descended from Robert Bartlett, who 
came to Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1623 and who married in 1628, Mary, daughter 
of Richard Warren, one of the Mayflower passengers. He was educated at the pub- 
lic schools in Plymouth and graduated at Harvard in 1818. After leaving college he 
taught school in Scituate a short time and spent a year in Plymouth reading law in 
the office of Nathaniel Morton Davis. During that year he was a private in the 
Standish Guards, a military company organized in 1818. In 1820 he entered the office 
of Lemuel Shaw, late chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted 
in Boston, October 2, 1821, to practice in the Common Pleas Court, and in March, 
1824, to practice in the Supreme Court. He wasassociated as partner with Mr. Shaw, 
his instructor, until the appointment of Mr. Shaw to the Supreme Bench in 1830. He 
advanced steadily, but surely, in his profession until he was recognized as the leader of 
the Massachusetts bar. He was never a ready and eloquent pleader before a jurj-, but 
the sphere in which he excelled was that of a shrewd, wise legal adviser, the results of 
whose study no man would dare to question and whose arguments before the courts 
were instructive to even the judges to whom they were addressed. His reputation 
was by no means confined within the limits of his own State, and in the judgment of 
the United States Supreme Court, it has been said, that no abler or more thorough 



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or convincing presentation of legal principles and their application to the cases atliar 
has been made in his time than b\- him. He never sought nor would he accept office 
whose duties would call him from the profession to which he was wedded. Though 
importuned to accept appointments to the bench he always refused them, and it is not 
too much to say that for many years the highest judicial positions in the land were 
within his reach. He was a member of. the Massachusetts House of Representatiwes 
in I80I and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1853, but with these ex- 
ceptions he scrupulously avoided what maybe called public life. He married in Bos- 
ton, October 8, 1838, Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt, and 
from the time of his admission to the bar always lived in Boston, where he died 
March 6, 1889. 

Joseph B.\rti.ett, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Wait) Bartlett, was born in Plym- 
outh, Mass., in 1761, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. He studied law in Salem 
and was a member of the SuffoUc bar. He went to England and appeared on the 
stage in Edinburgh as "Maitland," returned to America and became a merchant in 
Boston and was a captain in Shays' s Rebellion. He afterwards practiced inWoburn, 
and in 1799 delivered a poem before the Phi Beta called "Physiognomy." He pub- 
lished a book of Aphorisms in 1823, and in the same year he delivered the Fourth of 
July oration in Boston. Shortly after he published a poem entitled, "The New Vicar 
of Bray." He went to Maine, where he was a representative and edited at Saco the 
Frccinan s Friend. He also delivered a Fourth of Juh' oration in Biddeford and 
practiced law in Portsmouth among other places. He married in Plymouth, Anna 
May, daughter of Thomas and Ann (May) Wetherell, and died in Boston, October 
20, 1827. 

Gr.m-"ton St. Loe Abboi[', son of Josiah O. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was 
born in Lowell, Mass., November 14, 18.56, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He 
studied law with his father in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. 
He married Mary Adams at Ouincy, Mass., Sei^tember 29, 1890, and now resides at 
Lewiston, Me. 

Fk.\-nkli.\' Pierce Ahbott, son of Josiah G. and Caroline (Livermore) Abbott, was 
born in Lowell, Mass., May 6, 1832, and was educated at St. Mark's School. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1876 and was admitted to the bar in New 
York in 1878 and in Boston in 188"). Aside from his practice he is engaged in literary 
pursuits. He lives at Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Cii.\rles Allen, son of Sylvester and Harriet (Riplej-) Allen, was born in Green- 
field, Mass., April 37, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He read law in Green- 
field in the office of George T. Davis and Charles Devens and at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar at Northampton, September 30, 18.50. He re- 
mained in Greenfield in the practice of law until 1863, when, having been appointed 
reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court, he moved to Boston. He 
held the office of reporter until 1867, and his reports are contained in fourteen volumes, 
covering a period from the Suffolk January term of 1861 to the Suffolk Jantiary term 
of 1867. From 1867 to 1872 he was attorney-general of the Commonwealth. In 1880 
he was ajjpointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of the Common- 
wealth, and in 1883 was appointed by Governor Long judge of the Supreme Judicial 
Court, wliich jjosition he still holds. His residence is in Boston. 



1 90 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Charles Allen, son of Joseph Allen, was born in Worcester, August 9, 1T97. He 
entered Yale College in 1811, after a course of study at Leicester Academy, and re- 
mained one year. He then entered the office of Samuel M. Burnside and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1818. He practiced in New Braintree six years and in 
1829 he returned to Worcester and became a partner with John Davis. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts House of Representati\-es in 1839-34—36-40, and in the 
Senate in 183o-38-39,and in 1842 he was a member of the Northeastern Boundary 
Commission. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court and re- 
signed in 1844, and was a member of Congress from 1844 to 1853. In 1858, on the 
resignation of Chief Justice Nelson of the Superior Court of Suffolk county, he was 
appointed in his place. The court was abolished in 1859 by the Act establishing 
the Superior Court and he was appointed in that year chief justice of the new court. 
He resigned his seat in 1807 and died in Worcester, August 6, 1869. 

George B. Bigelow, son of Samuel and Anna J. (Brooks) Bigelow, was born in 
Boston, April 25, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Chariestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill 
Cobb and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December 31, 1859. 

John Presco'it Bigelow, son of Timothy and Lucy (Prescott) Bigelow, was born 
in Groton, Mass., August 25, 1T97, and was fitted at the Lawrence Academy in Gro- 
tonforHarvard, where he graduatedin 1815. He studied law with Luther Lawrence and 
his father in Groton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. He was a mem- 
ber of the Boston Common Covincil from 1827 to '32, and two j-ears its president, and 
in 1829-33, '35, a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. In 1836 
he was chosen secretary of State, and served eight years, and was a member of the 
Executive Council from 1845 to '49. In 1848-50 he was chosen mayor of Boston, and 
made the first gift in money to the Boston Public Library, of which he was a trustee. 
While mayor he exhibited great efficiency and heroism during the cholera season of 
1849. He married, March 8, 1824, Louisa Anne, daughter of David L. Brown, an 
English gentleman, and died in Boston, Julj' 4, 1872. 

Melville Madison Bigelow, son of Rev. William E. and Daphne F. Bigelow, was 
born near Eaton Rapids, Mich. , Aiigust 2, 1846, and was educated at the University 
of Michigan. He studied law in Michigan and Tennessee, and was admitted to the 
bar at Memphis m March, 1868, and later in Massachusetts. He has published several 
works on legal subjects, among which are "Law of Estoppel," "Law of Torts," 
" Law of Fraud," etc. He married in Cambridge two wives, one in 1869 and one 
in 1881, and lives in that city. 

TixioTHV Bigelow, son of Timothy and Anna (Andrews) Bigelow. was born in 
Worcester, April 30, 1767, and fitted for college under Benjamin Lincoln and Samuel 
Dexter. He graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Levi Lincoln. 
After admission to the bar he began practice in Groton and moved to Medford. He 
was a representative thirteen years from Groton and twelve years from Medford, 
and speaker of the House thirteen years. He was a delegate to the Hartford con- 
vention in 1814, a member of the Executive Council, and delivered the Phi Beta ora- 
tion in 1796. He married, September 3, 1791, Lucy, daughter of Doctor Oliver and 
Lydia (Baldwin) Pre.scott, and died May IS, 1821. 



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Tvi.EK BiGEUiw, son of Uavid and Deborah (Heywood) Bigelow, was born in Wor- 
cester, August 13, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with 
Timothy Bigelow in Groton, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1804. 
He began practice in Leominster, but removed to Watertown in 18()o. He married, 
November 36, 1806, Clara, daughter of Timothy Bigelow, of Worcester, who died 
March 18, 1846. He married second, December 15, 1847, Harriet L. Whitney, 
daughter of Abraham Lincoln, of Worcester, who died June 20, 18.")3. He died at 
Watertown, Jlay 28, ISe.'i, leaving a legacy of §10,000 to Harvard College for the 
benefit of indigent and meritorious students. 

Wu.MoN W. Bi,,\CKM.^R, .son of Joseph and Eliza J. (Philbrick) Blackmar, was born 
in Bristol, Penn., July 2.1, 1841, and was preparing for college at Exeter, X. H., 
when he enlisted in the army. He had previousl^^ attended the Brimmer School in 
Boston and the Bridgewater Normal School. He enlisted as private in the Fifteenth 
Pennsylvania Cavalry and became orderly sergeant and lieutenant, and was trans- 
ferred to the First West Virginia Veteran Cavalry. He then became captain, 
was detailed as adjutant-general of his brigade, and fought at Antietam, Stone 
River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga. He served through the whole war. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 
1867. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1873 and was judge ad- 
vocate general of Massachusetts twelve years. He married in Boston, November 17, 
1880, Helen R. Brew-er, and lives in Boston. 

Stephen G. N.\sh, son of John and Abigail Ladd (Gordon) Nash, was born in New 
Hampton, N. H., April 4, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842. He 
studied law with George W. Nesmith in Franklin, N. H., and was admitted to the 
Sufifolk bar April 16, 1846. He has been a representative from Boston, and from 1855 
to 1859 was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court of Suffolk county. He mar- 
ried Mary Upton at Wakefield in 1866, and lives in Lynnfield. 

Henry F. N.\I'HEN, son of John and Jane (Henry) Naphen, was born in Ireland, 
August 14, 1852 and came an infant with his parents to Lowell. He was educated 
at the public schools and took a course at Harvard as resident bachelor. He studied 
law at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was admitted to the 
SulTolk bar in November, 1879, after a further course of study in the office of Bur- 
bank & Lund in Boston. He has been a member of the State Senate and the Boston 
School Committee, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. He married 
Margaret A. Drummey, daughter of Patrick Drummey, and lives in South Boston. 

John Breed Newhali., son of Charles and Hester C. (Moulton) Newhall, was born 
in Lvnn, Mass., October 1, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He .studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Simmons & Pratt in Abington, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has been president of the Common 
Council of Lynn, where he resides, and secretary of the Lynn Board of Trade. 

Henry Newm.xn, son of Henry and Deborah (Cushing) Newman, was born in Bos- 
ton, May 16, 1783. His father was a merchant and his mother a daughter of Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Thomas Cushing. He studied law with Thomas Dawes and Will- 
iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1810. He gave up practice and 
moved to Washington, but died in Boston, July 28, 1861. 



192 HISIORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Frank N. Nay was born in Boston April 80, 1866, and fitted at the Roxbury Latin 
School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1«ST. He studied law at the Boston 
University Law School and in the office of E. H. Bennett in Boston, and was admit- 
ted to the SuiTolk bar in 1890. He lives in Boston. 

William Hilllvkd, son of William and Sarah Levering Hilliard, was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., October 15, 1803, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted 
to the Sufl^olk bar in 1824 and practiced in Boston. He married Elizabeth Newhall 
of Bo.ston, and died there September 8, 1869. 

Tho.mas Leverett Nelson, son of John and Lois B. (Leverctt) Nelson, was born in 
Haverhill, Mass., March 4, 1827. He was educated at Dartmouth College and at the 
University of Vermont. He studied law with Charles E. Thompson, of Haverhill, 
and Francis H. Uewey, of Worcester, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in 
1855. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1869, 
and in 1879 was appointed judge of the United States Court for Massachusetts District. 
He was city .solicitor of Worcester from 1870 to 1874. He married, October 29, 1857, 
Anna H. Hayward at Mendon, Mass., and March 23, 1865, Louisa A. Small at Mill- 
bury, Mass. Ilis home is in Worcester. 

Albeui Huhakt Nelson, son of Dr. John and Lucinda (Parkhurst) Nelson, was 
born in MiLford, Mass., March 12, 1812. He fitted for college at the Concord Acad- 
emy and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He studied law with Samuel Hoar, of Con- 
cord, and at the Harvard Law .School, from which he graduated in 1837. He began 
practice in Concord, but in 1842 moved to Woburn and opened an office in Boston. 
In 1846 he was appointed district attorney for the Middlesex and Essex District, and 
in 1855 he was a member of the Executive Council. He was in the Senate in 1848-9. 
In 1855 he was appointed chief jtistice of the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk, 
which was established in that year, and resigned on account of ill health in 1858. He 
married, in September, 1840, Elizabeth B., daughter of Elias Phinney, of Lexington, 
Mass., and died at the McLean Asyhim June 27, 1858. 

Isaac Johnson was born in Clipsham, England, and came to Massachu.setts with 
Winthrop in 1630. He was an assistant in 1630, and died in Boston September 30 
in that year. He married, Arbella, daughter of Thomas, Fourteenth Earl of Lincoln, 
who came with her husband, and died in Salem, Mass., August 30, 1630. 

Thomas Shaki' came over in 1630, and was an assistant in that year. 

WiLLLMvi Vassel was an assistant in 1630. 

Edward Rossiter was an assistant in 1630. 

John Humphrey was born in Dorchester, England, and was one of the original 
associates of the Massachusetts Company. He was chosen the first deputy governor 
in England in 1629, and was an assistant from 1632 to 1641. He married Susan, 
daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and returning with his wife to England died there 
October 21, 1641. 

Richard Di'mmer was an assistant in 1635 to 1636. 

Atherton Houch was an assistant in 1635. 

Roger Hari.akenden, was an assistant from 1635 to 163S. 

Israel SToioirioN was an early settler in Dorchester, and a member of the General 
Court from 1635 to 1637. He was captain of the Artillery Company in 1642, and an 



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assistant from 1637 to 1643. He died at Lincoln, England, in 164"), giving three 
hundred acres of land to Harvard College. 

Thomas Flint was an assistant from 1643 to 1651, and again in IM."):!. 

S.\MUEi, Symonds was an assistant from 1643 to 1673. 

Wii.i.i.\M HiBBENs was an assistant from 1643 to 1654. 

Hekbekt Pei.h.^m was a grandson of Edward Pelhara, of Hastings, England, who 
was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and who died in 16(16. Herbert, 
of Michelham Priory, son of Edward, was admitted to Gray's Inn in 158.S. Herbert, 
the son of Herbert, and the subject of this sketch, was born in 1601, and graduated 
at Oxford in 1619. He came to Massachusetts in 1638, and was the first treasurer of 
Harvard College. He was an assistant from 1645 to 1649, when he returned to 
England and died in 1673. His widow, Elizabeth, who had been his second wife, was 
the widow of Roger Harlakenden, already referred to. 

Fr.vncis WiLLOUGHBV was deputy governor from 1665 to 1670, and an assistant in 
16.50-51 and 1664. 

Edw.-vrd Gibisons came very early to Massachusetts, and was a representative from 
1638 to 1647, an assistant in 1650-51, and captain of the Artillery Company. He 
died in Boston December 9, 1654. 

Tii(i.M.\s WiGGiN was an assistant from 16.50 to 1664. 

John Glover was an assistant in 1650 and 1653. 

D.'VNIEL GoOKiN came to Massachusetts in 1644, having lived many years in Virginia. 
He settled in Cambridge, and was a representative from that town in the House of 
Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1651. He was an assistant from 1652 to 1686, 
and in 1681 he was made major-general of the colony. He died in Cambridge March 
19, 1687. 

D.vNiEL Denison, son of Willani, was born in England in 1613, and came to Massa- 
chusetts about 1631, and in 1635 moved to Ipswich from Cambridge, where he first 
settled. He was major-general of the colony, speaker of the House of Deputies, 
justice of the Quarterly Court, commis.sioner of the United Colonies, and an assistant 
from 1653 to 1682. He died at Ipswich September 20, 1682. 

SiMoND WiLL-^RLi came to Massachusetts in 1634, and was born about 1605 in 
England. He settled in Concord, and afterwards lived in Lancaster, Groton and 
Salem. He was an assistant from 1654 to 1675, and died in Charlestown April 24, 
1676. 

HiMi'HKEY Atherton Came to Massachusetts about 1636 and settled in Dorchester. 
He afterwards moved to Springfield, and from both Dorchester and Springfield he 
was a member of the House of Deputies, of which he was speaker in 1653. He was 
major-,general of the colony, and an assistant from 1654 to 1661, and died in Boston 
September 17, 1661. 

RirH-\RD Rlssell came to Massachusetts from Herefordshire, England, in 1640, and 
settled in Charlestown. He was speaker of the House of Deputies in 1647-8-54-56- 
58, and an assistant from 1659 to 1676. He died at Charlestown, May 14, 1676. 

James Russell, son of Richard, was born in Charlestown, October 1, 1640. He was 
a Representative in 1679, and an assistant from 1680 to '86, and a member of the 
Counsel of Andros. He died April 28, 1709. 
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194 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Thomas Dankokth, son of Xicholas, -was born in England in 1632. He was an as- 
sistant from 1659 to 1678, deputy governor from 1679 to 1686. He was appointed, in 
1692, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, and served until his death, Novem- 
ber 5, 1699. 

Eugene Bicelow Hagak, son of Josiah B. and Mary Ann (Davis) Hagar, was born 
in Cambridge, Mass., September 33, 1850, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall 
School, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1871. He studied law in the 
Harvard Law School, and in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council in 1880-81, assistant solicitor in Boston from 1881 to 1884. He lives in Boston. 

Henry L. Hallett, son of Benjamin F. and Laura Larned Hallett, was born in 
Providence, R. I., in 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1847. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1850. In 1858 he 
was appointed by his father assistant United States attorney, and in 1857 was ap- 
pointed United States Commissioner by the Circuit Court. In 1879 he was appointed 
supervisor of elections for the district of Massachusetts. Previous to 1862 all busi- 
ness before the United States commissioners, of whom there were several in Boston, 
was taken to the nearest commissioner, but in that year Richard H. Dana, then United 
States attorney, made an arrangement with Mr. Hallett, by which the latter estab- 
lished a Commissioner's Court, at which all business of a criminal character has since 
been transacted. He married, February 17, 1858, Cora, daughter of George Lovell, 
of Barnstable, and died in Boston in 1892. 

Robert SrR.\GUE Hall, son of Gustavus Vasa and Susan Frances (Frothingham) 
Hall, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 14, 1850, and was educated at the 
Chauncy Hall School arid at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1872. After 
studj-ing law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887. He has published 
poems, stories, translations, and magazine articles. He is unmarried and lives in 
Charlestown. 

Thomas Bartlett Hall, son of Joseph, jr., and Maria, daughter of Thomas Bart- 
lett, of Boston, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 36, 1834. His grandfather, Jo- 
seph Hall, was judge of probate for Suffolk county from 1825 to 1836. He was edu- 
cated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1843. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hubbard &• Watts in 
Boston, and was admitted on examination to the Suffolk bar in March, 1847. He was 
one of the Back Bay commissioners appointed by Governor Gardener, and for many 
years chairman of the Board of Assessors of Brookline. He has since 1860 engaged 
only to a small e.xtent in the practice of law, and for the last thirteen years has been 
chiefly occupied as examiner of accounts. The most noted case in which he was coun- 
sel was that of the Commonwealth vs. Roxbury, to try the title to Back Bay Flats. 
He published in 1863 a work, entitled "Three Articles on Modern Spiritualism by a 
Bible Spiritualist," and in 1883 another, entitled "Modern Spiritualism or the Open- 
ing Way." He married in Boston, May 29, 1851, Emily L. , daughter of George M. 
Dexter, and for forty-one years has lived in Longwood, a part of Brookline. 

Artemas Warm Lamso.n, son of Alvan and Frances Fidelia (Ward) Lamson, was 
born in Dedham, Mass., March 24, 1830, and graduated at Harvard College in 1849. 



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He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of John J. t^: Manlius S. 
Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1854. He married atDedham, 
where he resides, Rebecca L. Prince, January 27, 1S91. 

James M. Lane was born in South Boston, December 1, 1S70, and was educated at 
the Lawrence School and at Boston College. He studied law with William H. Sulli- 
van, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, January 23, 1891. 

JiiHx C. Lane, son of Jonathan A. and Sarah D. (Clarke) Lane, was born in Boston. 
November 8, 1852, and was educated at the Dwight School, the Boston Latin School, 
and graduated at Hai-vard College in 1875. He studied law at the Boston LTniversity 
Law School and in the offices of Lyman Mason and George W. Morse in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878. He married Harriet B. Winslow, September 
11, 1883, and lives at Norwood, Mass. 

James H. La.nge, son of John and Martha E. Lange, was born in Washington, D. 
C, January 18, 1857, and was educated at the public schools of Washington and Phila- 
delphia. He studied law at the Columbian University, Washington, and was admitted 
to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, June 23, 1880, and to the Suffolk 
bar April 5, 1887. He makes a specialty of patent causes. He married at Stanstead, 
Canada, October 6, 1886, Edith A. Miller, and Uves in Boston. 

Rlfl's Bigelow Lawrence, son of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, was born 
in Groton, Mass., July 13, 1814, and attended the Lawrence Academy at Groton, the 
Stow Academj' and a private school. He graduated at Harvard in 1834, and after 
studying law with his father was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, 1837. 
In 1839 he opened an office in Boston, and shortly after, while on a visit to Europe, 
died at Pau, France, Januai-y 13, 1841. 

Samiel P.\rker Lewis, son of James and Harriet (Parker) Lewis, was born in Pep- 
perell, Mass., November 16, 1824, and was educated at the Lawrence Academy at 
Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1849. He began practice 
in Boston, but returned to Pepperell in 1852, In 1874 he opened an office in Ayer, 
and in 1875 moved to Groton, returning again to Pepperell in 1880. He married, 
October 4, 1870, Catharine, daughter of Jonas Haskins, and Catharine (Marshall) Ti- 
tus, a native of Detroit, Mich., and died in Pepperell, November 26, 1882. 

Phillii' J. LiBBV was born in Boston, February 22, 1861, and was educated at the 
Boston public schools and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, from which 
he graduated in 1881. He studied law in the office of Crowley & Maxwell and in the 
Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1886, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Ch.ari.es Franklin Light, son of James and Ellen E. Light, was born in Dorches- 
ter, and was educated in the public schools of Dorchester and Boston. He attended 
the Boston LTniversity Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, February 
2, 1887. He married Jessie G. Cochran, at Natick, Mass.. November 2, 1889, and 
lives in Hyde Park. _, 

Wilfred B. Rich, son of Ransom and P. Laurette Rich, was born in Jackson, Me., 
April 21, 1855, and was educated at the Westbrook, Maine, Seminary, and the Maine 
Central Institute, Pittsfield, Me. He studied law with Albert W. Paine, of Bangor, 



196 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

and George E. Johnson, of Belfast, and was admitted to the bar in Bangor, Janiiary 
5, 1880, and in Boston, September 15, 1885. He was for a time postmaster of Cam- 
den, Me., and for two years was assistant editf)r of the Camden Hi-rald. He lives in 
Somerville. 

Tho:mas Rice wiis born in Wiscasset, Me., March 30, 1768, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1791. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was a member of the Suf- 
folk bar. He went to Winslow, Me., was a member of Congress from 1817 to ISIS), 
and died in Winslow, August 34, 1854. 

Gkokce Eliw.vki) Rick, son of Henry and Maria (Burroughs) Rice, was born in Bos- 
ton, Julv 10, 1822, and received his early education at the Boston Latin School and at 
the school of Edmund Lambert Gushing. He graduated at Harvard in 1822, and 
studied law with Charles G. Loring and William Dehon, and was admitted to the bar 
in Boston, October 37, 1845. He contributed to the North American Rczne^u, and 
was the author of some attractive poems. He married, December 28, 1857, Tirzah 
Maria, daughter of George W. Crockett, of Boston, and died in Roxbury, August 10, 
1801. 

Conrad Rend, son of Jesse L. and Mary C. Reno, was born at Mount Vernon Ar- 
senal, Ala., December 28, 1859, and was educated at Shortlidge's Media Academy, 
Media, Penn., and the Lehigh University. He studied law at the Boston University 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. The most noted cases in 
which he has been counsel were Eliot vs. McCormick, 144 Mass., 10, and Eustis vs. 
Holies, 14(i Mass. He has been a contributor to the Aiiu-ricaji Law Revieiu, and the 
American Law Register, and is now publishing a work on " Non-residents and For- 
eign Corporations." He married at Springfield, Mass., April 13, 1887; Susan M., 
daughter of Rev. Dr. William T. Eustis, and lives in Boston. 

Frederick J. Rani.ett, son of Charles E. and A. M. Ranlett, was born in Thomas- 
ton, Me., November 17, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston -in the office of Robert Dickson Smith, and 
was admitted to the bar in Boston in July, 1884. He has been a member of the Com- 
mon Council in Newton, where he resides, a representative to the General Court in 
1890, and a member of the Newton Republican Ward and City Committee. 

Geokge H. Richards, son of Francis and Anne H. (Gardiner) Richards, was born 
in Gardiner, Me., and was educated at Rugby, England, and at Trinity College, 
Cambridge, England. He studied law with Horace Gray, and Chandler & Shattuck 
in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar De- 
cember 4, 1865, and lives in Boston. 

William Reuken Richards, son of William Boardman and Cornelia Wells (Walters) 
Richards, was born m Dedham, Mass., July 3, 1853, and was educated at the Boston 
Latin School, Dr. Krause's Institute, Dresden, Germany, and at Harvard College, 
where he graduated in 1874. He studied law with Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe 
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11, 
1878. He was a member of the Boston Common Council from 1886 to '88, and is now 
one of the trustees of the Boston Library. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

IvDRV W. Richardson, son of Nathaniel and Mary Richardson, was born in Wes- 
ton, Vt., February 5, 1812, and was educated at the public schools. He studied 



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law at Chester, Vt, with Aikiii & Richaixlson, and was admitted to the bar it: 
Woodstock, Vt., in June, 1843. After practicing six years in Vermont he 
moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Siiffolk bar October 10, 184H. He 
married, at Andover, Vt., in 1832, Abigail Greeley, and at Keene, N. II.. in 
18.51, Anne B. Dodge. He lives in Chelsea. 

J..\MEs B.Mi.EY Richardson, son of Joel Richardson, was born in Oxford, N. H., 
December 9, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth in 18.57. He studied law with 
Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the bar in Boston February 37, 1859. He 
was early offered seats on the benches of the Boston Municipal Court and the Su- 
perior Court, but he declined both. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart cor- 
poration counsel of Boston, succeeding Edward P. Nettleton. He was appointed by 
Mayor Matthews a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. As corporation coim- 
sel he gave an important opinion concerning the respective rights of the State Legis- 
lature and Congress in the navigable waters of Charles River. In 1884 he was ap- 
pointed with ex-Mayor Cobb and James M. Bugbee to revise the city charter. He 
has been, if he is not now, president of the Alumni of Dartmouth College in Boston 
and vicinit)', and is a trustee of the college. He was sixteen years master in chan- 
cery, and was a referee in the important case of the Tremont and Suffolk Mills of 
Lowell against the city of Lowell. He has been appointed during the present year 
(1892) judge of the Superior Court and now occupies a seat on the bench. He mar- 
ried in 1865 Lucy Cushing, daughter of A. A. Gould, M. D. 

William Richardson, son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, was born in 
Boston, December 2, 1813, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1833. After leaving college he was for a year u.sher in 
the Mayhew School, and in 1833 attended the Divinity School six months. In 1834 
he entered the office of Jeremiah Mason to study law and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1837. He practiced in Boston until his death, which took place in Dorchester, 
June 6, 1856. He married in Walpole, Mass., June 30, 1836, Almira, daughter of 
Daniel Kingsbury. 

William Minard Richardson, son of Roswell Minard and Ann (Hapgood) Rich- 
ard.son, was born in Portland, Me., December 10, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 
1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1882. He married Sara J. Hanks at Cambridge, June 27, 1888, and lives in 
Cambridge. 

Ei.MF.R Ellsworth Rideoct, son of Albert and Harriet S. Rideout, was born in 
Cumberland, Me., June 18, 1864, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1886. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Boston, July 
29, 1890. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

Horace Binnev Sargent, jr., son of Horace Binney and Elizabeth Little (Swett) 
Sargent, was born in Boston, April 2, 1847, and was educated at the public schools, 
at schools in Europe, and at the Harvard Scientific School. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in the office of Henrj- W. Paine in Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 24, 1872, and to the LTnited .States Supreme 
Court, April 10, 1883. He was assist,Tnt city solicitor of Boston from 1879 to 1881, 
and has been active and prominent among the commissioned officers of the Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Militia. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 



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William McKixlev Osbokne, son of Abner and Abigail (Allison) Osborne, was 
born in Girard, Ohio, April 26, 1842. He was educated at the Poland, Ohio, 
Academy and at Alleghany College in Meadville, Penn. He enlisted in the Twenty- 
third Ohio Regiment in the war of 1'861 and was discharged on account of injuries 
received in the service. He studied law in the office of Sutliff, Tuttle & Stutt in 
Warren, Ohio, and in the law school in Ann Arbor, Mich., and was admitted to the 
bar in 1864. He began practice at Youngstown, Ohio, and was mayor of that city 
in 1874 and 18To. He removed to Boston in 1880 and was there admitted to the bar. 
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1884—5, and was appointed a 
member of the Metropolitan Board of Police and still holds that position. He mar- 
ried in Boston, April 24. 1878, Frances Clara, adopted daughter of Walter Hastings, 
of Boston. 

Robert C.\ktkk Pnji.w, son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Carter) Pitman, was born 
in Newport, R. I. , March 16, 1825. He was educated at the public schools of New 
Bedford, at the Friends' Academy, and at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, 
Conn., where he graduated in 1845, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1869. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in 1848, where he practiced 
until 1869, associated at different times as a partner with Thomas D. Eliot and Alan- 
son Borden. In 1869 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on 
the bench until his death. He was a representative in 1858 and a senator in 1864-5, 
'68-9, and the last year was the president of the Senate. He married, in New Bed- 
ford, August 15, 1855, Frances R. , daughter of Rev. M. G. Thomas, and died at New- 
ton, March 5, 1891. 

Frederick Octavius Prince, son of Thomas and Caroline Prince, was born in Bos- 
ton, January 18, 1818, and was fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1836 as class poet and secretary. He studied law hi the office of 
Franlilin Dexter and William Howard Gardiner, and was admitted to the bar in Bos- 
ton in January, 1840. He earl}- took up his residence in Winchester and was a rep- 
resentative from that town from 1851 to '53, and in 1853 was a member of the Con- 
stitutional Convention. In 1855 he was a member of the Senate, and in 1860, having 
joined the Democratic party on the dissolution of the Whig party, was a delegate to 
the National Democratic Convention at South Carolina. He was secretary of the 
National Democratic Committee from that time until 1888. In 1876 he was chosen 
mayor of Boston and re-elected in 1878-81. He was the Democratic candidate for 
governor in 1885, and in 1888 was appointed a member of the board to erect a build- 
ing for the Boston Public Library. He married, in 1848, Helen, daughter of Bar- 
nard Henry, of Philadelphia, and November 27, 1889, he married for a second wife, 
at Cambridge, Kate H. Blanc. To him a full share of credit is due for the erection 
of the most notable structure in Boston, in spite of the cavils and criticisms of those 
who would measure the merit of public buildings b)' either the profusion of orna- 
mentation on the one hand, or the small amount of money expended in their con- 
struction on the other. Boston has been fortunate in having a Board of Trustees of 
the Public Library with good taste and artistic judgment and sufficient backbone to 
fearlessly exercise them. 

EucAR SiDNEN' Takt, SOU of Bczalcel and Lucy M. (Bragg) Taft, was born in 
Keene, N. H., June 30, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law 




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with Albert R. Hatch, of Portsmouth, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in New- 
Hampshire, September 1, 1882, and to the bar in IVIassachusetts, October 30, 1883. 
He practiced law in Boston two years, and after a short time in the employ of the 
Pullman Car Company opened an office in Gloucester, Mass., in 1885. 

Charles P. Thomi'Son, .son of Frederick M. and Susannah (Cheeseman) Thompson, 
was born in Braintree, Mass., July 30, 1827, and was educated m the public schools 
and in the Hollis Institute of Braintree. He studied law in the office of Benjamm F. 
Hallett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18.54. In 18.")? he removed 
to Gloucester from Boston, where he had practiced in association with Mr. Hallett, and 
has since that time made Gloucester his residence. In 1885 he was appointed judge 
of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. He was a representative in 18T1-2, 
and from 1874 to 1876 was a member of Congress. In 1880 and 1881 he was the Demo- 
cratic candidate for governor, and in 1877 received the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts from Amherst College. He married in 1861 Abbie Herrick. of Gloucester. 

Levi Clifford W.\de, son of Levi and Abbie A. (Rogers) Wade, was born in 
AUeghen)- City, Penn., January 16, 1843, and received his early education in the pub- 
lic schools, in the Lewisburg Institute, and with private tutors. He graduated at 
Yale in 1866, and was admitted to the bar in 1873. During his practice in Boston he 
was for three years a partner with J. Q. A. Brackett. He married in Bath, Me., 
November 16, 1869, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (EUiott) Rogers. 
He was a representative from Newton from 1876 to 1879, and in the last year was 
speaker. He died March 31, 1891. 

Henrv W-^i.ker, son of Ezra and Maria A. Walker, was born in Boston, and re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools and the Boston Latin School. He 
graduated at Harvard in 1855, and studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. At the beginning of the war he 
enlisted in the Fourth Massacliusetts Regiment and served three months as adjutant. 
In the autumn of 1861 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment, 
and in 1863 qs colonel. He was discharged by reason of expiration of service in 1865, 
and resumed the practice of law-. In 1877 he was appointed license commissioner, 
and served as police commissioner from 1879 to 1882. He was commander of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1887-88, and visited England to join in 
the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Honorable Artillery Company of 
London, and during his visit reflected credit, not only on the company under his 
command, but our country, of which he was to a certain extent, a representative. 

Cii.vRLEs TiLioN DuNCKLEE, Son of Joseph and Betsey P. (Woodbury) Duncklee, 
was born in Brighton, Mass., August 29, 1841, and graduated at Harvard College m 
1861. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of David H. 
Mason in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. He married Sarah J. 
Brown in Boston, December 26, 1866, and lives in Brookline. 

R. Augustus Duggan,, son of William Brazier and Eunice B. (Glover) Duggan, was 
born in Quincy, Mass., September 33, 1845, and was educated at the Middleboro' 
Academy and at Harvard. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S69, and 
was admitted to the bar in that year at Dedhara. He is unmarried, and lives in 
Quincy, Mass. 



200 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Reuben Liicii Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane L. Roberts, was born in Boston 
February 16, 1S4T, and was educated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 
He studied law in Boston with George L. Roberts, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in the autumn of 1871. He makes the management of patent law cases his spe- 
cialty. His home is in Brookline. 

George Lncii Roberts, son of Reuben and Jane (Litch) Roberts, was born in Bos- 
ton December 30, 1836, and graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, 
Conn., in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the 
office of Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 7, 1864. He 
has been counsel in many important patent cases, among which were the " Pebbling 
machine cases," affecting largely the interests of the leather trade; Woodman vs. 
Stimpson, 8 Fisher's Patent Cases 88; Stimpson vs. Woodward, 10 Wall, 117; Wood- 
man Pebbling Machine Company vs. Guild, 4 Clifford 185, and the " Spindle Cases" — 
Pearl vs. The Appleton Company, 3 Fed. Rep., 153, and various telephone suits. He 
married in Middletown, Conn., December 1, 18()0. Hinda Barnes, and lives in Boston. 

Oui.N' Barnes Roberts, son of the above, was born in Boston January 22, 1867, and 
was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard College, 
where he graduated in 1886, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 
the bar in Boston in January, 1891, and lives in Boston. 

George Augusti's S.^nderson, son of George W. and Charlotte E. Sanderson, was 
born in Littleton, Mass., July 1, 1863, and received his early education at the Law- 
rence Academy, Groton, Mass. He graduated at Yale College in 1885 and at tlie 
Boston University in 1887, and was admitted in 1887 to the Suffolk bar. He has been 
chairman and member of the School Committee of Littleton, where he resides, since 
1888, and served repeatedly as moderator of meetings in that town. He is a trustee 
of the Lawrence Academy. 

Sanford Harrison Duulev, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was 
born in China, Me., January 14, 1843. His parents removed in 1857 to New Bedford 
and in 1870 to Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 1867, and then taught the 
New Bedford High School three years. He studied law in New Bedford in the office 
of Eliot & Stetson and at the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1871. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar J ly 21, 1871. He has in various ways been con- 
nected with the city government of Cambridge, where he resides, and is president of 
the Universali.st Club and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday School Union. 
He married Laura Nve. daughter of John M. Howland, at Fairha\-en, Mass., April 2, 
ls(iO. 

William H. Dm kv, son of William E. and Martha K. Drury, was born in Worces- 
ter, Mass., January 12, 1842, and graduated at Yale College in 1865. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, June 3, 1872. 
He married Marj' Peters at Ellsworth, Me., September, 20, 1875, and lives in Walt- 
ham. 

Walter Hill Robekis, son of Jacob W. and Sophronia P. Roberts, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., and graduated at Harvard College in 1877. He studied law in 
the offices of Levi C. Wade and J. O. A. Brackett and at the Harvard Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married Alice S. Daniels, 6f Bos- 
ton, October 25, 1883, and lives in Melrose. 



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J AMKS Walker Austin, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in Charles- 
town. Mass., January ti, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 7, I80I. He 
has been justice of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Islands and member and 
speaker of the Hawaiian Parliament. He married, July 18, 1857, Ariana E., daughter 
of John Sherburne Sleeper, of Roxbury, and now lives in Boston. 

AjnfKcisE Eastman, son of Phdip and Mary (Ambrose) Eastman, was born in North 
Yarmouth, Me., April 18,1834,and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854. He stud- 
ied law with Philip Eastman in Saco, Me., and was admitted to the York county bar 
in Maine in 1858 and afterwards in Boston. He married Charlotte S. Haines in Bid- 
deford. Me., September 15, 1804, and lives in Boston. 

Georc.e Warren Copelanu, son of Daniel and Eliza (Coburn) Copeland, was born 
in Boston, April 4, 1833, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and received 
an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Amherst College in 1859. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 29, 1858. 
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865, 
and was president for some years of the Boston Butler Club. In law he has been con- 
nected with an important suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in 
literature he has been a lecturer of note. He married in Melro.se, May 8, 1860, Sarah 
A. .Shelton, and in Boston in July, 1875, Annie Loring Harmon, and died in Maiden, 
Mass., May 27, 1892. 

Wii.i.iAM Faxon, Jr., son of William and Henrietta B. (Cross) Fa.Kon, was born in 
Cambridge, Mass., September 26, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He stud- 
ied law in the Boston L^niversity Law School and in the office of A. A. Ranney 
and was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in January, 1886. His home is in Boston. 

George Zacchei's Adams, son of Charles and Nancy (Robbins) Adams, was born in 
Chelmsford, Mass., April 23, 1833, and received his early education in the public 
schools, at the Westford Academj' and Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated at 
Harvard" in 1856 and studied law in the office of Oliver Stevens in Boston and at the 
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26, 1858. He is 
special justice of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married, September 
16, 1861, Joanna F., daughter of Charles and Joan F. (Hagar) Davenport, and lives 
in Boston. 

Samuel Nel.son Aldrich, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stoddard) Al- 
drich, was born in Upton, Mass. , February 3, 1838, and was educated at the Worcester 
Academy, the academy at Southington, Conn., and Brown LTniversity. He taught 
school in Worcester, Upton and HoUiston. He studied law in the office of Isaac Da- 
vis in Worcester and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Worcester 
county bar in 1868. He at once began business in Marlboro, opening an office in Bos- 
ton in 1874. He has been many years a member of the School Board of Marlboro, a 
member of the Board of Selectmen and its chairman, president of the Marlboro Board 
of Trade, president of the Framingham and Lowell Railroad and of the Central Mas- 
sachusetts Railroad. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Senate, in 1881 a Demo- 
cratic candidate for Congress and in 1883 a member of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives. In 1887 he was appointed United States assistant treasurer in Bos- 
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202 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ton and on his retirement from that position in 1889 he was chosen president of the 
State National Bank in Boston, which position he still holds. He married at Upton 
in 1865, Mary J., daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. (Colburn) Macfarland, and lives in 
Boston. 

Hen'Rv King Bu.m.kv, son of Samuel T. and Mary A. Braley, was born in Roches- 
ter, Mass., March IT, 1850, and was educated in the Rochester Academy and the 
Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass. He studied law in Bridgewater in the office of 
Hosea Kingman and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth in October, 1873. He al- 
ways practiced in Fall River until in 1891 he was appointed judge of the Superior 
Coiu't. He was city solicitor of Fall River in 1874 and mayor in 1882-83. He mar- 
ried in Bridgewater, April 29, 1875, Caroline W. , daughter of Philander and Sarah T. 
Leach, and still lives in Fall River. 

PiiiMP Edw.'VKI) Br.\dv, son of Philip and Rose (Goodwin) Brady, was born in Attle- 
boro, Mass., August 16, 1859, and was educated in the public schools. He graduated 
at the Harvard Law School in 1882 and after studying in Attleboro in the office of Geo. 
A. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 1885 he opened an office in 
North Attleboro and was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Attleboro. 

Hkm.\.n Merrick Burr, son of Isaac Tucker and Ann Frances (Hardon) Burr, was 
born in Newton, Mass., July 28, 1856, and received his early education in the public 
schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1877 and studied law at the Harvard Law 
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1884, and entered upon practice 
in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Newton in 1887 and 1888, 
and in 1889 mayor of the city. He married in Boston, November 29, 1881, Mary Fran- 
ces, daughter of Samuel T. and Mary Hartwell (Barr) Ames. 

N.\roi.EON BoN.4r.\RTE Bryant, son of Jeremy Y. and Mercy P. Bryant, was born in 
Andover, N. H., February 25, 1825, and attended at various times the High School 
at Franklin, N. H., and the Boscawen, Concord, Claremont, Gilmanton, New 
London and New Hampton academies and Waterville College. At the age of 
twenty-two he began the study of law in Franklin in the office of Nesmith & Pike and 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the bar at Plym- 
outh, N. H., in 1849 and opened an office in Bristol, where he remained until 1853, 
when he removed to Plymouth. He was county commissioner for Grafton county 
three years and afterwards county prosecuting attorney. In 1855 he removed to Con- 
cord, N. H., and became associated with Lyman T. Flint. He was city solicitor for 
Concord three years, member of the Legislature and two years speaker of the House 
of Representatives, and a delegate to the National Republican Convention which 
nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. In 1860 he moved to Boston and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17 in that year. Besides a practice in the 
courts he has engaged in literary pursuits involving much general and special study, 
and has been called upon to deliver lectures in the Lyceum and historical addresses at 
centennial anniversaries of his native town and of Brandon, Vt. He married in May, 
1849, Susan M., daughter of Abram Brown, of Northfield, N. H., and while living 
partly in Boston has his legal residence in Andover, N. H. 

Fk.\ni;is Brooks, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Boot) Brooks, was born in Medford. 
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name will be found in the Harvard Catalogue as Francis Boott Brooks, the name he 
bore until 1854, when he dropped his middle name. He was admitted to the bar Jan- 
uary 1, 1848. He married, first, May 6, 18.50, Mary Jones, daughter of Ebenezer Chad- 
wick, of Boston, and second, Xovember 29, 18.54, Louise, daughter of Henry and Mary 
Ann (Davis) Winsor, of Boston. He died at Medford, October 27^ 1891. 

Lincoln Fl.\ggBrigh.4.m, son of Lincoln and Lucy (Forbes) Brigham, was born in Cam- 
bridge, October 4, 1819, and fitted at the public schools for Dartmouth College, where he 
graduated in 1842. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in New Bedford 
in the offices of John H. Clifford and Harrison G. O. Colby, and was admitted to the 
Bristol count}- bar in 184.5. After his admission he associated himself with John H. 
Clifford, and the partnership continued until Mr. Clift'ord was inaugurated governor 
of the Commonwealth in January, 18.53. He was appointed district attorney for the 
Southern District, and continued in office six years. In 18.59 he was appointed asso- 
ciate justice of the Superior Court, established in that year, and in 1869, on the pro- 
motion of Seth Ames to the Superior Judicial Court, he was made chief justice. In 
1890 he resigned and no mkn ever left the bench of a Massachusetts court more re- 
spected and beloved. He married, at New Bedford, October 20, 1847, Eliza Endicott, 
daughter of Thomas and Sylvia (Perry) Swain, and has many years lived in Salem. 

J.VMES M.\DisoN Barker, son of John V. and Sarah (Apthorp) Barker, was born in 
Pittsfield, Mass. , October 23, 1839, and was fitted at various schools and academies 
for Williams College, where he graduated in 1860. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1863. He at once opened 
an office in Pittsfield and continued in practice there, associated at different times 
with Charles N. Emerson and Thomas P. Pengree until 1882, when he was appointed 
judge on the bench of the Superior Court. In 1891 he was promoted to a seat on the 
bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, which he still occupies. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1872-73, and a commissioner on the 
revision of the statutes in 1881. He married in Bath, N. Y., September 21, 1864. 
Helena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pamelia Nelson (Woods) Whiting. 

C.\LEB Blodgett, son of Caleb and Charlotte (Piper) Blodgett, was born in Dorches- 
ter, N. H., June 3, 1832, and received his early education at the Canaan, N. H., Acad- 
emy, and the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth 
College in 18.56 and afterwards taught for two years the Leominster, Mass. , High 
School. He studied law in the office of Bacon & Aldinch in Worcester, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Worcester in February, 1860. He opened an office in Hopkin- 
ton, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he was associated in business with 
Halsey J. Boardman until 1882, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. 
In 1882 he received from Dartmouth the degree of LL. D. He married, December 14, 
1865, at Canaan, N. H., Roxie B., daughter of Jesse and Emily A. (Green) Martin. 

Chester W. E.\to.\, son of Lilley and Eliza (Nichols) Eaton, was born in Wakefield, 
Mass., Januarj' 13, 1839, and was educated in the public schools and at Dartmouth 
College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar Januarj- 16, 1864. He began to practice in South Reading, now Wakefield, and 
in 1868 opened an office in Boston, continuing to practice in both places. He served 
during the war as a private in the Fiftieth Massachusetts Regiment and has held in 



204 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Wakefield the positions of town clerk, collector, and treasurer of the Wakefield Sav- 
ings Bank, and many others indicative of the confidence reposed in him by the citi- 
zens of his native town. Remarried Emma G. , daughter of Rev. Giles and Eliza- 
beth (Thompson) Leach in Rye, N. H., May 14, 1868. 

Jr.sTi.\ Dewev, son of Justin«and Melinda(Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Alford, Mass., 
June Vl, 1880, and fitted in Alford and Great Harrington for Williams College, where 
he graduated in 1858. He studied law in Great Harrington in the office of Increase 
Sumner and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in November, 1860. He was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 18(>'.i and 18TT, and a member 
of the Senate in 1879. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and is 
still on the bench. He married Jane, daughter of George and Clara (Wadhams) Stan- 
ley in Great Harrington, February 8, 1865. 

J.vMK.s RoHEKT Dlnb.vr, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar, was 
born in Pittsfield, Mass., December 23, 1847, and graduated at Williams College in 
1 87 1 . He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Westfield in the office of Henry 
M. Whitney, with whom he formed a partnership in 1874. He was in the Senate in 
1885 and 1886, and his service and deportinent there gave him a reptitation which led 
to his appointment in 1888 to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court. He married, 
Mav 15, 1875, at Westfield, Harriet P., daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lin- 
coln) Walton, and he now resides in Newton. 

John Wii.kes Ha^lmond, son of John Wilkes and Maria Louisa (Southworth) Ham- 
mond, was born in Mattapoisett (then Rochester), December 16, 1837, and fitted at 
the public schools of his native town for Tufts College, where he graduated in 18()1. 
After leaving college he taught school inTisbury, Stoughton, Wakefield and Melrose, 
serving, during an interval, nine months in the Third Massachusetts Re,giment. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Sweetser & 
Gardner, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1861 . He practiced in 
Cambridge and was representative in 1872 and '73, city solicitor three years, and was 
appointed in 1886 to the seat he continues to occupy on the bench of the Superior 
Court. He married in Taunton, August 15, 1866, Clara Ellen, daughter of Benjamin 
F. and Clara (Foster) Tweed, and lives in Cambridge. 

WiLLi.iM H. H.\RT, son of William and Elizabeth (Bruce) Hart, was born in Lynn, 
Mass., December 22, 1836, and was educated in the public schools. He entered the 
army in 1862 as a private in the First Massachusetts Hea\^- Artillery and was after- 
wards sergeant and second lieutenant in that regiment. In 1864 he joined the 
Thirty-.si.xth Regiment of United States Colored troops as captain and was promoted 
to lieutenant-colonel, and was for a time assistant adjutant-general and assistant in- 
spector-general in the Twenty-fifth Corps. He studied law in the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suft'olkbar, June 20, 1874. He is a special justice of 
the Chelsea Police Court and resides in Chelsea. He married Susan J., daughter of 
Samuel and Susan (Waterman) Harris, in Springfield, February 1, 1866. 

Marcus P. Kndwlton, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in 
Wilbraham, Mass., Februarv 3, 1839, and received his early education at the public 
schools and at Monson Academy. He graduated at Yale in 1866, and after leaving 
college served a year as teacher of the LTnion School in Norwalk, Conn. He studie'd 
law in the office of James (J. Allen, of Palmer, Mass., and in the office of John Wells 




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and Augustus L. Soule, in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 18G2, in 
Spruigfield, where he has since always lived. In 1881 he was appointed judge of the 
Superior Court and in 1887 was promoted to the seat on the bench of the Supreme 
Jtidicial Court which he still occupies. He married Sophia, daughter of William and 
Saba A. (Cushman) Ritchie at Springfield, July 18, 18()T. 

Henry C..\bot Lodge, son of John Ellertou and Anna (Cabot) Lodge, was born in 
Boston, May 13, 1850. He attended the schools of Thomas Russell Sullivan and 
Epes Sargent Dixwell, and after visiting Europe in 1866 he entered Harvard and 
graduated in 1871. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He entered at once on a literary rather 
than a legal career, and at various times before 1881 edited the North American 
Ri'vifw, the International Revifiv, and was employed at Harvard as a lecturer on 
American History. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
tives in 1880 and '81, and since that time, though engaged at intervals on literary 
work, has trod the paths of politics. He has published " Lives of Alexander Hamil- 
ton and George Washington and Daniel Webster" in the "American Statesmen 
Series," and edited the " Public Life and Letters of George Cabot," and the " Works 
of Alexander Hamilton." In 1886 he was chosen member of Congress from the dis- 
trict which includes Nahant, the place of his residence, and has been chosen by the 
Legislature of 1893 United States senator for six years. In 1878 he was chosen a 
member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1879 a trustee of the Boston Athene- 
um, in 1880 an honorary member of the Cobden Club, in 1879 delivered the Fourth 
of July oration m Boston, and in 1880 delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell 
Institute on the English Colonies in America. He married in Cambridge, June 39, 
1871, Anna Cabot Mills, datighter of Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis. 

Albert Mason, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) Mason, was born in Middle- 
boro', Mass., November 7, 1836, and was educated in the public schools and in the 
Pierce Academy in iMiddleboro'. After engaging for a time in the mantifacturing 
business in Plymouth, he studied law in that town in the office of Edward L. Sher- 
man, and was admitted to the Plymouth bar February 15, 1860. Soon after begin- 
ning practice in Plj-mouth he enlisted as a private in one of two companies raised by 
William T. Davis at the request of Governor Andrew, for the Thirty-eighth Regi- 
ment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and was recommended by Mr. Davis for a com- 
mission as second lieutenant in Company F of that regiment. He received the com- 
mission and served until 1865 as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain and assis- 
tant quartermaster. On his return from the army he resumed his practice in Plymouth 
and later opened also an office in Boston and was associated in business in either 
Plymouth or Boston, or both, with Arthur Lord and Benjamin R. Curtis. He was a 
member and the chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth from 1866 to 1873 
inclusive, and a representative from Plymouth in 1873 and '74. In 1874 he was ap- 
pointed a member of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and in that year moved 
from Plymouth to Brookline, where he still resides. In 1882 he was appointed judge 
of the Superior Court and in 1890 was appointed to succeed Lincoln Flagg Brigham as 
chief justice of that Court. He married Lydia F. , daughter of Nathan and Experi- 
ence (Finney) Whiting at Plymouth, November 25, 1857. 

Ei.isn,\ BiKR M.WN.VRD, son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) Maynard, was born in 
Wilbraham, Mass., November 21, 1842, and received his early education at the pub- 



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lie schools. He graduated at Dartmouth College in ISfiT, and studying law in Spring- 
field, Mass., in the office of George M. Stearns and Marcus P. Knowlton, was ad- 
mitted to the Hampden county bar in 1868. He always practiced in Springfield un- 
til 1801, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court. In 1879 he was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in 1887 and '88 was mayor 
of Springfield, where he still lives. He married Kate C, daughter of Calvin and 
Sarah (Townshend) Doty, of Springfield, Penn., August 35, 1870. 

BfSHROD Morse, son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse, was born in Sharon, 
Mass., August 24, 1837, and received his early education in the public schools, the 
Providence Conference Seminary, and the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', Mass. 
He took part of a course at Amherst College in the class of 1860, leaving college on 
account of his health. He studied law in North Easton and Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Boston November o, 1864. He has been a member of the School 
Committee of Sharon, where, though practicing in Boston, he still resides, was a 
representative in 1870, '83 and '84, presidential elector in 1884, and Democratic candi- 
date for Congress in 1886 and 1890. He is now one of the special justices of the 
.Southern Norfolk District Court. He married Gertie S., daughter of James and 
Sarah A. (Loomer) Gertridge, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 29, 1871. 

John Torrev Morse, son of John Torrey and Lucy Cabot (Jackson) Morse, was 
born in Boston, January' 9, 1840, and received his early education at private schools 
in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1860, and after reading law in the office of 
John Lowell in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar, August 4, 1862. After prac- 
ticing about eighteen years, during which his tastes were leading him into a literary 
career, he abandoned the law and has since that time devoted himself to more con- 
genial work in the field of literature. He has published many works, among which 
maybe mentioned " The Law of Banks and Banking," " The Law of Arbitration 
and Award," the " Life of Alexander Hamilton," and biographies of Thomas Jeffer- 
son, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, published in the 
Statesmen Series. He has been also a frequent and valuable contributor to the pages 
of law and other magazines and. to the columns of the daily press. He married 
Fanny, daughter of George O. Hovey, of Boston, in 186.5, and resides in Boston. 

M.\RCUS Morton, a descendant of George Morton, one of the early Plymouth colo- 
nists and son of Nathaniel and Mary (Cary) Morton, was born in Freetown, Mass., 
February 19, 1784, and graduated at Brown University in 1H04. He studied law at 
the Law School in Litchfield, Conn. , and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar 
about 1807, and settled in Taunton, Mass. He was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate 
in 1811, member of Congress from 1817 to 1821, member of the Executive Council in 
1833, and lieutenant-governor in 1824. In 182.5 he was appointed by Governor Levi 
Lincoln judge of the Supreme Judicial Covirt, and resigned in 1840 to take his seat as 
governor of the Commonwealth, a position which he again held in 1843. In 1845 he 
was appointed by President Polk collector of the port of Boston, and continued in office 
vnitil 1848. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and a member 
of tlie Massachusetts House of Representatives in 18.58. He received the degree of 
LL. D. from Harvard in 1840. He married in 1807, Charlotte, daughter of James 
Hodges, of Taunton, and died in Taunton F'ebruary 6, 1864. 

M.-\Rcrs Morton, jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in 
Taunton April 8, 1819, and graduated at Brown LTniversity in 1838. He graduated 



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also at the Harvard Law School in 1.S40, and after further pursuing his studies in Bos- 
ton in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, was admitted to the SutTolk bar 
July 12, 1841. In 1850 he removed to Andover and represented that town in the 
Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the Legislature of 1858. In the latter 
year he wa-s appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suffolk county to succeed 
Josiah G. Abbott, who had resigned, and remained on the bench until the abolition 
of that court in 1859. In the organization of the Superior Court for the Common- 
wealth he was appointed one of the justices, and there he remained until 1869, when 
he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 1882 he was made chief 
justice to succeed Horace Gray, who had been appointed an associate judge of the 
United States Supreme Court, and served until 1890, when he resigned. He married 
Abby B., daughter of Henry and Amy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. I., 
October 19, 1843, and died at Andover February 10, 1891. 

M.\Kct's MouroN" 3d, son of Marcus and Abby B. (Hoppin) Morton, was born in 
Andover, Mass., April 27, 1862, and was fitted at Phillips Andover Academy for Yale 
University, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar January 26, 1886. His residence is in Andover. 

N.\'rH.'\NiEi. Foster Safford, son of Nathaniel Foster and Hannah (Woodbury) Saf- 
ford, was born in Salem, Mass., September 19, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 
1835. He studied law in Salem in the office of Asahel Huntington, and was ad- 
mitted to the Essex bar in 1838. He practiced law in Dorchester and Milton many 
years, but for thirty years before his death his office was in Boston. He was a rep- 
resentative from Dorchester in 1850-51, and was chairman of the Norfolk Board of 
County Commissioners twenty-one years. He married Josephine Eugenia, daughter 
of Jtiseph and Mary (Wheeler) iMorton at Milton, Februar\- 10, 1845, and died at Mil- 
ton, April 22, 1891. 

RoiiFRT Alk.x.v.nuer Southworth, son of Alexander and Helen Southworth, was 
born in Medford, Mass., May 6, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied 
law in the office of Charles T. & Thomas H. Russell in Boston, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 25, 1876. He was assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives four years, and a member of the Senate in 1888. He married Mary 
Eliza, daughter of William H. and Sarah A. B. Finney, and lives in Boston. 

H.'VMiLTON Barci..'\y S'lAPLES, SOU of Welcome and Susan Staples, was born in Men- 
don, Mass., February 14, 1829, and graduated at Brow-n University in 1851. He 
studied law in Providence, R. I., and in AVorcester, Mass., and was admitted to the 
Worcester bar in 1854. He practiced in Milford until 1869, associated at different 
times with Adin Ballou Underwood, and John C. Scammell, and Charles A. Dewey, 
and William F. Slocum, and in that year moved to Worcester, where he was associ- 
ated with Francis P. Goulding until 1881, when he was appointed judge on the bench 
of the Superior Court. For eight years he was district attorney of the Middle District. 
In 1884 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater. He married Elizabeth 
A. Godfrey in Mendon in 1858, and October 8, 1868, at Northampton, Mary Clinton, 
daughter of Charles A. Dewey. He died in 1891. 

Thomas M. Stetson, son of Rev. Caleb and Julia Ann (Meriam) Stetson, was born 
in Medford, Mass., June 15, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He studied 



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law at the Harvai-d Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April Id, \KA. 
He settled in New Bedford, where he has always continued to practice, associated at 
various times with Thomas D. Eliot, Robert C. Pitman, and later with his son, Eliot 
D. Stetson. He married Caroline Dawes, daughter of Thomas Dawes and Frances 
L. (Brock) Eliot, of New Bedford, where he still resides. 

HoMEK Bkmis Ste\-ens, son of Washington and Ruth Simons (Bemis) Steven.s, was 
born in Norwich, now Huntington, Mass., September 9, 1833, and graduated at Will- 
iams College in I80T. He studied law in Westfield and after admission to the bar 
settled in Boston but finally connected himself in business with E. B. Gillett in West- 
field, where he is now standing justice of the Western Hampden District Court. He 
married Mariette, daughter of Moses and Juvenelia (Curtis) Hannum, of Huntington 
(formerly Norwich. ) 

Ch.\kles W.\kren Si'MNER. SOU of Charles C. and Clarissa (Lane) Sumner, was 
born in Foxboro', Mass., December 3, 1848, and graduated at Tufts College in 1869. 
He studied law- in Boston in the office of Moorfield Store)', and was admitted to the 
Norfolk bar in April, 1872. He remained one year in Boston, and in August, 1873, 
removed to Brockton, where he continued in practice until his death, associated until 
1881 with Jonathan 'VV^ite. In 1874 he was appointed a special justice of the First 
Plymouth District Com-t, and in I880 he was appointed justice of the Brockton 
Police Court, which position he held until he was appointed district attorney for the 
Southeastern District, to fill a vacancy caused b)' the resignation of Hosea Kingman. 
In November, 1889, he was chosen to fill out the unexpired term of his predecessor, 
and died in January, 1890. He married Clara G., daughter of Ellis and Abby (Heard) 
Packard in Brockton September 1, 1874. 

WiLLi.AM H.\wnioRNE, or Hathorne, was born in England in 1G08, and settled in 
Dorchester, Mass.^ from whence he removed to Salem in 1636. He was a deputy to 
the General Court, and speaker from May 39, 1644, to October 2, 164.5, and an assistant 
from 1663 to 1679. He died in Salem in 1681. 

Eleazer Lusher was an assistant from 1662 to 1672. 

John Pvnchox was born in England in 1635, and came to Massachusetts in 1648 
and settled in Springfield. He was the son of William Pynchon already referred to. 
He was a deputy to the General Court in 16.59-63-63, and an assistant from 1665 to 
1686. He was one of the founders of Northampton, and died January 17, 1703. 

Edward TyiNG was an assistant from 1668 to 1680. 

Thomas Clarke was an assistant from 1673 to 1677. 

Peter BuLKLEY, son of Rev. Peter Bulkley, was born in Concord, Mass., August 
12, 1643, and graduated at Harvard in 1660. He was representative many years and 
speaker of the House of Deputies from May 19, 1669, to May 31, 1671, and again from 
May 15, 1673, to May 7, 1673. He was an assistant from 1667 to 1684, and died at 
Concord in May, 1688. 

Hu^^'HREY Davy was an assistant from 1679 to 1()86. 

Peter Tii.ton was an assistant from 1680 to 1(!86. 

John Richards, son of Thomas, was born in England, and came to Massachusetts 
with his father in 1630. He was treasurer of Harvard College from 1669 to 1682, and 
agani from 1686 to l(i93. He was a deputy from Newbury from 1671 to 1673, and 



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afterwards from Hadley in 167"), and from Boston in lt)79->!0, and speaker of the 
House in the kist two years. He was an assistant from 1680 to 1686, and a judge of 
the Superior Court of Judicature from 1692 to 1694. He died April 2, 1694. 

John Hull was an assistant from 1680 to 1683. 

B..\RTHOLOMEW Ged.ney was a physician and lived in Salem. He was born in 1640, 
and was an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and a member of the Councils of Dudley and 
Andros. He was one of the judges appointed in 169"2 to try the witches, and in the 
same year was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and one of the judges of 
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for that county. He died February 28, 1698-9. 

Tno.M.\s S.w.\GE was an assistant in 1680 and 1681. 

WiLLLiM Brown was born in Salem in 1639, and was the son of William. He was 
an assistant from 1680 to 1683, and died February 14, 1716. 

S.-iMUEL Ai'i'LETON was an assistant from 1681 to 1686. 

RoHERT Pike was an assistant from 1682 to 1686. 

S.-v.ml;el Fisher was an assistant in 1683. 

John Woodbridge was an assistant in 1683 and 1684. 

\ViLLi.\M Johnson was an assistant from 16S4 to 1686. 

John H.vwthorne, or Hathorne, son of William, was born in Salem about 1641, was 
assistant from 1684 to 1686, and judge of , the Superior Court of Judicature from 
August 14, 1703, to June, 1712, and died in Boston May 10, 1717. 

Ei.isH.v HiTCHiNso.N, son of Edward, was born in Boston in 1640 and was an assist- 
ant from 1684 to 1686. Though a merchant he -was appointed, March 3, 1693, chief 
justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county and remained on 
the bench until his death, December 10, 1717. 

S.\.muelSew.\ll, son of Henry, came from England in 1661 at the age of nine years 
and graduated at Harvard in 1671. He studied divinity and occasionally preached, 
but probably had no settlement. He was an assistant from 1684 to 1686, and again 
after the deposition of Andros until 1692. Under the provincial government he was 
a member of the Council until 172.j. In 1692 he was appointed one of the judges to 
try the witches, and on the organization of the Superior Court of Judicature he was 
made one of the associate justices. In 1718 he was appointed to succeed Wait Win- 
throp as chief justice, and served until 1728, when he resigned both that position and 
the otHce of judge of probate for Suffolk county, which he had held since 1715. He 
died in January, 1730. 

Is.\.4c Addington, son of Isaac, was born in Boston January 22, 1645, and was edu- 
cated as a surgeon. He was a member of the House of Deputies and speaker in 
1685. In 1686 he was an assistant, and after the deposition of Andros was made 
secretary of the colony, an office he continued to hold under the provincial charter 
until his death. He was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk 
county from March 3, 1693, to 1702, when he was appointed chief justice of the Su- 
perior Court of Judicature, and remained in oilice one year. He died March 19, 
171.5. 

John Smith was an assistant in 1686. 

Oliver Purchase was chosen an assistant in 1685 and decUned. 
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O lis Madison Shaw, son of Charles A. and Sophia L. Shaw, was born in Biddeford, 
Me., December 7, llSoT, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1881. He studied law 
at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway 
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He makes patent law a 
specialty. His residence is in Boston. 

Ei)w.\Ki) HosMER S.WAKV, Son of Rcv. William H. and Anna (Hosmer) Savary, 
was born in Buffalo, N. Y. , Jul)' 22, 18()4, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston in the offices of Brooks & Nichols and Melville M. AVeston, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and to the Circuit Court of the United 
States January 2!!, 1892. He was the law editor of the Boston Real Estate Record 
from February to May, 1891. He resides in South Boston. 

Sl'MNER RoiiiNsoN, son of Charles and Rebecca T. (Ames) Robinson, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., October 26, 1866, and graduated at Tufts College in 1888. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School apd was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 
21, 1891. He is a trustee of Tufts College and lives in Newton. 

William Everett Rogers, son of Edward and Charlotte A. (Barron) Rogers, was 
born in Webster, Mass., July 16, 18o4, and was educated at the Hartford, Conn., 
High School and Trinity College, from which he graduated in 1877. He graduated 
also at the Boston University Law School in 1880, and continued his law studies in 
Franklin, N. H., in the office of Daniel Barnard, and in Boston in the office of J. H. 
Benton. He was admitted to the bar at Concord, N. H., in August, 1880, and at 
Boston in November of the same year. He has been a member of the School Board 
in Wakefield, Mass. , where he resides, since 1887, and the treasurer of the Beebe 
Town Library in that town since 1886. He married, July 6, 1881, at Tilton, N. H., 
Ellen S. Cate, of Franklin, N. H. 

John Pail Rciki.nson, son of Paul and Nancy (Gage) Robinson, was born in Dover, 
N. H., March 16, 1800, and after fitting at the Exeter Academy entered Harvard in 
1819. He failed to finish his course, but in 1845 received a degree of Master of Arts. 
In August, 1823, he entered the office of Daniel Webster in Boston as a student, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9, 1827. He established himself in Lowell and 
continued in business there, serving as a representative in 1829-;^!, 1838, '39, and as 
senator in 1835. He was an eminent Greek scholar and a man of high attainments 
in other fields of literature. He married. October 2, 1837, Nancy, daughter of Ezra 
and Mary (Lang) Worthen, of Lowell, and died at the Insane Asylum, Somerville, 
October 19, 1864. 

John Gekrv RoliI^-sa^■, son of Joseph H. and Eliza H. Robinson, was born in 
Marblehead, Mass. , November 24, 1860, and w-as educated chiefly by private tutors. 
He studied law at the Georgetown Law School, in the office of Merrick & Morris in 
Washington, D. C.-, at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, 
Dickinson & Howe, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. His 
residence is in Melrose. 

John Jones Clarke, son of Rev. Pitt Clarke, of Norton, Mass., and Rebecca 
(Jones) Clarke, of Hopkinton, Mass., was born in Nortcm, Mass., February 24, 1803. 
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Harvard in 1819. In consequence of the rebellion, which occurred during his senior 
years, he with a large majority of his class failed to receive a degree, but in 1841 the 
degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him. He studied law in the offices of 
Laban Wheaton, of Norton, and James Richardson, of Dedham, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar June, 20, 1838. He had previously been admitted in either Norfolk 
or Bristol counties to the Cfiurt of Common Pleas in 1836. He established himself in 
Roxbury, and made that place his residence during the remainder of life. In 1848 he 
associated himself in business with his brother, Manlius Stimson Clarke in Bostim, 
retaining, however, his office in Ro.xbury for some years. On the death of his brother 
in 1S.")3 he was associated for a time with ERas Merwin, and in 1854 with Lemuel 
Shaw, jr., with whom he remained imtil 1863, soon after which time he retired from 
business. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 
Roxbury in 1836 and 1837, a senator in 18i)3, and when Roxbury was made a city in 
1846 he w-as chosen its mayor, declining to serve more than one year. He married 
in 1830 Rebecca Cordis Haswell, and died in the Roxbury District of Boston Novem- 
ber T), 1887. 

M.VNLius Stimson Cl.vrkk, son of Rev. Pitt and Rebecca (Jones) Clarke, of Norton, 
Mass., was born in Norton, October 17, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in January of the same year, and was associated in business with George T3der 
Bigelow until Mr. Bigelow was in 1848 appointed judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas. He then became associated with his brother, John Jones Clarke, who had 
previously practiced in Roxbury, and this partnership continued until his death, 
which occurred in Boston, April 38, 18r)3. He married, December 1,1841, Frances 
Coi-dis Lemist, of Roxbury. 

Enw.-VRi) SoniF.K was the son of Edward Sohier, who came to America in 1750 
from St. Martins in the Island of Jersey. The father was born December 37, 
1734, and married in Boston, March 13, 1760, Susannah Brimmer. He died in Maine, 
May 33, 1794. The son, Edward, was born in Boston in September, 1763, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1781. He studied law in the office of John Lowell, and at a 
meeting of the Suffolk bar held on the 7th of July, 1784, it was voted, on motion of 
Mr. Lowell, " that Mr. Edward Sohier be recommended by the bar to the Court of 
Common Pleas this term for the oath of an attorney of that court." He married in 
1786, Mary Davies, and died October 38, 1793. 

Wii.Li.\.M D.wiES Sohier, son of Edward and Mary (Davies) Sohier. was born m Bos- 
ton, March 14, 1787, and received his early education under Master Pemberton in 
Billerica, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1805, and after studying law with 
Christopher (Jore, was admitted to the bar of the Common Pleas Court in July, 1808, 
and to that of the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1810. He married, June 30, 1809, 
Elizabeth Amory Dexter, and died at Cohasset, June 11, 1868. 

Edward Dexter Sohier, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) 
Sohier, was born in Boston, April 24, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833, and in 1838 formed a partnership 
with Charles A. Welch, which continued till his death. Mr. Sohier was in many re- 
spects a remarkable man. He was a profound lawyer, full of resources, forcible in 
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212 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

as has been said " as witty as S^'dney Smith and more agreeable." At a meeting 
of the Suffolk bar to pay due tribute to his memory, the presiding officer, Edward 
Bangs, said, "Asa lawyer he stood among the first; as a man, his courtesy, his 
honesty, his untarnished honor, the severe strictness of his integrity, made him re- 
markable, even among associates abounding in such virtues." He married, February 
lOi, is:-i(i, Hannah Louis Amory, and died November 23, 1888. 

William Souikr, son of William Davies and Elizabeth Amory (Dexter) Sohier, was 
born in Boston, March 24, 1822, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He studied law 
with Edward D. Sohier in Boston and with Samuel Fessenden and Thomas A. De 
Blois in Portland, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1843. He 
married Susan Cabot, daughter of John Amory Lowell, of Roxbury, Mass., October 
11, 184(i, and lives in Beverly, Mass. ^ 

Wii.li.\:m Davies Sohier, son of William and Susan Cabot (Low-ell) Sohier, was born 
in Boston, October 22, 1858, and was educated at private schools and at the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology-. He_ studied law at the Harvard Law School and in 
the offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1881, and later to the United States Circuit Court. He was a member 
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1888 to 1891 from Beverly and 
was remarkably effective in his opposition to the division of that town. He married 
Edith F. Alden, December 13, 1880, and lives in Beverly. 

Anusrrs E. Sco'i r, son of Rila and Sarah S. Scott, was born in Franklin. Mass., 
August 18, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 1858. He studied law at the Law- 
School in Albany, N. Y., and was admitted to the Suflfolk bar September 12, 1866, 
having been previously admitted to the bar in New York. He was a member of the 
Massachu.setts House of Representatives in 1879 and 1880, and a member of the Sen- 
ate in 1885 and 1886. He married Cecilia F. Gustine in New Orleans, Januarv 20, 189] , 
and lives in Lexington. 

RoHKRT Herm.vnn Oi'in Sciu:z, son of Carl H. A. and Caroline (Weckell) Schuz, 
was born in Boston, April 7, 1866, and was educated at the Dedham public schools 
and the Boston L^niversity. He studied law- in Boston with W. E. L. Dilloway, and 
in Dedham with Austin Mackintosh, and in the Boston University Law- School. He 
was admitted to the Norfolk comity bar at Dedham, May 22, 1888. He was counsel 
for the defendant in the Commonw-ealth vs. Philip Hoffman, arrested for the murder 
of Mary Emerson, of Dedham, in June, 1891, in which Hoffman w-as released from 
imprisonment by the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings. He lives in 
Dedham. 

Andrew RircuiE, son of Andrew- and Isabella (Montgomery) Ritchie, was born in 
Boston, July 18, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law- w-ith Rufus 
Greene Amory in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1805. In 1808 
he was the Fourth of July orator in Boston. He married, March 27, 1807, Maria Cor- 
nelia, daughter of Cornelius Durant, a West India planter, and December 2, 1823, 
Sophia Harrison, daughter of Harrison Gray Otis. He died at New-port, R. I., Au- 
gust 7, 1862. 

Ch.-\rles Roherison S.^unders, son of Charles Hicks and Mary Bi'ooks (Ball) 
Saunders, was born in Cambridge. Mass., November 22, 1862, and fitted at the Cam- 
bridge High School for Harvard, where he graduated in 1884. He graduated also at 



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the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January IT, 1888. 
He was in college president of the Harvard l^nion, and has been since president of 
the Cambridge Lj-ceum. He lives in Cambridge. 

D.-vMF.L Salnuers, Son of Daniel and Phoebe F. (Abbott) Saunders, was born in 
Andover, Mass. , and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Josiah G. Abbott and Samuel A. 
Brown in Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, January 1 , 1845. He 
has been a member of both houses of the Massachusetts Legislatvtre and mayor of 
La'WTence, where he resides. He married at Lowell, October 7, 1846, Marj' J. , daughter 
of Judge Edward St. Loe Livermore. 

Loris C.\RVF.K Soi 'iH-ARD, son of William L. and Lydia Carver Dennis .Southard, 
was born in Portland, Me., April 1, 18o4, and was educated at the Portland public 
schools, the Dorchester High School and the Maine State College. He studied law 
with Vv'. W. Thomas and Clarence Hale in Portland and at the Boston University 
Law School. He was admitted to the bar in Portland in October, 18TT, and later to 
the bar in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives from the Second Bristol District in 1887. He Jias been an active Republi- 
can, serving as the president of the Republican Club of Easton, and member of the 
Republican State Committee. He has been counsel in important cases, among which 
were the Robert Treat Paine will case and others equally well known. He married 
Nellie Copeland, daughter of Joseph and Lucy A. Copeland, of Easton. He has been 
engaged largely in newspaper work and was from 1877 to 1880 editor of the Easton 
loiirnal.- His residence is at North Easton. 

Wii.i,i.\M Channing Api'leton was born in Boston, October 2.'), 181"2, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1832. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1836, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August in that year. He died in the Roxbury District 
of Boston, August 8, 1892. 

Tho.mas Andrews Watso.n was born in Boston, December 19, 1823, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1845. He graduated also from the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 1849. In 1852 he left Boston and moved to New 
York, where he became one of the leading real estate lawyers of the city, holding for 
fifteen years prior t;o his death a place of responsibility in the real estate department 
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company. He died in New York city, May 
15, 1892. 

James Ancrum Winsi.ow was born in Ro.xbury, Mass., April 29, 1839, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1859. In 1865 he appears in the roll of members of tlie Suffolk bar. He 
died at Binghamton, N. Y. , June 27, 1892. 

Frederick Dabney was born at Fayal, Azores, August 9, 1S46, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13. 1869. He died 
at Boston Jidy 24, 1892. 

Arthur Lincoln Allen was born in West Cambridge, Mass., September 28, 1863, 
and graduated at Har\^ard in 1885. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School 
in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that vear. He died at Arlington, 
May 16, 1892. 

Edward Mellen was born in Westboro', Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Brown 
University in 1823. He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and settled in Wayland. In 



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1S47 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1854 succeeded 
Daniel Wells as chief justice of that court. He remained on the bench until the 
Common Pleas Court was abolished in bS.">9. when he settled in Worcester, and died 
in 1875. 

Mathew J.\mi:s McC^ffertv was born in Ireland in 182!). He studied law in Low- 
ell, and was admitted to the Middlese.x bar in March, 185T. He practiced in Worces- 
ter after leaving Lowell, and was appointed judge of the Boston Mvmicipal Court 
January 24, 1883, and died in Boston May 5, 1885. 

Bf.nja.min Lynde was born in Salem, September 22, lfl()6, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1686. In 1692 he went to England and studied law in the Middle Temple, London. 
In 1697 he returned to Massachusetts with a commission as advocate general of the 
Court of Admiralty for Massaohusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In 1699 he re- 
moved from Boston to Salem and continued his residence there until his death. He 
was appointed jtidge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1712, and in 1729 was 
made chief justice. He married a daughter of William Browne, of Salem, and died 
January 28, 1749. 

Benjamin Lynde, jr., son of Benjamin Lynde above mentioned, was born in Salem, 
October 5, 1700, and graduated at Harvard in 1718. He was appointed in 1739 judge 
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Esse.x county, and in 1845, the year of his 
father's resignation as chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature, he was made 
a justice of that court. In 1769 he was made chief justice and resigned in 1771. After 
leaving the bench he was appointed judge of probate for Essex county, and held that 
position until his death, which occurred October 9, 1781. 

Stephen Sew all, son of Stephen Sewall, of Newbury, and nephew of Chief Justice 
Samuel Sewall, was born in Salem, December 18, 1704, and graduated at Harvard in 
1721. After leaving college he taught school in Marblehead and served as tutor at 
Harvard College from 1728 to 1789. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of 
Judicature in 1739, and in 1752 was made chief justice to succeed Paul Dudley. He 
died unmarried, September 10, 1760. 

Peter Oliver, son of Daniel, was born in Boston, March 26, 1713, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1730. He early e.stablished him.self in Middleboro', Mass., and occupied 
a seat on the bench of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county 
from 1747 to 1756. On the 14th of .September, 1756, he was appointed judge of the 
Superior Court of Judicature, and in 1771 was made chief justice to succeed Benjamin 
Lynde, jr., who had resigned. In 1774, by a modification of the charter, the salaries 
of the jtidges were made payable by the crown and the salary of the chief justice 
was increased to £400. All the judges except Oliver, yielding to popular clamor, re- 
fused to receive their salaries from the crown, and notwithstanding the expressed 
wishes of the Legislature, he continued his refusal to decline accepting any grant 
except from the General Court. In 1775 he left the bench and went to England when 
the British troops evacuated Boston in 1776, and died at Birmingham, England, 
October 13, 1791. During his residence in England he received the degree of LL.D. 
from the University of Oxford. 

Peter Oliver, son of Dr. Daniel Oliver, was born in Hanover, N. H., in 1821, and 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842. He wafe admitted to the Suffolk bar 
May 7, 1844, and died in 1855, while on a voyage which he had undertaken for his 



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health. He left the manuscript of "The Puritan Commonwealth." which was pub- 
lished in liHoO by his brother, F. E. Oliver. 

John W.-\li.i:y, son of Rev. Thomas Walley, was born in Barnstable in 1644, and 
was an assistant in the Plymouth colony from lfi84 to 1686. He was one of the 
founders of the town of Bristol, and was appointed in 1700 a judge of the Superior 
Court of Judicature, remaining on the bench until his death, which occurred in Bos- 
ton January 11, 1712. 

John S.\i-'kin was born in England, and coming to New England about 10.")0 settled 
in Scituate. He afterwards removed to Boston, and was speaker of the House of 
Deputies in 1686. In l(iS8, or about that time, he removed to Bristol, and was ap- 
pomted judge of probate for Bristol county,, after the accession of William and Mary, 
holding the office until 1702. In 1701 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court 
of Judicature and held the office one year. He married three wives — first in 1668, 
Martha, daughter of Thomas Willet ; second in 1680, after he removed to Bost(m, 
Elizabeth, widow of Peter Lidget, and third Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Lee, of 
Bristol. He died at Bristol July 29, 1710. 

JoN.vrH.AN CiKwiN was born in Salem in Xovember, 1640. and always had his resi- 
dence there. He was appointed in 1692 one of the judges of the court to try the 
witches in the place of Nathaniel Saltonstall who had declined. In the same year he 
was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex county, and 
held that office until 1708, when he was appointed one of the judges of the Superior 
Court of Judicature. In 171."i he resigned, and died in June, 1718. 

N.vrH.'VNHvL Thom.\s, son of Nathaniel and Deborah (Jacob) Thomas, of Marshfield, 
was born in Marshfield about 166.5. He was the great-grandson of William Thomas, 
one of the merchants of London who assisted the Pilgrims in their enterprise and who 
came to New England and settled in Marshfield in 1630. He was evidently bred as a 
lawyer, and in 1686 took the oath as an attorney of the Superior Court. He was a 
judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county from 1703 to 1712, 
when he was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court of Judicature, 
which he resigned in 1718. Judge Washburn in his Judicial History of Massachusetts 
errs in stating that Gen. John Thomas of the Revolution was a descendant of Na- 
thaniel. The general belonged to an entirely distinct Thomas family and was de- 
scended not from William, the ancestor of Nathaniel, but from John, who came an 
orphan in the ship Hopeiucll from London in 163.5 and also settled in Marshfield. 
The only connection between the descendants in the present generation of the two 
ancestors William and John, arises from the marriage of Gen. John Thomas with 
Hannah Thomas, a granddaughter of Judge Thomas, the subject of this .sketch. 
Judge Thomas, the subject of this sketch, died in 1718, the year he left the bench. 
He married in 1694, Mary, daughter of John Appleton, of Ipswich. 

Edmund Quincv, son of Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, was born in Braintree, Oc- 
tober 24, 1681. He graduated at Harvard in 1699. In 1713 he was commissioned 
colonel of the Suffolk regiment, was many years a representative, and in 171.5 was 
chosen a member of the Council. In 1718 he was appointed a judge of the Superior 
Court of Judicature, and held that seat until his death. He was appointed in 1737 an 
agent of Massachusetts, and went to England in the performance of his duties touch- 



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ing the boundary line between the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 
He was inoculated for the small-pox in London, and died of the disease February 23, 
1737. 

John Cishing was born in Scituate in 16(32. In 1702 he was appointed chief justice 
of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth county, and held his seat until 
172}S, when he was appointed to a seat on the Superior Court bench, which he occu- 
died until 1733. ^ He died at Scituate in 1737, 

JiiNATH..\.\ Rkmington was born in Cambridge about 1677, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1696. He was appointed chief justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas 
for Middlesex county in 1715 to succeed John Phillips, and in 1731 was made judge of 
probate for that county. In 1733 he was made judge of the Superior Court of Judi- 
cattu'e and remained on the bench until his death, which took place September 20, 
1745. 

Th()M.\s Gkk.wks was born in Charlestown in 16y4, and graduated at Harvard in 
1703. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county 
from 1733 to 1738 and from 1739 to 1747. During the year 1738 lie occupied a seat on 
the Superior Court bench. He died June 19, 1747. 

Nath.-vniel Hi'BiiARD graduated at Harvard in 1698, and for many years resided in 
Bristol. He was a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Bristol county 
from 1728 to 1745, and in the latter year was promoted to the bench of the Superior 
Court. In 1729 he was appointed by Nathaniel Byfield deputy judge of admiralty 
for Bristol county in Massachusetts, and the colony of Rhode Island and the Narra- 
ganset country. He died in 1747, while occupying his seat on the Superior bench. 

John Cishing, son of Judge John Cushing. previously mentioned, was born in Scit- 
uate in 1695, and always made that town his place of residence. From 1746 to 1763 
he was a member of the Council, and from 1738 to 1746 judge of probate for Plymouth 
county. From 1738 to 1747 he was one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas 
for Plymouth county, and in the latter year was made a judge of the Sitperior Court 
of Judicature. He resigned his seat in 1771, and died in 1778. 

Chambers Rissell, son of Daniel Russell, was born in Charlestown in 1713, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1731. From 1747 to 1752 he was one of the judges of the 
Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex county, and a member of the Council in 1759 
and 1760. He was also appointed in 1747 judge of vice-admiralty over New Hamp- 
shire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He early in life established himself in Con- 
cord and represented that town in the General Court. He was appointed judge of the 
Superior Court in 1752 and remained on the bench until his death, which occurred in 
Guilford, England, November 24, 1766. Judge Russell was one of the few judges up 
to his time educated in the law, 

Edmund Trowhridce was born in Newton in 1709, and graduated at Harvard in 
1727. He was trained as a lawyer and in 1749 was appointed attorney-general of the 
Province. In 1764 and 1765 he was a member of the Council, and in 1767 was ap- 
pointed a judge of the Superior Court of Judicature. He resigned in 1775 and died 
at Cambridge, April 2, 1793. 

Foster Huichinson, a brother of Governor Thomas Hutchinson and son of 
Thomas, a merchant of Boston, was born in Boston about 1702 and graduated at 




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Harvard in 1721. Though a merchant he was appointed judge of the Inferior 
Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk in 1758, and remained in that court until 1771, 
when he was promoted to the Superior Bench. In 17(i!) he was appointed judge of 
probate for Suffolk county, and retained this oifice together with his seat on the 
bench until the Revolution when he went to England with other loyalists and there 
died. 

Nai'haniei. Ropks was born in Salem, May 20, 172(>, and graduated at Harvard in 
1745. He was a member of the Council from 17(i2 to 17(i9, and in 1761 was appointed 
judge of probate for Essex county and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for 
that county. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in JT72, 
and remained on the bench until his death, March 18, 1774. 

William Clshing, son of John Cashing already mentioned, was born in Scituate, 
March 1, 1733, and graduated at Harvard in 17.51. He studied law with Jeremiah 
Gridley in Boston, and settled in Pownalboro, Me., in 1755. In 1760 he was appointed 
judge of probate for Lincoln county, and in 1772 was appointed judge of the Superior 
Court, retaining his seat through the Revolution and being appointed in 1777 chief 
justice, a position which he continued to hold in the Supreme Judicial Court after its 
establishment in 1782. In 1789 he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court 
of the United States. In 1796, on the resignation of Chief Justice Jay, he was ap- 
pointed as his successor, but declined, remaining however on the bench as associate 
justice until his death, w-hich occurred at Scituate, September 13, 1810. 

William Bkow.ne was born in Salem, February 37, 1737, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1755. He was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Essex county from 1770 
to 1774 and many years a representative from .Salem. He was appointed judge of 
the Superior Court of Judicature in 1774 and at an Q.arlier date he had been collector 
of the port of Salem. He remained on the bench until the Revolution, when he left 
the country and was made governor of Bermuda. He died in England, February 
13, 1803. 

Charles Devens, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow) Devens, was born in Charles- 
town, April 4, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, wher^-he graduated in 1840, and in the office of George T. Davis 
in Greenfield, and was admitted to the Franklin county bar in 1841. After his ad- 
mission to the bar he was associated with Mr. Davis in business until 1849, represent- 
ing Franklin county in the Senate in 1848. From 1849 to 1853 he held the posi- 
tion of L^nited States marshal for Massachusetts, and in 1854 resumed the practice of 
law in partnership with George F. Hoar in Worcester. While he was marshal it 
became his duty to execute the process remanding to his alleged owner Thomas 
Sims, a fugitive slave, and until the war came on he made unavailing efforts to 
purchase the freedom of the man he had officially aided in returning to slavery. 
After the emancipation proclamation had freed Sims, Mr. Devens assisted him, and 
when attorney-general of the L'nited States, during the administration of President 
Hayes, gave him a place in his department. In April, 1861, he took command of a 
rifle battalion for three months' service and w'as posted at Fort McHenry in Balti- 
more harbor. On his return home he was commissioned colonel of the Fifteenth 
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, raised for three years' service, and was en- 
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gaged in the battle of Balls Bluff, where after the death of Colonel Baker he was left 
in command. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers April 15, 1863, and was 
engaged in the battles of Williamsburg, Fairoaks, South Mountain and Antietam. 
At the battle of Chancellorsville he commanded a division of the Eleventh Corps, 
and in 1864-5 he was attached to the Eighteenth Corps. In December, 1864, he was 
in command of the Twenty-fourth Corps, and in April, 1865, was brevetted major 
general. He remained in the service until June, 1866, when he was mustered out. 
In 1867 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court and remained on the bench of 
that court until 18T8, when he was made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. In 
187T he left the bench to take the office of attorney-general of the United States, and 
was reappointed to the bench in 1881, after his retirement from the cabinet. On the 
17th of June, 1875, he delivered an oration at the celebration of the two hundredth 
anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, which gave him a leading position as an 
orator. In 1877 he received from Harvard the degree of LL. D. He died in Boston 
Janiaary 7, 1891. 

Seth Ames, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedliam, Mass., April 19, 1805. His 
mother was Frances, a daughter of Colonel John Worthington, of Springfield, Mass. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and 
in Springfield in the office of George Bliss, and in Boston in the office of Lemuel 
Shaw. He was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Dedham in 1828 and to the 
Supreme Court in Cambridge in October, 1830, and began to practice in Lowell, 
where for a time he was associated with Thomas Hopkinson. He was a member of 
the Lowell Board of Aldermen in 1836-37, '40, a representative in 1882 and a senator 
in 1841. He was also city solicitor from 1842 to 1849. In 1849 he was appointed 
clerk of the courts for Middlesex county and removed to Cambridge. When the Su- 
perior Court was established in 1859 he was appointed an associate judge, and in 1867 
succeeded Charles Allen as chief justice. In 1869 he was promoted to the bench of 
the Supreme Judicial Court and removed to Brookline. He resigned his seat Jan- 
uary 15, 1881, and died in Brookline, August 15, in the same year. He married in 
1830 Margaret, daughter of (3-amaliel Bradford, of Boston, and in 1849 Abigail Fisher, 
daughter of Rev. Samuel Dana, of Marblehead. 

William Sewall G.\rdnek was born in Hallowell, Me., 0(?1'ober 1, 1827, and gradu- 
ated at Bowdoin College in 1850. He studied law in Lowell and was admitted to 
the Middlesex bar in October, 1852. He began practice in Lowell, associated with 
Theodore H. Sweetser, and remained there until 1861, when he removed his office 
to Boston. In 1875 he was appointed judge of the Sviperior Court, and in 1885 he 
was promoted to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned on the 7th 
of September, 1887, and died at his home in Newton, April 4, 1888. 

AiiR.\HAM MooKE was born in Bolton, Mass., January 5, 1785, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1806. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow in Groton, Mass., and after 
admission to the bar began to practice in that town. He was postmaster of Groton 
frcm 1812 to 1815, when he removed to Boston, where he remained until his death, 
January 3, 1854. He married first Mary (Mills), a dovible widow of a Mr. Barnard 
and a Mr. Woodham. She had been an actress, and in consequence of her husband's 
financial troubles, returned to the stage and appeared in Boston as Lady 'Tea:;lc. 
Two of Mr. Moore's daughters by this wife married John Cockran Park, a distin- 



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guished member of the Suffolk bar, and Greiiville Mears, a well known merehant of 
Boston. Mr. Moore married second in 1819, Eliza, daughter of Isaac Durell. 

Theodore Harrison Sweetser was born in Wardsboro', Vt. , in 1821, and entered 
Amherst College, but did not finish his college course. He studied law with Tappan 
Wentworth in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1843. 
He began to practice in Lowell, and continued there, associated at different times 
with Benjamin Poole and William Sewall Gardner until 1879, when he removed to 
Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Lowell in 1851, city solicitor in 
1853-54, '59-60 and 61, a member of the House of Representatives in 1870, and at 
one time the Democratic candidate for governor. He died in Boston, May 8, 1882. 

George Merrick Brooks, son of Nathan and Mary (Merrick) Brooks, was bom in 
Concord, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He studied law with 
Hopkinson & Ames in Lowell and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847. 
He has always lived in Concord, where he has been a selectman five years, and was 
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858 and in the Senate in 1859. 
From 1869 to 1872 he was a member of Congress, and in the latter year was appointed 
judge of probate for Middlesex countj-, which position he still holds. He married in 
1851 Abba Prescott, and in 1869 Mary A. Dillingham, of Lowell. 

Arthur P. Gushing, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwin) Gushing, was 
born in Scituate, Mass., August 16, 1850, and received his early education at the 
Chauncy Hall School in Bo.ston, and in Germany and Switzerland. He graduated at 
at Harvard in 1878 and prosecuted his law studies at the Harvard Law School. He 
was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in 1882. He has been the Mexican consul 
in Boston since 1887. 

Clement Kelsev Fay, son of Harrison and Sarah P. Fay, was born in Brookline, 
Mass., November 17, 1845, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law with 
Ropes & (iray in Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar m 1869. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Brookline in 1885 and 
1886; prison commissioner in 1886 and 1887, and has been, or is now, a trustee of the 
Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge ; one of the Board of Managers of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary; trustee of the Brookline Pubhc 
Librar5% and president of the Law Enforcement Association. His residence is in 
Brookline. 

John Cochran Park was born in Boston, June 10, 1804, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1824. He was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1851 he was appointed district 
attorney for the Suffolk district, and remained in office two years. In 1860 he re- 
moved his "residence to Newton, continuing, however, his office in Boston. In 1881 
he was appointed justice of the Newton Police Court, and held that office until his 
death. In early life he was an actnve member of the volunteer militia and at differ- 
ent periods commanded the Cit)' Guards, the Boston Light Irrfantry, and the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company. During the last three years of the Whig party 
he was one of its most prominent and efficient members, ready at all times with his 
rare oratorical powers to advocate its principles and promote its success. He mar- 
ried twice, his first wife being the daughter of Abraham Moore already mentioned. 
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Chari.es John McInthif. was born in Cambridge, Jlarch 26, 1842. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. During the 
period of his law study he served nine months in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts 
Regiment. He has been a, member of the Common Council of Cambridge, a member 
of the Board of Aldermen, and was a member of the House of Representatives m 
186!) and 18T0. He has also been assistant district attorney for Middlesex and city 
solicitor of Cambridge, where he resides. He married in 1865 Maria Terese, daugh- 
ter of George B. Linegan, of Charlestown. 

George Henry Gordon was born in Charlestown, July 19, 182.1, and graduated at 
West Point in 1846. He served in the Mounted Rifles under General Scott in the 
Mexican War and was brevetted first lieutenant April 18, 1847, for gallant conduct in 
the field. He was made first lieutenant August 30, 1853, and resigned October 31, 
1854. He then studied law at the Harvard Law School and after admission to the 
bar began practice in Boston. In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the Second 
Massachusetts Regiment and was made brigadier general of volunteers June 9, 1862. 
He was engaged in the second battle of Bull Run and Antietam, and in the opera- 
tions about Charleston harbor and against Mobile in 1863 and 1864. He was bre- 
vetted major general of volunteers April 9, 1865, and mustered out August 20, 1865. 
After his discharge from the service he practiced law in Boston until his death, which 
took place at Framingham, August 30, 1866. 

George Herbert H.^rding, son of George W. and Harriet M. Harding, was born 
in Burlington, Vt., April 30, 1854. He attended Phillips Exeter and Andover acad- 
emies and graduated at Harvard in 18T6. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in June, 1881. He is chiefly engaged in trust 
business. He married Helen B. Hall at Bristol, R. I., May 25, 1887. 

Otis L. Bonnev was born in Hanson, Mass., December 2, 1838, and. attended the 
public schools of that town until 1852, when his parents removed to Boston. He there 
attended the Phillips Grammar School, receiving the Franklin medal, and the Eng- 
lish High School. After attending Comer's Commercial College he engaged as a 
book-keeper in a business house until the autumn of 1861, when he enlisted for three 
years' service in Company E, Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment. After his re- 
turn from the war he taught school for five years in Halifax, Hanson, Weymouth and 
Charlestown, and stiadied law in Boston in the office of Ropes &• Gray. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar on examination in March, 1874, and began practice in Bos- 
ton. In 1880, while holding as he still does his residence in Hanson, he opened an 
office in Whitman, Mass., and is now'a practicing la-\\-yer in that town. He married, 
November 26, 1867, Grace, daughter of Theodore Cobb, of Hanson. 

JoNATH.'iN Dorr, son of Ralph Smith and Nancy (Williams) Dorr, was born in Louis- 
ville, Ky., January 1, 1842, and after attending the Roxbury, Mass., Latin School, 
entered Harvard and graduated in 1864. He studied law at the Boston L^niversity 
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1874. His business is 
chiefly connected with trusts and corporation affairs. He man-ied Anne Isabella 
Kennedy in Roxbury, September 17, 1867, and lives in the Dorchester District of 
Boston. 

EiiWARD Warren Cate, son of Hiram S. and Caroline P. Cate, was born in New- 
ton (Lower Falls), March 18, 1852, and fitted at the public schools for Harvard, where 



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he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar July 8, 1878. He has been councilman, alderman, and president 
of the Water Board in Newton. He married Mary Louise Doty at Keene, N. H., 
October 25, 1883, and lives in Boston. 

John Melville Gould, son of John B. and Caroline E. Gould, was born in Jlarsh- 
field, Mass., July 4, 1848, and graduated at Brown University in 1871. He studied 
law in Englandand at the Harvard and Boston University Law Schools, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874. He is the author of " The Law of Wa- 
ters " and associate author of Gould & Tucker's "Notes on L'^nited States Revised 
Statutes," and editor of the 9th and 10th volumes of Story's Equity Pleadings. His 
residence is in Newton. 

Nelson M. Gr.\ek.'\m was an attorney in Boston in 1890, and died in December, 
1891. 

Amhkose Wellington, son of Benjamin Oliver and Mary (Hastings) Wellington, 
was born in Lexington, Mass., April 11, 1819, and attended the Lexington public 
schools, the academy at Stow under the charge of Leonard Bliss, and the Fairmount 
Seminary in Watertown, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and after teach- 
ing several years, a part of the time as master of the Smith School in Boston, he 
studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1857, confining his 
practice chiefly to conveyancing and real estate matters. He married Lucy Jane, 
daughter of WiUiarti Kent, of Concord, N. H., May 27, 1845. With impaired health 
he retired some years since from practice and now lives with a daughter in the city 
of New York. 

Ch.\rles Frederick Simmons, son of Judge William and Lucia (Hammatt) Simmons, 
was born in Boston, January 27, 1821. After receiving a common school education 
he was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and under the direction of his 
brother, Rev. George Frederick Simmons, and entered Harvard in 1837. In his sen- 
ior year he was expelled from college as an alleged leader in a rebellion in which his 
entire class was involved, but received his degree in 1855. He studied law with Da- 
vid A. Simmons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1845. Early in 
the war he was commissioned adjutant of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, 
but ill health compelled him to resign. For expected benefits from a warm climate 
he sailed from Boston for Santiago, Cuba, February 25, 1862, in the brig Gypsy, of 
which no tidings were ever heard. 

Christopher Gore Riplev, son of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Alden (Bradford) Ripley, 
was born in Waltham, Mass. , September 6, 1822, and was educated for college by his 
father and mother, both of whom were accomplished educators. He entered the 
sophomore class at Harvard in 1838 and graduated in 1841. He studied law at the 
Harvard J^aw School and in the offices of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1844. In 1855 he removed to 
Brownsville, Minn., and in 1856 to Chatfield in the same State, and in 1870 was ap- 
pointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota. He resigned in 1874 and 
returned to Concord, Mass., where he remained in poor health until his death, which 
occurred October 15, 1881. He married, December 14, 1863, Mrs. Fanny Gage, a 
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Samuel Foster McCleaky, son of Samuel Foster and Maria Lynde (Walter) Mc- 
Cleary, was born in Boston, July 14, 1822, and received his early education at the 
public schools of Boston and the Boston Latin School, receiving the Franklin medal. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in 1843, complet- 
ing his studies in Boston in the office of John A. Andrew, and being admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 9, 1844. He succeeded his father as city clerk of Boston and 
held the office thirty-one years, his father having held it thirty years. In 1883, fail- 
ing a re-election, he was appointed manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
of Boston, but resigned in 1888. He has been trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank, 
secretary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and is now treasurer of the 
Franklin Fund for the benefit of young mechanics. He married, February 1, 185.5, 
Emily Thurston, daughter of Captain James Henry and' Eliza Lawrence (Farris) 
Barnard, of Nantucket, Mass., and lives in Brookline. 

Ai;kaham Jackson, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was born 
m Plymouth, Mass., Januarj- 31, 1821. He was fitted for college at the High School 
in Plymouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Baltimore and 
at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January T, 1845. 
He died unmarried in Boston January 21, 1889. 

Wickham Hoffman, son of Murray and Frances Amelia (Burrall) Hoffman, was 
born in the city of New York, April 6, 1821, and was fitted for college at private 
schools. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and after stud)-ing law was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 23, 1848, having previously spent a year or two in the business 
office of his uncle, L. M. Hoffman, in New York. During the war he held commis- 
sions as captain and major, and was appointed in February, 1862, on the staff of 
Brigadier-General Thomas Williams and m that capacity he served in the Hatteras 
campaign. He participated in the capture of New Orleans, in the battle of Baton 
Rouge and in the siege of Port Hudson. On returning to Washington with the 
brevet of colonel he was appointed in t)ctobfer, 1866, assistant secretary of legation at 
Paris under General John A. Dix, and in January-, 1867, full secretary. He remained 
in Paris attached to the legation until January, 1875, when he was appointed secre- 
tary of legation to the court of St. James. Remaining in London two years he was 
transferred in May, 1877, as secretary of legation to St. Petersburg and remained 
there six years. In March, 1883, he was appoiuted Minister to Denmark, which post 
he held until 1885. He published in 1877 a volume entitled "Camp, Court and 
Siege; a narative of personal adventure during the wars, 1861-65 and 1870-71," and 
in 1883 " Leisure Hours in Russia." He married, Ma)^ 14, 1844, Elizabeth Baylies, 
of Taunton, and resides in New York. 

George Whiting Hav, son of Joseph and Bathsheba (Whiting) Hay, was born in 
Boston, June 29, 1820, and fitted for college at private schools. He graduated at 
Harvard in 1841, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of 
Sidne\- Bartlett, and was admitted to the bar. He removed early to Ashburnham, 
Mass. , and there lived until his death, August 24, 1879. 

Franklin H.all, son of Jesse and Sarah D. (Wiswall) Hall, was born in East Cam- 
bridge, Mass., Augusts, 1822, and attended the Cambridge public schools and the 
Framingham Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1841, and graduated at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1844, and after a short time in the office of John C. Dodge in Bos- 




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ton. he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May (!, 184r). He was a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts House of Representatives in 1H54 and ISoG, and a member of the Cam- 
bridge School Board in 18o9 and 1860. He married Jane W. Morse, daughter of Sam- 
uel F. Morse, of Boston, October 15, 1863, and died in Dorchester August 6, 1868. 

Jamks Trecothick Austin, son of Jonathan Loring and Hannah (I vers) Austin, was 
born in Boston January 10, 1784, and was educated before entering college at the 
private school of Caleb Bingham, in the Boston Latin School and at Andover. He 
graduated in 1803 at Harvard, studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in' July, 1805. In 1807 he was appointed by Governor Sullivan 
attorney of the State for Suffolk county, and in 1809 town advocate. In 1811 
he was reappointed attorney of the State, or county attorney. In 1816 he was 
appointed by President Madi.son to manage the business under the 41st article 
of the treaty of Ghent, and in 1820 ' he was a member of the Massachusetts 
Constitutional Convention. He continued to act as county attorney until 1832, 
and in 1825-26 and 1831 he was a member of the State Senate. When the office 
of solicitor-general was abolished and the office of attorney-general created in 
1832 he was appointed by Governor Lincoln to that office and held it until it was 
abolished in 1843. In 1831 he delivered the annual Phi Beta oration, and in 1835 re- 
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Harvard. He published the life of his father-in- 
law, Elbridge Gerr}', two Fourth of July orations, one at Lexington in 1815 and one 
in Boston in 1829, and was a frequent contributor to the Christian E.xami)ier, and the 
Laiu Reporter, and other magazines. He married, October 2, 1806,. Catharine, 
daughter of Elbridge Gerry, of Boston, and died in Boston, where he had always re- 
sided. May 8, 1870. 

,.- IvEKs J.\MES Aisn.v, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, was 
born in Boston, February 14, 1808, and graduated at West Point in 1828. He was 
brevetted second lieutenant of artillery, July 1, 1828, and resignecl November 8, 1828. 
He was admitted to the Siiffolk bar in the Common Pleas Court April 11, 1831, and in 
the Supreme Judicial Court April 3,- 1833, ha\ang studied law' in the office of his father. 
His military tastes" led him into the volunteer militia and he passed through the sev- 
eral grades from adjutant to lieutenant-colonel. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts House of Representatives in 1838, a visitor at West Point in 1842, and he re- 
ceived from Harvard m 1852 the degree of Master of Arts. He published a memoir 
of Prof. Wm. W. Mather in 1883, and died at Newjjort, June 11, 1889. 

Ei.BRiuGE Gerry Austin, son of James Trecothick and Catharine (Gerry) Austin, 
was born in Boston, October 10, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1832 in the Common Pleas Court, and to the Middlesex 
bar in the Supreme Court in October, 1834. He practiced in Bo.ston until 1850, when 
he removed to San Francisco. While on a visit to Massachusetts he died at Nahant, 
July 23, 1854. 

John Downes Austin, son of William and Hepzibah (Downes) Austin, was born in 
Boston, February 10, 1827, and after living in Boston, Roxbury, Lowell, Dedham, 
Ravenwood, La., and Columbia, Tenn., befitted for Harvard at the school of Stephen 
Minot Weld at Jamaica Plain , near Boston, and graduated in 1846. He studied law in 
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office of Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In ISoO he remo\-ed 
to Taunton and was associated a short time in practice with Horatio Pratt. In 1853 
he removed to New York, but retvirned to Boston in 1854 and continued in practice 
there until his death. On the 25th of February, 1861, he visited New York, and on 
the night of the 28th disappeared. On the 1st of March his hat was found in Bronx 
river, near Williamsbridge, and his shirt on the bank. On the 11th of April his body 
was found in a pond at White Plains. It may be inferred that his death occurred Feb- 
ruary 28, 1861. 

George Howard F.xli., son of George H. and Rebecca G. (Howard) Fall, was born 
in Maiden, Mass., October 19, 1858. He attended the Maiden High School and the 
Boston University, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 188T, and is, or has been, a lecturer in the Col- 
lege of Liberal Arts and in the Boston University Law School. He married, Septem- 
ber 17, 1884, Anna Christy, and lives in Maiden. 

Anna Christy Fall, daughter of William and Mai^garet Christy, was born in Chel- 
sea, Mass., April 33, 1855, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and the Bos- 
ton LTniversity. She graduated at the Boston University Law- School in 1891, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 189J. She married George Howard Fall, 
September 17, 1884, and lives in Maiden, where she is now serving a three j-ears term 
on the School Board. 

Charles Gersiiam Fall, son of Gersham Lord and Rowena Powers Moody Fall, was 
born in Maiden, Mass., June 22, 1845, and was fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston in the office of W. A. Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1869. He has been interested in the establishment of an arbitration board and the 
Employer's Liability Act, and has been engaged in various important suits for dam- 
ages against railroad conjpanies. He has published two books of poems and " Fall on 
Employer's Liability." His residence is in Boston. 

Ri'Frs G. Fairbanks, son of William and Mary P. (Ha)^vard) Fairbanks, was born 
in Bellingham, Mass., July 11, 1859, and w-as educated at the Medway High School 
and the W'esleyan Academy. He studied law in the office of Thurston, Ripley & 
Company, of Providence, R. I., and graduated at the Boston University Law School 
in 1884. He was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at Dedham in 1891, and prac- 
tices in Boston and West Medway. His residence is at Caryville. 

James Henry Flint, son of James and Almira Flint, was born in Middleton, 
Mass., June 25, 1852, and was fitted at Phillips Academy, Andover, for Harvard, 
where he graduated in 1876. He studied law- in New York city with Stanley, Clark 
& Smith, and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1882. He taught the High School in Marblehead, Mass., from 1876 to 
1880, has been a member of the School Board of Weymouth, where he lives, and is 
a special justice of the East Norfolk District Court. He has published "Flint on 
Trusts and Trustees," and is engaged in preparing other works for the press. He 
married Abbie A. Pratt at Weymouth, November 19, 1889. 

William Fkani-clin Grieein, son of James S. and Sarah E. Griffin, was born in 
Windsor, Me., June 13, 1838, and while attending school in Illinois he entered the 
army and served through the w-ar. After his discharge he studied law at Bellows 



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Falls, Vt., in the office of J. D. Bridgman and at the Harvard Law School, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1869. He married Abbie W. Spiller at Haver- 
hill, Mass., in 18T2, and his home is in the West Roxbury District of Boston. 

J<iiiN C. Dodge was born in Newcastle, Me., in 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin 
Colle.ufe in 1834. He was admitted to the Suifolk bar in July, 1842, and made a 
specialty of- maritime law. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
resentatives and a member of the Senate. He was president of the Board of Over- 
seers of Bowdoin and received from that college in 18T5 a degree of LL. D. He 
married Lucy Sherman, of Edgecomb, Me., in 1843, and died at Cambridge, July 

17, 1800. 

Eiiw AKi> St. Loe Livekmokk, son of Samuel and Jane (Browne) Livermore, was 
born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762. His father was chief justice of the Su- 
perior Court of New Hampshire. He was educated at Londonderry and Holder- 
ness, N. H., and studied law in Newburi.'port in the office of Theophilus Parsons. 
He began to practice in Concord, N. H., and afterwards removed to Portsmouth 
and was appointed United States district attorney and chief justice of the Superior 
Court. In 1802 he removed to Newburyport and was a member of Congress. In 
1811 he removed to Boston, and in 1815 to Zanesville, Ohio, but returned to Boston 
and finally settled in Tewksbury, where he died September 15, 1832. He married 
in 1799 Sarah Crease, daughter of William Stackpole, of Boston. 

Edw.vri) Bkooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in Boston in 1793, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1812. He studied law in Boston in the office of his uncle, Ben- 
jamin Gorham, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in 1815 
and to the Supreme Judicial Court December 23, 1818. He was a representative 
from Boston in 1834, '37, '42, and finally removed to Medford, where he died in 
1878. 

GoRi!.\M Brooks, son of Peter C. Brooks, was born in iledford, February 18, 
1795, and fitted at Phillips Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 1814. He 
studied law in Northamptim with Joseph Lyman, but the editor is not certain that 
he was ever admitted to the bar. He died in Medford, September 10, 1855. He 
married a daughter of R. D. Shepherd, of Shepherdstown, "Va. 

WiLLi.^M AisTi.N was born in Charlestown, Mass., March 2, 1778, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1798. He practiced in Suffolk county, but was probably admitted to 
the Middlesex bar. In 1805 he was wounded in a duel with James H. Elliott. He 
died in Charlestown, June 27, 1841. 

JoN.vTHAN WiLi.HMS AusTiN, Son of Benjamin Austin, was born in Boston, April 

18, 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He studied law with John Adams, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1772. In 1773 he began practice in Chelms- 
ford. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, passing through the grades of 
captain, major and colonel, and died during a southern campaign in 1778. 

Christopher Gore, son of John Gore, was born in Boston, September 21, 1758, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1776. He studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1778. In 1789 he was appointed L'nited States district at- 
torney and in 1796 was appointed one of the commissioners to settle American claims 
against England under Jay's treaty. In 1809 he was governor of Massachusetts, 
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and from 1S18 t(i 181(i I'nited States senator. He died in Waltham, Mass., March 1, 
1837. 

AsiiF.R W.\RH was born in Sherburne, Mass., February 10, 1783, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1804. He was Greek tutor at Harvard from- 1807 to 1811, and Greek pro- 
fessor from 1811 to 1815. He practiced one year in Boston, and in 1817 removed to 
Portland. In 1830 he was made secretary of state in Maine, and from 1833 to 1866 
was judge of the United States District Court. He died in Portland. 

Benj.^minGorham, son of Nathaniel Gorham, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb- 
ruary 13, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He practiced in Middlesex and 
Suffolk counties, and from 1830 to 1833 and from 1837 to 1835 was a member of Con- 
.gress. His residence during his professional life was in Boston, where he died Sep- 
tember 37. 1856. 

George W.\shin'Gton Warken, son of Isaac and Abigail (Fiske) Warren, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass. , October 1, 1813, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1837, and settled in Charlestown. He was a representa- 
tive in 1838 and senator in 1853-4. After Charlestown was made a city by an act 
accepted March 10, 1847, he was chosen mayor tliree successive years. He was sec- 
retary of the Bunker Hill Monument Association ten years, and from 1847 to 1875 its 
president. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the Charlestown District Municipal 
Court, and continued in office until his death in Boston, where in his latter years he 
lived. May 13, 1883. He married first in 1835 Lucy Rogers, daughter of Jonathan 
Newell, of Stow, and second, Georgianna, daughter r)f Jonathan and Susan Pratt 
Thompson, of Charlestown. 

William Whiting, son of Col. William and Hannah (Conant) Whiting, was born 
in Concord, Mass., March 3, 1818. He was descended from Rev. Samuel Whit- 
ing, a non-conformist minister, who came in 1636 from Skirbeck, near Boston, Eng- 
land, and arrived in Massachusetts on the 36th of May in that year. This ancestor 
was born in Boston, England, November 30, 1597, became the minister of the 
church in Lynn, and remained there until his death, which occurred December 11, 
1679. He married in Boston, England, on the 6th of August, 1639, Elizabeth St. 
John, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, of Cashoe, England. A first wife died in 
England, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. The sons died in England 
and the daughter mamed Thomas, son of Rev. Thomas Welde, of Roxbury, Mass. 
Joseph Whiting, a son of the second wife, w-as born in Lynn, Mass., April 6, 1641, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1661. He was settled as a minister in Southampton, 
Long Island, in 1683, and remained in the pastorate until liis death, April 7, 1733. 
He married first Sarah, daughter of Thomas Danforth, of Cambridge, who was the 
mother of his children, and second, November 11, 1646, Rebecca Prescott. John 
Whiting, son of Joseph, was born at Southampton, January 30, 1681, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1700. He was ordained at Concord, Mass., May 14, 1713. 
He cimtinued his connection with the church until 1738, and after that time preached 
to a congregation of seceders until his death, May 4, 1753. His wife Mary was a 
daughter of Rev. John Cotton, of Hampton, N. H., and great-granddaughter of 
Rev. John Cotton, of Boston. Thomas Whiting, s<m of John, was born in Con- 
cord, June 35, 1717, and married Mary Lake. His son William, born at Concord, 
September 30, 1760, died at Lancaster in 1833. He married in June, 1783, Rebecca, 



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daughter of Rev. Josiah Brown, of Sterling-. Col. William Whiting, son of William 
and Rebecca, was born in Sterling, Mass., October 20, 1788, and was the father of 
the subject of this sketch. He died in Concord, September 29, 1862. Mr. Whiting 
pursued his preparatory studies at the Concord Academy, and graduated at Harvard 
in 183S. After leaving college, while pursuing a course of law studies, he taught a 
private school in Plymouth, and perhaps other places, and graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1838. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar in October, 1888, and es- 
tablished himself in Boston, where by his tact, industry and perseverance combined 
with intellectual power and legal proficiency he gained almost at a single leap an ex- 
tensive and lucrative practice. He entered the profession with a determination to 
succeed, making success the goal at which he aimed and on which he kept a single 
eye. The old Common Pleas Court was the first arena in which he exercised his 
powers and the records of that court attest the brilliant opening of his legal career. 
His transition from the lower to the higher courts was an easy one. Retaining his 
old clients he added to their lists those against whom he had secured verdicts, and 
from continued triumphs before a jury still further triumphs were evolved. It was 
not long before suits involving the largest interests were confided to him, and among 
them those arising under the patent laws more especially commanded his attention. 
It has been truly said of him that in " undertaking suits of this nature he studied not 
only the legal questions on which it was supposed they would turn, but he explored 
to their most minute mechanical details the application and operation of the patents 
he was defending or contesting, until he was able to instruct his clients upon practi- 
cal defects in their inventions, as well as upon the law." There were others as pro- 
found in the law and as persuasive and eloquent, taut the distinction between him 
and them, and the secret of his success lay in the absolute thoroughness with which 
his cases were always prepared and the expert knowledge acquired and displayed in 
his examination of witnesses and in his argument to the jury. At the outbreak of 
the war, with the same determination to grasp and solve the many intricate legal ques- 
tions of the hour which had characterized him at the bar, he published a pamphlet 
on ' ' The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in 
Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery," which attracted so much attention that 
he was invited at once by the president to act as solicitor of the war department. 
Another pamphlet published in 1803 on " Military Arrests in Time of War," aided still 
further in relieving the administration from doubts on embarrassing questions, and be- 
came the guide of the officers of law in all future prosecutions during the war. He 
served gratutiously as solicitor until his resignation in April, 1865. Mr. Whitney was 
a presidential elector in 1868, and in 1872 was chosen representative to Congress, but 
died before he took his seat at Roxbury, June 29, 1873. He married, October 28, 1840, 
Lydia Gushing, daughter of Thomas Russell, of Plymouth, Mass. The following are 
the ptiblished works of Mr. Whiting: Argument, Boston Gas-Light Co. vs. William 
Gault, Boston 1848; Argument, Elias Johnson et al., vs. Peter Lowetal., Boston 
1848; Report of the Committee in Favor of the Union of Boston and Ro.xbury, Bos- 
ton 1851 ; Speech before a Legislative Committee on the Destruction of Boston Har- 
bor, Boston 1851 ; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States Brooks vs. Fiske 
et al., (Woodworth Planing Machine Patent), 1852; Argument in Circuit Court of 
the United States for Northern District of New York, Ross Winans vs. Orasraus 
Eaton et al. , on the Eight-wheeled Car Patent, 1853 ; Address before the Historic 



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Gen. Society, 1853; Memoir of Rev. Joseph Harrington, Boston 1854; Argument 
before a Legislative Committee against the Erection of a Bridge across Chelsea Creek. 
ltS54; Argument in case of Volute Spring Steam Guage, 1858; Twenty Years' War 
against the Railroads, 1860; Argument in Supreme Court of the United States in 
Ross Winans vs. New York and Erie Railroad, 1860; The War Powers of the Presi- 
dent, etc., 1862; The Return of the Rebellious States, 1863; Military Arre.sts in 
Time of War, 1868; Slavery and Reconstruction, 1864; Military Government of 
Hostile Territory, 1864; Argument in the Circuit Court of United States, Union 
Sugar Refinery vs. Continental Sugar Refinery, 186T ; Address before Roxbury Grant 
Club, 1868; Coiistitutionalitj^ of the Reconstruction Laws, 1868 ; Argument, Crowell 
vs. Sim ct al., 1869; Argument, Rumford Chemical Works vs. John E. Lauer, 1869; 
ArgumeTit, City of Chicago vs. George T. Bigelow, Administrator, 1869; Argument, 
Union Sugar Refinery vs. Francis O. Matthiersson, 1869; Argument before Commis- 
sioner of Patents, 1870 ; Letter on Pacific Railroad, 1870 ; Argument, James S. 
Carew et al. vs. Boston Elastic Fabric Co., 1871; Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, 
1872; Argument, Union Paper Collar Co. vs. Ward, 1873; Argument, Rumford 
Chemical Works vs. Hecker et al., 1872; Address before Roxbury Grant and Wilson 
Club, 1872 ; Address before Societies of Colby LTniversity, 1872. Mr. Whiting was 
president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society from 1853 to 1858, presi- 
dent of the Pilgrim Society in 1864, corresponding member of the .New York Histori- 
cal Society, and honorary member of the historical societies of Pennsylvania, Wis- 
consin, and Florida. 

Alice Parker, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Annie G. (Trafton) Parker, was born in 
Lowell, Mass., April 21, 1863, and was educated in Lowell and Boston. !5he studied 
law in the office of J. M. Lesser of San Francisco, and was admitted to the California 
bar in 1888. Coming to Massachusetts she was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 
1890. Her business is confined chiefly to probate affairs and office consultations. 
She has been a contributor to \.\\e Ilhistratfd Atnerkaii, the Boston Home fotirnal, 
and the Boston Jlcrald. Her residence is in Lowell. 

George Winter Parke was born in Salem. O., October 30, 1840, and was educated 
at Western College, Cleveland. He resided in Michigan, and began the study of law 
wdth Charles S. May in that vState. bxit entered the army in April, 1861, as an officer 
of Michigan volunteers, and resigned in consequence of wounds received in one of 
the early engagements in Virginia. He resumed the study of law with John P. Rob- 
inson of Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 25, 1863. He took 
up his residence in Cambridge, and was alderman there in 1869 and 1870, and repre- 
sentative in 1879 and 1880. His practice has been confined to property causes in the 
civil courts, among which may be mentioned Nichols vs. Boston, 98 Mass. ,.39 ; Felch 
vs. Hooper, 119 Mass., 52; Cook vs. Gray, 138 Mass., 106 and 185 Mass., 189; and 
Cole vs. Eastham, 133 Mass., 65. 

William Foster Otis, son of Harrison Gray and Sally (Foster) Otis, was born in 
Boston, December 1, 1.801, and fitted at the Ijatin School for Harvard, where he grad- 
uated in 1821. He studied law with his brother, Harrison Gray Otis, jr., and with 
Augustus Peabody, and was admitted to the Common Pleas Court in Boston, Octo- 
ber 8, 1824, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in March, 1827. He was a represent- 
ative in lS3(i-;il-;i2, and in 1831 delivered a Fourth of July oration before the young 



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men of Boston. He took great interest in the temperance cause and was president 
of the Young Men's Temperance Society. He also took an interest in military af- 
fairs, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, an offi- 
cer in the New England Guards, and major of the Boston Regiment. He married. 
May 18, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Manshall. of Boston, who died August 17, 
1839, at the age of thirty-nine. He died at Versailles, France, May 29, 1858. 

Edmu-ni) M. P.\rkkr, son of Joel and Mary M. Parker, was born in Cambridge, 
August 15, 1856, and was fitted at the Cambridge High School for Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1883, and in that 
year was admitted to the Sufl^olk bar. He married Alice Graj^ April 8, 1891. 

Philip Glendowf.r Peabody, son of Charles A. and Julia (Livingston) Peabody, was 
born in New York city, February 33, 1857, and was educated at Columbia College. 
He studied law in New York cit}^ and was admitted to the bar in Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y., May 13, 1880, and to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He married in New York, July 30, 
1879, and lives in Boston. 

Henry Bromfield Pe.\rson, son of Eliphalet and Sarah (Brorafield) Pearson, was 
born in Cambridge, March 29, 1795, and after attending Phillips Acadeni)', Andover, 
and spending two years at Yale College he entered the senior class at Harvard, and 
graduated in 1810. He went to Philadelphia, and after preparing himself for the bar, 
practiced law until he became partially blind, when he returned to Massachusetts and 
settled on the Bromfield estate at Harvard. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- 
liam McFarland, of Waterville, Me., in December, 1840, and died in Boston, June 29, 
1867. 

Fr.\ncis Peabody, jr., was born in Salem, September 1, 1854, and removed to Lon- 
don with his father in 1871. He attended Cheltenham College two years, and enter- 
ing Trinity College, Cambridge, took the degree of B.L. in 1876. He then spent one 
year in the office of a leading barrister of Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple, and re- 
turning to America entered the office of Morse, Stone & Greenough, of Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, after a year's further study at the 
Harvard Law School. He was associated with Charles A. Prince five years, and 
since that time has practiced alone. He is at present on the staff of Governor Russell. 

Henkv Melville P.arker, son of Isaac and Sarah (Ainsworth) Parker, was born in 
Boston, August 7, 1830, and fitted at the Latin School for Harvard, where he grad- 
uated in 1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1842. He married Fanny Cushing, daughter of Dr. 
A. F. Stone, of Greenfield, April 30, 1851, and died at Cambridge, October 17, 1803. 

Samiel P.arsoxs, son of Samuel and Mary Brown (Allen) Parsons, was born in Bos- 
ton, May 2, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law in Boston with 
C. B. Goodrich and William Brigham, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, 
having been admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1851. He practiced in Boston until 
his health failed, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died October 28, 1859. 

EuwARD Pavson Payson, son of Edward and Penelope Ann (Martin) Payson, was 
born in Westbrook, now Deermg, Me., July 10, 1849, and graduated at Bowdoin Col- 
lege in 1809. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Symonds & Libby, 
of Portland, and was admitted to the Maine bar in April, 1875. He was admitted to 



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the Suffolk bar in Boston, November SO, 1883, and to the United States vSupreme 
Court March 30, 1891. He has been a contributor to the American Law Reviciu. 
His residence is in Boston. 

John Sid.nev P.\tto.\, son of Robert and Elizabeth Emeline (Warlick) Patton, was 
l)(irn in McDowell county, N. C, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, 
where he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was 
admitted to the Arkansas bar at Little Rock in June, 1878, and to the Texas bar at 
Dallas in July, 1878, and to the ^Iassachu.setts bar at Cambridge in July, 1880. He 
married at Cambridge, April 1.5, 188.5, Anna Kelley, of Boston, and lives in Allston, a 
district of Boston. 

Sai.f.m Darii's Charles, son of Abraham and Esther L. (Wallis) Charles, was born 
in Hrimfield, Mass., March 19, 18.50, and graduated at Amherst College in 1874. He 
studied law with Hillard, Hyde &• Dickinson and at the Boston University Law School, 
and was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass. , in 1878. He was a representative 
from Boston in 1891 and 1892. He is unmarried and lives in Jamacia Plain (Boston). 

Parkek Cleavei-and Chandler, son of Peleg Whitman and Martha (Cleaveland) 
Chandler, was born in Boston, December 7, 1848, and was fitted at the Boston Latin 
School for Williams College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 2, 1875. He has been managing counsel 
for the defendant in the suit of the American Bell Telephone Company vs. the Drau- 
bough Telephone Company. He resides in Boston. 

Oriun Henry C.-\rpenter, son of Henry B. and Lucy A. (Reed) Carpenter, was 
born in Grafton, Vt., January 17, 1861, and was educated at the Bellows Falls High 
School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and at Bellows Falls in the ofBce of C. B. Eddy and in Boston in the office of 
Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1883, and to 
the Suffolk bar in September, 1884. He has been for six years chairman of the 
Board of Assessors in Maiden, where he resides, and has taught in the Boston Even- 
ing High School three years. He married Mary L. Dow at Bellows Falls, Vt., in 
1883. 

John Ray Campbell, son of Tristram and Annie (Meehan) Campbell, was born in 
Roxbury, Mass., November 29, 1860, and was educated in the Dwight Grammar 
School in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. Since January, 
1887, he has been assistant clerk of the Superior Court, criminal side. He married 
Margaret Frances Doherty in Boston, July 17, 1888, and lives in Brookline. 

Joseph Aloysius Campbell, son of Francis and Rose Ann Campbell, was born in 
Boston, October 16, 1863, and was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmits- 
burg, Md. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the 
bar at Cambridge, January 29, 1891. He married Louise De Lamater in New York, 
October 22, 1891, and lives in Boston. 

Charles Stark Newell, son of Samuel Newell and Elizabeth, daughter of Major 
Caleb Stark and granddaughter of General John Stark, was born in Boston, August 
19, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 
1848. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852, and in 



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the Civil War was on the staff of General A. Von Steinwehr. He married, July lii, 
1843, Alice Jane, daughter of William and Mary (Todd) Crabb, and died in New 
York, December 7, 1876. 

Harrv HiESTis Newton, son of Adin H. and S. Angenette Newton, was born in 
Truro, Mass. , December 2, 18()0. and was educated at the Boston University. He 
studied law in Wellfleet, Mass., with Judge H. P. Harriman, and was admitted to 
the bar at Barnstable, Mass., April 11, 1889. He was principal of the West Newbury 
High School one year and of the Wellfleet High School five years. His residence is 
in Everett, Mass. 

Benj.amin Roi'es Nichols, son of Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, was born in 
Portsmouth, N. H., May 18. 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. After admis- 
sion to the Essex bar in 1807 he practiced in Salem until 1824, when he removed to 
Boston. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, clerk for a num- 
ber of years of the Boston and Providence and Boston and Lowell Railroad corporations, 
and before leaving Salem the clerk of that town. He married, April 12, 1813, Mary, 
daughter of Colonel Timothy and Rebecca (White) Pickering, of Salem, and died in 
Boston, April 3, 1848. 

Ben"j.\min "White Nichols, son of Benjamin Ropes and Mary (Pickering) Ropes, was 
born in Salem, Mass., April 7, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He gradu- 
ated also at the Harvard Law School in 1845. and after reading law one year in 
Boston in the office of Sidney Bartlett, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

Ch.\rles Corbett Nichols, son of Joseph E. and Lucena C. (Corbett) Nichols, was 
born in that part of Maiden which is now Everett, October 31, 18.59, and was edu- 
cated at the Maiden and Everett schools, the Chelsea High School and at Harvard 
College, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in the office of Charles Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar m October, 
1886. He has been auditor, and is now a member of the Board of Selectmen of 
Everett, where he resides. He married in Lisbon, Me., October 8, 1888, Hattie 
Frances Corbett. 

John Noble, son of Mark and Mary (Copp) Noble, was born in Dover, N. H., April 
14, 1829, and fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy for Harvard, where he graduated in 
18.50. He was usher and master in the Boston Latin School from 1850 to 1856, when 
he entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1858. He also read law in the 
office of Hutchins & AVheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 26, 1858. 
He practiced in Boston until 1875, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme 
Judicial Court to fill out an unexpired term and has held the office by successive 
elections to the present time. He married Katharine W. Sheldon at Deerfield, Mass. , 
June 11, 1873, and resides in Boston. 

Albert Boyd Otis, son of Samuel and Eliza M. Otis, was born in Belfast, Me., 
and graduated at Tufts College in 1863. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Belfast with Nehemiah Abbott, and in Bostira with Jewell, Gaston &• Field, 
and was admitted to the bar at Belfast in October, 1864, and at Boston, February 16, 
1867. His home is in Boston. 

Is.\.\c Pe.aeodv Osgood, son of Dr. Kendall and Louis (Peabody) Osgood, was 
born in Peterboro', N. H., February 22, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. 



232 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

He studied law with S. P. P. Fay, and after admission to the bar began to practice 
in Boston, where he continued in business through life. He married, August 2, 1841, 
Mary Ann (Price) \'alentine, widow of Lawson Valentine, of Boston, and died in 
Roxbury, January 12, 1867. 

Wn.i.iAM BvKoN Orci'tt, son of Franklin W. and Abigail (Davis) Orcutt, was born 
in Georgia, Vt., February 26, 1845, and after attending the New Hampton Institute, 
Fairfax, Vt., he entered Dartmouth College and graduated in 1871. He studied law 
with Bain bridge Wadleigh in Milford, X. H., and in Boston with Col. T. L. Liver- 
more, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1873. He has been chair- 
man of the School Board of Milford, N. H. He married Katie E. Wheeler at Mil- 
ford, December 22, 1874, and lives at Wollaston (Quincy). 

JoN.\rH.\N PciRTKR, SOU of Jonathan and Phebe (Abbot) Porter, was born in Med- 
ford, Mass., November 13, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied law 
with Luther Lawrence at Groton and Asahel Stearns at Chelmsford, and was ad- 
mitted to the Middlesex bar in November, 1819, and practiced in Boston. He de- 
livered the Phi Beta oration in 1828. He married, July 22, 1823, Catharine, daughter 
of Samuel and Anna (Orne) Gray, of Medford, and died at Medford June, 11, 1859. 

Edw.vrd Henry Pierce, son of Samuel and Wilhelmina (Zimmerman) Pierce, was 
born at Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y., and was educated at the Rochester Uni- 
versity, N. Y. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with Smith 
& Bates, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 30, 1865. He was a member of 
the House of Representatives in 1868 and was counsel for the plaintiff in the well- 
known case of Chase vs. Nantucket, in which a verdict for S15,00()in consequence fif 
a defect in the highway was the means in 1877 of altering the law applicable to such 
cases. He married at Rochester, N. Y. , Mayo, 1869, Emily Williston, daughter of 
Charles J. Hill, of Rochester, and his residence is now at Newtonville (Newton). 

John Tyler H.'^ss.xm is descended from William Hassam, or Horsham, who came 
to New England in or about 1684, and settled in Manchester, Mass. This ancestor 
married in Marblehead, December 4, 1684, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen, of 
Manchester, and died in Manchester about 1735. Jonathan Hassam, son of the 
ancestor William, was born in Manchester, August 17, 1702, where he married, August 
10, 1727, Mary Bennett, and where he died February 21, 1754. William Hassam, .son 
of Jonathan, was born in Manchester, August 11, 1752, married there Elizabeth, 
daughter of Ambrose Allen, May 15, 1780, and there died April 9, 1833. Jonathan, 
son of the last William, born in Manchester, May 23, 1784, married there October 
22, 1808, Sally, daughter of John Cheever, and in 1849, Mary, widow of Thomas 
Smith, and died in Manchester, January 14, 1859. John Hassam, son of Jonathan, 
born in Manchester, .September 4, 1809, married May 15, 1836, Abby, daughter of 
Amos Hilton, of Manchester, and died in Boston, Augxist 3, 1885. John Tyler Has- 
sam, the subject of this sketch, was the son of John Hassam, and was born in Boston, 
September 20, 1841. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and graduated 
at Harvard in 1863. In December, 1863, he entered the army as first lieutenant of the 
Seventy-fifth United States Colored Infantry, and remained in the service from 
December 8, 1863, to August 1, 1864, having taken part in the Red River expedition. 
He studied law in the office of Ranny & Morse in Boston and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 13, 1867. Beginning as a lawyer in general practice he has 



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of late years devoted himself chiefly to conveyancing. Having early imbibed anti- 
quarian tastes, he has mingled with his professional occupations historic researches 
and is a member of both the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the 
Massachusetts Historical Society. Of the former of these he was six years chairman 
of the Library Committee and was one of the earliest promoters of those exhaustive 
researches in England, which have been carried on so successfulh' under its direction. 
To the Monthly Rei^ister of the Society he has been a frequent contributor. Among 
his contributions have been "The Hassam Family," 1870; " Some of the Descend- 
ants of William Hilton," 1877; " Ezekiel Cheever and some of his Descendants," 
1S79; "Boston Taverns," 1880; "Early Suffolk Deeds," 1881, and " The Dover Set- 
tlement and the Hiltons," 1882. He has been especially interested in the care and 
preservation of records, and was appointed April 5, 1884, by the Superior Court for 
the county of Suffolk, one of the commissioners under whose authority the indices in 
the registry of that county are made. The arrangement now going on of the original 
files of Siiffolk County Courts, including the Superior Court of Judicature under the 
provincial charter, is largely due to his efforts. Indeed, in every possible way that 
a deep antiquarian interest could suggest, he has labored successfully for the safety 
and preservation of not only the records of Boston, but those also of the Common- 
wealth. He married in Salem, February 14, 1878, Nelly Alden, daughter of Dr. John 
Henry and Jane Reed (Smith) Batchelder, of Salem, and his residence is in 
Boston. 

John Aniikew Noo.nan, son of Daniel A. and Ellen Noonan, was born in Boston, 
August 25, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Boston 
University Law School and in the office of Burbank & Bennett of Boston, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. He lives in South Boston. 

T. Fr.\nk Noon.\.n, son of Edward and B. Jane Noonan, was born in Boston, and 
educated in the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Russell Gray and with 
Henr)^ W. Swift, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. 

Wii,i.i..\M Mark Noble, son of William T. and Rebecca W. Noble, was born in 
Springfield, Mass. , February 27, I860, and studied law at the Boston University Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Newton. 

Joseph D. Fallo.n, sou of Daniel and Julia Fallon, was born in Galway county, 
Ireland, December 25, 1837, and was educated in private and national schools in Ire- 
land, at the Petit Seminaire in Montreal, and at the College of the Holy Cross in 
Worcester. He studied law with Jonathan Coggswell Perkins in Salem, and with 
George W. Searle in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1865. 
He has served nineteen years and eleven months on the Boston School Board, and 
since 1874 has been a special justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston Dis- 
trict. He married in Boston, in 1872, Sarah E. Daly, and lives in South Boston. 

He.nrv E. Fales, son of Silas and Roxa(Perrigo) Fales, was born inWalpole, Mass. , 
November 6, 1837. He was educated at the Walpole and Medway High Schools, and 
studied law with Todd & Pond in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar M;iy 
4, 1864. and has been assistant district attorney for Worcester county, and member of 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He has been engaged in seven capital 
cases and in a general civil and criminal practice. He married at Milford, Mass., 
November 5, 1867, Clara A. Hayward, and lives in Milford. 
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234 HISTORY OF I HE BENCH AND BAR. 

Benjamin Mark Farlky, son of Benjamin and Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, was born in 
Hollis, N. H., April 8, 1783, and fitting for college at the New Ipswich Academy, N. 
H., graduated at Harvard in 1804. lie studied law with Abijah Bigelow, of Leom- 
inster, and after admission to the bar began practice in Ilollis, and remained there 
and at Groton, JIass. , until 185.5, when he removed to Boston. He was a representa- 
tive in New Hampshire from 1814 to 1829 with the exception of five years. He mar- 
ried first, .September 2(j, 1805, Lucretia Gardner, who died April 30, 1809, and second, 
in September, 1838, Mrs. Lucretia (Billiard) Parker, daughter of Rev. John Bullard, 
of PeppercU. He died at Lunenburg, Mass., while passing the summer there Sep- 
tember 10, 186.5. 

Edwin Hai.e Auboi', son of Joseph Hale and Fanny (Larcom) Abbot, of Boston, 
was born in Beverly, Mass., January 30, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 18.55. 
He was a tiitor at Harvard from 1857 to 1803, meanwhile studying law at the Har- 
vard Law School, from which he graduated in 1801. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 11, 1802, and practiced in Boston until 1875 when he went to Mil- 
waukee and afterwards to New York. He married, .September 19, 1806, ISIartha 
Trask, daughter of Eben Steele, of Portland, Me. 

John Edward Abbott, son of John S. and Elizabeth T. (Allen) Abbott, was born in 
Norridgewock, Me., November 30, 1845, and graduated at Wesleyan University, Mid- 
dletown. Conn., in 1809. lie studied law in Boston in the office of John S. Abbott, 
and was admitted to the bar in Boston, March 8, 1872. He was admitted as an at- 
torney of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1885. He has been connected 
with important ])atent cases in the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. He 
married at Compton, Province of Quebec, Canada, June 12, 1878, Alice G., daughter 
of Hon. M. H. Cochrane, and has his residence in Watertown, Mass. 

Henry Austin, son of William and Ellen Austin, was born in Charlestown, Mass., 
December 31, 18.56, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1879. He continued 
the study of law in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is a special justice of the West Rox- 
bury Municipal Court and commissioner of insolvency for Suft'olk county. He is the 
author of "American Farm and Game Laws," "The Liquor Law- in the New Eng- 
land States," and "American Fish and Game Laws." His home is at West Rox- 
bury. 

George W. Norris, son of Trueworthy and iSIary J. Norris, was born in Pittsfield, 
N. H., March 13, 1840, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in 
the ofiices of Arthur F. L. Norris, of Lowell, and Joseph Nickerson,' of Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 7, 1801. He has been president of the 
School Board of Woburn, where he lives, chairman of the Board of Water Commis- 
sioners of that city, and by appointment under President Cleveland agent for the Nez 
Perce tribe of Indians in Idaho. He married Sarah E. Williams at Chelsea. Mass., 
in 1863. 

Frederick Lewis Norton, son of Lewis R. and Harriet F. Norton, was born in 
Westfield, Mass., November 34, 186.5. He graduated at Amherst College in 1886, and 
attended Johns Hopkins L'niversity, and studied law at the Boston University Law 
School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1889, and lives in Boston. 




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Biographical register. 235 

LiMs Child, son of Rensselaer and Priscilla (Corbin) Child, was born in Woodstock, 
Conn. , February 27, 1803, and passed his early j-ears in the public schools and on his 
father's farm. He was finally placed under the charge of Rev. Samuel Backus, of 
East Woodstock, and later at the Bacon Academj- in Colchester, Conn., where he 
was fitted for college. He entered Vale College in 1820 and graduated in 1824. After 
leaving college he studied law at the Law School in New Haven and in the offices of 
S. P. Staples and Judge Daggett in that city and continued his studies m the office 
of Ebenezer Stoddard in his native tow-n. He was admitted to the bar in Connecti- 
cut, but prelirainar}' to his admission to the bar in Massachusetts he studied a short 
time in the office of George A. Tafts, of Dudley, Mass. It is stated in the history of 
Worcester county that he was admitted to the bar there in 1826, which must be too 
early a date to admit of the prolonged periods of study in Connecticut and Massa- 
chusetts described by his biographers. He was admitted, however, to the bar in 
Massachusetts soon after the completion of his studies and established himself at 
Southbridge, Mass., where, on the 2Tth of October, 1827, he married Berenthia. 
daughter of Oliver Mason of that town. He remained in Southbridge eighteen years 
and during that time won for himself not only repute as a sound and sagacious law- 
yer, but as a political speaker, who by his logical and pursuasive appeals to the intel- 
ligence of the people, was a potential worker in the ranks of the Whig party to which 
he belonged. The writer well remembers the political gatherings in the Clay cam- 
paign of 1844, where his large and well proportioned figure, his massive head, his hand- 
some, expressive face and above all the convincing qualit\' of his speech made him 
everywhere conspicuous and popular. During his residence in Southbridge he rep- 
resented Worcester county six years in the State Senate. In 1845 he was selected to 
take the agency of one or more of the large manufacturing corporations in Lowell 
and moved to that city. In Lowell, as in Southbridge, though having little time to 
devote to politics without impairing his usefulness in the responsible position he held, 
he did not fail to exert his powerful influence in those fields of usefulness in which it 
is the duty of every citizen to labor. In the welfare of his city and his church, in the 
good government of the one and the highest usefulness of the other, he took a deep 
interest, and gave to them freely his thoughts, his time and his means. In 1863 he 
removed to Boston and resumed there his professional business, associated with 
his son, who before that time had been admitted to the Sufl'olk bar and was then 
in practice in Boston. He died in Hingham, Mass., August 26, 1870. 

LiNis M.\soN Child, son of Linus and Berenthia (Mason) Child, was born m South- 
bridge, Mass., March 13, 1835, and graduated at Yale College in 1855. He studied 
law in the office of his father in Southbridge and at the Harvard Law School, where 
he graduated in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, October 16, 1858, and estab- 
lished himself in business in that city. He remained alone in practice until 1862, when 
his father, who, temporarily abandoning the law, had been since 1845 an agent of one or 
more of the mill corporations in Lowell, and had now removed to Boston, became as- 
sociated with him. Resembling his father, both in body and the quality of his mind, he 
was not long in attracting to himself a clientage, whose interests he faithfully served 
and whose fullest confidence he enjoyed. He was the trusted counsel of the Middlesex 
Street Railway Company, as long as it had a distinct existence, and of the Old South 
Church corporation in its various conflicts under the law. He has been largely en- 



236 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

gaged before committees of the Legislature, and his arguments in support of petitions 
for a charter of an elevated railway in Boston and in favor of or opposed to other 
railway schemes have added to a reputation already established. He married, Octo- 
ber 16, 1802, Helen, Ja daughter of James Barnes, of Hingham, and July 20, 1889, 
Ada M., daughter of J. R. Cummings, of Chelsea. He resides in Boston. 

Ed\v.-\rd Belcher C.\llexder, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callen- 
der, was born in Dorchester, Mass., February 38, 1851, and was fitted in the public 
schools for Harvard, where he gi-aduated in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar April 34, 1875. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives in 1879. He has published " Thaddeus Stevens, Commoner," and 
various articles in the American Laiv Review and the Southern Law Review. He 
lives in Boston. 

Henry B. C.\li.e.\der, son of Henry and Adeline Jones (Stoddard) Callender, was 
born in Dorchester, Mass., January 17, 1864, and was educated at the Boston public 
schools and the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston LTniversity 
Law School and in the office of Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 2, 1887. His residence is in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

George Hyi.ands C'^mpbell, son of Charles H. and Ann Rebecca (Tucker) Camp- 
hell, was born in Amherst, N. H.. September 32, 1850, and was educated at Phillips 
Academy, Andover. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in 
the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 28, 
1874. He was private secretary of Governor Gaston, Governor Rice and Governor 
Ames during their respective administrations. 

Herbert Allen Chapi.^v, son or Horace and Susan F. Chapin.was born in Chelsea, 
June 6, 1851, fitted at Chauncy Hall School and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He 
studied law with Charles S. Lincoln, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 
1879. He is clerk of the Somerville Police Court. He married in Boston in 1881, 
Mary M. Granger, and lives in Somerville. 

Herm.\n White Ch.^plin, son of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah and Jane Dunbar Chaplin, was 
born in Providence, R. I., April 9, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He 
studied law in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1869. He was assistant district attorney from 1875 to 
1877, member of the Prison Commission in 1887, and lecturer in the Harvard Law 
School in 1888-9, 1889-90 and 1890-91. He has published "Five Hundred Dollars 
and other Stories," and " Cases on Criminal Law," both issues with the imprint of 
Little, Brown & Company. He married Martha Louise Crowell, of Yarmouth, Mass., 
June 26, 1890, and lives in Boston. 

B. M.\RVL\ Fernali>, son of Benjamin and Caroline E. Fernald, was born in Great 
Falls, N. H., February 14, 1847, and fitting for college at Phillips Exeter Academy 
graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law \\ith Joseph F. Wiggin, of Exeter, 
N. H., and was admitted to the Rockingham bar in 1873, and afterwards to the 
Suffolk bar. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
in 1881 and 1882, and a Senator in 1891 and 1892. He is now chairman of the Legis- 
lative Committee on the revision of the judicial system of the Commonwealth. He 



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has delivered many political and other addresses, among the latter being Decoration 
Day addresses at Melrose and Saugus. He married Grace, daughter of Richard F. 
Fuller, of Cambridge, November 1, 18T4, and lives at Melrose. 

Frank A. Appleton, son of Melville C. and Roxanna T. Appleton, and born in 
Vassalboro', Me., April 18, 1860, was educated at Boston University, and studied law 
at Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the bar at Dedham, Decem- 
ber, 3. 1890. 

D.wiD Sewau., son of Samue , and born in York, Me., October 7, 1T35, graduated at 
Harvard in 1735, and studied law with Judge William Parker, of Portsmouth, N. H., 
whose daughter he married. He established himself in York, was appointed register 
of probate in ]76(i, and judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1777. and judge of 
United States Court for the district of Maine in 1789. He sat on the bench till 1818, 
and died at York, October 12, 1825. 

Francis Bernard, born in Nettleham, England, in 1714, educated at Oxford, a 
solicitor of Doctors Commons, was governor of Massachusetts from 17()(l to 17()9. He 
was made a baronet in 1769, and died in England, June 16, 1779. 

Robert Auchmuty was born in Scotland, whence his father removed to Ireland in 
1699. He was educated in Dublin, studied law in the Temple, and emigrating to 
America was admitted to practice in Boston in 1720. He was judge of the Court of 
Admiralty from 1733 to 1747. The high tone of the Massachusetts bar maj- be said 
to have been established by him. He died in Boston in April, 1750. 

Robert Auchml'tv, jr., son of the above, was born in Boston, was a distinguished 
lawyer, and with Adams & Quincy defended Captain Preston and others connected 
with the Boston massacre. He was judge of admiralty from 17(i7 to 177fi, was a 
loyalist, went to England, and there died in December, 1788. 

Thomas Asitnwall, son of Dr. William, was born in Brookline, Mass., August 23, 
1784, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He studied law- with William Sullivan and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1807. In the war of 1812 he was major of the 
Ninth TTnited States Infantry, distinguished himself in various battles, lost anarm 
at Lake Erie, and was made brevet lieutenant-colonel May 29, 1813, and brevet col- 
onel September 17, 1814. He was LTnited States consul at London from 1816 to 1854, 
and died in Boston, Augu,st 11, 1876. 

Joseph Kinnicut Angell, born in Providence, R. I., April 30, 1794, graduated at 
Brown University in 1813, and was admitted tf) the bar in 1816. He was editor of 
the La-tL' Intelligencer and Review several years and was some years reporter to 
the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. His legal works were " Law of Carriers," 
" Law of Fire and Life Insurance," " Law of Highways," " Law of Water Courses," 
" Law of Tide Waters," and " Limitations of Actions at Law in Equity and Admi- 
ralty." He died in Boston, May 1, 1837. 

FisHEU Ames, son of Dr. Nathamiel, was born in Dedham, April 9, 17.58. and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1774. He studied law with William Tudor, and the records of the 
Suffolk bar state that it was voted on the 3d of December, 1779, that he be considered 
a law student from the first day of January, 1779, and that at the expiration of three 
years from that day, he be recommended to be sworn on examination particularly in 
the practical business of the profession. But at a meeting of the bar on the 9th of 



238 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

October, 1781, it was voted " that notwithstanding the vote of December 3, 1TT9, re- 
specting Mr. Fisher Ames, he be recommended to the Court of Common Pleas for 
the oath of an attorney of that court, in consideration of his having studied for four 
years and upwards, and his present state of health requiring a relaxation from all 
study, and in consideration of his cheerfully offering himself to an examination, and 
his moral, political and literary character standing in the fairest point of view." He 
estabHshed himself in Dedham, but as the roll of Suffolk lawyers in 1793 contains 
his name, it is probable that he had an office in Boston also. In 1788 he was a rep- 
resentative, and member of the Constitutional Convention, and was a member of 
Congress from 1789 to 1797. He was chosen president of Harvard College in 1804 
and declined. He died at Dedham, July 4, 1808. 

Benj.\min Ames, son of Benjamin and Phcjebe (Chandler) Ames, was born in An- 
dover. Mass, October 30, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1803. He studied law 
with Samuel Dana at Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo- 
ber, 1806. He established himself in Bath, Me., in 1807 was attorney of Lincoln 
county, in 1811 was judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and in 1820-33 
was speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. In 1824 he was president of 
the Senate, and in 1827 was again a member of the House. From 1827 to '29 he 
practiced in Cincinnati, and died in Houlton, Me., September 28, 1835. He married 
first at Andover, Mary, datighter of Abel and Polly (Abbott) Boynton, of Westford, 
Mass., who died at Bath, November 3, 1810, and second. May 11, 1813, at Bath, 
Sally, sister of his first wfe. 

Nath.-vn Ames, son of Daniel and Laura (Newcomb) Ames, was born in Roxbury, 
N. H., November 17, ]82(i, and fitting for college at Phillips Andover Academy, 
graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suft'olk bar in October, 1853. He died in Saugus, August 17, 180.^. 

S.-\Mi'soN S.M.TER Bloweks was born in Boston, March 22, 1742, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Thomas Hutchinson and was associated 
with Adams & Ouinc)^ in the defense of Captain Preston in 1770. A loyalist, he 
went to England in 1774, and returning in 1778 he found his name in the Prescrip- 
tion Act, and after a short imprisonment retired to Halifax, N. S. , where in 1785 
he was appointed attorney-general, and in 1797 chief justice of the Supreme Court. 
He died at Halifax, October 25, 1842. 

Wh,li.-\m Bk.\ttle, son of Rev. William, was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1702, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1722. He studied theology and preached for a time, 
practiced medicine and finally became a lawyer. He was chosen attorney-general 
and served in 1736 and 1737. He was also a representative, and was a member of 
Council from 1755 to 1768. He was a loyalist, and retiring to Halifax died there in 
October, 1776. 

N.-\TH.\NiEL BvFiEi.n, SOU of Richard, was born in Long Ditten, England, in 1653, 
and came to Boston in 1674. Abfiut 1680 he removed to Bristol, then in Massachu- 
setts, and there practiced law, being promoted to the position of chief justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas for Bristol county. While living in Bristol he was also for a 
time judge of the Admiralty Court and judge of probate. He returned to Boston in 
1724, and was speaker of the House of Representatives, chief justice of the Common 
Pleas for Suffolk, and judge of admiralty. He died in Boston, June 6, 1733. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 239 

(Jeok(;k TuKNiiK CcKTis, brother of Benjamin Robbins Curtis already mentioned, 
was born in AVatertown, Mass., November 38, 1.H12, and graduated at Harvard in 
1833. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1886, and practiced many years 
in Boston. He has published many legal works and a life of Daniel Webster. Among 
his works are "Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen," "Equity Precedents," 
" Treatise on the Law of Patents." " Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Com- 
mon Law and Admiralty," "Cases in the American and English Courts of Admi- 
ralty," " American Conveyancer," " Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and 
Peculiar Jurisdiction of the Courts of the L^nited States," and " History of the Origin, 
Formation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States." He is now liv- 
ing in New York. 

George SroRER Buli-i.nlii, son of Charles Bulrtnch, the distinguished architect who 
drew the plans for the Boston State House and the Capitol at Washington, was born 
in Boston, January 33, 1T99, and graduated at Harvard in 181T. He was admitted 
to the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in 1825, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in 
March, 1836. He was many years librarian of the Boston Library, over the arch in 
Franklin street. He died in Boston in 1853. 

Eli.\s H.\sket Derby, great-grandson of Richard, grandson of Elias H., and son of 
Elias H., all of Salem, was born in Salem, September 34, 1S03, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1834. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Com- 
mon Pleas Court in Suffolk in October, 1827, and to the Supreme Judicial Court in 
October, 1'839. He was a broad, progressive man, became a railroad lawyer, and 
was at one time president of the Old Colony Railroad. He died in Boston, March 30, 
1880. 

Wii.i.nM Elliott was born in Marblehead, August 17, 1803, and graduated at Dart- 
mouth in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and practiced law at ilarblehead 
and Boston and at Lewiston, 111. He died in 1873. 

Abr.-\h.-\m Ersiis was born in Boston, March 38, 1786, and graduated at Harvard in 
1804. He studied law with Isaac Parker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 
1807. He began practice in Boston. He distinguished himself in the war of 1813 as 
an officer in the L'nited States army, and in 1834 was brevetted brigadier-general, and 
made colonel of First Artillery November 17, 1834. He died at Portland, June 27, 
1843. 

RiCH.\RD Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vt. , January 8, 1788, and graduated at 
Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the 
New Hampshire bar. In 1830 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and remained in 
Boston until his death, June 31, 1869. He was a member of Congress from 1837 to 
1839, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1848 to 1853. He received a de- 
gree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1846, and bequeathed to that college §100,000. 

Richard Frederic Fuller, son of Timothy, was born in Cambridge, May 15, 1831, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, December 
33, 1846, and died at Wayland, Mass., May 30, 1869. 

John G.^rdiner, son of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, was born in Boston in 1731, and 
studied law at the Inner Temple, London, and in June, 1761, was admitted to prac- 
tice as barrister in Westminster HaU. After a short practice in England he was ap- 



240 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

pointed attornej'-general at the Island of St. Christopher and removed there. After 
the Revolution he came to Boston, where he was recognized as a citizen by a special 
la\v passed Februar)^ 13, 1784, and was a barrister in 1785. He afterwards removed 
to Pownalboro', in Maine, and was drowned off Cape Ann, October 15, 1793. He re- 
ceived a degree of Master of Arts from the University of Glasgow in 1755, and from 
Harvard in 1791. He married Margaret Harris, of Haverford, Wales. 

Fr.\.ncis Hilli.\rl), son of William, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1823, He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1830. He was judge of 
the Roxbur}' Police Court, judge of insolvency for Norfolk county, and the author of 
"Digest of Pickering's Reports," " Sales of Personal Property," " American Law of 
Real Property." "American Jurisprudence," "Law of Vendors and Purchasers," 
"Treatise on Torts," " Remedy for Torts," "New Trials," " Law of Injunctions," 
and " Hilliard on Mortgages." He died in 1878. 

Levi Lincoln, son of Levi, was born in Worcester, October 25, 17S2, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1802. He was admitted to the Worcester bar after studying with his 
father, and established himself in his native town. He was senator in 1812, speaker 
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in- 1822, lieutenant governor in 1823, 
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1824, governor from 1825 to 1834, member of 
Congress from 1835 to 1841, collector of the port of Boston from 1841 to 1843, State 
senator again in 1844, and president of the Senate in 1845. He died in Worcester, 
May 29, 1868. 

George W. Se.\ri.e, son of Joseph and Mary Searle, \vas born in Salem, Mass., 
January 22, 1836, and was educated at the Boston schools and at Phillips Andover 
Academy. He studied law with Fuller & Andrew and with Richard Fletcher, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1847. He has written treatises with the 
following titles: " Of the Habeas Corpus," " Extraordinary Remedies, — Error, Cer- 
tiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus, Quo Warranto," "Legal Principles, their Exceptions 
and Limitations," " Patents," and " Hints on the Art of Advocacy." He has been a 
frequent contributor to the daily press as law critic and to the law reviews. He has 
been associated as counsel with Franklin Pierce and B. F. Butler in ifnportant crimi- 
nal trials. He married in December, 1849, Sarah F. Ball. He died in Boston, Octo- 
ber IS, 1892. 

Albert L.-\mi! Lincoln, jr., son of Albert Lamb and Ann Eliza (Stoddard) Lincoln, 
was born in Boston, April 29, 1850, and after attending the public schools of Brook- 
line, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and 
in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 
1875. He has been a member of the Board of Selectmen since 1886 and its chairman 
since 1848, and was a special justice of the Brookline Police Covu't from 1882 until his 
resignation in 1889. He married Edith, daughter of Moses Williams, of Brookline, 
October 9, 1879, and still lives in Brookline. 

Artiu'r Lincoln, son of Solomon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, was born in 
Hingham, Mass., February 16, 1842, and was fitted for college at private and public 
schools in Hingham, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1865, and finishing his law studies in the office of Lathrop & 
Bishop, was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 1865. He was a representative in 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 241 

1879-1880. He married Serafina, daughter of Joseph G. Loring, at Boston, Decem- 
ber IT. 1883. and has his residence in Hingham. 

Ch.\ri.es Spragiie Lincoln, son of Christopher and EHzabeth Lincoha, was born in 
Walpole, N. H., April 20, 1826, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He studied law 
at the Har\'ard Law School and in Boston in the oflRce of Hutchins & Wheeler, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1854. He has been selectman, overseer of 
the poor, member of the School Committee, trustee of the Public Library, and repre- 
sentative from Somerville, where he still lives, and married there Louise E. Plimp- 
ton, October 8, 1856. 

CiiAKLES Plimpton Lincoln, son of Charles Sprague and Louise E. (Plimpton) Lin- 
coln, was born in Somerville, Mass., May 7, 1859, and was educated at the Somerville 
High School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of 
his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He has been a 
member of the Common Council in Somerville, where he now lives. He married 
Mary Foote Lowe at Somerville, June 25, 1889. 

George T.iylor Lincoln, .son of George C. and Anna M. Lincoln, was born at 
Westboro, Mass., June 3, 1858, and was educated at the North Brookfield high and 
common schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in May, 1884. He is the Massachusetts editor of the Northeastern 
Reporter, and has been engaged on the " Complete Digest." He married Hattie E. 
Wilson at West Newton, in June, 1886, and lives in West Newton (Newton). 

Theodore Lvm.\n was born in Boston, February 19, 1792, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1810. He studied law, but the editor is not certain as to his admission to the 
bar. He was mayor of Boston from 1832 to 1835, and died July 17, 1849. 

WiLLi.\M Powell Mason, son of Jonathan and Susannah (Powell) Mason, was born 
in Boston, December 9, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He was admitted 
to the Common Pleas Court in Boston in September, 1814, and to the Supreme Judi- 
cial Court in December, 1816. He married Hannah, daughter of Daniel Dennison 
Rogers, October 24, 1831, and died in Boston, December 4, 1867. 

John WiNG.vrE Thornton was born in Saco, Me., August 12, 1818, and graduated 
at the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 
1840, and lived and practiced in Boston until his death, June 6, 1878. He was a dis- 
tinguished antiquary, one of the founders of the N. E. Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety, a vice-president of the American Statistical Society, and of the Prince Publica- 
tion Society. His historical papers and reviews and essays were too numerous to 
mention. 

John Osborne Sargent was born in Gloucester in 1810, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1834, and remained in Bos- 
ton until 1837, when he went to New York and became associate editor of the New 
York Courier and Enquirer. During his residence in Boston he was connected 
with the Boston Atlas, and in 1835 and 1836 was representative. Subsequently he 
edited the Republic aev;s-pa.^eT in Washington, and practiced law in Washington and 
New York until his death in 1891. 

Thomas Oliver Sei.fridge, born probably in Boston about 1777, graduated at 
Harvard in 1797 and died in 1816. He studied law in Boston with Robert Treat 
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242 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Paine, and was admitted to the Suflfolk bar in 1800. In 1800, as the result of a polit- 
ical quarrel, he shot Charles Austin in State street, Boston, and was tried for mur- 
der and acquitted. Samuel Dexter defended him and made one of those powerful 
and eloquent appeals to the jury for which he was distinguished. He was the father 
of Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge of the United States navy. 

M.MTHEW H.\LE SMmi, SOU of Rev. Elias Smith, and well known to the last genera- 
tion as a correspondent of the Boston Journal under the name of " Burleigh," studied 
divinity and was successively a Universali.st, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Bap- 
tist. He was the author of many theological and other works, and finally studied 
law and was admitted to the Suffolk liar in November, lyno. 

Fkkdekick Wili.i..\m Sawyer was born at Saco, Me., April 22, 1810, and in 1838 re- 
moved to Boston, where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1840, and prac- 
ticed law until his death, September 6, XifiVt. He published "The Merchant's and 
Shipmaster's Guide," " Plea for Amusements," and was a frequent contributor to the 
daily press. 

Jonathan Sewale, son of Jonathan, was born in Boston, August 24, 1728, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1748. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts 
in 1767, and in the ne.xt year was made judge of the Nova Scotia Admiralty Court. 
In 1775 as a loyalist he went to England, and in 1788 settled in St. John, N. B., 
where he held the position of admiralty judge until his death in that place, Septem- 
ber 26, 1796. 

Benjamin Pr.\tt was born in Cohasset, Mass., March 13, 1710, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1737. He studied law with Robert Auchmut}' and married his daughter. 
He was a representative from Boston from 1757 to 1759 and was one of the few 
eminent lawyers in Boston of that day. He was appointed in 1761 chief justice of 
New York, and died January 5, 1763. 

George D. Noyes, son of Rev. George R. and Eliza (Buttrick) Noyes, was born in 
Brookfield, Mass., June 3, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1851. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Sufiolk bar September 17, 
1855. He married Susan P., daughter of John Wright, of Lowell, June 19, 1873, 
and lives in Brookline. 

P.vrRicK O'Loughlin, son of Patrick and Catherine O'Loughlin, was born in En- 
nistymore. County Clare, Ireland, July 16, 1849, and was educated in Ireland in the 
Christian Brothers' Schools. He came to Boston June 5, 1864, and finished his edu- 
cation in the Boston public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and in the office of Sumner Albee, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Maj' 
20, 1878. He is now preparing a work on the Law of Fraternal, Social and Literary 
Societies. He married Catherine F. Kearns at Boston, June 5, 1884, and lives in 
Brookline. 

James Monkoe Olmstead. son of John W. and Mary (Livingston) Olmstead, was 
born in Framingham, Mass., February 6, 1852, and fitting for college at the Roxbury 
Latin School graduated at Harvard in 1873. He afterwards attended the University 
of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He graduated at the Boston University 
Law School in 1877, and finishing his law studies with Jewell, Field & Shepard, was 
admitted to the Suft'olk bar December 7, 1877. He was a representative from Ward 



Biographical register. 245 

Eleven in Boston in 1891 and isili. The speeial cases in which he has been engaged 
are Schmauz vs. Goes, 132 Mass., 141, Batchelder vs. Batchelder, 139 Mass., 1, and 
Fogg vs. Millis, 188 Mass., 443. He was instrumental in the introduction of the 
Australian ballot into the caucus system in Boston. He married Annie M. Batchel- 
der in Boston, May 29, -1879, and lives in Boston. 

George Re.-iu Nutter, son of Thomas F. and Adelaide R. Nutter, was born in 
Boston, August 9, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He resides in 
Boston. 

John Ad.\ms, son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams, was born in Braintree, 
Mass., October 31, 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 17.55. He studied law in Wor- 
cester and began practice in Boston in 1758, while retaining a residence in Braintree. 
He moved to Boston in 1768 and was soon after made a barrister. In 1770 he was 
one of the counsel defending Captain Preston and others for the Boston massacre, 
and in the same year was chosen representative. He was a delegate to the Congress 
of 1774 and 1775, and a member of the Provincial Congress. He was president of 
the Board of War in 1776-77, and in 1777 was appointed commissioner to France. 
He was appointed by Congress minister to treat with Great Britain for peace in 1779 
and in 1780 was sent to Holland to negotiate a loan. With Franklin and Jay he 
negotiated a treaty of commerce with Great Britain and in 1785 was sent minister to 
the Court of St. James. In 1788 he was chosen vice-president of the United States 
and in 1796 president. In 1820 he was a delegate to the State Convention, and died 
at Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826. He married in 1764 Abigail Smith, of Weymouth. 

John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born in Brain- 
tree, Mass., July 11, 1767. At eleven years of age (in 1778) he went with his father 
to France and returned in 1779, having attended school in France during his absence. 
He returned to France in 1779 and continued his studies there and at Amsterdam 
and in the Leyden University. In 1781 at the age of fourteen he w-ent with Francis 
Dana, minister to Russia, as his secretary, and after several years at St. Petersburg 
and Stockholm, Copenhagen and Hamburg, returned to America in 1785. He 
studied law with Theophilus Parsons, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. 
In 1794 he was appointed minister to Holland, and in 1796 minister to Portugal. In 
1797 he was appointed minister to Prussia, but was recalled on the election of Jeffer- 
son and resumed practice in Boston. In 1802 he was chosen a member of the State 
Senate, and in 1803 United States senator. In 1806 he was appointed professor of 
rhetoric and belles-lettres at Harvard, and in 1809 he was appointed minister to Rus- 
sia. In 1815 he was appointed minister to England, and under President Monroe 
made secretary of state. In 1824 he was chosen president and served one term. In 
1831 he was chosen by the anti-Masonic party member of Congress and he remained 
in Congress until his death, which occurred in the Capitol at Washington February 
23, 1848. He married, July 27, 1797, Louisa, daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Mary- 
land, American consul at London. 

N.MHANIEL Peaslee Sargeant, SOU of Rev. Christopher Sargeant, was born in 
Methuen, November 2, 1731, and graduated at Harvard in 1750. He practiced law 
in Haverhill, was a delegate to Provincial Congress in 1775, and in 1775 was appointed 
judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, being promoted in 1790 to chief justice, 
and dying in October, 1791, at Haverhill. 



244 HISTORY OP THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Thkophii.us Parsons, son of Rev. Moses Parsons, was born in Newbury, Mass., 
February 24, 1750, and graduated at Harvard in 1769. He was admitted to the bar 
in Portland in 1774, and after a practice of a year or two established himself in New- 
bur3'port in 1777. He removed to Boston in 1800 and was made chief justice of the 
Supreme Judicial Court in 1806, holding his seat until his death at Boston, October 
30, 18 U^. He married a daughter of Benjamin Greenleaf. 

Tni-oriiii.i s P.\Ksii.\s, jr., son of Theophilus, was born in Newburvport, May 17, 
1707, and graduated at Harvai^d in 181.). He studied law with William Prescott, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 16, 1819, beginning practice in Taunton 
but soon settling in Boston. He was largely engaged in literar}- work, including 
contributions to reviews and the press and several law books, among which are " Law 
of Contracts," " Elements of Mercantile Law," " Laws of Business for Business Men," 
" Maritime Law," " Notes and Bills of Exchange," " Law of Partnership," "Marine 
Insurance and General Average," and " Shij^ping and Admiralty." He was also the 
author of a memoir of his father and several volumes of essays. He was appointed 
in 1847 Dane professor of law in the Harvard Law School, a position which he held 
until his death, which occurred in Cambridge, January 26, 1883. 

S.'^Mria. Sewau. was born in Boston, December 11, 1757, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1776. He settled in Marblehead, was at one time representative, was a member 
of Congress from 1797 to 1800, and made judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 
1800. He was made chief justice in 181H and .served until his death at Wiscasset, Me., 
June 8, 1814. 

Isaac Pakkf.k was descended from John, who came from Biddeford, England, to 
vSaco, Me., and m 1650 bought the island in the Kennebec River, called Parker's 
Island, and there died in 1661. He was born in Boston, June 17, 1768, and gi'aduated 
at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with William Tudor, and was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar in 1789. He settled in Castine, Me., was representative in 
1791-93-94-95, member of Congress froml797 to 1799, and United States marshal 
from 1797 to 1801. He removed to Portland, was appointed judge of the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Massachusetts in January, 1806, and made chief justice in 1814, serv- 
ing until his death. May 36, 1830. He was eleven years trustee of Bowdoin College, 
twenty years an overseer of Harvard, and Royal professor of law at the Harvard 
Law School from 1816 to 1837. He received a degree of LL. IX from Harvard in 
1814. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hall, of Medford. 

Jamks W. O'Brien was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 1, 1846, and was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar in 1867. He was a member of the Chai-lestown City Council in 
1870-71, and trustee of the Public Library. He practiced in Charlestown until its an- 
nexation to Boston in 1874, when he removed to Boston proper. 

Lemuel Shaw, son of Oakes and Susannah (Hayward) Shaw, was born in Barn- 
stable, Mass., January 9, 1781. His father, born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 10, 
1736, was ordained over the First Church in Barnstable, October 1, 1760, and died 
February 11, 1807, and his mother was a native of Braintree. He was fitted for col- 
lege by his father and by Rev. Wm. Salisbury, of Braintree, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1800. After leaving college he was usher in the Franklin (Brimmer) School 
under Dr. Asa Bullard, principal, and assistant editor of the Bostott Gazette. In 
1801 he entered the law office of David Everett in Boston, and after a regular course 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 245 

of study in Boston and Amherst, N. H., was admitted to the bar in Plopkinton, N. 
H., in September, 18U4. He was afterwards admitted to the Massachusetts bar at 
•Plymouth in November, 1804, and estabUshed himself at Boston. He was a repre- 
sentative in 1811-12-1 S-l^^lS, a member of the Convention of 1830, a Senator in 
1821-22 and 1828-29, and wrote the act incorporating the city of Boston with the ex- 
ception of the section relating to public theatres and exhibitions, and the section 
establishing the Police Court of the city of Boston, which were drafted by William 
Sullivan. He was a member of the Boston Library Society, the Humane Society, 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
among the Indians in North America, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a mem- 
ber of the Board of Overseers of Harvard twelve years, and one of the corporation of 
Harvard twenty-seven years. On the 28d of August, 1830, he was appointed chief 
ju.stice of the Supreme Judicial Court and resigned August 3], 1860. He received 
the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1831 and from Brown in 18r)0, and died in Bos- 
ton, March 30, 1861. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Knapp, of 
Boston, January 6, 1818, and second Hope, daughter of Dr. Samuel Savage, of Barn- 
stable, in August, 1837. 

Reiben Atwater CnAi'M.'\N was the son of a farmer and born in Russell, Mass., 
September 30, 1801. At first clerk in a store in Blanford, he studied law there and 
after admission to the bar practiced successively in Westfield, Monson, Ware, and 
Springfield, being in the last place a partner with George Ashniun. He was ap- 
pointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1860, and chief justice m 1868, hold- 
ing his seat until his death, which occurred in Fluellen, Switzerland, June 28, 1873. 
He received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams in 1836, and Amherst in 1841, 
and the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1861, and Harvard in 1864. 

Horace Gray, son of Horace, was born in Boston in 1828, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1845, and from the Harvard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 14, 1851. In 1854 he was appointed reporter of the decisions of 
the Supreme Judicial Court, and his reports are contained in sixteen volumes, cover- 
ing the period from the Suffolk and Nantucket term of 1854 to the Suffolk term of 
November, 1860. In 1.S64 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and 
in 1873 chief justice. In 1882 he was made as.sociate justice of the Supreme Court of 
the United States and is still on the bench. 

Thomas Green Fessenden was born in Walpole, N. H., April 22, 1771, and grad- 
uated at Dartmouth in 1796. He studied law, and after admission to the bar \\Tote a 
poem, entitled " Jonathan's Courtship," which attracted some attention. In London, 
in 1803, he published another poem "Terrible Tractoration," and in Boston, in 1806, 
published "Democracy Unveiled." In 1812 he practiced law at Bejlows Falls, and 
in 1815 in Brattleboro, where he edited the Intelligencer. In 1823 he came to Bos- 
ton and published the New Englatid Fanner until his death, November 11, 1837. 

William Reed was a Boston man, and was deputy judge 'of admiralty in 176C. 
He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 
1770, and held that office until the Revolution. He was a barrister in 1768. In 1775 
he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and was superseded in 
1776. He died in 1780. 



246 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Jedediah Foster was born in Andover, October 10, 1726, and j^'aduated at Har- 
vard in 1744. He settled in Brookfield, and was a delegate to the Provincial Con- 
gress in 1774-.J. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature and 
served till his death, October 17, 1779. 

lNr:KE.ASE Sumner, son of Increase, a farmer in Roxburj-, was born in that town No- 
vember 27, 1746, and graduated at Harvard in 1767. After graduation he taught 
school, and after studying law m Boston with Samuel Ouincy was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1770, and settled in Roxbury. He was representative from 1776 to 
1780, senator from 1780 to 1782, and in 17S2 was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- 
dicial Court, holding the seat until he was chosen governor in 1797, and died in office, 
June 7, 1799. He married, September 30, 1779, a daughter of William Hyslop, of 
Brookline, Mass. 

■N.\THAN CusHi.NG was born in Scituate, September 24, 1742, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1763. He was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1790 and 
resigned in 1800. He died at Scituate, November 2, 1812. 

Thomas Dawes, son of Col. Thomas, was born in Boston, July S, 1758, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1777. He studied law in the office of John Lo\^ell in Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was appointed in 1790 judge of 
probate for Suffolk county- and in 1792 judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He re- 
mained on the bench till his resignation in 1802, when he was again appointed judge 
of probate and held the office until his death, July 22, 182.i. He was also appointed 
in 1802 judge of the Municipal Court in the town of Boston to succeed George Rich- 
ards Minot, who was appointed on the establishment of the court in 1800. He> held 
this office until he was succeeded on his resignation by Josiah (^uincy, who was ap- 
pointed January 16, 1822. 

Theophilus Br.\dburv was born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1757. He taught school in Falmouth, now Portland, and after 
studying law established himself in Falmouth, where he remained until 1779, when 
he removed to Newbury. He was a representative and senator, and also a member 
of Congress from 1795 to 1797, and judge of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1797 to 
1803. He died at Newbury, September 6, 1803. 

Simeox Strong was born in Northampton, March 6, 1736, and graduated at Yale 
College in 1756. He was admitted to the bar in 1761. He was representative from 
1767 to 1769, senator in 1793, and in ISOl was appointed judge of the Supreme Ju- 
dicial Court, remaining on the bench until his death at Amherst, December 14, 1805. 

Theodore Sedgwick, son of Benjamin, was born in Hartford, Conn., in May, 1746, 
and graduated at Yale in 1765. In April, 1766, he was admitted to the bar and prac- 
ticed in Great Barrington and Sheffield. In the Revolution he was on the staff of 
Gen. John Thomas in the expedition to Canada. He was a representative from Shef- 
field, delegate to the Continental Congress, and in 1788 to 1797 a member of Con- 
gress. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788-9, 
United States senator from 1796 to 1799, and in 1802 he was appointed judge of the 
Supreme Jiidicial Coiu't, serving until his death, which occurred in Boston, June 24, 
1813. 

Daniel Dewev was born in Sheffield, Mass., January 20, 1766. He studied law 
with Theod(jre Sedgwick, and settled in Williamstown in 1787; was a member of the 



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Executive Council, member of Congress in 1813-14, and appointed judge of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court in 1814, serving till his death, May 26, ISl.j. 

Samuel Pi'tnam was born in Danvers, Mass., April 13, 1768, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1787. After admission to the bar he began practice in Salem in 1790. He 
was State senator in 1808-9-13-14, representative in 1813, and a judge of the Supreme 
Judicial Court from 1814 to 1843. He died at Somerville, July 3, 1853. 

Leon Martin Abbott, son of Joseph B. and Lydia C. Abbott, born in Richmond, 
N. H., August 28, 1867, was educated at the High School in Keene, N. H., and grad- 
uated at Harvard. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1891. Residence at Keene, N. H. 

Saml'el Api'LETon Browne Abbott, .son of Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Livermore) 
Abbott, was born in Lowell, March G, 1846. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, and 
studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1868, and to the 
United States Supreme Court in 187.5. He married at Providence, R. I., October 1.5, 
1873, Abby Frances Woods. Residence in Boston. 

Roscius H.\RLow Back, son of Roscius and Harriet C, born in Union, Conn., May 
38, 1865, educated at common schools of Union and High School of Brimfield, Mass., 
studied law at Boston University Law School, admitted to the bar at Boston, 1889. 
Married Katharine E. Hart at Boston, December 1, 1888, residence in Boston. 

DuDLEV P. Bailey, son of Rev. Dudley Perkins and Hannah Barrows (Cushman), 
born in Cornville, Me., October 24, 1843, graduated at Colby University 1867, studied 
law with William L. Putnam, of Portland, admitted to Maine bar April 38, 1870, to 
Suffolk Uar April 15, 1873, representative 1886-7. Residence at Everett, Mass., un- 
married. 

Andrew J.\ckscin Bailey, son of Barker and Alice, born in Charlestown, Mass., 
July 18, 1840, graduated at Harvard 1863, was second lieutenant in the war, studied 
law with John W. Pettingill and Hutchins & Wheeler, admitted to bar 1867, repre- 
sentative 1871-72-73, senator 1874, city solicitor of Boston 1881. Married in January, 
1869, Abby V., daughter of John and Hannah Getchell, of Charlestown. 

Tho.mas Cogswell B,\ciieldek, son of Dr. Samuel Fogg and JIartha (Badger) Bach- 
elder, born at Gilraanton Iron Works, N. H., November 6, 1860, graduated at Har- 
vard 1883, studied law at Harvard Law School, and admitted to Suffolk bar January 
26, 1886, residence Dorchester District of Boston. 

EiGKNE Pendleton Carver, son of Nathan P. and Frances A. (Pendleton) Carver, 
born in Searsport, Me., September 5, 1860, educated at Boston L'm versify, .studied 
law at Boston University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar in June. 1882. Mar- 
ried Clara P. Porter. August 11, 1886, residence Arlington. 

John H. Casey, son of Jeremiah and Margaret, born in Somerville, Mass., Decem- 
ber 9, 1860, educated at public schools, studied law with Stearns & Butler and at Bos- 
ton University Law School, admitted to Suffolk bar January, 1885, residence Dor- 
chester District of Boston. 

J.\mes Coonev, jr., son of James and Jane (Fields) Cooney, born in Ellington, Conn., 
January 3, 1851, educated at public and private schools, studied law at Yale Law 
School and in office of Judge De Forest, of Bridgeport, admitted to bar in New Haven, 
June 27, 1883, in Boston, January 20, 1885, residence Boston. 



248 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

EuwAUD O. CnoKE, son of Russc'U and Mary V. (Otis) Cooke, born in Boston, Sep- 
tember 3, 1889, educated at public schools, studied law with John F. Colby in Boston, 
admitted to bar in Boston, November, 1879. Married daughter of Charles W. Morse, 
of Boston, residence Scituate. i 

Francis Dana, son of Col. George H. and Frances Anne Matson Biirke Dana, 
born in Singapore, educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., studied law at 
Harvard Law School and in the office of Joseph Willard, Boston, admitted to Suffolk 
bar in December, 1888, residence Boston. 

Richard Ei.a, son of Richard and Lucia (King) Ela, born in Washington, D. C, No- 
vember 80, 1850, gi'aduated at Harvard 1811, studied law with Jewell, Gaston & Field 
and at Harvard Law School, admitted to bar in Boston, June, 1873, residence Cam- 
bridge. 

Michakl F. Farkei.l, born in Kilkenny, Ireland, September 18, ]S48, educated at 
Boston College, studied law with Edwin S. Hovey, admitted to Middlesex bar June, 
18T1. Married Elizabeth M. Treanor at Somerville in 1874, residence Somerville. 

William Asi'inwai.l. son of Col. Thomas and Louisa Elizabeth (Poignand) Aspin- 
wall. United States consul in London from 181o to 18.53, was born in London, February 
Ifi, 1819, educated at a private school in Hammersmith, England, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1838. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, finished his law 
studies in the office of Franklin Dexter and George W. Phillip.s, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1841. In 1847 he became a resident in Brookline, was town clerk 
from 1850 to 1853, representative in 1851 and 1852, member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1853, senator in 1854, and assessor, selectman, and water commissioner. 
He manned in January, 1848, Arixene Southgate, daughter of Richard King Porter, 
of Portland, and died at Brookline, October 25, 1892. 

Charles Sumner Hamlin, son of Edward Sumner and Anna Gertrude Hamlin, was 
born in Boston, August 30, 1861, and gi-aduated at Harvard in 1883. He graduated 
also at the Harvard Law School in 1886, and finished his law studies in the office of 
Robert M. Morse. He was admitted to the Siiffolk bar in 1886. He is a:n ardent 
Democratic politician, deeply interested in civil service and tariff reform and an 
ffective speaker on the political platform. In April, 1893, he was appointed bv 
President Cleveland assistant secretarj- of tlie treasury. Residence Brookline. 

Henry A. ScrnoER, son of Josiah and Hannah (Lovell) Scudder, born in Barn- 
stable November 25, 1819, studied law with his brother Zeno at Barnstable and in 
Boston with George T. Bigelow, admitted to Suffolk bar October 25, 1844, appointed 
in February, 1869, judge of the Superior Court, resigned 1872. Married, June 30, 1857, 
Mrs. Nanie B. Jackson, daughter of Captain Charles B. Tobey, of Nantucket, 
died at Washington, January 26, 1892. 

As.\ Wellington, son of John, born in West Boylston, December 14, 1817, studied 
law with Ezra Wilkinson at Dedham, admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1850, practiced 
in Weymouth first, afterwards Boston. Married, November 9, 1850, Cornelia A. 
Thayer, of Weymouth, died in Boston, May 9, 1892. 

George W. Wake, jr., born in Boston, October 3, 1837, graduated at Amherst 1859, 
Harvard Law School 1861. Married, December 14, 1865, Alice S. , daughter of 
Edward S. Tobey, of Boston, died in Boston, February 12, 1890. 



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George Gkeem.eaf Pratt, son of Rev. Enoch, born in Brewster in 1842, graduated 
at Harvard 18(36, studied law with Richard H. Dana, jr. , admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 24, 1873, died at Waverly, May 4, 1890. 

Edward F. Head graduated at the Harvard Law School 1843, admitted to the 
Middlesex bar October, 1S43, was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1848, removed to 
California and became judge of the Superior Court of vSan Mateo county, and died in 
San Francisco in April, 1890. 

John F. Coi.bv, born in Bennington, N. H., March :!, 1884, graduated at Dartmouth, 
1859, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, 18(i5, councilman in Boston 1878-79, 
representative 1886-87, died at Hillsboro', N. H., June 7, 1890. 

GiLM.\N Marston, born at Orford, N. H., August 20, 1811, graduated at Dartmouth, 
1887, studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hubbard & Watts, 
of Boston, admitted to Suffolk bar April 23, 1841, practiced in Exeter, N. H., repre- 
sentative in New Hampshire eighteen )'ears, member of Congress 1859 to 1863, and 
1865 to 1867, colonel and brigadier-general in the war, died at Exeter, N. H., July 3, 
1890. 

Edward D.\rlev Boit, son of John, who was chief officer of the ship CoJumbia, 
which gave the name to Columbia River, born in Boston 1815, graduated at Harvard 
1834, and at Harvard Law School 1844, admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1847, 
associated with Charles P. & B. R. Curtis, representative 1852-53. Married, June 13, 
1839, Jane P., daughter of John Hubbard, of Boston, abandoned law to become 
treasurer of several mill corporations, died at Cotuit, Mass., October 15, 1890. 

Edward P. Nettleton, born in Chicopee, Mass., November 7, 1834, graduated at 
Yale, 1856, captain in Thirty-first Massachusetts Regiment, made colonel June 7, 
1865, studied law at Springfield and Harvard Law Schools, admitted to Suffolk bar 
18()7, appointed assistant United States attorney 18(19, fourth assistant city solicitor 
1876, second assistant 1878, first assistant 1879, city solicitor 1881, corporation counsel 
of Boston 1882, judge advocate general on staff" of G'>vernor Robinson 1883. Married 
December 15, 1809, Mary E., daughter of Rev. Dr. J. T. Tucker, died at Boston, 
April 17, 1889. 

Peleg Whitman Chandler, son of Peleg, was born in New (Gloucester, Me., April 
3, 1816, and graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1834 and at Bowdoin 
College in 1837. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was a city councilman 1843—45, president 
of the council the two last years, representative 1845-7, city solicitor 1845 to 1853, 
Fourth of July city orator in 1844, trustee of Bowdoin College, and received the de- 
gree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1867. He published two volumes of noted criminal 
trials and was connected for some time with the editorial management of the Boston 
Daily Advertiser. He married a daughter of Professor Parker Cleaveland and 
died in Boston, May 38, 1889. 

Francis Brinley, born in Boston, November 10, 1800, graduated at Harvard 1818. 
studied law with William Sullivan and admitted to Suffolk bar November, 1821, 
president of Common Council of Boston 1850-51, representative 1832, '50, '54, and 
senator 1853-53, '63. In 1857 removed to Tyngsboro', and then to Newport, R. I. 
Died at ;Newport, June 14, 1889. 
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250 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Henrv Weld Fuller, son of Henry W. Fuller and Esther, daughter of Captain 
Benjamin Gould, of Newburyport, born in Augusta, Me., January 16, 1810, gradu- 
ated at Bowdoin 1838, studied law with his father and at Harvard Law School, be- 
gan practice in Augusta, removed to Boston 1841. admitted to Suffolk bar October 
30, 1841, and became a partner with E. Hasket Derby, afterwards appointed clerk of 
United States Circuit Court. Married in 183.5 Mary Storer, daughter of Nathaniel 
Goddard, of Boston, and died in Boston, August 14, 1889. 

Fr.\ncis Fiske He-\rd, born in Wayland, January 17, 1835, graduated at Harvard 
1848. He practiced in Framingham from 1851 to 1856, and was afterwards, while in 
Boston, associated with E. H. Bennett in the Digest. He married two wives, the 
first of whom was Harriet, daughter of Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut, and he died 
in Boston, September 29, 1889. 

BENj.'iMiN Pond, born in Salem, February 6, 1822, educated at Latin School," 
studied law with William Whiting, Boston, councilman 1857-8, judge of Municipal 
Court of East Boston District, resigned in 1887, died November 21, 1889. 

Francis Wintiirop P.\lfrkv, son of Rev. Dr. John G. Palfrey, born in Boston, 
April 11, 1831, graduated at Harvard 1851 and at Harvard Law School 1853, ad- 
mitted to Suffolk bar September 21, 1854, lieutenant-colonel, colonel of Twentieth 
Massachusetts Regiment, and brevet major-general, wounded at Antietam, author 
of "Antietam and Fredericksburg," register of bankruptcy. Married Louisa, daugh- 
ter of Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and died at Cannes, France, December 5, 1889. 

HoR.ATio E. Sw.\sKV, son of Horatio J., born in Standish, Me., educated at Gor- 
ham Academy, studied with his father and in Boston with Henry W. Paine, after 
admission associated with Thomas J. Gargan till 1882, then with his brother. Demo- 
cratic candidate for Congress in 1888, died in Boston, December 24, 1889. 

John H. Krev, born in Boston 1859, studied at the Boston Law School, admitted 
to Suftolk )xu- 1SH4, died in Boston, December 26, 1889. 

JosEru McKe.\n Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary (Gardner) Churchill, born in 
Milton, April 29, 1821, graduated at Harvard 1840, and at Harvard Law School 1.S45, 
admitted to Suffolk bar 1845, overseer of Harvard 1856-58, representative 1858-59, 
member of the Executive Council 1859-60, of the Constitutional Convention 1853, 
captain Company B Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the war, special justice 
of the Boston Municipal Court 1867, associate justice 1871, married Augusta Phillips 
Gardner, and died at Milton, March 23, 1886. 
-y George L. Riekln. born of free parents in Richmond, Va., December 16, 1834, 
came with his parents to Boston 1853, attended Chapman Hall School, opened a bar- 
ber's shop, studied law with Jewell & Gaston, graduated at Harvard Law School 
1869, admitted to Suffolk bar September 18, 1869, representative 1870-71, councilman 
1876-77, appointed judge of Municipal Court of Charlestown District in November, 
1883, by Governor B. F. Butler, and died November 19, 1,S86. 

Is.-\.\c Hull Wun;iir, born in Boston in 1.S16, went into business with his fatlier, 
afterwards connected with the press, appointed navy agent at Boston in 1846, lieu- 
tenant-colonel and colonel of ilassachusetts Volunteers in the Mexican war, studied 
law with Theophilus Parsons, admitted to .Suffolk bar January 22, 1863, died in Dor- 
chester, December 22, 1886. 





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Benjamin F. Brooks, born in Stm-bridge, October 26, 1818, admitted to Suffolk 
bar October 7, 1840, many )-ears a partner with Joshua D. Ball, died at Newton. Jan- 
uary 4, 1887. 

Cii.-\Ri,Es Arwooii, born in Haverhill, Jlay 15, 1803, graduated at Vale 1><21, died 
February 13, 1887. 

Henry Bromfievu Rogers, born in Boston, April 4, 1803, graduated at Harvard 
1822, admitted to the Suffolk bar October 27, 182.5, alderman in Boston in 1844-48^9- 
50-51, senator 1857, died in Boston, March 30, 1857. 

Henry Lunt, son of Rev. Dr. William Parsons Lunt and Ellen Hobart, daughter of 
Barnabus Hedge, of Plymouth, born in Quincy, Mass., March 28, 1842, graduated 
at Harvard 1863, studied law with Brooks, Ball & Storey, admitted to the Suffolk bar 
September 17, 1866, died at Ouincy, April 7, 1887. 

JiiN.\Tii.\N P.m.mer Rogers, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Palmer) Rogers, born in 
Shapleigh, now Acton, October 10, 1802, went with his father at the age of twelve to 
Augusta, Me., studied law with Ruel Williams, admitted to the Penobscot bar 1826, 
settled in Bangor, attorney-general of Maine 1832, senator 1834, and removed to Bos- 
ton 1840, and admitted to Suffolk bar. He married Lucretia, daughter of Henry 
Page, of Hallowell, Me., and died in Boston, November 26, 1846. 

Justin Allen J.vcohs, born in Cranston, R. I., February 3, 1818, graduated at Har- 
vard 1839, admitted to Middlesex bar June, 1850, died at Cambridge, January 3, 
1887. 

Wu,LL\M D.wis Bliss, son of Alexander Bliss and Elizabeth, daughter of William 
Davis, of Plymouth, born in Plymouth, May 1, 1826, graduated at Harvard 1846, ad- 
mitted to Suffolk bar January 22, 1851, removed to Petaluma, Cal., and there died, 
November 1, 1886. 

CiL\RLEs Foi.soM W.M.coTT, bom in Hopkinton, Mass., December 22, 1836, gradu- 
ated at Harvard 1857, at Harvard Law School 1860, died at Salem, June 11, 1887. 

Francis Bartlett Patten, son of J. Bartlett and Lucy P. Patten, born in Boston, 
January 11, 1858, graduated at Harvard 1879, studied law at the Boston University 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883, residence Boston. 

William P.-vge, son of Thomas and Sarah (Cogswell) Page, born in Boston, August 
24, 1795, graduated at Harvard 1815, studied law with James T. Austin, and was 
admitted before 1822 to Suff'olk bar, and died in Boston, April 11, 1867. 

George Sumner ForbiisIi, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. Forbush, born in Ash. 
land, Mass., April 17, 1853, studied law at Boston University Law School and with 
Judge Mellen Chamberlain in Boston, admitted to the Suffolk bar December 12, 1874, 
and married Grace Shipley Etheridge in Boston, June 25, 1877, residence Brookline. 

Josei'h R. Churchill, son of Asaph and Mary Churchill, born in Dorchester, July 
29, 1845, graduated at Harvard 1867, at Harvard Law School 1869, admitted to the 
Norfolk county bar 1869, is judge of the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District 
of Boston. He married, Febraary 21, 1871, at Dorchester, Mary, daughter of Dr. 
Benjamin Cushing, of Dorchester, residence in Dorchester. 

Edward James Flvnn, son of Maurice and Mary Flynn, born in Boston, Jime 16, 
1859, graduated at Boston College in 1861. He studied law at Harvard and Boston 



252 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

University Law Schools, and was admitted to Suffolk bar in January, 1S84, repre- 
sentative in 1885-86-88, member of the Executive Council 1889-90-91, director of 
East Boston ferries 1887-88-89, president of Boston College Alumni Association, res- 
idence Boston. 

Eliot L. Packard, son of Nelson and Martha P. Packard, born in Brockton, Mass., 
June 4, 1854, gi-aduated at the Bridgewater Normal School in 1872, studied law at 
the Boston University Law School and with Jonas R. Perkins and W. \V. Wilkins at 
Brockton, admitted to Plymouth count)' bar in 1877, councilman in Brockton 1885, 
married at Hopkinton, Mass., December 25, 1884, Cora Lethbridge, residence in 
Woburn since 1886. 

Frank M. Forbish, son of James E. and Elizabeth W. (Goddard) Forbush, born in 
Natick, Mass., September 20, 1858, studied law at the Boston LTniversity Law School 
and in the offices of George S. Forbush and Patrick H. Cooney, and admitted to the 
bar in Lowell, September 13, 1882. He married at Natick, November 1, 1882, Annie 
Louise Mead, and lives in Natick. 

Jeremiah G. Foley, son of Michael J. and Catherine Foley, born in Nortli Leomin- 
ster, Mass., October 2, 1863, educated at Boston College, studied law with Charles 
A. Prince in Boston and at Boston University Law School, and admitted to Suffolk 
bar August 4, 1891, residence Boston. 

Edward Tvkrel Channing, son of William, was born in Newport, R. I., Decem- 
ber 12, 1791, and entered Harvard but did not graduate, receiving, however, the de- 
gree of Master of Arts in 1819 and of LL.D. in 1847. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in January, 1812, and began practice in Boston. He was a frequent and 
able contributor to the North American Revic-w, and in 1819 its co-editor with 
Richard H. Dana. He delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration in 1817, and in 
1819 was appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, holding 
the place until 1851 and performing work probably more useful than that of any 
professor since the college was organized. He died at Cambridge, February 8, 1850. 

William H. Baker, son of James E. and Eliza A. Baker, was born in Cornville, 
Jle., July 22, 1865, and was educated at the Norridgewock Eaton School. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law School and with Charles Robinson and Blackmar 
& Sheldon in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887, and the 
Maine bar in Skowhegan in September, 1887, residence in Boston. 

Joseph Whitman Bailey, son of Loring Wourt and Laura A. (Avray) Bailey, was 
born in Fredericton, N. B., May 9, 1865, and was educated at the Collegiate School 
and University of New Brunswick at Fredericton. He studied law with Wetmore & 
Winslow, barristers at Fredericton, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1889, residence in Boston. 

Horace G. Alle.n, son of Stephen M. and Ann M. AUen, was born in Jamaica 
Plain, July 27, 1855, and educated at the Boston public schools. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1877. He 
has been councilman, and in 1891 was candidate for mayor of Boston. He married 
in 1881 Grace D. Chamberlain, of Brunswick, Me., residence in Roxbury. 

Hoi.lis Russell Bailey, son of Otis and Lucinda Alden (Loring) Baile)', was born 
February 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He graduated at the Harvard 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 253 

Law School in 1878, and after a course of study in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & 
Howe in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He married 
Mary Persis, daughter of Governor Charles H. Bell, of New Hampshire, February 
13, 1884, and lives in Cambridge. 

Edw.\kd I. Baker, son of J. Alonzo and Maria M. Baker, was born in Eddington, 
Me., February 25, 1866, and studied law in the Boston Uni\ersity Law School and in 
the office of Albert W. Paine, of Bangor, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1887, residence in Boston. 

WiLLi.AM B. De L.\s C.vsas, son of Francisco Beltran and Elizabeth Cardes (Pedrick) 
de las Casas, was born in Maiden, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. His father 
was a political exile from Spain in 1820, who had favored a constitutional govern- 
ment. He studied law in the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of 
Robert D. Smith, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188.5. He lives in Maiden, 
and for some years he has been an active and efficient promoter of civil service and 
tariff reform. 

Eeenezer G.\y, son of ^lartin and Mary (Pinckney) Gay, was born in Boston, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1771, and graduated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with Christopher 
Qore, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He began practice in Boston, 
occupying an office in Schollay's building, and secured almost at once a lucrative 
practice. He changed his residence to Hingham in 180.5, but continued his business 
in Boston till 1809, after which date he enjoyed a large practice at the Plymouth county 
bar. He married Mary AUyne, daughter of Joseph Otis, of Barnstable, July 31, 1800, 
and died at Hingham, February 11, 1842. 

William H. Osborne, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Woodman) Osborne, born in Scit- 
uate, September 16, 1840, was educated at the East Bridgewater Academy and the 
State Normal School in Bridgewater, graduating at the last institution in 1860. He 
enlisted in 1861 as private in Company C, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Regiment, was 
severely wounded near Malvern Hill, Jtdy 1, 1862, made prisoner, released on parole 
July 18, sent to hospital, and discharged in January, 1803. He studied law with Ben- 
jamin W. Harris in East Bridgewater, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar 
June 1.5, 1864. He was representative from East Bridgewater in 1871 and 1883, 
published a history of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, and is now United States pension 
agent at Boston, having his residence in East Bridgewater. 

William Payne Blake, son of Edward and Mary M. J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in 
Dorchester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the 
Harvard T^aw School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1869. He resides unmarried in Boston. 

George Andrew Blaney, son of George Arnold and Hannah M. C. Blaney, was 
born in Roxbury, April 16, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Charles Robinson, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 13, 1878. He married Ella A. Fo\\-le at Woburn, 
June 2, 1880, and lives at West Newton. 

Elisha Hunt Allen, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass., Jan- 
uary 28, 1804, and was a descendant from Edward Allen, who left England at the 
restoration and coming to New England settled on the Connecticut River. He re" 



254 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ceived an early acadamical education and began life an a clerk in a store, but find- 
ing business distasteful he fitted for college, and graduated at Williams in 1823. He 
studied law in his father's office, and after admission to the bar began practice in 
Brattleboro, \'t., where he remained two years. In 1838 he removed to Bangor, 
which at that time was the centre of a new country, as attractive to enterprising 
young men in other parts of New England as the West has been in later daj'S. He 
there associated himself in business with John Appleton, afterwards chief justice 
of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, the partnership continuing until the election 
of Mr. Allen to Congress in 1840. His election to the State Legislature in 1886 marked 
his entry into a political life, which continued unbroken except by his death. Though 
he had determined to devote himself to professional labors, a power beyond himself 
controlled his career and he remained in the Legislature five )-ears, serving a part of 
the time as speaker of the House of Representatives. The period of his legislative 
service was a marked one in the history of Maine. Comparatively a new State, a 
vast number of important questions touching its establishment were to be settled, 
and added to these the question of the northeastern boundary became a perplexmg 
and disturbing one. In the discussion of all these questions Mr. Allen took a promi- 
nent part, and a resolution introduced and advocated by him favoring the presence 
of a military force to prevent depredations on public lands and the removal of lum- 
ber beyond the limits of the State, did much towards securing that action of our gov- 
ernment which ended in the Ashburton treaty. In 1840 he was elected member of 
Congress as a Whig in opposition to Hannibal Hamlin the Democratic candidate, 
and thus the political field into which he had once resolved never to enter was en- 
larged instead of being abandoned. In 1846 he removed to Boston and became a 
member of the Suffolk bar. In 1849 he was a representative from Boston, and in 
that year was appointed consul to the Hawaiian Islands. During his residence in 
Boston the writer's acquaintance with him began which ripened into a friendship 
strengthening with years. A more cordial, warm-hearted, unselfish friend it has 
never been his fortune to find, gnd he is now glad of an opportunity to pay a tribute 
to his memory. His life in the Sandwich Islands was an agreeable one, and his pub- 
lic service was exceedingly creditable to himself and valuable to the government he 
for a time represented. The American element in Honolulu was by no means in- 
considerable and its influence with the Haw-aiian government was a salutary one. 
Charles Coffin Harris, of Portsmouth, N. H., Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, Edward 
P. Bond, of Boston, and many others occupied prominent official positions, and their 
presence went far towards not only making Mr. Allen's residence agreeable, but mak- 
ing also the performance of his official duties less irksome and difficult. After four 
years' service as consul he was appointed minister of finance of the Hawaiian govern, 
ment, and in 1857 chancellor of the kingdom and chief justice of the Supreme Court, 
holding the last mentioned office twenty years. During his official life he made re- 
peated visits to Washington in efforts to secure the adoption of treaties which he be- 
lieved would be advantageous both to the government he represented and to the 
United States. The treaty of 1875 was wholly his work in both inception and con- 
summation, and the admission of sugar and rice into the Lfnited States free of duty 
reciprocal with a like admission of the products of our own countrj- into the Hawaiian 
Islands has accomplished all he expected and more than he promised. In 1876 he re- 



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signed both the positions of chancellor and chief justice and became resident minis- 
ter at Washington, occupying that position until his death, and at the last as dean of 
the Diplomatic Corps. He was married twice, first in early life at Brattleboro, Vt., 
to Miss Fessenden, of that town, and second, in 1857, to Mary Harrod, daughter of 
Frederick Hobbs, of Bangor. He died suddenly while attending a diplomatic recep- 
tion at the president's house in Washington, January 1, 1883. 

Henry Willi.^m P.iine, son of Lemuel and Jane Thompson (Warren) Paine, was 
born in Winslow, Me., August 30, 1810, and graduated at Waterville College in 1830. 
He studied law in the office of Samuel S. Warren, of China, Me., and at the Harvard 
Law School, and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec county in 1834. He opened 
an office in Hallowell and continued there in the active and successful practice of 
law until 18o4, when he became a member of the Suffolk bar and a resident of Cam- 
bridge, which is still his home. He was a representative from Hallowell in the 
Maine Legislature in 1835-37, '53, and county attorney five years. Since his arrival 
in Boston he has enjoyed a large practice and won a reputation for skill, wisdom and 
profound knowledge of law, which places him in the front rank of his profession. A 
seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court might have been his both in Maine 
and Massachusetts, but its attendant honors have failed to draw him away from his 
chosen career. He received the degree of LL. D. from Waterville College, or Colby 
University, as it is now called, in 1853. He married Lucy E. Coffin, of Newbury- 
port, Mass., Mayl, 1837. 

Elbridge Gerry, son of Elbridge and Ann (Thompson) Gerry, was born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., June 12, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law 
with his brother-in law, James T. Austin, in Boston. He was appointed surveyor in 
the Boston Custom House by President John Quincy Adams, and removed by Jack- 
son in 1830, and was a representative from 1831 to 1835. He died at New York, May 
18, 1867. 

Harvey Deming H.mh.ocr is descended in the .seventh generation from Nathaniel, 
who came from England in 1638 and settled in Charlestown. In 1653 Nathaniel was 
one of the founders of Lancaster. His son, Nathaniel, born in Charlestown, July 16, 
1643, settled near the Ipswich line, and married Remember Jones, of (Gloucester. 
Though not a Quaker, his sympathies were e.Kcited in their behalf, and he was pun- 
ished for declaring " that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching, 
and that in persecuting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood." 
Samuel lladlock, son of the second Nathaniel, was born April 37, 1687, and married 
Jane Gorton in 1708. Samuel Hadlock, son of Samuel, manned Hannah Tappan, 
January 25, 1737, and had a son, Samuel, born August 16, 1746, who married Mary 
Andrews, of Ipswich. November 10, 1768. Samuel and Mary had a son, Samuel, 
born July 6, 1771, who married Sarah Manchester. Edwin Hadlock, son of Samuel 
and Sarah, born January 17, 1814, married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary 
(Gilley) Stanwood, and was the father of Harvey Deming Hadlock, the subject of this 
sketch. Samuel Hadlock, the grandfather of Harvey, removed from Massachusetts 
to Maine in the early part of this century and established himself on Little Cranberry 
Island, most of which he had purchased, and there carried on the shipping business 
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vember, 1854. His son Edwin who had been a seafarinjf man retired from the sea 
on the death of his father and succeeded to his busmess, and died at Cranberry Isles. 
.September 1!), 1875. 

At Cranberry- Isles, Hak\L':\ Dkmixc IIaihch k was born, October 7, 1843. His 
education was received from his mother, a woman of strong intellect and more than 
ordinary cultiu'e, and in the schools of his native town. At the age of thirteen his 
parents removed to Bucksport, Me., and there he became a student in the East 
Maine Conference Seminary, where he pursued an advance course of classical study, 
enjoying also the benefits of private instructors. Subsequently at the Maine .State 
Seminary, now Bates College, and at Dartmouth, he pursued a course of scientific 
study, and thus became fully equipped for a start in the professional career which he 
had determined to pursue. On the 7th of September, 1863, by the advice and with 
the influence of Governor Edward Kent, he entered the law office of Samuel F. 
Humphrey, of Bangor, and on the 6th of January, 1865, at the age of twent)'-one 
years he was admitted after examination to the Maine bar and established himself in 
Bucksport. Soon after his admission, business having led him to New Orleans, he 
there pursued the study of civil and maritime law under Christian Roselius, return- 
ing to Bucksport in the spring of 1866. In 1868 he visited the West and at Omaha 
w"as admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska. In the autumn of the same year 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and opened an office in Boston. In the spring of 
1869 he was called to New York on a case pending in the Federal Courts, and there 
he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. In the autumn he re- 
turned to Boston, remaining until the spring of 1871 when, believing that the com- 
pletion of projected railroads would largely promote the prosperity and growth of 
Bucksport, his adopted home, he returned there and resumed practice. He remained 
in Bucksport until 1881, enhancing his reputation and widening his legal field, and 
in that year removed to Portland. From 1881 to 1887 he remained in Portland, 
maintaining as a member of the Cumberland bar the leading position he had held 
at Bucksport, practicing in both State and Federal Courts and managing important 
cases in which civil, criminal and maritime law were involved. In 1887 he again 
established himself in Boston, and after five years in full practice there contributed 
by a clientage in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, it may be 
confidently stated that fhe Suffolk bar will be the central point of his future profes- 
sional life. The many important cases in which he has acted and is acting as coun- 
sel afford abundant evidence of his skill and success. Among the criminal cases may 
be mentioned the defence of Azro B. Bartholomew at Boston in March, 1873, indicted 
for murder, and the defence of Edward M. Smith at Ellsworth in April, 1877, charged 
with the murder of the Trim family at Bucksport in 1876. Among the cases in 
maritime law may be mentioned Sawyer vs. Oakman, argued in New York in 1870 
and reported in Blatchford's Reports, and Gould vs. Staples, tried in 1881 in the 
United States Circuit Court in Maine, reported in the ninth volume of the Federal 
Reporter. Among railroad cases there are Spofford, petitioner for certiorari, vs. 
Bucksport and Bangor Railroad Company, reported in Maine Reports 66, 26, Bucks- 
port and Bangor Railroad Company vs. Inhabitants of Brewer, in Maine Reports 67, 
395, and Dcasy, admisistrator, vs. Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. 
Among those cases now pending are that of the Jenness will case, entitled Patten vs. 



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Cilley, on a writ of error from the United States Circuit Court in New Hampshire to 
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and that of Campbell 
vs. Haverhill and eleven other cities on writ of error from the United States Circuit 
Court for Massachusetts to the Supreme Court of the United States, and Campbell 
vs. JIayor and Aldermen and Commonaltj' of the City of New York, involving sev- 
eral millions of dollars in their decision, and now pending on an accounting in the 
United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Hadlock 
married, January 20, 18fi5, Alexene L., daughter of Captain Daniel S. Ooodell, of 
Searsport, Me. 

John Henry H.ardv, son of John Henrj' and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in 
Hollis, N. H., February 2, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth, 1870. He studied 
law at the Har\-ard Law School and in the offices of Edward F. Johnson, of Marl- 
boro' and Robert M. Morse, jr. , of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, Jan- 
uary 33, 1873. He was a representative in 1884, and appointed June 3, 1885, asso- 
ciate justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, a position he still holds. He married 
at Littleton, Mass., August 31, 1871, Anna I. Conant, and lives in Arlington. 

Josi.\H G.\RDNER Abbott was descended from George Abbott, who came from 
Yorkshire, England, and settled in Andover in 1643. Caleb Abbott, the fifth in de- 
scent from George, was a merchant in Chelmsford, JIass., and married Mercy, daugh- 
ter of Josiah Fletcher. His children were Mercy Maria, born January 24, 1808, died 
August 21, 1835; Lucy Ann Lovejoy, born September 16, 1809; Caleb Fletcher, born 
September 8, 1811 ; Josiah Gardner, the subject of this sketch, born at Chelmsford, 
November 1, 1815, and Evelina Maria Antoinette, birn September 14. 1817. Josiah 
Gardner received his early education at the Chelmsford Academy under the instruc- 
tion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, its principal, and he never forgot the lessons learned 
from that eminent philosopher. He entered Harvard at the end of his twelfth j'ear 
and graduated in 1832. He studied law in Lowell with Nathaniel Wright and Amos 
Spaulding and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Decem- 
ber, 1835. After admission to the bar he was associated as partner two years with 
Mr. Spaulding, one of his instructors, and in 1840 formed a partnership in Lowell 
with Samuel Appleton Brown. By this time he had fairly entered on a professional 
career which was destined to be a brilliant one. With great natural gifts and a 
foundation of legal knowledge and methods firmly laid, he found himself in an arena, 
that of the Middlese.N; bar, where hard knocks were to be received and where alone 
hard knocks in return could prevail. No other bar in the State presented so many 
obstacles to the advancement of a superficial, timid and unskillful man, and none 
presented greater attractions to one conscious of his power and eager to measure 
swords with its well trained professional gladiators. To such an arena was Mr. Ab- 
bott introduced, and in his frequent contests with such men as Butler, Farley, 
Sweetser and Wentworth, he not only fought an equal fight, but sharpened his lance 
for future contests. In 1855 the sessions of the old Common Pleas Coiu't in Suffolk 
county were abolished by law and the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk was 
established. The judges of this court were Albert H. Nelson, chief justice, and 
Josiah G. Abbott, Stephen G. Nash, and Charles P. Huntington, associates, all ap- 
pointed October 13, 1855. Judge Abbott resigned in 1858, and Marcus Morton, jr., 
was appointed to succeed him. Under the law establishing this court its judges were 
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258 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ex officio judges of the Municipal Court, as the judges of the Common Pleas Court 
had been before them since 1843. After leaving the bench Judge Abbott opened an 
office in Boston, abandoning Lowell except as a place of residence, which he retained 
there until 1861, when Boston became his permanent home. In 1860 a seat on the 
bench of the Supreme Judicial Court was offered to him but declined. In 1837 he 
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1843 and 1843 
a member of the Senate. In 1840-41 he was a member of the staff of Governor Mor- 
ton, in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention, and in 1875 and 1876 a mem- 
ber of Congress. Several times the Democratic candidate for governor and for 
United States senator, many times a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, he 
was always a trusted leader of the party, in whose principles he was a firm believer 
and to whose interests he was always devoted. Judge Abbott married, July 18, 1838, 
Caroline, daughter of Edward St. Loe Livermore, chief justice of the Supreme Court 
of New Hampshire. Few men at the north laid heavier sacrifices during the war on 
the altar of his country. Of seven sons four enlisted for service, Edward Gard- 
ner, born September 39, 1840, and a graduate of Harvard in 1860, as brevet major, 
was killed at the battle of Cedar Mountain. Henry Livermore, born January 21, 
1843, a graduate also of Harvard in 1860, as brevet brigadier-general, was killed in 
the Wilderness. Fletcher Morton, born February 18. 1843, served on the staff of 
General William Dwight. Samuel Appleton Browne, born March 6, 1846, and a 
graduate of Harvard in 1866, and now an efficient trustee of the Boston Public 
Library, enlisted at the age of sixteen, but was not called into service. He is a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar and mentioned elsewhere in this register. Franklin Pierce 
Abbott, another son, is also a member of the Suffolk bar, as well as Grafton St. Loe, 
the sixth son, and Holker Welch Abbott is an artist. Judge Abbott received a 
degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1863. He died in Boston, June 6, 1S!)1. 

William Allen, sun of William, was born in Brunswick, Me., March 31, 1833, and 
graduated at Amherst in 1843. He studied law at the Yale Law School and at North- 
ampton, where he was admitted to the bar in 184.5. In 1881 he was appointed judge 
of the Supreme Judicial Court, holding his seat until liis death in 1891. 

John FoRkLMKR Amirew, son of John A. and Eliza Jane (Hersey) Andrew, was 
born in Hingham, Mass., November 36, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He 
graduated also at the Harvard Law School in 1875, and studied in the office of Brooks, 
Ball & Storey in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. He was a 
representative from Boston in 1880-81-83, and a senator in 1884 and 1885, chosen for 
the first of these years as a Republican and the second as a Democrat. In 1886 he 
was the Democratic candidate for governor, and in 1888 and 1890 was elected to Con- 
gress from the Third Massachusetts District on the Democratic ticket. He married 
in Boston, October 11, 1883, Harriet, daughter of the late Nathaniel and Cornelia 
(Van Rensselaer) Thayer, and his residence is in Boston. 

MoiNiRKSsoR TvLER Allen, SOU of George W. and Mary L. (Tyler) Allen, was born 
in Woburn, Mass., May 30, 1844, and served a short time in the Civil War in Com- 
pany G, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He was educated at the Warren Academy 
and at the Boston Universit}', and graduated from the Boston University Law School 
in 1878. Previous to studying law he was engaged several years in mercantile pur- 
suits. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879, and has since that time practiced 



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in Boston, while retaining his residence in Woburn. He was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 18N8-8S), and married in Boston in June, 1865, Julia Frances, 
daughter of John and Ruth (Magoun) Peasley. 

Edward C. Cakrigan, born in England, March 15, 1850, came to New England in 
1857. He enlisted as a drummer boy in the First Vermont Regiment at the age of 
thirteen, and after leaving the army attended Dean Academy, the Boston Evening 
High School, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1ST7. He studied law in the office of 
Benjamin F. Butler in Boston, and at the Boston University Law School, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar. Having received his earliest education at the Evening 
High School he felt a deep interest in that institution, and having received from the 
Boston School Board a teacher's certificate of the highest grade, he was placed in 1881 
at the head of that school. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the State Board of 
Education and educational interests shared with his professional occupations his time 
and labors. The free text book act, the illiterate minor bill, and the evening school 
law, were largely due to his persistent efforts. He was unmarried, and died sud- 
denly while traveling through Colorado, November 7, 1888. 

Wali.ridge Abn'er Field, son of Abner and Louisa (iriswold Field, was born in 
Springfield, Vt., April 26, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1855. After grad- 
uating he remained at Dartmouth as a tutor in 1856 and 1857, and filled the same 
place again in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in 
the office of Harvey Jewell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 12, 1860. In 
1865 he was appointed assistant United States attorney and served until 1869, when 
he was appointed assistant attorney-general of the United States. He resigned his 
office in Washington in 1870, and resumed practice in Boston with Harvey Jewell 
and Wm. Gaston under the firm name of Jewell, Gaston cS: Field. In 1881 he was 
appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and on the resignation of Marcus 
Morton in 1890, was made chief justice. Judge Field was a member of the Boston 
School Board in 1863-64. a common councilman in 1865-66-67, and a member of the 
Forty-sixth Congress. He married first in 1869 Eliza E. McLoon, and second in 1882 
Frances E., daughter of Nathan A. Farwell, of Rockland, Me. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., son of Oliver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jackson) 
Holmes, was born in Boston, March 8, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1861. He 
was commissioned first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment, after- 
wards lieutenant-colonel and brevet colonel, having been wounded at Ball's Bluff, 
Antietam and Fredericksburg. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, 
and after further pursuing his law studies in the offices of Robert M. Morse, jr., and 
George O. Shattuck in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1867. 
His lectures at the Lowell Institute upon the common law established his reputation, 
and in 1883 he was appointed professor in the Harvard Law School. In the same 
j-ear he was appointed judge of the Supreme Judicial Court and is still on the bench. 
In 1886 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale. He married, June 17, 1873, 
Fanny Bowditch (Dixwell), and lives in Boston. 

William Saxton Morton, son of Joseph and Mary (Wheeler) Morton, was born in 
Roxbury, September 33, 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He received his 
earlier education at the Milton Academy, at Greene's School at Jamaica Plain, and 



26o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

at Phillips Exeter Academy. He studied law in the offices of Perez Morton, who had 
been attorney-general, and Sidnej' Bartlett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar February 10, 1835. For a short time he practiced law in Amherst, N. H., 
and moved to Quincy in 1840, where he held his residence until his death. He was a 
delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1853, president of the Bank and Insur- 
ance Company in Quincy, chairman of the School Board, and trial justice for Norfolk 
county. He married, October 3, 1839, at Boston, Mary Jane Woodbury, daughter of 
Thomas and Martha (Woodbury) Grimes, and died at Ouincy, September 21, 1871. 

John Foster, born in England, came to New England before 1682. He was named 
councillor in the charter of 1692 and continued in office until his death, February 
9, 1711. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk 
county March 3, 1693, and served until Januarj', 1710. 

Jkrkmi.\h Di'MMER, Son of Richard, was born in Newbin-y, September 14, 1645. He 
was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 
1702, and sat on the bench until 1715. He died May 24, 1718. 

TiiiiM.^s Palmer was appointed jvidgc of the Inferior Coiu't of Common Pleas in 
1711, and after the death of Judge 'Pownsend in 1727 was made chief justice, serving 
until his death, October 8, 1740. 

Edw.^rd Lyde was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suf- 
folk county December 29, 1715, and served until 1723, when he probably died. 

Adam Winthrop, fourth in descent from Governor John Winthrop, and the third 
bearing the same name, graduated at Harvard in 1694. He was a representative 
from Boston in 1714, and a member of the Council. He was appointed judge of the 
Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county December 29, 1715, and after the 
death of Judge Palmer in 1740 was made chief justice, resigning in 1741, and dv-ing 
October 2, 1743. 

Edward Hctcihnson, son of Judge Elisha Hutchinson, was born in 1678. He was 
a representative from Boston in 1717 and 1718, and was appointed judge of the In- 
ferior Court for Suffolk county in 1723, serving until 1731, when he was removed by 
Governor Belcher. In 1740 he was reappointed, and on the resignation of Judge 
Winthrop in 1741 was made chief justice, serving until his death, March 16, 1752. 
He was also judge of probate. 

John p. Heai.kv, son of Joseph, was born in Washington, N. H., in 1810, and grad- 
uated at Dartmouth in 1835. He studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in Bos- 
ton, and was afterwards associated with him in business until the death of Mr. Web- 
ster in October, 1852. He was not in the fullest sense a partner, as a large amount 
of Mr. Webster's business was his own, in which Mr. Healey had no interest. But 
for many years even these cases were largely prepared by him, and to that extent 
of course he received his share of the fees. After the death of Mr. Webster he was 
in full practice alone until 1856, when he was chosen by the City Council city solic- 
itor, the sixth incumbent of that office. The first was Charles Pelham Curtis, holding 
office from from 1837 to 1829; the second, John Pickering, from 1839 to 1846 ; the 
third, Peleg Whitman Chandler, from 1846 to 1853 ; the foui'th, George Stillman Hil- 
lard, from 1853 to 1855; the fifth, Ambrose A. Ranney, from 1855 to 1856; John P. 
Healey, 1856 to 1881. In 1881 the office of corporation counsel was established and 



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Mr. Healey was appointed and held the office until his death, January 4, 1882. Ed- 
ward P. Nettleton was chosen city solicitor July 4, 1881, as the successor of Mr. Hea- 
ley, and in January, 1882, after Mr. Healey's death, he was appointed corporation 
counsel. Mr. Nettleton resigned December 24, 1888, and James B. Richardson was 
appointed in his place January 1, 1889, and held the office until May 1, 1891, when 
Thomas M. Bab.son, the present incumbent, was appointed. Andrew Jackson Bailey 
was appointed city soliciter in November, 1881, to succeed Mr. Nettleton and is still 
in office. Mr. Healy was at various times both senator and representative, and was 
at one time offered the appointment of judge of the United vStates Court for the 
Northern District of California, but declined. His wife was a Miss Barker, of 
Boston. 

Wii,i.i.\M Amokv, son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Rowe (Linzee) Amory, was 
born in Boston, June l.~), 1804. He fitted for college with Jacob Newman Knapp at 
Brigliton and Jamaica Plain, and entered Harvard in 1819. On account of the Re- 
bellion, in which his class took part, he with many others was expelled, but received 
the degree of Master of Arts in 1845. In 1833 he entered the law office of Luther 
Lawrence in Groton, where he remained five months, then going to Europe and re- 
maining five years. On his return he studied in the offices of Franklin Dexter and 
William H. Gardiner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He 
abandoned law and became one of the most eminent and respected merchants of Bos- 
ton. He married, January 17, 1833, Anna Powell Grant, daughter of David and 
Miriam Clark (Mason) Sears, of Boston, and died in Boston, December 8, 1888. 

Fr.\ncis Inm.\n Amory, son of William and Anna Powell Grant (Sears) Amory, was 
born in Boston, June 5, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 33, 1875. 
He married at Boston, May 13, 1886, Grace J., daughter of Charles Minot, and re- 
sides in Boston. 

Omen Southworth Keith graduated at Harvard in 183(i, was admitted to the Mid- 
dlesex bar in December, 1832, and settled in Wayland, wliere he practiced until 1838, 
when he removed to Boston. He died in 1847. 

Henry B.a.ldwin, son of Life and Susannah D. Baldwin, was born in Brighton, 
Mass., January 7, 1834, and graduated at Yale in 1854. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Peter C. Bacon, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1857. He was a representative in 1861, and is judge of 
the Municipal Court of the Brighton District of Boston. He married at Brighton in 
November, 1861, Harriet A. Hollis, and lives in the AUston District. 

WiLLH.M Amos Bancroft, son of Charles and Lydia Emeline (Spaulding) Bancroft, 
was born in Groton, Mass., April 26, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of William B. Stevens, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 2, 1881. He was a councilman in Cam- 
bridge, where he resides, in T882, representative in 1883-84-85, president of the Cam- 
bridge Board of Alderman 1891-1893, and since February 7, 1883, has been colonel of 
the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He was chosen mayor of Cam- 
bridge in 1892. He married in January, 1879, Mary Shaw. 

Charles Edwin Beai.e, son of Ambrose and Caroline A. (Andrews) Beale, was born 
in Bowdoin, Me., Aiigust 10, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He 



262 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

studied law with A. P. Gould at Thoniaston, Me., and graduated at the National 
University Law School in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia in 1873, and to the Suffolk bar January 19, 1877. He was 
in the United States Treasury Department from 1864 to 1867, and special agent of the 
Interior Department from 1870 to 1876. He edited Gateley' s Universal Educator 
and GateUy $ World' s Progress. His residence is in Dorche.ster. 

Joseph H. Beale, jr., son of Joseph H. and Frances E. Beale, was born in Dor- 
chester, October 12, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. Since 
1890 he has been a lecturer in the Harvard Law School. He married Elizabeth C. 
Day at Barnstable, Mass., December 23, 1891, and lives in Dorchester. He was a 
joint editor of the eighth edition of "Sedgwick on Damages." 

George F. Be.4,n, son of Stephen S. and Nancy E. (Colby) Bean, was born in 
Bradford, N. H., March 24, 1862, and was educated at Colb)^ Academy, New London, 
N. H., and at Brown LTniversity, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law with 
S. C. Eastman at Concord, N. H., and in the office of Ropes, Gray & Lormg, Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He was in 1891 mayor of Woburn, 
where he resides, and where he married E. Maria Blodgett, of WatertowTi, in Sep- 
tember, 1886. 

William Dudley is said by Washburn to have been the first educated lawyer on 
the Common Pleas bench. He was the son of Governor Joseph Dudley, and was 
born in Roxbury in 168(!. He graduated at Harvard in 1704. He was a representa- 
tive many years and speaker from 1724 to 1728. He was chosen to the Council in 
1729, and continued a member until 1740. He was a judge of the Inferior Court t>f 
Common Pleas for Suffolk county from 1728 to 1731, and from 1733 to his death, Au- 
gust 10, 1743. He married a daughter of Addington Davenport. 

Anthony Stoddard, son of Simeon, was born in 1078, and died March 11, 1748. 
He was a representative and member of the Council from 1735 to 1742. He gi'adu- 
ated at Harvard in 1697, and was judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for 
Suffolk county from 1733 till his death. 

Eliakim Hutchinson was a member of the Council from 1744 to 1746, and was 
made judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1741. He 
succeeded Edward Hutchinson as chief justice in 17.52, and remained until the Revo- 
lution. 

Edward Winsi.ow, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Winslow, and grand- 
son of Jf>hn, of Boston, who came to Plymouth in the For In in- in 1621, and married 
Mary Chilton, one of the .l/rtiy?f »'<';■ passengers, was born in Boston in 1669. He was 
treasurer of Suffolk county at the time of his death and had served as sheriff" from 
December 12, 1728, to October 20, 1743, when he Avas made judge of the Inferior 
Court of Common Pleas for Suft'olk comity, and contiiined on the bench until his 
death in December, 1753. 

Sanu'EL Watts was a Suffolk county man who was a member of the Council from 
1742 to 1763. He was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 174.S, 
and continued on the bench until 1770, in which year on the 12th of March he died. 





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Sami-el Welles was a member of the Council in 1747 and 1748 and many years a 
member of the House of Representatives from Boston. He was made judge of the 
Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1755, and remained on the bench until his death, 
May 20, 1770. He was a very prominent man in the pro\-ince and was appointed a 
member of various ct)mniissions looking after its welfare. 

N.-\Tii.\NiEL H.vrrii was born in Dorchester, and graduated at Harvard in 1742. He 
was made a judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county in 1771, and at the Revo- 
lution, being a loyalist, left the country. He died m 1780. 

JosEi'H Greene was appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county July 
3, 1772, and left the bench December 31st in the same year. He was a loyalist, and 
left the country at the Revolution. 

Thom.^s Hi'TCHLNsoN, jr.. son of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1758, and was appf>inted judge of the Common Pleas for Suffolk county 
December 31, 1772, and being a loyalist left the coimtry at the Revohition, and died in 
England in 1811. 

Benjamin Gkiulev was a barrister, and graduated at Cambridge in 1751. He was 
appointed judge of the Common Pleas for Sviffolk count)' in May, 1775, and his was 
the last appointment made by a royal governor. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 
1778 was proscribed. He probably died in England. 

Richard Nichols was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, appointed 
by the government in England in 1664 to visit the colonies and hear and determine 
all matters of complaint. He was the first English governor of New York after its 
conquest by the United Colonies in 1664. He left New York in 1667 and returned to 
England. 

Sir RoiiERT Cakr was one of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer mentinned 
above. He returned to England and died in 1667. 

■Georce Caki wricht was another of the commissioners mentioned above. He re- 
turned to England in 1665, and on his voj-age was captured by the Dutch. 

Samuel Maverick, another of the commissioners mentioned above, was the son of 
Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester. He was born in England about 1602, and died 
at New York, where he resided after 1665. 

JoH.N CoGc; AN was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the courts of Boston 
under the colonial charter. 

Amos Richardson was a tailor who acted as an attorney during the life of the 
Massachusetts Colony. 

John Watson was a merchant who acted as attorney in the days of the Colony. 

Benjamin Blliivant was the first attorney-general and was appointed about 1686. 
He was a physician and apothecary and acted as an attorney in the courts. 

Anthony Checklev was a merchant who acted as an attorney in the colonial 
courts. He was appointed attorney-general June 14, KiSi), and reappointed under 
the province charter October 28, 1692. 

Simon Lynde was appointed associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, 
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264 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Edward Randch.I'H was appointed associate judge of the Fleas and Sessions July 
37, l(i86, by President Dudley. 

RiriiAKD Wharton was appointed associate judge of the I'leas and Sessions July 
Ti, 16S(!, by President Dudley. 

John Ushek, son of Hezekiah and born in Boston in April, 1648, was appointed 
associate judge of the Pleas and Sessions July 27, lfi8(i, by President Dudley. He 
was a bookseller. 

Giles Masiers was sworn in as an attorney in l(iS6, and died in 1688. 

Christopher Webi! was sworn in as an attorney in 1680. 

Samiki. Shri-MI'Ton was a appointed by Andros in 1687 judge of the Superior 
Court. 

Charles Lh)(;ei was one of the associate judges of the Superior Court appointed 
by Andros in 1687. 

George Farweli. succeeded Benjamin Bullivant as attorney-general and continued 
in office until June 20, 1688. He came from New York and was sent to England with 
Andros in February, 1689. 

James Graham succeeded George Farweli as attorney-general June 2(1, 1688, and 
with Andros and Farweli was sent to England in February, 1689. 

Thomas Newton was sworn as an attorney June 8, 1688, and was appointed attor- 
ney-general in 1718, holding that office until May 28, 1721. He was born in Eng- 
land, June W, 1660, and was educated there. He was a deputy judge of the Court 
of Admiralty and comptroller of the customs for the port of Boston. He died May 
28, 1721. 

KiNci was an attorney in the days of Andros. 

Samlel Havman was an attorney during the close of the seventeenth century, and 
from 1692 to 1703 was a judge of the Common Pleas Court for Middlesex county. 

John West came from New York and was an attorney about the time of the union 
of the colonies in 1692. 

John P.\lmeu superseded Joseph Dudley as chief justice of the Superior Court in 
1688. He was sent to England with Andros in February, 1689. 

Robert M.\son acted as a judge under Andros. He lived in Portsmouth and died 
in 1686. 

John Hinks bel<mged to Portsmouth and was a member of the Council in 1697 and 
its president. He came from England about 1670 and married at an unknown date 
Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Christian Fryen. He was living at Newcastle, 
N. H., in 1722, and died before April 2.5, 1734. His descendants have spelled their 
names in various ways. General Edward Winslow Hineks, of Cambridge, is among 
the number. 

S.\MUEL Thaxter, of Hingham, was appointed in 17l!.j special justice of the Su- 
perior Court to act in a ease in which the city of Boston was interested. 

Thomas Berry, of Ipswich, a physician, was appointed special justice of the Su- 
perior Court in 1785 to act in a case in which the city of Boston was interested. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 265 

Benjamin Prescott, of Groton, was appointed in 1735 special justice of the Su- 
perior Court in a case involvijig the interests of the city of Boston. He was born in 
1696, and died in August, 1738. 

SvLVANi:s Bourne, son of Meltiah, of Sandwich, was appointed in 1747 special jus- 
tice of the Superior Court, and June 2, 1758, was appointed jttdge of the Court of 
Common Pleas for Barnstable county. At his death, September 18, 1763, he was 
chief justice, and also judge of probate. 

Joseph Pynchon, of Hampshire, was appointed special justice of the Superior 
Court in 1747. 

John Jeffries was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court. 

Thom.as Hi'BK.ARD, of Boston, a representative, .speaker of the House, and member 
of the Council, was appointed in 1748 special justice of the Superior Court. 

JosiAii QviNCY, son of Josiah, of Braintree, and great-grandson of Edmund 
Ouincy, who was born in Wigsthorpe, England, in 1602, was born in Boston, Febru- 
ary 23, 1744, and graduated at Harvard in 1763. He studied law with Oxenbridge 
Thacher and became a leading lawyer and orator. He was one of the counsel for 
Captain Preston and others engaged in the Boston massacre. He stood side by side 
with the prominent patriots of his time and while he saw that conflict with the 
mother country was inevitable, he was not deterred from taking the boldest stand 
against the usurpations which were threatening it. In the old South Church, when 
the band of men disguised as Indians passed it on their way to the tea ships in the 
harbor, he exclaimed: "I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast on our hori- 
zon, the thunders roU, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the 
whirlwind and directs the storm, I commit my country." In September, 1774, he 
sailed for England to consult with friends of the patriots there, but the seeds of pul- 
monary disease which had begun to germinate in his system were destined to pre- 
vent his return. On his way home, almost within sight of the shores of Massachu- 
setts Bay, he died April 26, 1775. He married in 1769 Abigail Phillips. 

JosiAH QuiNcv, son of Josiah and Abigail (Phillips) Ouincy, was born in Boston, 
February 4, 1772. He was fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1790. From April 18, 1859, to his death he was the oldest living 
graduate. He studied law with William Tudor, and at a meeting of the Suffolk 
bar held July 9, 1793, it was voted that he "be recommended to the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for the oath of an attorney of that court." In 1800, at the age of twenty- 
eight, he was nominated candidate for Congress \>\ the Federal party and defeated. 
In 1804 he was chosen member of the State Senate and also member of Congress, 
taking his seat at Washington in 1805, and holding it until 1813, when he declined a 
re-election. While in Congress he opposed the embargo and moderately the war 
with England. In a speech delivered January 4, 1811, in opposition to the admission 
of Louisiana as a State, he announced for the first time the doctrine of secession. 
He said: "I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill 
passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which com- 
pose it are free from their moral obligations; and that as it will be the right of all, so 
it will be the duty of some to prepare definitely for a departure, amicably if they can, 
violently if they must." In 1814 he was again a member of the State Senate, re- 
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266 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

maining until 1821. In 1831-2 he was speaker of the House of Representatives, re- 
signing, when on the Kith of January, 1823, he was appointed judge of the Municipal 
Court of Boston. While a member of the Senate he was chosen a delegate also to 
the Constitutional Conventicn of 1830. In 1833 he resigned the office of judge and 
on the litli of May Peter (). Thatcher was appointed to succeed him. While on the 
bench in the trial of Joseph Tinker Buckingham for libel against Rev. John X. Maf- 
fit, he announced the rule that the publication of the truth with good intentions was 
not libel. From 1823 to 1838 he was mayor of Boston, and on the 15th of January, 
1839, he was chosen president of Harvard College and held that position until 184o. 
Among his literary works may be mentioned, orations on the Fourth of July in Bos- 
ton in 1798 and 1826, orations at the second centennial of Boston, September, 1830, 
and of Harvard in 1836, a History of Harvard University, History of the Boston 
Atheneum, Municipal History of Boston, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, jr., his father, and 
a Memoir of John Quincy Adams. He married, June 6, 1797, Eliza Susan, daughter of 
John Morton, of New York, a descendant of George Morton, who was the father of 
Nathaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and who came to Plymouth in 
the Ann in 1623. He died at Quincy, July 1, 1864. He received the degi'ee of Mas- 
ter of Arts from Yale in 1793, and LL.D. from Harvard in 1824. 

JosiAH QriNTY, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bo.s- 
ton, January 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October S, 1824, but after a few }-ears became engaged in business pur- 
suits. He was a councilman from 1833 to 1837, the last five years president of the 
Council, and in 1843 was president of the State Senate. From 1845 to 1849 he was 
mayor of Boston and was manj' years treasurer of the Western Railroad, as the road 
was called extending from Worcester to Albany, and treasurer of the Boston 
Atheneum. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel R. Miller. He died at 
Quincy, November 2, 1883. 

JosiAH Phii.i.ii'S QtaNcv, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born 
in Boston, November 28, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1850. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk county bar in 1856. He is the author of several dramas and political 
essays. He married, December 23, 1858, Helen Fanny, daughter of Judge Hunt- 
jngton. 

S.AMi'Ei, Mii.i.ER QfiNcv, son of Josiah and Mary Jane (Miller) Quincy, was born in 
Boston, June 13, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1852. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 23, 1856, and became editor of the Monthly Law Reporter. 
He entered the army during the war as captain in the Second Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, May 34, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Seventy-second 
United States Colored Regiment, October 30, 1863, colonel May 34. 1864, and brevet 
brigadier-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865. He died unmarried in Keene, N. 
H., April 24, 1887. 

Edmund Quin'CY, son of Josiah and Eliza Susan (Morton) Quincy, was born in Bos- 
ton, February 1, 1808, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1830, but devoted himself chiefly to literary labors and to anti- 
slavery eiforts. He published an excellent memoir of his father, and " Wensley, a 
story without a moral." He married Priscilla, daughter of Daniel P. Parker, of Bos- 
ton, and died in Dedham, May 17, 1877. 



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JosiAii QuiNCY, son of Josiah Phillips and Helen Fann)- (Huntington) Quincy, was 
born in Boston, October 15, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, was representative from Quincy in 1887-88-89-90- 
91, secretary of the Civil Service Reform League in 1881, of the Tariff Reform League 
in 1883, of the Democratic State Executive Committee in 1890, chairman in 1891, and 
secretary of the National Democratic Committee in 1892. In March, 1898, he was 
appointed assistant secretary of state by President Cleveland. He is unmarried. 

Josi.\H H. Quincy, son of Samuel H. and Sarah A. Quincy, was born in Rumney, 
N. H., March 8, 1860, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1884. He studied law at the 
Boston University Law School and in the office of John W. Corcoran, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 188T. His residence is in Boston. 

Melville P. Beckett, son of Joseph and Marcia P. Beckett, was born in Peabody, 
Mass., October 30, 1800, and studied law at the Boston University Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar at Salem January 28, 1883, His residence is at Peabod)^. 

Abijah Bigelow, son of Elisha and Sarah (Goodrich) Bigelow, was born in West- 
minster, Mass., December 5, 1775, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1795. He studied 
law with Samuel Dana at Groton, and Samuel Dexter in Boston, and his name is on 
the roll of admissions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court prior to 1807. He prac- 
ticed in Leominster nineteen years, during which time he was town clerk five years, 
representative in 1807-8-9, and member of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses. 
In 1817 he removed to Worcester, and till 1834 was clerk of the courts for Worcester 
county. He married, April 8, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Francis and Sarah 
(Gibson) Gardner, of Leominster, and died August 21, 18.57. 

Edward Bicknell, son of William E. and Rebecca J. (Richmond) Bicknell, was 
bom in Boston, October 22, 1855, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Bostim in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brig- 
ham, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15, 1879. He is now trial jus- 
tice for Franklin county with a legal residence in Orange. He married at Boston, 
June 20, 1887, Elizabeth R. Healy, of Weymouth, Mass. 

James Benjamin, son of Ashur, was born in Boston, April 23, 1811, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and prac- 
ticed in Boston, 

Jonathan Belcher, son of Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Bos- 
ton, July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law, went to Lon- 
don, entered the Temple, and practiced law in England. He was one of the first 
settlers of Halifax, was lieutenant-governor of the Province, and in 1761 was made 
chief justice. He died in Halifax, March 29, 1776. 

John Richards Bullard, son of William and Mary R. Bullard, was born in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., March 3, 1846, and attended the Dedham High School and Phillips An- 
dover Academy, and graduated at Harvard Law School in 1866. He continued his 
law studies with Jewell, Gaston & B'"ield in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 4, 1867. He was representative in 1868-70-71, and lives in Dedham. 
He married Mary A. Richards at Irvington, N. Y. , in 1871. 

Eugene Lucian Buffinton, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Churchill) HufHnton, 
was born in Roxbury, Mass., January 1, 1847, and was educated at the public schools 



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and with private tutors. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1880. He married Georgianna, daughter of 
George Dove, of Bo.ston, January 1, 1868, and resides in Boston. 

William Colvard Parker, son of Samuel T. and Margaret Parker, was born m 
Wakefield, Mass. , April 12, 1858, and attended Boston Universit)- and Massachusetts 
Agricultural College. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890. He is president of the Agricultural College 
Alumni Club and of the Boston Common Council. He resides in Boston. 

Horatio G. Parker, son of Elijah and Sally (Hall) Parker, was born in Keene, N. 
H., April 26, 1833, and graduated at Dartmouth. He studied law in New York 
in the office of William Curtis Noyes and in Boston in the office of Henry M. 
Parker, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1847^ and to the Massachusetts bar 
in Middlesex county in 1848. He was a representative in 1854. He married in 1863 
at Greenfield, Mass., Harriet Newton, and in 1874, at Greenfield, Lucy S. Newton. 
His residence is at Cambridge. 

Henry Baylies, son of Frederick and Velina Worth Baylies, was born at Edgar- 
ton, Mass., September 9, 1822, and was educated at Weslej'an LTniversity in Con- 
necticut. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and with Edward H. Bennett 
and George S. Hale in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Taunton, September, 
1870. He was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1846 to 1870, 
but abandoned the ministry on account of ill health. His residence is at Maiden. 

Francis Lowell Batchelder, son of Samuel and Mary (Montgomery) Batchelder, 
was born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 2, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was admitted to the Suft'olk 
bar November 20, 1848. He was a councilman in Cambridge, where he resided, in 
1853-54, and practiced in Boston. He married Susan Cabot Foster, of Cambridge, 
December 2, 1851, "and died at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Fla., February 9, 1858. 

James Boltineau was an attorney in Boston and mandamus counsellor in 1774. 
He was included in the conspiracy act of 1779 and his estate was confiscated. It was 
his son-in-law, John Robinson, who made the assault on James Otis m 1769, which 
probably produced his alienation of mind. His wife was a sister of Peter Faneuil. 
Mr. Boutineau went to England and Ihei'e died. 

Andrew Cazneau was an attorney and barrister in Boston before the Revolution, 
and was proscribed in the act of 1778. He went to England in 1775, and finally to 
Bermuda, where he held office under the crown. He returned to Boston in 1788 and 
died in Roxbury in 1792. He married in 1769 Hannah, daiighter of John Hammock, 
a merchant of Boston. 

Thomas Daneorth, sou of Samuel, graduated at Harvard in 1762, and was the 
only attorney in Charlestown. He went to Halifax in 1776, and died in London in 
1825. 

David Goriiam graduated at Harvard in 1733, and was one of the addressers to 
HutchiiLson in 1774. He died in 1786. 

Benj.\min Kent was born in Charlestow-n, and graduated at Harvard in 1727. He 
studied divinity and in 1733 was settled over a church in Marlboro", where he re- 
mained two years. He next studied law and became a barrister in Boston. As a 
loyalist he went to Halifax and there died in 1788. 




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Samuel Quincy, son of Josiah and brother of Josiah the patriot and orator, was 
born in Braintree in 1735, and graduated at Harvard in 1754. He studied law, and 
was appointed solicitor-general of the Province in 1767 to succeed Jonathan Sewall, 
who had been appointed attorney-general. At the Revolution he adhered to the 
crown. On the 25th of May, 1775, he sailed for England, and in 1776 was a member 
of the Loyalist Association in London. He was proscribed and banished by the act 
of 1778, and in 1779 was appointed "Comptroller of the Custoins at the port of Par- 
ham in Antigua." In 1789, on his passage from Antigua to England, he died at sea, 
as did his brother Josiah fourteen years before. He was married twice, to a Miss 
Hill, of Boston, who died in 1782, and to a lady in Antigua, who not long survived 
him. 

Samuel Fncii was a barrister in Boston and an addresser of Hutchinson in 1774. 
He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty and solicitor to the Board of 
Commissioners. He went to Halifax in 1776, and in 1778 was proscribed and ban- 
ished. He went to England and was a loyalist addresser of the king in 1779. He 
probably died in England in 1784. He graduated at Vale in 1742 and received an 
honorary degree from Harvard in 1766. 

EzEKiEL Cheever, Scth Williams, William Ward, Andrew Oliver, Samuel Danforth, 
Thomas Hutchinson, the father of the governor, Joseph Richards, John Chandler, 
Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel White, Joseph Lee, Francis Hooke, Charles Frost, Samuel 
Wheelwright, Benjamin Browne, John Higginson, John Gardner, James Coffin, 
Thomas Mayhew, Benjamin Skiffe, William Gayer, Joseph Hammond, Ichabod 
Plaisted, William Pepperell, John Wheelwright, John Hill, Lewis Bane, John Otis, 
John Gorham, Samuel Partridge, John Parsons, John Stoddard, Zacheus Mayhew, 
and Enoch Coflfin, belonging in different parts of the province, were appointed be- 
tween 1692 and 1746 special justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to sit in spe- 
cial cases and as quasi judges of a court which included Suffolk county within its 
jurisdiction, they are placed on this register. 

William Atwood was appointed judge of admiralty October 28, 1701, having Mas. 
sachusetts. New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Xcw Hampshire, and the Jerseys 
within his jurisdiction. 

Roger Mompesson was appointed judge of admiralty in April, 1703. 

John Menzies was appointed judge of admiralty in 1715. He was born in Scotland 
in 1650 and settled in Roxbury, and died in Boston, September 20, 1728. 

Chambers Russell, son of Daniel, was a judge on the bench of the Superior Court 
from 1752 to 1766. He was born in Charlestown in 1713, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1731. He was appointed a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Mid- 
dlesex county in 1747 and held that position until he was promoted to the Superior 
Court. In 1747 he was appointed judge of the Admiralty Court and held the office 
until his death, which occurred at Guilford, England, November 24, 1767. 

George Cradock was deputy judge of admiralty, resigning in 17G6, and died July 
1, 1771. 

William Reed was appointed judge of admiralty in July, 17(i6. He was also ap- 
pointed in 1770 judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county, and in 1775 
judge of the Superior Court of Judicature. 



276 tilSTORY OF THE ^ENCH AND BAR. 

William Boli.an was born in England, and studied law in Massachusetts with Rob- 
ert Auchmuty. He was advocate-general of the Court of Admiralty. He married 
a daughter of Governor Shirley, and died in England in 1T7G. 

John Valeniine was an attorney in Boston, and held the office of advocate-general 
of admiralty at the time of his death in 1724. 

William Shirley was born in Preston, England, in IGi):!, and was educated to the 
law. He came to Boston in 1T34 and practiced his profession until 1741, when he 
was appointed governor of the Province, a position which he held until 17o(). He was 
commander-in-chief of the British forces in America and planned the expedition 
against Cape Breton in 1745. In 1759 he was made lieutenant-general. He was trans- 
ferred from the government of Massachusetts to that of one of the Bahama Islands, 
but returned to Massachusetts and settled in Roxbury, where he died March 24, 1771. 
He was during the early part of his residence in Boston advocate-general of admi- 
ralty. 

Andrew Lane, a Boston attorney, died April 13, 1747. 

James Otis, jr. , son of Col. James and Mary AUyne Otis, was born in Barnstable, 
Mass., February 5, 1725, and graduated at Harvard in 1743. He studied law in Bos- 
ton with Jeremiah Gridley and finished his studies in Plymouth, where he was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and practiced until 1750, when he removed to Boston. His sister 
Mercy married James Warren, of Plymouth. Not long after his arrival in Boston he 
was appointed advocate-general of admiralty, an office which he resigned in 1761, in 
which year he made his memorable speech against writs of assistance. In the same 
year he was chosen representative from Boston, and in 1766 speaker of the House. 
In 1769 he was assaulted by John Robinson, one of the commissioners of customs, 
whom he had denounced in an article in the Gascttc, and so seriously injvired that 
not long after his mind became deranged and he retired from public life to Andover. 
where he was killed by lightning May 29, 1783. He married in 1755 Ruth Cunning- 
ham. 

Samuel Swift, an attorney of Bo.ston, graduated at Harvard in 1735, and was a 
barrister in 1768. 

John Overing was a successful Boston attorney, who was chosen b)' the House of 
Representatives attorney-general in 1722, and again in 1728. He held office until 
1733, and was again chosen in 1739^0-41^3, and annualh' afterwards until his death, 
November 24, 1748. 

John Ream, born about 1677, graduated at Harvard in 1697, and studied divinity. 
After preaching acceptably for a time he studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
about 1720. He was chosen attorney-general in 1723-33-34-35, and was chosen to 
the General Court in 1738 and several succeeding years, the first lawyer chosen to 
that body. He w-as also several years a member of the Council, and was one of the 
legal counsel for the Province in its contest with Rhode Island concerning the 
boundary line. He was probably the ablest lawyer in Massachusetts before the Rev- 
olution. He died February 7, 1749. 

Jere.miaii Gkidlev was born about 1705, and graduated at Harvard in 1725. He 
was chosen attorney-general in 1742, and was appcjinted in 1761 to the same office by 
the governor and Council. Before entering the profession he studied divinity and 



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taught a Boston school. His residence was in Brookline, from which town he was a 
representative some years. In 1761 he acted as king's attorney in defending the 
writs of assistance, with his former pupil James Otis against him. He held the office 
of attorney-general until his death, which occurred September 7, 1767. 

J.\mesOtis, sr. , son of John and Mercy (Bacon) Otis, was born in Barnstable. Mass,, 
in 1702, and became an eminent lawyer. In 1748 he was appointed attorney-general 
and held the office one year, and in 1760-61 he was speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives. In 1764 he was appomted judge of the Court of Common Pleas and judge 
of probate for Barnstable county. He married Marjr, daughter of Joseph AUyne, of 
Wethersfield, and James Otis, the patriot, was his son. He died in November, 1778. 

Joseph He.arne, a Boston attorney, died in Boston, December 26, 1728, aged nearly 
seventy years. 

Weldon, a Boston attorney, committed suic:de in London in 1734. 

JosErH St. Lawrence, an attorney fi-om Ireland, was admitted to the Su]5erior 
Court in 1737, and opened an office in Boston. 

John Lowell, son of Rev. John Lowell, was born in Newbury, Mass., June 17, 
1743, and graduated at Harvard in 1760. He studied law with Oxenbridge Thacher, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1762. He began practice in Newburyport, but in 1777 
removed to Boston. In 1776 he was a representative from Newburyport and in 1778 
from Boston. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1780, 
member of Congress in 1783, judge of the Court of Appeals from 1783 to 1789, judge 
of the United States District Court for Massachusetts 1789-1801, chief justice of the 
Circuit Court for Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island in 1801, 
until the law creating the court was repealed in 1802. He died in Roxbury, May 6. 
1803. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1792. 

John Lowell, son of the above, was born in Newburyport, October 6, 1769, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1786. He studied law in Boston with his father, and at a 
meeting of the Suffolk bar July 21, 1789, it was voted that he be "recommended to 
the Court of Common Pleas the present term for the oath of an attorney of that 
cotirt." He went to Europe in 1803 and after his return he devoted himself chiefly to 
literary pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
of the Boston Atheneura, the Provident Institution for Savings, and the Hospital Life 
Insurance Company. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1814, and 
died March 12, 1840. 

Abel Willard was born in Lancaster, Mass., in January, 1732, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1752. He studied law in Boston with Benjamin Pratt, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1755. He practiced in Lancaster until the Revolution, when he removed 
to Boston. In 1776 he went to Halifax, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. 
He died in England in 1781. He married Eliza, daughter of Rev. Daniel Rogers, 
who died in Boston in 1815. 

James Putnam was born in Danvers, Mass. , in 1725, and graduated at Harvard in 
1746. He studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, and after admission to the bar set- 
tled in Worcester in 1749, practicing also in Suffolk county. He went to England in 
1776 and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. In 1784 he was appointed judge of 
the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and died at St. Johns in 1789. 



272 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

John a. Boi,i.es, son of Rev. Matthew BoUes, was born in AsMord, Conn., April 
17, 1809, and graduated at Brown University in 1839. He was admitted to the bar 
in Boston in April, 1833, and practiced there. In 1843 he was secretary of the Com- 
monwealth, in 1853 a member of the Hai-bor and Back Bay Commission. He enlisted 
in July, 1861, and from 1862 to 1865 was judge advocate on the staff of his brother-in- 
law, General John A. Dix. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 
1865 and naval solicitor. He died at Washington, D. C, May 11, 1878. He married, 
November 11, 1834, Catherine Hartwell, daugher of Colonel Timothy Dix. 

Cii.\Ki.Es H. Bi.ooi), son of Hiram A. and Mary M. (Person) Blood, was born in 
Fitchburg, Mass., December 10, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied 
law in New Bedford in the office of Marston & Cobb, and at the Boston University 
Law School, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar in August, 1882. He is 
special justice of the Police Court of Fitchburg, where he has his residence. 

George Rkhaku Bi.inn, son of John F. and Susan L. Blinn, was born in Charles- 
town, Mass., July 11, 1859, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He studied law in 
Boston with George Z. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar February 
2, 1887. He married Clara A. Pollard at South Newmarket, N. H., June 6, 1886, 
and resides in Bedford, Mass. 

AVii.i.i.vM P. Bl.ake, son of Edward and Mary J. (Dehon) Blake, was born in Dor- 
chester, July 23, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1866. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1869. He was associated in the practice of 
law with his father until his father's death in 1873. 

Cii.\Ki.ES Francis Ad.\ms, son of John Ouincy and Louisa (Johnson) Adams, was 
born in Boston, August 18, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. While a youth 
he was with his father, then minister at St. Petersburg, and in 1815 accompanied 
him to England in his mission to the Court of St. James. He returned home in 1817 
and fitted for college. After graduating he studied law in the office of Daniel Web- 
ster in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1829. He was rep- 
resentative from 1831 to 1834 and senator from 1835 to 1837. He was nominated at 
Buffalo in 1848 by the Free Soil Party for the vice-presidency, on a ticket with Jlar- 
tin Van Buren for president, and from 1859 to 1861 was a member of Congress. From 
March, 1861, to February, 1868, he was minister to England, and by his wise and 
skillful diplomacjr rendered his country an inestimable service. He married in 1829 
a daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks, of Boston, and died in Boston, November 21, 
1886. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1864. 

John Quincv Ad.-\ms, son of the above, was born in Boston, September 22, 1833, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He was admitted [to the Suffolk bar July 7, 
1856. He was representative from Quincy in 1866, 1869 and 1870, and in 1867 and 
1871 was the Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He is at present 
a member of the corporation of Harvard, to which position he was chosen in 1877. 

Charles Francis Ada-MS, jr., brother of the above, was born in Boston, May 27, 
1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 
17, 18.58, and served through the war, being mustered out in July, 1865, as brevet 
brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1869 he was appointed a member of the Board 




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of Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts, and in that position exhibited suhc 
marked abiHty as led to his election in 1S84 as president of the Union Pacific Rail- 
road. Since his retirement from that office one of his most marl<ed efforts is the ad- 
dress delivered on the Fourth of July, 1892, in commemoration of the one hundredth 
anniversary of the town of Quincy. 

Brooks Adams, brother of the above, was born in Quincy, Mass., June 2-1, 1.S48, 
and gi-aduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 
18T8, and is the author of the "Emancipation of Massachusetts." 

George Everett Adams was born in Keene, N. H., in 1840, and when a child went 
to Chicago. He fitted for college at Phillips E.xeter Academj- and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1860. He graduated at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the 
Suft'olk bar August 19, 1865. He settled in Chicago and has been a member of the 
Illinois Senate, and was a member of Congress from the Fourth Congressional Dis- 
trict of Illinois from 1883 to 1891. He is president of the Chicago Harvard Club and 
the Union League Club, and was at the last election chosen an overseer of Harvard. 

Cii.'VRLES Day Adams, son of George and Angelina (Day) Adams, was born in Wor- 
cester, July 28, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Oren 
S. Knapp in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875. He was 
associated in business with Mr. Knapp imtil Mr. Knapp's death, and now, while prac- 
ticing in Boston, resides in Woburn, where he is a special justice of the Fourth East- 
ern Middlesex District Court. 

Charles Frederick Adams, son of Charles Frederick and Caroline Hesselrigge 
(Walter) Adams, was born in Boston, February 3, 1824, and graduated at Har\'ard m 
1843. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of 
Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 24, 1846. In 1849, on 
account of ill health, he made a voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands and China, 
returning after thirteen months' absence and resuming the practice of law. He died 
of consumption at Boston, December 30, 1856. 

Nathaniel Prentiss B.\nks was born in Waltham, Mass., JanuaiT 30, 1816. In his 
youth he worked in the mill of which his father was superintendent and learned the 
machinist's trade, so mingling study with his labor as enabled him to secure a posi- 
tion as editor first of a paper in Waltham and then in Lowell. He then studied law 
and after his admission to the bar he was sent to the Legislature from Waltham in 
1849, and in 1851 and 1852 was speaker of the House of Representatives. The writer 
has a distinct recollection of the bearing and methods of twenty-four speakers of the 
House as far back and including Thomas Kinnicut in 1843, and he has no hesitation 
in expressing the opinion that not one of them all equaled Mr. Banks in readiness to 
grasp situations, in coolness, promptness in decision and general parliamentary skill. 
He was an ideal speaker and not a few presiding officers have remembered with 
profit lessons learned from him while in the speaker's chair. In 1853 he was a mem- 
ber and the president of the State Constitutional Convention, and then member of 
Congress from 1858 to 1857. In 1855 he was chosen speaker of the National House 
of Representatives on the 133d ballot, after a contest during which his bearing was 
remarkable for its sagacity and wisdom. In 1857 he was chosen by the Republican 
party governor of Massachusetts, and twice re-elected, serving until January, 1861. 
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274 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

After leaving the executive chair he was chosen jiresident of the IlHnois Central Rail- 
road, but he had hardly entered his new office before the war broke out, when he of- 
fered his services to the government and was commissioned major-general May Ki, 
1801. So much maj' be found elsewhere concerning his career, it will be unnecessary 
to follow it in this register. He resigned his commission in 1864, and in that year 
was again chosen to Congress, continuing in service, with the exception of one Con- 
gress, until 1877. On his retirement from Congress he was appointed United States 
marshal for Massachusetts, and not receiving a reappointment to that office from 
President Cleveland, was again chosen to Congress, and finally retired from public 
life in 1890. He still resides in Waltham. 

Anson Bukung.'\me, son of a farmer, was born in. New Berlin, N. Y., November 14, 
1830, and when three years old removed with his parents to a farm in Seneca county, 
Ohio, where he lived ten years. In 1833 he removed to Detroit and after two years 
to a farm at Branch, Mich. In 1837 he entered the University of Michigan, and in 
1843 entered the Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1846, and was admitted 
to the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1846. During the presidential cam- 
paign of 1844 at a meeting of the Young Men's Whig Club, of which Charles Francis 
Adams was president, held in a small hall in Schollay's building, which stood in the 
center of Schollay Square, Mr. Burlingame made his first speech. The writer was 
present and remembers well the favorable impression which his somewhat florid 
oratory made on the audience. After that at political meetings he was often called 
out and his speeches were frequent. He began practice in Boston, Ijut his business 
soon yielded to the demand of politics and he entered almost at once on a public 
career. In the campaign of 1848 he was an active worker and speaker in the Free 
Soil party, and again the writer was with him in organizing meetings in Faneuil Hall 
and other places. In 1849 he went to Kurope, and in 1850 was a member of the State 
Senate. In 18-53 he was chosen a delegate from Northboro' to the State Constitutional 
Convention, though living in Cambridge, and in 1854 was chosen member of Con- 
gress by the Know-Nothing party. He was re-elected in 1856 and 1858, and in 1861 
was appointed minister to Austria. The Austrian government refused to receive him 
on account of his advocacy of Hungarian independence and of the recognition of 
Sardinia as a first class power. He was then sent minister to China, returning home 
in 1867, and again resuming his official duties after a short vacation. In 1867, -when 
retiring from the Chinese embassy, he was appointed b\^ the Chinese government a 
special envoy to the United States and the European powers for the purpose of ne- 
gotiating treaties. Having accomplished his mission in the United States he pro- 
ceeded in 1868 to England, and afterwards to France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland 
and Prussia, where, with the exception of France, his duties were successfully per- 
formed, finally reaching St. Petersburg in 1870, where he died on the 23d of February, 
1871. He married a daughter of Isaac Livermore, of Cambridge. 

WiLLi.'Uvi Cr.\nch, son of Richard and Mary (Smith) Cranch, was born in Wey- 
mouth, Mass., July 17, 1769, and graduated at Harvard in 1787, receiving in 1829 the 
the degree of LL.D. He studied law with Thomas Dawes, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 1790. He removed to Washington, D. C, in 1794 and in 1801 
President John Adams appointed him assistant judge of the Circuit Court of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, of which court he became chief justice in 1805, serving until his 



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death September 1, 1855. He published nine vokimes of reports of the United States 
Supreme Court, and six volumes of reports of the Circuit Court of the District of Co- 
lumbia. 

Ll'tiier Stearns Cushim; was born in Lunenburg, Mass., June 22, 1803, and grad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1826. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex 
county in March, 1827. He was several years editor of The Jtn-ist and La-cu Maga- 
zine, from 1832 to 1834 was clerk of the House of Representatives, and represent- 
ative in 1844. From 1844 to 1848 he was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and 
from 1848 to 1853 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, editing during that 
period twelve volumes, beginning with the Suffolk and Xantucket term of 1848 and 
ending with the Suffolk term in November, 1853. He is more popularly known as 
the author of "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice," the " Elements of the Law and 
Practice of Legislative Assemblies," and " Rules of Proceeding and Debates in De- 
liberate Assemblies." 

Thom.'\s Cushing, sou of Thomas, was born in Boston, March 24, 1T25, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1T44, receiving the degree of LL.D. in 1785. He was represent- 
ative, speaker of the House, member of the Provincial Congress, and judge of the 
Common Pleas and Probate for the county of Suffolk. He was lieutenant-governor 
of Massachusetts from 1779 to his death, which occurred February 28, 1788. 

Benj.vmin F. H.Ai.i.Ei r. son of Benjamin, was born in Barnstable, December 2, 1797, 
and graduated at Brown L^niversity in 1816. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and 
practiced in Boston. He was a prominent Democrat after the decline of the Anti- 
Masonic party to which he belonged. He was appointed district attorneys for Massa- 
chusetts by President Pierce in 1853. He died in Boston, September 30, 1862. 

S.\MiEL Hl-bh.\ki) was born in Boston, June 2, 1785, and graduated at Yale in 1802. 
He studied law in Boston with Charles Jackson and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in April, 1806. He practiced in Biddeford, Me., until 1810, when he returned to 
Boston and became associated with Mr. Jackson, his former teacher. He was judge 
of the Supreme Judicial Court from 1842 to 1847, and received in 1842 the degree of 
LL.D. from Harvard. He died in Boston, December 24, 1847. 

S.A.MUEL Lorenzo Knapp was born in Newbur},q5ort, January 19, 1783, and gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth in 1804. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1807. 
He was a representative, commander of a regiment of militia during the war of 1812, 
editor in Boston of various newspapers and magazines between 1824 and 1827, re- 
sumed the practice of law in New York, and died at Hopkinton, Mass., July 8, 1838. 
He was the author of " Lives of Eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Letters," 
and was a profuse w-riter on other subjects. 

John L.vriiROP, son of Rev. John, was born in Boston, Januarys 13, 1772, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1789. He studied law with John Lowell and Christopher Gore 
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After practicing in Dedham a short 
time he returned to Boston, and after an unsuccessful career at the bar went to 
India in 1799, returning in 1809. He then taught school, delivered lectures, con- 
tributed to the newspapers and pronounced several orations. He finally seciu-ed a 
place in the Post-office Department in Washington, and died at Georgetown, D. C, 
January 30, 1820. He man-ied in 1793 a daughter of Joseph Pierce of Boston. 



276 HISTORY OP THE BENCH AND BAR. 

J<piiN Leverett, grandson of the governor, was born in Boston, August "^o, 1062, 
and graduated at Harvard in 108U. He was an educated lawyer, speaker of the 
Provincial Legislature in 1700, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature from 1703 
to 1708, judge of probate, and the successor of Samuel Willard as president of Har- 
vard College in 1707. He died May 3, 1724. 

Edw'arh St. Loe Livermore was an attorney in Boston in 1812. He was born in 
Portsmouth, N. H., April 5, 1762, was United States attorney, member of Congress 
from 1806 to 1812, and a judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire from 1797 to 
to 1799. After taking up his residence in Boston he delivered the Fourth of July 
oration there in 181::!, and died at Lowell, September 22, 1832. 

(iRi;n\ili.e Meli.en, son of Chief Justice Prentiss Mellen, was born in Biddeford, 
Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He practiced law in Portland and North 
Yarmouth, Me. , but moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 
1, 1834. He devoted himself more to literature than to law and published a number 
of poems. He died in New York, September 5, 1841. 

D.wiD H.\i,L Rice was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., May 6, 1841, and graduated at 
Syracuse University. After admission to the bar he went south and practiced until 
1868. In 1869 he opened an office in Lowell, Mass., and subsequently in Boston. 
At the recent election, November 8, 1892, he was chosen a member of the Executive 
Council. His residence is in Brookline. 

Artem.^s W.\ri), son of General Artemas, was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., January 
9, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He practiced in Shrewsbury until 1809, 
when he removed to Boston. He was a representative, member of the Executive 
Council and member of Congress from 1813 to 1817. May 11, 1819, he was appointed 
judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and when that court was abolished, 
February 14, 1821, he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas for 
the Commonwealth, established at the same date, and served until he resigned in 
1839. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1842, and died in Boston, 
• October?, 1847. 

RoYALL Tyler was born in Boston, July 18, 17.57, and graduated at Harvard in 
1776. He studied law with John Adams and was recommended by the Suffolk bar, 
July 18, 1780, for admission to practice in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1790 he 
removed to Guilford, Vt., and in 1794 was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of 
Vermont, being promoted to chief justice in 1800. Prexdous to his appointment as 
chief justice he indulged in the recreation of writing dramas, among which may be 
mentioned "Contrast," a comedy, the first American play ever acted on a regular 
stage; "May Day, or New York in an Uproar;" "The Georgia Spec, or Land in the 
Moon," and the " Algerine Captive." In 1809 he published two volumes of "Reports 
of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont." He died at Brattleboro', Vt., August 
16, 1826. 

Leverett S.\ltonstall Tuckerman, son of John Francis and Lucy (Saltonstall) 
Tuckerman, was born in Washington, D. C, April 19, 1848, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1868. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and finishing his 
law studies in Salem in the office of Perry & Endicott, was admitted to the bar in 
Salem in 1872. He is unmarried and resides in Boston. 



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Frederick Goddard Tlckerman, son of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, 
was born in Boston, February 4, 1831. and was educated at the Boston Latin School. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842. and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar September Ifi, 1844. He married, June IT. 1847. Hannah L. B. , daughter of 
David Smith Jones, of Weston, and Hannah Lucinda AVhitman, of Lincoln, and died 
at Greenfield, May 9, 1873. 

George TicKNOK. son of Elisha, was born in Boston. August 1. 1791, and gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth in 1807. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813, and prac- 
ticed, if at all, only two years. In 1815 he went to Eurojje, spending two years at 
Gottingen and returning home in 1819. During his absence he was appointed pro- 
fessor of modern languages at Harvard and served fifteen years. In 183.'j he again 
went to Europe, returning in 1840, when he began writing a History of Spanish 
Literature, w-hich he published in 1849. His lesser works were a Life of Lafayette, 
a Memoir of William Hickling Prescott, and contributions to the North A iiifruaii 
Review and other publications. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 
1850, and died in Boston, January 26, 1871. 

Peter Oxenbkidge Tiiacher, son of Rev. Peter Thacher, was born in Maiden, 
December 22, 177fi, and graduated at Harvard in 179(i. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1801. and May 14, 1823, was appointed the judge of the "Municipal Court 
in the Town of Boston," serving until his death at Boston, February 22, 1843. On 
the first of March following the Legislature, believing it best that a judge should not 
be exclusively devoted to the trial of criminal cases, provided by law tliat the judges 
of the Common Pleas Court should be ex officio judges of the Municipal Court. 

Walter H. Thorpe, son of Walter and Eliza J. (Ellery) Thorpe, was born in Athol, 
Mass., October 7, 1867, and was educated at the Athol High School. He studied law 
at the Boston L'niversity Law School and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex 
county. June 27, 1890. His residence is in Newton. 

John Weldon Threshie, son of Charles and Henrietta C. Threshie, was born in 
New Orleans, La., August 22, 1863, and was educated at the Pierce Academy in Mid- 
dleboro', Mass. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the 
office of J. Frank Paul, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 
1877. He was an assistant of John Lathrop, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 
Court. He resides in Newton. 

James L. W.\lsh was born in East Boston, March 28, 1843, and was educated at 
the Lyman Grammar School in Boston and at the College of the Holy Cross in Wor- 
cester. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar March 12, 1872. He was representative in 1877-78, and is a special justice of the 
East Boston District Court. 

Clarence Stuart Ward, son of Andrew Henshaw and Anna H. W. (Field) Ward, 
was born in Newton, December 5, 18.52, and graduated at the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology in 1872. He gi-adxiated at the Boston L^niversity Law School in 
1876, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 187.5. He was a commissioner 
of the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1889. He makes patent cases and 
corporation law specialties, and is the author of ' ' Wit, Wisdom and Beauties of 
Shakespeare," published bj' Houghton, Mifflin & Company in 1887. He lives unmar- 
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278 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Edwarii Garrison' Walker, son of David and Eliza Walker, was born in Boston 
in 1830, and was educated in Charlestown. He studied law in Boston in the office of 
Charles A. Tweed, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1861. He was a 
representative in 1867, and lives in Boston. 

JosEi'ii Walker, son of Joseph H. and Hannah M. Walker, was born in Worcester, 
Mass., July 18, I860, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in 
the oftice of Chaplin & Carret, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 
1889. He married at Providence, R. I., June 30, 1890, and resides in Brookline. 

Nathaniel Upham Walker, son of Joseph B. and Elizabeth L. Walker, was born 
in Concord, N. H., January 14, 18o5, and graduated at Yale in 1877. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Jewell, Field &. Shepard, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 14, 1881. He married in Boston, June 
G, 1888, Helen F. Dunklee, and resides in Boston. 

Charles Pincknev Simner was born in Milton, Mass., January 20, 1776, and grad- 
viated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law in Boston with George Richards Minot. 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1800. He was high sheriff of Suffolk county 
from 1825 to 1839, and died in Boston, April 2, 1839. 

Charles Sumner, son of Charles Pinckney Sumner, was born in Boston, January 6, 
1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in that j'ear. Soon after his admission he was 
appointed reporter of the Circuit Court, and in 1835-36-37-43 he was a lecturer in the 
Harvard Law School, and in 1851 succeeded Daniel Webster as United States sena- 
tor. In 1848 he allied himself with the Free Soil party and advocated the election of 
Van Buren and Adams in the presidential campaign of that year. His election by 
the Legislature to the Senate in 1851 was the result of a coalition of the Free Soil men 
with the Dem.ocrats, who received their share by the election of George S. Boutwell 
for governor, the election of that officer coming to the Legislature in consequence of 
a failure to elect by the people. His career in the Senate was marked by a constant 
and effective attack on the strongholds of slavery, and, perhaps, next to Garrison 
no man did more to bring about that ctmdition of affairs which resulted in the eman- 
cipation of the slave. He continued in the Senate until his death. In the line of his 
profession in 1831 he became editor of the American Jurist, in 1836 he edited " Dun- 
lap on Admiralty," from 1828 to 1839 he published three volumes of Circuit Court Re- 
ports, and jointly with Jonathan C. Perkins edited " Vesey's Chancery Reports" in 
twenty volumes. His most noted speeches were " The Crime against Kansas," 
" Freedom is National, Slavery Sectional," and the " Barbarism of Slavery," deliv- 
ered in the Senate, and "The True Grandeur of Nations," " The Scholar, the Jurist, 
the Artist, the Philanthropist," " Fame and Glory," " White Slavery in the Barbary 
States," " Law of Human Progress," " Finger-Point from Plymouth Rock," " Land- 
mark of Freedom," "The Anti-Slavery Enterprise," "Position and Duties of the 
Merchant," "Our Foreign Relations," " The Case of Florida," " Eulogy of Abra- 
ham Lincoln," "Our Claims on England," on various occasions, a collection of which 
was published in two volumes in 1850 and 1856. He married Alice, widow of Stur- 
gis Hooper, of Boston, and daughter of Jonathan iMason, of Boston, and died in 
Washington, March 11, 1874. 



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RoHEKr Rantoul, son of Robert, was born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805, and 
graduated at Harvard in 182fi. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1831, and 
after a short season of practice in South Reading established himself in Gloucester in 
1833, and in 1838 removed to Boston. He was representative from Gloucester from 
1833 to 1837, and collector of the port of Boston from 1843 to 1845. He was appointed 
United States district attornej' for Massachusetts in 1845, holding the office until 
1849, and United States senator for the unexpired term of Mr. Webster in 1851, and 
member of Congress i\om 1851 to his death, which occurred at Washingtf)n, August 
7, 1852. 

Wii.i.i.\M Prescott, son of Col. Wm. Prescott, was born in Pepperell, Mass., Au- 
gust 19, 1762, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. After teaching school a short time 
at Brooklyn, Conn. , and Beverly, Mass. , he studied law with Nathan Dane, of Bev- 
erly, and was admitted to the bar in 1787, establishing himself in Beverly for three 
years and then removing to Salem. He was a representative from Salem and sena- 
tor from Essex county. In 1808 he removed to Boston. In 1814 the Boston Court of 
Common Pleas was established, of which Harrison Gray Otis was the first judge, ap- 
pointed on the 16th of March in that year, succeeded by William Minot, appointed 
March 2, 1818, who was followed by Mr. Prescott, appointed April 21, 1818. He 
served until May 11, 1819, when he was succeeded by Artimas Ward, the last judge 
of that court. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention, and in 1820 a 
member of the State Constitutional Convention. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from Harvard in 1834, and died in Boston, December 8, 1844. 

Edw.'VRD GoLDSBORouciH Prescott, SOU of Judge William, was born in Salem, Jan- 
uary 2, 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
July 14, 1828, but after practicing a few )-ears studied divinity, and in 1837 was 
settled as an Episcopal clergyman in New Jersey. He died April 4, 1844. 

John Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Salem, February 17, 
1777, and graduated at Harvard in 1796. He studied law with Edward Tilghman in 
Philadelphia and in Salem, and was admitted to the bar of Essex county in 1806. 
While pursuing his studies he was in 1797 secretary of legation to William Smith, 
United States minister at Portugal, and in 1799 private secretary of Rufus King, 
United States minister to England. He practiced in Salem until 1827, when he re- 
moved to Boston, where he was city solicitor from 1829 until his death, which occurred 
in Boston, May 5, 1846. He was a representative from Salem, and a senator from both 
Essex and Suffolk.counties. He was also a member of the Executive Council. Dis- 
tinguished as he was in the profession of law, he was quite as distinguished as a 
philologi.st, and was the author of " Vocabulary of Americanisms," " The Uniform 
Orthography of the Indian Language," " Indian Languages of America," of articles 
on the Chinese language, the Cochin Chinese language, and other languages, and of 
a Greek and English Lexicon. He was familiar with French, Portuguese, Italian, 
Spani.sh, German, Romaic, Greek and Latin, and more or less so with Dutch, Swed- 
ish, Danish and Hebrew. He had also studied Arabic, Turkish, Syriac, Persian, 
Coptic, Sanscrit, Chinese, Malay, and the Indian languages of America. In 1806 ho 
was appointed professor of Hebrew at Harvard, and received the degree of LL.D. 
from Bowdoin in 1822 and Harvard in 1835. He died in Boston, Mav 5, 1846. 



28o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

OciAvus Pickering, son of Col. Timothy Pickering, was born in Wyoming, Penn.. 
September 2, 1T9'2, and graduated at Harvard in ISIO. He studied law with his 
brother John in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in JIarch, 1816. He 
practiced in Boston, and in 1823 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court, his reports comprising twenty-four volumes, beginning with 
the Berkshire term in September, 1822, and ending with the Essex term in 1839. He 
died in Boston, October 29, 1868. 

J.AMEs WiNTHROP PICKERING, Son of James Farrington and Sarah (Pike) Pickering, 
was born in Boston, March 26, 1848, and was educated at the Boston public schools. 
He studied law at the Har^^ard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1869. He married Alice Aurelia, daugh- 
ter of Oliver Lawrence and Mary (Whitney) Wheeler in 1880. and resides in Boston. 

John Phillips, son of William and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born in Bos- 
ton, November 26, 1770, and graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1791 or 1792, as in the latter year his name is fovmd in the list of Suff.olk law- 
yers. On the 29th of August, 1809, he was appointed one of the justices of the Court 
of Common Pleas, and from 1803 to 1823 he was a member of the Senate, serving as 
its president the last ten years. He was the first mayor of Boston, serving in 1822 
and 1823. He died in Boston, May 29, 1823. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas 
and Sarah (Hurd) Walley. 

Wendell Phillips, son of John and Sally (Walley) Phillips, was born in Boston, 
November 29, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was admitted to the bar 
in Middlesex county in September, 1834. The current of anti-slavery sentiment then 
developing in Massachusetts swept him away from his profession, and soon after his 
admission he abandoned the law and devoted his time and talents to the anti-slavery 
cause. His maiden oratorical effort was in support of resolutions at a meeting in 
Faneuil Hall in 1837, condemning the murder of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Alton, 
111. It is unnecessary to recount in this register the incidents in the life of a man so 
well known and whose career has been so thoroughly published to the world. Un- 
like Mr. Garrison, who considered his life work done when the cause of emancipation 
was triumphant, he lent his energies to other reforms and continued until his death 
the advocate of temperance, labor reform, and woman suffrage. He died in Boston, 
Februarv 2, 1884. He married Anne Terry Greene. 

Thomas W.-vllev Phillips, son of John and Sail}- (Walley) Phillips, and brother of 
Wendell, was born in Boston, January 16, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. 
He studied la%v with Lemuel Shaw in Bo.ston, and was admitted to the bar in Mid- 
dlesex county in November. 1819. He was a councilman in Boston in 1827, a repre- 
sentative from 1834 to 1837, and was appointed by Judge Peter Oxenbridge Thacher 
in 1830 clerk of the Boston Municipal Court, serving in that capacity until his death, 
which occurred at Nahant, September 8, 1859. He married in Boston, March 1>^. 
1824, Anna Jones, daughter of Samuel Dunn, of Boston. 

Grenville Tldor Phillips, son of John and Sally (AV alley) Phillips, was born in 
Boston, August 14, 1816, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He studied law in Bos- 
ton in the offices of Peleg Sprague and William Gray, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in October, 1839. He devoted but little of his time to his profession, and 
after 1845 spent most of his time in Europe. He died in Saugus, May 25, 1863. 





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WiLLARD Phillips was born in Bridgewater, Mass., December 19, 1784, and gi-ad- 
uated at Harvard in 1810, where he was tutor after his graduation until ISlo. He 
then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 1818. 
He was for a time an assistant editor of the Xorth American RcviciU, and in 1825- 
26 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On the 3d of May, 
1839, he was appointed judge of probate for Suffolk county and continued in office 
until 1847, when on the 17th of December he was succeeded by Edward Greeley Lor- 
ing. He was then made president of the New England Jlutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany in Boston and continued in that office until his death, which occurred at Cam- 
bridge, September 9, 1873. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1853. 

John Phillii's, was born in Charlestown in 1631. He was judge of admiralty, treas- 
urer of the Province, and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex 
county from 1692 to 1715. He died at Charlestown. March 20, 1726. 

Stephen He.nry Phillips, son of Stephen C. and Jane (Appleton) Phillips, was born 
in Salem. August 16, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 6, 1846. 
He was for a time editor of the Law Reporter, district attorney of Essex from 1851 
to 1853, and attorney-general by election from 1858 to 1861. In 1866 he went to 
Honolulu and was attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands from 1866 to 1873, and 
minister of foreign affairs. On his return to the Vnited States he practiced law for 
a time in San Francisco, and has been since engaged in his profession with offices in 
Salem and Boston. He married, October 3, 1871, Margaret, daughter of James H. 
and Mary (Willis) Dimcan, of Haverhill, Mass. 

JoN.vnr.'VN' Cogswell Pekkins, was born in Ipswich, Mass., November 21. 1809, and 
graduated at Amherst in 1832. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in Essex countj^ in 1835. He was State senator in 1847, and in 
184S was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court, remaining on the bench until 
the dissolution of the court in 1859. He edited several volumes of Pickering's Re- 
ports with Notes, Chitty's Criminal Law. Chitty on Contracts, Jarman on Wills, Ab- 
bot on .Shipping, Daniell's Chancery Practice, Collver on Partnership, and was the 
author of a treatise on Arbitrations and Awards. He died in Salem, December 12, 
1877. 

Edw.\rd Griffi.v P.-vrker, was born in Boston, November 16, 1825. He studied law 
with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1849. In 1859 
he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He was chairman of the committee 
to whom was referred that part of the message of Governor Banks relating to the 
purchase of the Hancock house for an executive residence, and the writer who was 
with him at the Senate Board and aided him in his efforts, bears willing testimony to 
the energy and eloquence displayed by him in advocating the purchase. During the 
war he was a volunteer aid on the staff" of General B. F. Butler, and afterwards as- 
sistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Martindale. He was the author of 
"Golden Age of Oratory," and an exceedingly interesting book entitled " Reminis- 
cences of Rufus Choate." He died in New York city, March 30, 1868. 

Samuel Allyne Otis, son of Col. James Otis, was born in Barnstable, Mass., No- 
vember 24, 1740, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. He studied law, but relin- 
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282 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

quished it and became a Boston merchant. The -writer is not certain that he was 
ever admitted to the bar. He was a representative in 177(!, and in 1T84 speaker of 
the House. He was a member of Congress in 1788, and afterwards secretary of the 
United States Senate. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Harrison Gray, of Boston, 
and was the father of Harri.son Gray Otis. He died at Washington, D. C, April 23, 
1S14. 

Gkokof. Aktiu'r Perkins, son of Levi and Elizabeth (Sands) Perkins, was born in 
Cambridge, September 4, 1S,")(;, and graduated at the Boston University Law School 
in 187(3. He was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in May 1876, and to the 
United States Circuit Court April 3, 1882. He was a representative from Cambridge 
in 1886-87-89, and his residence is still in that city. 

Henry Grover Perkins, son of Francis W. and Laura (Simonds) Perkins, was born 
in Fitzwilliam, N. H., July 16, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan- 
uary 15, 1890. He lives in the Dorchester district of Boston. 

Daniel Leonard, a graduate of Harvard in 1760, is spoken of in 1770 as a barris- 
ter at the Suffolk bar. He belonged to Taunton. He was at the meeting of the 
Suffolk bar held January 3, 1770, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on the corner of 
State and Kelly streets, to form a Bar Association. He died in 1829. 

Benjamin Hichhorn graduated at Harvard in 1768 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1773. He died in 1817. 

Ei.isiiA Thayer, son of Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, graduated at Harvard in 
1767, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1774, and died in the same year. 

John Bui.klev graduated at Harvard in 1769, and after studying law with Josiah 
Quincy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1772, and died in 1774. 

Edward Walker studied law with Samuel Ouincy and was probably athnittcd to 
the Suffolk bar in 1775. 

Thomas Edwards graduated at Harvard in 1771, and studied law with Josiah 
Ouincy. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1784 and to the Common Pleas 
at an earlier date. He died in 1806. 

Nathaniel Coffin, after practicing two years in the Inferior Court of Common 
Pleas, was admitted to the Superior Court in Suffolk in 1773. 

Jonathan Williams, son of Inspector General John Williams, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1773, and studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and 
died in 1780. 

Edward Hill, son of Alexander, of Boston, graduated at Harvard in 1772, and 
studied law with John Adams. He was admitted in 1775, and died the same year. 

John Trumbull, probably the painter, graduated at Harvard in 1773, and entered 
the office of John Adams in 1774. He died in 1843. 

N.\thaniel Batteli.e graduated at Harvard in 1765, and entered the office of 
Sampson Salter Blowers in 1774. He died in 1816. 

Perez Morton, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was born about 1751, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1771. He studied law witli Josiah Ouincy, and was 



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admitted to th e Common Pleas Court in Suffolk in Jul)-, 1774. He was appointed 
attorney-general September 7, 1810, and was succeeded by James T. Austin, May 24, 
1882. He died in 1837. 

JosHL'.-v TiiOM.\s, son of William and Mercy Logan (Bridgham) Thomas, was born 
in Plymouth in 1751, and graduated at Harvard in 1772. He .studied law in the 
office of Josiah Quincy, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was on 
the staff of General John Thomas early in the Revolution, but finally settled in his 
native town, where he became judge of probate, a member of the Committee on Cor- 
respondence, and the first president of the Pilgrim Society. He married Isabella 
Stevenson, of Boston, and died at Plymouth in 1831. 

Daniel Newcomb graduated at Harvard in 1768, and after studying law with John 
Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1778. He became judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire, and died in 1818. 

S.'iMUEi. DoGGETT graduated at Harvard in 1775, and studied law with Perez Mor- 
ton. He was admitted to the bar in 1780, and died in 1817. 

Henry Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law in Boston with 
William Tudor, and died in 1789. 

RuFus Greene Amory gradtiated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with John 
Lowell, and was admitted to the bar in 1781. He died in 1833. 

James Hughes graduated at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Benjamin 
Hichborn, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1780. He died in 1799. 

IsR.AEi. Keith graduated at Harvard in 1771, and was an attornev at the Suffolk bar 
in 1780. He died in 1819. 

Peter Clarke graduated at Harvard in 1777, and studied law with Increase Sum- 
ner. He died in 1792. 

Benj.\min Lincoln graduated at Har\'ard in 1777, and studied law in Worcester 
with Levi Lincoln, and in Boston with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1781. He died in 1788. 

William Hunter Torrens, of Charleston, S. C, studied law in the office of John 
Lowell in 1781, and was probably admitted to the Suffolk bar. 

William Hunt graduated at Harvard in 1768, and was a member of the Suft'olk 
bar in 1780. He died in 1804. 

JoNATH.\N Fay graduated at Harvard in 1778, and studied law with Benjamin 
Hichborn. He was admitted to the bar in 1781, and died in 1811. 

William Wetmore was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1781, and was a barrister 
in 1787. In 1811 the Circuit Courts of Common Pleas were established and in the 
Middle Circuit, of which Suffolk county formed a part, Mr. Wetmore, of Boston, was 
appointed associate justice. 

JosEi'ii Hall gi-aduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with Benjamin Hich- 
born. He was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1784. He was appointed judge of pro- 
bate for Suffolk county September 6, 1825, and was succeeded by John Heard, March 
15, 1836. He died in 1848. 

Edwakii Wendell graduated at Harvard in 1781, and studied law with John 
Lowell. He died in 1841. 



284 mSTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

David Leoxard Barnes graduated at Harvard in 17S0, and studied law with James 
Sullivan and Daniel Leonard. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1TS3. He be- 
came judge of the United States District Court, and died in 1812. 

Kiiuard Gr.\y graduated at Harvard in 1782, and studied law with James Sulli- 
van, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1785. He died in 1810. 

John Brown Cotiing studied law in the office of John Lowell in 1783, and was 
probably admitted to the bar in 1785. 

S.\Mt;EL QuiNcv, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1782, and read law in the office of 
Christopher Gore. He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and died in 1816. 

Harrison Gray Otis, son of Samuel AUyne Otis, was born in Boston, October 8, 
1765, and graduated at Harvard in 1783. He studied law with John Lowell, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1786. He was a representative m 1796, member 
of Congress form 1797 to 1801, United States district attorney in 1801, representative 
again and speaker from 1803 to 1805, president of the State Senate from 1805 to 1811. 
He was appointed March 16, 1814, judge of the Boston Court of Common Pleas, and 
was succeeded by William Prescott, April 21, 1818. He was United States senator 
from 1817 to 1823, and mayor of Boston from 1829 to 1833. In 1814 he was a mem-" 
ber of the Hartford Convention. He married in Boston Sally, daughter of William 
and Grace (Spear) Foster, and died in Boston, October 28, 1848. 

John Rowe graduated at Harvard in 1783. and studied law with William Tudor. 
He was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1786. He died in 1812. 

John Tucker graduated from Harvard in 1774, and is referred to as a niembei- of 
the Suffolk bar in 1783. He died in 1825. 

Richard Brook Roberts studied law in Carolina and in Boston with Benjamin 
Hichborn, whose office he entered in October, 1783. 

S.AMCEL CoiU'KK JoHiiNNoT graduated at Harvard m 1783, and studied law with 
James Sullivan. He died in 1806. 

John Tha.ktek graduated at Harvard in 1774, and in 1784 was admitted to the Su- 
preme Court, having already been admitted to the Common Pleas. He died in 1791. 

Bradish, probably either Ebenezer, who graduated at Harvard in 1769, or 

Isaac, who graduated in 177ti, is referred to as a Suffolk atto/-ney in 1784. 

John Gardinek, jr., son of John, read law with his father, entering his office in 
1784. 

William Hill, from Xorth Cai-olina. studied law with Christopher Gore. 

F(.iRTEScuE Vernon graduated at Harvard in 1780, and studied law with Benjamin 
Hichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787. and died in 1790. 

John Merrick graduated at Harvard in 1784, and studied law in the office of 
Thomas Dawes. He was admitted to the bar in 1788, and died in 1797. 

Samuel Borland graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell, 
and died in 1840. 

J.4MES SuLi.iv.\N, jr., son of James, graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law 
with his father, and died in 1787 before admission. 

THo^LYs Russell, son of Thomas, of Boston, studied law with John Lowell in 1786. 



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Thomas Williams graduated at Harvard in 1784, and after studying law witli 
John Lowell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1823. 

George Warren studied law with Perez Morton, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1788. 

Thomas Crafts graduated at Harvard in 178.'), and studied law with Christopher 
Gore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1788, and died in 179.S. 

Samuel Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with Benjamin 
Hichborn. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and 'died in 1841. 

William Lv.man studied law with James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suft'olk 
bar in 1789. 

Nathaniel Higginson studied law with William Wetmore in 1 788. 

Phineas Bruce entered the office of Benjamin Hichborn m 1788, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1790. 

BossENi'.ER Foster graduated at Harvard in 1787, and studied law with Theophilus 
Parsons. He died in 1816. 

Edw.\rd Cl.arke graduated at Harvard in 1788, and studied law with John Lowell. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791, and died in the same 5-ear. 

Joseph Bl.-^ke graduated at Harvard in 1786, and studied law with John Lowell. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1789, and died in 1802. 

Robert Paine, son of Robert Treat Paine, graduated at Harvard in 1789, and 
studied law with his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1792, and died in 1798. 

Thomas Hammond, who had been admitted to the bar in New Hampshire, was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1790. He graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in 
1803. 

Nathaniel Fisher graduated at Harv-ard in 1789, and studied law with Edward 
H. Robbins. He was admitted to the bar in 1791, and died in 1802. 

Samuel Ha\en graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law with Fisher Ames. 
He was admitted to the Suff'olk bar in 1793, and died in 1847. 

John Callender graduated at Harvard in 1790, and studied law with Christoj^her 
Gore. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1 793, and died in 1833. 

Alexander Townsend was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court in Suft'olk 
county before 1807. 

Hor.jvtio Townsend was admitted in Suffolk county to practice in the .Supreme 
Court before 1807. 

William Scllivan, son of General John Sullivan of the Revoluti<m, was born in 
Saco, Me., November 30, 1774, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. He studied law 
in Boston, and was admitted to the Suff'olk bar m 179.5. He soon became one of the 
leaders of the bar and entered somewhat into politics. He was a representative and 
member of the Executive Council and of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, and 
devoted himself also to literary pursuits. He published "Familiar Letters on the 
Public Men of the Revolution," " Sea Life," "Political Class-book," " Moral Class- 
book," " Historical Class-book," and delivered several orations, the most noted of 
which was his oration at Plymouth on the 22d of December, 1829. He died in Bos- 
ton, September 3, 1839. 



286 fUSlORV OF THE BENCtJ AND BAR. 

John Turner Sargent Sullivan, son of William, was born in Boston in 1813, and 
was educated in Germany. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833, 
and practiced first in St. Louis and afterwards in Philadelphia. He was a superior 
linguist, a fine musician, an inimitable story teller and excellent conversationalist. 
The writer knew him well and can say with truth that he has never encountered a 
man with such varied talents. He died in Boston, December 30, 1848. 

Benjamin Be.ale graduated at Harvard in 1787, and is referred to as a member of 
the Suffolk bar in 1792. He died in 1826. 

John Williams graduated at Harvard in 1792, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1795. He studied with Harrison Gray Otis. He died in 1845. 

Francis Blake graduated at Harvard in 1789, and studied law in Worcester. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and died in 1817. 

Joseph Rowe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793. He had been educated in 
Canada and had studied law two years in the office of the attorney-general of Can- 
ada. He afterwards spent two years in the office of William Tudor, and was twenty- 
two years old at the time of his admission. 

James Allen, jr., studied law in Worcester with T^evi Lincoln, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1795. 

Charles Porter Phelps graduated at Harvard in 1791, and is referred to as a 
member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1857. 

Shearjashub Bourne graduated at Harvard in 1764, and died in 1806. He began 
practice in Barnstable, but the writer finds his name enrolled as a member of the 
Suffolk bar. May 17, 1796, and he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas for Suffolk county in 1801. 

Charles Paine graduated at Harvard in 1793, and he is referred to as a member 
of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He died in 1810. 

William Thurston signed a roll of members of the Suffolk bar in 1797. 

Edward Jackson graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was a member of the vSuffolk 
bar in 1796. He died in 1819. 

EzEKiEL Bacon, son of Rev. John Bacon, was born in Boston, September 1, 1776, 
and graduated at Yale in 1794. In 1796 he was a member of the Suft'olk bar. He 
moved from Boston to Stockbridge, Mass., was a representative in 1805-6, chief jus- 
tice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in 1813, first comptroller of the Treasury 
from 1813 to 1815, member of Congre.ss from 1807 to 1813. He moved in 1816 to 
Utica, N. Y., and there died October 18, 1870. 

JmiN Heard was enrolled as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. He was ap- 
]>ointed judge of probate of Suft'olk county March 15, 1836, and was .succeeded by 
Willard Phillips, May 3, 1839. 

Da\id E\ERErr is referred to as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. 

Henry Maurice Lisle, a member of the Suffolk bar in 1796. 

Isaac Story graduated at Harvard in 1793, and studied law in Essex county. He 
was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1796, and died in 1803. 

John Ward Gurley studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suf- 
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Charles Davis graduated at Harvard in 1T9(>, and stiulied law with James Sullivan. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1831. 

Charles Cushing graduated at Harvard in 1796, and studied law with James Sul- 
livan. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1799, and died in 1849. 

Benjamin Wood graduated at Harvard in 1797, and in the same year entered the 
office of John Davis, but died in 1798, before admission. 

Hoi.DEN Slocl'M, jr., studied law with treorge R. Minot, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1801. 

Foster Waterman was a schoolmaster in Boston, and studied law with John M. 
Forbes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798. 

John Murray Fokiies graduated at Harvard in 1787, and died in 1831. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. 

KiLBoRN Whiiman, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in 
Bridgewater, August 17, 1765, and graduated at Harvard in I180. He prepared for 
the ministry under the instruction of William Shaw, D. D., of Marshlield, and was 
settled over the parish in Pembroke, where he continued to live until his death. After 
ten years' service in the ministry he studied law in the office of his brother, Benjamin 
Whitman, of Hanover, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1791. He settled in 
Pembroke, and was appointed county attorney in 1811, continuing in office until 
1833. He was also for many years overseer of the Mashpee and Herring Pond 
Indians. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Winslow. of Marshfield, and died 
in Pembroke December 11, 188"). 

Humphrey Deverei'X graduated at Harvard in 1798, and .studied law with John 
Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in isr>7. 

Artemas Saw\er graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with George R. 
Minot He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died in 1815. 

Tkumas Paine studied law in 1799 in the office of Robert Treat Paine, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801. 

JoTHAM Bender graduated at Harvard in 1796, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1799, and died in 1800. 

Luther Richardson graduated at Han-ard in 1799, and studied law with Thomas 
Williams. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803, and died in 1811. 

Henry Cauot', son of George and Elizabeth (Higgmson) Cabot, was born in Bostf)n 
in 1783, and took a partial course at Harvard. He studied law with Rufus (i. 
Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1804. He married Anna Sophia, 
daughter of John Welland and Abigail (Jones) Blake, of Brattleboro', Vt., and died at 
Xahant, August 18, 1804. 

Nathaniel Sparhavvk was born in 1781, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1798. He 
studied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1801, and died 
in 1803. 

Aaron Hall Putnam graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John 
Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1803, and died in 1809. 

Henry Edes graduated at Harvard in 1799, and studied law with James Sullivan. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803, and died in 1851. 



288 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

GiiiK.dN Latimer Thaver graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with 
James Sullivan. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar probably in 1804, and died in 
1839. 

Da\ in IkklanI) Gkeene graduated at Harvard in 1SI)(I, and studied law with Wil- 
liam Sullivan. He died in 1836. 

AVarken DirrciN studied law with John Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in July. 1803. 

Samlel Parker studied law "ith Rutus (r. Amory in Boston in 1801. 

Ai.i'iiKi's Baker studied law with John Lowell in 1801. 

Samiei, Mather Crocker graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law with 
Edward Gray, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804. He died in 1852. 

JoH.s Knait graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Davis. He 
was admitted to the bar in July, 1803, and died in 1849. 

Thomas Welsh graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with John Davis. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1804, and died in 1831. 

Arthur M. Walter studied law with Harrison Gray Otis, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1802. 

Wu.mam Snh ih Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1798, and studied law with Harrison 
(irav Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1804, and died in 1826. 

John CniiMAN, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with John 
Lowell. He died in 1847. 

James He.mierson Eeeioti graduated at Harvard in 1802, and studied law with 
John Lowell. He was admitted to the Suffolk biu" in April, 1806, and died in 1808. 

Ti.\[oiHV Filler, son of Rev. Timothy, was born in Chilmark, Mass., July 11, 
17TS, and graduated at Harvard in 1801. He studied law in Woreester with Levi 
Lincoln, and in Boston with Charles Paine, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1804. He was senator from 1813 to 1816, member of Congress from 1817 
to 182.5, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 183.5, and member 
of the Executive Council in 1828. He died at Groton, October 1, 1835. 

Timothy Boutelle gi'aduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Ebenezer 
Gay. He died in 1855. 

D.wiu Braiu.ev studied law in the office of John Heard in 1803. 

Aari>n- Em%h;s studied law with David Everett in 1803. 

Israel Munkoe graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with John Phillip.s. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803, and died in 1834. 

Benjamin Welles graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with Harrison 
Gray Otis. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1803, and died in 1860. 

Benjamin Marston Watson graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law with 
Theophiliis Parsons. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1804, and died in 1851. 

Adam Winthrop graduated at Harvard in 1800, and studied law w'ith George 
Blake. He was admitted to the bar in 1803, and died in 1846. 

Robert Fields applied for admission to the bar in 1805, but the writer is not cer- 
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HuiMKR Albers, son of Claus and Rebecca Albers, was born in Warsaw, 111., 
February- 28, 1863, and was educated at the Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton. 
Mo. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1885. He is or has been a professor at the Boston University Law 
.School. He married, at Fredonia, N. Y. , June 26, 1889, Minnie B. Martin, and 
resides at Winchester. 

Clii't Rogers CL..M'r, son of Howard and Frances A. (Rogers) Clapp, was born in 
Boston, February 10, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of George S. Hale and Ropes, 
Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He resides in the Rox- 
liury District of Boston. 

S.\Mi'Ei. M. Child, son of Nahum A. and Ellen (Sargent) Child, was born in Tem- 
ple, N. H., September 10, 1802, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was 
admitted to the Suft'olk bar in July, 1890. He w-as a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of New Hampshire in 1889. He is coiTesponding secretary of the Young 
Men's Democratic Cltib of Massachusetts, and lives in Boston. 

J.\MES R. DocKR.\y, son of James R. and Mary A. Dockray, was born in Portland, 
Me., February 11, 1834, and studied law in Worcester with Henrj^ Chapin, and was 
admitted to the bar in Worcester. He removed his business to Boston, where he 
now lives, and married Elizabeth S. Hardon at Cambridge in 1877. 

Oh.'VRLES Sidney Ensign, son of Sidney Ariel and Julia Maria (Hull) (Brockway) En- 
sign, was born in Hartford, Conn., Jul)- 26, 1842. He studied law with Thomas C. 
and Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, and gi-aduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1863. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge, and settled in Hartford, where he 
was admitted July 19, 1864, and became a councilman in I860. He afterwards prac- 
ticed for a time in New York and BrookljTi, having been admitted to the bar in New 
York April 9, 1868, and in 1886 removed his business to Boston, taking up his resi- 
dence in Watertown, from which place he was a representative in 1891. He married, 
December, 1868, Angle Faxon, daughter of Hiram and Hepseybeth (Adams) (Faxon) 
Barker, of Brighton. He was representative from Watertown in 1891, and has been 
trustee of the Free Public Library in that town, and chairman of the School Com- 
mittee. 

George A. O. Ernst, son of Andrew H. and Sarah Otis Ernst, was born in Cincin- 
nati, O., November 8, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of Ropes & Gray and J. B. Rich- 
ardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1875. He was a represent- 
ative in 1883-84. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 9, 1879, Jeanie C. 
Bynner. He is a frequent contributor to the law journals. Residence, Boston. 

George W. Estabrook, son of Joseph E. and Mary A. (I^orter) Estabrook, was born 
in Montgomery, Ala., March 31, 1840, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1861. He 
studied law with Ira Perley at Concord, N. H., at the Harvard Law School and in 
Boston \\\t\i James Schouler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. He mar- 
ried Laura S. Perkins at Fitzwilliam, N. H., in July, 1876, and resides in Boston. 

George Eustis, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Gray) Eustis, was bom in Boston, Oc- 
tober 20, 1796, and graduated at Han-ard m 1815. He was secretary of his uncle , 
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290 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

William Eustis, while minister to the Hague, where he began his law studies. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1822 and settled in New Orleans, beeoming representa- 
tive, secretary of state, attorney-general, and judge and chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of Louisiana. The writer is doubtful where he was admitted to the bar. He 
married in 1S2.5 Clarissa AUair, of Louisiana. He received the degree of LL.D. from 
Harvard in 1849, and died in New Orleans, December 23, 1858. 

Benj.-\min Guild graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1807. He died in Boston, March 30, 1858, at the age of seventy-three. 

WiLLi.AM Henry Rovve, son of Samuel and Lydia Ann (Fletcher) Rowe, was born in 
Boston, October 6, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law and 
settled in Davenport, la. , but the writer is not certain where he was first admitted to 
the bar. He was admitted in Davenport in March, 1856, and became a successful 
lawyer. He died in Boston, July 22, 1858. 

Mathew Hale Carpe.nter was born in Moretown, Vt., December 22, 1824, and en- 
tered West Point in 1843, where he remained two years, and then returned to Ver- 
mont to study law with Paul Dillingham. In November, 1S4T, he was admitted to 
tlie Vermont bar, but at once went to Boston and continued his legal studies in the 
office of Rufus Choate. The writer is not informed whether he was ever admitted to 
the Suffolk bar. In 1848 he settled in Beloit, Wis., and about 1857 removed to Mil- 
waukee. He was during the war judge advocate-general of Wisconsin. In 1869 he 
was chosen United States senator and served one term of six years. In 1879 he was 
again chosen to the Senate and served until his death, which took place in Washing- 
ton, February 24, 1881. He was at the age of fifty-six cut off in the very height of a 
splendid career. It is unnecessary to rehearse here his many triumphs both at the 
bar and in the Senate. It is sufficient to say that after the death of Webster he was 
called by many the best constitutional lawyer in the United States. He married a 
daughter of Paul Dillingham, of Vermont, his instructor in law. 

John Henry Clifford was born in Providence, R. I., Januarj' Ifi, 1809, and grad- 
uated at Brown in 1827. He studied law in Dedham with Theron Metcalf, and after 
his admission to the bar settled in New Bedford, and, as was the custom in that day, 
attended the courts of Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable and Nantucket, and the courts 
of Dukes county, and soon won a leading place among the lawyers of Southeastern 
Massachusetts. In 1835 he was a representative, and in 1849 was appointed to the 
office of attorney-general, which had been abolished in 1843 and revived in that year. 
In 1852 he was chosen governor and served one year, and Rufus Choate accepted the ap- 
pointment of attorney-general. In 1854 he was again appointed attorney-general and 
served until 1858, when the office became elective and Stephen Henry Phillips was 
chosen. In 1859 he was appointed in the place of Ellis Ames counsel for the Com- 
monwealth to act with Mr. Phillips, the attorney-general, in the proceedings in 
equity, which had been begun in the matter of the Rhode Island boundary. The 
counsel for Rhode Island were Charles S. Bradley and Thomas A. Jenks, and in 1861 
the vexed boundary question, which had been a disputed one for nearly two hundred 
years, was finally and satisfactorily settled. In 1862 Mr. Clifford was president of 
the Senate, and for several years he was president of the Overseers of Harvard Col- 
lege. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University in 1849, and from 
Amherst and Harvard in 1853. In 1850, while attorney-general, he conducted the 



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trial of Prof. John W. Wcljster for the murder of Dr. (jeorge Parkman, assisted by 
(leorge Bemis. In 186T he succeeded Charles Henry Warren as president of the 
Boston and Providence Raih'oad Company, and retired from 'professional labors. He 
married a daughter of William II. Allen, of New Bedford, and died in that citv Jan- 
uary 2, 1876. 

Ei.isH.-i Cooke, sr., aphysician, was born in Boston September K!, 1037, and died May 
l?l, 1715. He graduated at Harvard in 1657, and was an assistant from 1684 to 1686. 
Caleb CrsHiNG, son of Capt. John N. and Lydia (Dow) Gushing, was born in Salis- 
bury, Mass., January 17, 171K), and when two years of age his parents removed to 
Nevvburyport. He was educated while young chiefly by Michael Walsh, a noted 
teacher of that day, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. Though probably the 
youngest member of his class, he was selected to make the address to President Mon- 
roe when he visited Cambridge during his senior year. After graduating he re- 
mained in the college two years as tutor in mathematics and natural philosophv, and 
then entered the office of Ebenezer Moseley, of Newburyport, to prepare himself for 
the bar. He was also one of the earliest students at the Harvard Law School, that 
institution having graduated its first class in 1820. He was admitted to the Essex 
bar in 1822 and established himself in his adopted town. He married in 1823 Caro- 
line, daughter of Samuel Sumner Wilde, afterwards an associate justice of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court,. who removed from Hallowell, Me., to Newburyport in 1830, and 
remained there until 1831. After his marriage he spent two years in Europe and in 
1825 was a representative from Newburyport to the General Court, and again in 1833 
and 1834, and again in 1845, 1850 and 1859. In 1834 he was chosen member of Con- 
gress from Essex North District, and it is stated that Mr. Webster said " that he had 
not been six weeks in Congress before he was acknowledged to be the highest author- 
ity on what had been the legislation of Congress on any given subject." When the 
War with Mexico was delared, in opposition to the popular sentiment of his State, he 
assisted in raising a regiment of volunteers, which he led as colonel until appointed 
brigadier-general. In 1843 he was appointed by President Tyler minister to China, 
returning in a little over a year with a treaty which was readily ratified by the Senate. 
In 1852 he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachu- 
setts, leaving the bench in 1853 to assume the position of attorney-general in the 
cabinet of President Pierce. During the War of the Rebellion he spent much time in 
Washington, where his services by advice and council were considered indispensable 
in the various departments of the government. He was appointed by President Lin- 
coln a commissioner to adjust claims pending with Mexico, and by President Grant 
minister to Spam, and of counsel for the United States at Geneva. As he advanced 
in age instead of abandoning work he seemed rather to realize that the fewer the 
years left to him the more diligent and industrious he must be. A passion for learn- 
ing actuated him to the last, and in philology and other branches of learning he 
seemed to be zealously fitting himself for their use in some other sphere of existence. 
He died at Newburyport, January 2, 1879. 

Charles Augustus Dewey, son of Daniel, was born in Williamstown, Mass., March 
13, 1793, and graduated at Williams College in 1811. He studied law with Theodore 
Sedgwick and settled in Williamstown, where he remained until 1836, when he re- 
moved to Northampton. He was district attorney from 1830 to 1837, when he was 



292 HIS70RY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He remained on the bench 
until his death, which occurred at Northampton, August 22, 1866. 

TiiuMAs Haminc:;s Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born 
in Princeton, Mass., October 12, 1820, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law Scliool and in Boston in the office of his brother, Charles 
Theodore Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 184.5. He was a rep- 
resentative in 18.53-54— 57-.59. He has always been associated with his brother in a 
large and general practice. He married Maria Louisa Wiswell in Boston, October 
12, 1847, and lives in Boston. 

Till I.MAS RissELL, son of William Goodwin and Mary Ellen (Hedge) Russell, was 
born in Boston, June 17, 1858, and fitted at the Boston Latin School for Harvard, 
where he gi^aduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the 
office of his father in Boston, and was one year secretary of Justice Horace Gray of 
the Supreme Court at Washington. He was admitted to the bar in 1883, and in 
1H92 was chosen representative to the General Court, Residence, Boston. 

James Dutton Rissei.l, whose original name was James Russell Dutton, was the 
son of Warren and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and born in Boston, January- 
7, 1810. His named was changed by a special act passed February 21, 1820. He 
graduated at Harvard in 1829, and studied laW' at the Harvard Law School and in 
Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1832. In 1833 he went to Europe and gave up practice. He died in 
Brighton, June 10, 1861. 

JiiiiN CoDiMAN Roi'Es, son of William and Mary Anne (Codman) Ropes, was born in 
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836. He was fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall 
School, and with Professor William Watson Goodwin and graduated at Harvard in 
1857. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and finishing his law .studies in 
the office of Peleg Whitman Chandler and George O. Shattuck, was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar November 28, 1861. He was an overseer of Harvard College from 1867 
to 1876. He has devoted much time to the study of military campaigns in both 
America and Europe, and is doubtless better informed on these subjects than at least 
any other American. He is the author of "The Army under Pope" in the Scribner 
series of Campaigns of the Civil War, " The First Napoleon," published by Houghton, 
Mifflin & Company, and numerous other papers in military campaigns. Residence, 
Boston. 

Chakles Theoduke Russell, son of Charles and Persis (Hastings) Russell, was born 
in Princeton, Mass., November 20, 1815. He is descended from William Russell, of 
Cambridge, in 1645. He received his early education at Princeton Academy under 
Warren Goddard, and graduated at Harvard in 1837. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry H. Fuller, and was admitted to 
the Sufl'olk bar in Jul)-, 1839. After his admission he was associated two years with 
Mr. FuUer and then practiced alone until his brother Thomas was admitted to the 
bar in 1845. He lived in Boston until 1855, when he removed to Cambridge. While 
a resident in Boston he was a representative in 1844-45-50 and a senator in 1851 and 
1852. He was also the Boston Fourth of July orator in 1852. During his residence 
in Cambridge he has been mayor in 1861-62 and senator in 1877-78. He has been 
professor in the Boston University Law School, "is, or has been, a member of the 




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Board of Visitors of the Andover Theological School, and a corporate member of the 
American Board for Foreign Missions. He is the author of a History of Princeton, 
and in 1859 delivered the centennial address in that town, and in 1886 presided over 
the centennial celebration of the First Church in Cambridge. He married, June 1, 
1840, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Ballister, of Boston. 

Cii.^KLKs Theodore Russei.i., jr., son of Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabetli 
(Ballister) Russell, was born in Boston, April 30, 1851, and graduated at Harvard in 
I8T0. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of his 
father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1875. He has been a member of 
the State Civil Service Commission since 1884, and is the editor of Massachusetts 
Election Cases. His specialty is admiralty practice. Residence, Cambridge. 

Arihl'k H.^sti.vjgs Ri'ssell, son of Thomas Hastings and Maria Louisa (Wiswell) 
Ru.ssell, was born in Boston, December 1, 1859, and graduated at Amherst in 1881. 
He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in Boston in the office of 
his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1884. He married Fan- 
nie E. Hunt at Boston, February 17, 1885, and lives in Winchester. 

RiiTs D.wvES, son of Judge Thomas Dawes, was born in Boston, January 36, 1803, 
and entered Harvard in 1830, but did not graduate. He studied law with 'William 
Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 182G, but never practiced. 
He was a poet of considerable merit and published in 1830 " The Valley of the Nash- 
away, and Other Poems," in 1839 "Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscel- 
laneous Poems," and a romance entitled "Nix's Mate." In the latter part of his 
life he held a positi(m in one of the departments in Washington, and died in Wash- 
ington November 30, 1859. 

S.\muel Fales DuM.Ar, son of Andrew, was born in Boston in 1835 and graduated 
at Harvard in 1845. It is thought by the writer that he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar and afterwards removed to New York. He was the author of "The Origin of 
Ancient Names" and "Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man," and edited with 
notes his father's " Dunlap's Admiralty Practice." He was living in 1890. 

Jeremiah E\ arts was born in Sunderland, Vt., February 3, 1781, and graduated at 
Yale in 1803 and was admitted to the bar in 1806, probably in New Haven, where he 
practiced law about four years. He soon afterwards removed to Boston, but whether 
he practiced law there or not the writer is uncertain. He edited the " Panoplist," a 
religious monthly magazine, in Boston, from 1810 to 1830, and was at various times 
the treasurer and secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
Missions. He died in Charleston, S. C, May 10, 1831. 

William Maxwell E\'arts, son of Jeremiah, was born in Boston, February 6, 1818, 
and graduated at Yale in 1837. He studied law partly at the Harvard Law School, 
where he was a student in 1841. The writer, at that time a junior at Harvard, was 
drawn on a jury to serve in a moot court case in the law school in which Mr. Evarts 
was the senior counsel on one side, and William Davis, of Plymouth, on the other, 
and he remembers well the eloquence displayed by both of these gentlemen on that 
occasion. The style of Mr. Evarts, with which he began his career, was concise, 
fluent and eloquent, and in these respects wholly different from that which in later 
years has marked his efforts. He was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in Septem- 



294 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ber, 1841, but it is doubtful if he ever began practice in Suffolk. He soon after en- 
tered the law office of Daniel Lord in New York, and after a period of further study 
was admitted to the New York bar. From 1849 to 1853 he was assistant district 
attorney in New York. His career is too well known to narrate here. Having re- 
tired from the United States Senate in March, 1891. where he served one term of six 
years, he is in active practice at the head of a firm of which Joseph H. Choate is a 
member. 

JosKi'H Hodges Cho.\tk, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was 
born in Salem, Mass., January 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 18.53. He 
graduated at the Har\'ard Law School in 18o4 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
September, 185.5. In 1856 he removed to New York, where he has won a high repu- 
tation, not onl)^ as a lawyer but as an orator on occasions of public interest. He 
has been president of the Union League Club. He is associated m business with 
William Maxwell Evarts. 

Cii.\Ki,Es Fr.^ncis Ciio.xte, son of Dr. George and Margaret (Hodges) Choate, was 
born in Salem, May IG, 1828, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He is descended 
from John Choate, who was in Ipswich in 1640. His father died in Cambridge June 
4, 1880. After leaving college he was tutor in mathematics for a time and graduated 
at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13, 
1855, and soon devoted himself to railroad law. He was counsel for the Boston and 
Maine Railroad for a time, and in 1865 became counsel of the Old Colony Railroad, 
of which in 1872 he became a director, and in 1877 he was chosen president, a posi- 
tion he still holds. He was also chosen in 1877 president of the Old Colon}- Steam- 
boat Company. He married, November 7, 1855, Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence, 
R. I. 

Chaki.ks Francis Cho.ate, jr., son of the above, was born in Cambridge, Mass., 
October 23, 1866, and gxaduated at Harvard in 1888. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School, and in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton, jr., and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. Residence, Boston. 

Francis Brown Haves, son of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick, Me., was 
a descendant from John Hayes, who settled in Dover, N. H., in 1640. William 
Allen, the father, graduated at Dartmouth in 1805 and married a daughter of John 
Lord, and was judge of probate. Francis Brown, the son, graduated at Harvard in 
1839, after having attended the Berwick and Exeter Academies. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, and with his father, and in Boston in the office of Charles 
Greeley Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1842. He devoted him- 
self to railroad law, and in 1850 was made chairman of a committee to investigate 
the management and affairs of the Old Colony Railroad. He was many j-ears a di- 
rector of the Old Colony road, president four years of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- 
road Company, and counsel for various other roads. He was a representative in 
1873 and senator in 1874, and died in 1884. He married in ISfjO JIargaret M. Wilson, 
of Baltimore, daughter of Gen. Wm. H. Marriott. 

Thomas Gold Appleton, son of Nathan, was born in Boston, March 31, 1812, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1831. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in 
Boston in the office of Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc- 



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tober, 1838. He never practiced but devoted himself to literature and art, being not 
only a liberal patron of authors and artists, but an author and artist himself. He 
died in New York April IT, 1884. 

George A.nson Bruce is the son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce, and is 
descended from George Bruce, who settled in Woburn in 1659. He was born in Mt. 
Vernon, N. H., November 19, 1839, and his father, who was a prominent man in the 
community in which he Hved, having been town clerk, selectman, representative, 
and county treasurer, afforded him all available facilities for procuring a good edu- 
cation. He fitted for college at the McCoUom Institute in Mt. Vernon, and gradu- 
ated at Dartmouth in 1861. Soon after his graduation he entered the law office of 
Daniel S. & George F. Richardson in Lowell, where he remained until August, 1863, 
when he entered the service of his countn- as first lieutenant in the Thirteenth New 
Hampshire Regiment. In January, 1863, he was made assistant adjutant-general 
of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, and later assistant adju- 
tant general and judge advocate of the First Di\nsion, Twenty-fourth Corps, under 
General Devens. His various promotions were to captain, 1864; major, 1864; lieu- 
tenant-colonel, 1865, and he was mustered out July 3, 1865, bearing an excellent 
record and the scars of honorable wounds. After his discharge he resumed the study 
of law in Lowell and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in April, 1866. In January, 
1867, he began business in Boston and met with unusual success at a bar already 
seemingly crowded disproportionate!)- to its available business. In 1874 he removed 
his residence to SomerviUe and there secured at once the confidence of the people. 
In 1875 he was chosen alderman, and appointed associate justice of the Police Court; 
in 1878-79-80 he was chosen mayor, and in 1882-8:^-84 he was a member of the Sen- 
ate, being its president the last year of his service. Since his retirement from the 
Senate his general practice has been largely supplemented by the management of 
cases before committees of the Legislature, to which has been accorded unusual suc- 
cess. He married in Groton, January 26, 1870, Clara M., daughter of Joseph F. and 
Sarah (Longley) Hall, and resides in Somerville. 

Ch.vrles M.\xsfield Bri'ce, son of Charles E. and Eliza A. Bruce, was bom in 
Ashtabula, O. , November 28, 1863, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School. 
He studied law at the Boston LTniversity Law School and in the office of Henry W. 
Bragg, and was admitted to the Suffolk county bar August 2, 1887. He has been an 
extensive newspaper correspondent and resides in Maiden. 

Thom.\s Tfii,M.\N was bom in Stoughton. Mass., February 20, 1791, and graduated 
at Brown University in 1811. He was settled in Canton, Mass., until 1837, when he 
moved to Boston. He was representative in 1828, and 1836 a member of the Execu- 
tive Council, and died in Boston January 20, 1869. 

Owen A. Galvi.n, son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in Boston 
June 21, 1852, and studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office 
of Charles Francis Donnelly. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county Febru- 
ary 29, 1876, and in 1881 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- 
tives. In 1882-.83-84 he was chosen to the Senate, and was the Democratic candidate 
for president of that body. In July, 1886, he was appointed assistant United States 
district attorney for Massachusetts, under George M. Stearns, and in September, 
1887, on the resignation of Mr. Stearns, was appointed to succeed him. He has been 



296 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

once the Democratic candidate for mayor of Boston, and is prominently mentioned 
as the successor of Mayor Mathews, when he shall retire from the mayoralty. He 
married in Boston, July 8, 1879, Jennie T., daughter of Timf)thy K. and Ellen (O'Dris- 
coll) Sullivan. 

JoH.N" H. Mc-DuNoi'(;ii, son of Michael and Margaret (Hanlon) McDonough, wa.s 
born m Portland, Me., March 39, lHo7, and was educated in the ptiblic schools. He 
began at an early age to learn the tailoring trade, but in 1872 be.gan to learn the trade 
of watchmaking, which he followed fourteen years in Portland, Auburndale and 
Roxbury. In 1887 he began the study of law in the office of Charles J. No5fes, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1892. He was a representative from 
Boston in 1886-9, and won an enviable record, both as a member of important com- 
mittees and as a debater in the House. He died March 17, 1893, 

S.VMiEi, Baker Woi.cott was born in Bolton, Mass., March 7, 179.>, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1819. His original name, Jesse, was changed to Samuel Baker in 
1821. After graduating he was a tutor in Greek at Harvard. He studied law with 
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824. He began 
practice in Bo.ston, but removed to Salem and finally to Hopkinton. He was repre- 
sentative and senator. He died in Boston, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 
December 4, 1854. 

Ek.\sti's WoRTifi.NGTON, jr., son of Erastus and Sally (Ellis) Worthington, was born 
in Dedham, November 2.5, 1828, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He 
studied law in Milwaukee in the office of his brother, Ellis Worthington, and at the 
Harvard Law School, and in Dedham in the office of Ezra Wilkinson, receiving the 
degree of LL.B. at the Harvard Law School in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in 
Dedham in February, 1854, and began practice in Boston, forming a partnership 
after a short time with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury. In 185(i he was chosen 
register of insolvency of Norfolk county, and remained in office until the Probate 
and Insolvency Cotirts were consolidated in 1857. He then practiced law in Ded- 
ham, holding the office of trial justice eight years, until in 18GG he was chosen clerk 
of the courts. He married, November 25, 1861, Elizabeth Foster, daughter of Robert 
Briggs, of Boston. 

Moses Wiu.l-xms. son of Moses Blake and Mary Jane (Penniman) Williams, was 
born in Roxbury, Mass., December 4, 1846, and graduated at Harvard in 1868. He 
studied law in Boston with Sohier & Welch, George White and William A. Richard- 
son, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county December 22, 1868. He prac- 
ticed in Boston until made president of the Third National Bank in that city, a posi- 
tion he still holds, having filled at various times the office of selectman of Brookline 
and of representative to the General Court. He married Martha C. Fininley at 
Brookline, September 10, 1868. Residence, Brookline. 

Cii.Mii.ES W. WmrcoMii, son of Benjamin D. and Mary (Mclntire) Whitcomb, was 
born in Boston, July 31, 1855, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1876. He also at- 
tended lectures after graduation at the University of Gottingen, remaining abroad 
until 1878. He studied law in Boston in the office of Josiah H. Benton and in the 
Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 
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in 188;i-84, and as fire marshal of Boston, under an appointment from Governor 
Robinson in 1886. He married Marie M. , daughter of James and Dora (Rowell) 
Woodsum, June 26, 1884, and resides in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM Fisher Wh.\rto.n, son of William Craig and Nancy Willing (Spring) 
Wharton, was born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 38, 1847, and fitting for college at 
the school of Epes .Sargent Di.Kwell, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law 
for a year in the office of John Codman Ropes and John C. Gray, and after gradu- 
ating at the Harvard Law School in 1873, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 
I'l, 1873. He spent two years in Europe and began practice in Boston in 1875. 
From 1880 to 1884 he was a member of the Common Council, a representative in 
I880, and in 1888 was appointed assistant secretary of state of the United States, a 
position which he still holds with credit to himself and the country. He mamed 
Fanny, daughter of William Dudley and Caroline (Silsbee) Pickman, in Boston, Oc- 
tober 31, 1877, and resides in Washington. 

Anurew J. W.\TKRM.\N, son of William and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was born 
in North Adams. Mass., June 33, 1825, and was educated at the public schools and 
various institiitions of learning. He studied law in the offices of Kej-es Danforth and 
Daniel N. Dewey in Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar of Berkshire county 
March 18, 1854. Associating himself with Mr. Danforth in Williamstown, he was ap- 
pointed in 1855 register of probate, and in 1858, after the Courts of Probate and In- 
^ ilvency were consolidated, he was chosen register of probate and insolvency, which 
office he resigned in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed district attorney for the Western 
District to fill a vacancy, and chosen for the three succeeding terms, resigning in 
1S87, when nominated by the Republican party for attorney-general, to which office 
he was chosen in 1887-88-89. He married Ellen Douglas, daughter of Henry H. and 
Nancy (Comstock) Cooke, at East Boston.^January 7, 1858, and resides in Pittsfield. 

Thom.\s LEViiRETT Nelson, son of John and Lois Burnham (Leverett) Nelson, was 
born in Haverhill, N. H. , March 4, 1837, and graduated at the University of Vermont 
in 1846, receiving from that institution the degree of LL.D. in 1879. He studied law 
in Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a representative 
in 1869, and m 1879 was appointed judge of the United States District Court for 
Massachusetts, which position he still holds. He married first Anna H., daughter of 
Caleb and Mary Moore (Hastings) Hajnvard, in Mendon, October 29, 1857, and sec- 
ond, Latira A., daughter of Samuel E. and Hannah A. (Matterson) Slocum, of Mill- 
bury, March 33, 1865. As a judge, holding his court in Suffolk countv, he deserves 
a place in this register. 

Wii.i.iAM He-nry Niles, son of Samuel AV. and Eunice C. (Newell) Niles, was born 
in Orford, N. H., December 23, 1840, and was educated at the public schools and at 
the Providence Conference Seminar}' of East Greenwich, R. I. He studied law 
with Caleb Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1870. 
In that year his name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston, but he removed to 
Lynn, and has since practiced successfully in that city. He married Harriet A, Day, 
in Bristol, N. H., September 13, 1865, and lives in Lynn. 

William N. Osgood, son of George Newton and Minerva (Hayward) Osgood, was 
born in Lowell, June 11, 1855, and graduated at Amherst in 1878. He studied law 
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at the Bostun University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex 
count)' in March, 1880. He practiced in Lowell until 1885, when he transferred his 
business to Boston. He married Harriet Leslie, daughter of Henry C, and Augusta 
(Jaques) Palmer, in Tewksbury, January 1, 1884. 

Henry P.\kkm.\n, son of Samuel and Mary Eliot (Dwight) Parkman, was born in 
Boston, May 23, 1850. His father, a physician in Boston of great promise, died at 
what appeared to be the beginning of a brilliant career. The son was fitted for col- 
lege at private schools, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1873, and further pursuing his studies in Boston in the office 
of Russell & Putnam, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. He was a 
common councilman from 1879 to 1884, a representative from 18Sfi to 1888, and a sen- 
ator in 1892 and 1893. He married Mary Frances Parker at Perth Amboy, N. J., 
August 23, 1890, and lives in Boston. 

Edw.\rd Lu.lie Pierce, son of Jesse and Eliza S. (Lillie) Pierce, was born in 
Stoughton, Mass., May 29, 1839, and graduated at Brown University in 1850. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.52, and was admitted to the bar at Ded- 
ham in 1853. He afterwards spent a year or less in the office of Salmon P. Chase at 
Cincinnati, O. He continued to practice until the war began, when he enlisted 
in Company I, Third Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, for three months' ser- 
vice, after which he was employed by the government in a service of inquiry into the 
condition of the negroes at Sea Islands, to which intelligence and skill were essential, 
and his report was an able and exhaustive one. In 1863 he was appointed collector 
of internal revenue for the Third Massachusetts District, and in 1866 he was ap- 
pointed district atorney of the Norfolk and Plvmouth District, holding the office 
afterwards by election until 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of the Board 
of State Charities, and served vmtil his resignation in 1874. He was a representative 
from Milton in 1875 and 1876, and in 1878 was appointed to, but declined, the office 
of assistant treasurer of the United States. Aside from his professional pursuits, he 
has engaged in literary labors, among which are "American Railroad Law." pub- 
lished in 18.57, "The Law of Railroads," 1881, and a memoir of Charles Sumner. 
He married Elizalieth H., daughter of John Kingsbury, of Providence, R. I., April 
19, 1865, and for a second wife, Laura, daughter of Edward B. Woodhead, of Hud- 
dersfield, England. Residence, Milton. 

^- — aChaki.f.s GREENWonn Piii'E, son of Rufus Spurr and Sarah (Brown) Pope, was born 
in Hardwick, Mass., November 18, 1840, and graduated at Tufts College in 1861. 
After teaching several years in Hyannis, Somerville and Charlestown, he studied law 
in the offices of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston, and John W. Hammond in Cam- 
bridge, and was admitted to the bar in December, 1874. He. was associated with 
John W. Hammond in business in Cambridge, until that gentleman was appointed 
judge of the Superior Court in 1886. In 1878 Mr. Pope was appointed a special 
justice of the police court in Somerville, where he had taken up his residence and 
became a member and president of the Common Council. In 1876-7 he was a rep- 
resentative, and has served one or more terms as mayor since 1888. He married 
Josephine H., davighter of Erastus E. and Harriet N. Cole in Somerville, December 
27, 1866. Residence, Somerville. 




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John Phelps Pl'TNam was born in Hartford, Conn., March 21, liSlT, and graduated 
at Yale in 1837, and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 13, 1840, and practiced in Boston. He w-as a representative in 
1851-2, and in 1859 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He published in 
1852 fifteen volumes of the "Annual Digest" of the decisions of the United States 
Courts. He served on the bench until his death in 1882. 

Robert S.^mi'el R.-\ntoui., son of Robert and Jane Elizabeth (Woodbury) Rantoul, 
was born in Beverly, Mass., June 2, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853, and at 
the Harvard Law School in 1856. He was a representative from Beverly in 1858, 
and from Salem in 1884-5, and collector of the port of Salem under President Lin- 
coln. He married Harriet C. , daughter of David A. and Harriet C. (Price) Neal, of 
Salem, May 13, 1858, and has his residence in Salem. He is an officer of the Essex 
Institute, and has contributed extensively to historical literature. 

Ch.^rles RoiiiNso.N', son of Charles and Mary (Davis) Robinson, was born in Lex- 
ington, Mass., November G, 1829, and was educated at the public schools and the 
Lawrence and Lexington Academies. He studied law with Dana & Cobb in 
Charlestown, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in June, 1852. He 
practiced in Charlestown until 1868, and since that time has occupied a prominent 
place in the roll of Boston lawyers. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1865 and 1866, 
and in 1874 and 1875 was city solicitor of Somerville though not residing in that city. 
In 1S74 he was a representative, and also in 1880. He married Rebecca T., daughter 
of Philander and Rebecca (Gibbs) Ames in Charlestown, July 4, 1858. He is a 
brother of Governor George D. Robinson. 

WiLLi.^M EisTis Russell, son of Charles Theodore and Sarah (Ballister) Russell, 
was born in Cambridge, Mass., January 7, 1857, and received his early education at 
the primary, grammar and high school grades of the public schools of that city. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Boston University Law School in 1879, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He became at once a member of 
the firm of C. T. & T. H. Russell, of Boston, and has so continued until the present 
time. He was first introduced into public life by an election as member of the Com- 
mon Council of Cambridge in 1882, and since that time his career has been one of un- 
surpassed progress and success. In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of the Board of 
Aldermen, and in 1885-86-87-88 mayor of the city. In 1888 and 1889 he was the 
Democratic candidate for governor, and his defeat in those years was followed by his 
election in 1890, and his re-election in 1891 and 1892. The feat performed by him dur- 
ing the campaign of 1892, of making the tour of Cape Cod and making sixteen speeches 
at the various towns between Provincetown and Boston on the day before elec- 
tion, and adding to these six more speeches in Boston and its vicinity during the 
evening, will become a prominent feature in the political history of Massachusetts. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from Williams College in 1891. He married Mar- 
garet Manning, daughter of Joshua A. and Sarah (Hodges) Swan at Cambridge, June 
3, 1885, and his residence is still in Cambridge. 

Alpheus Sanford, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in 
North Attleboro', Mass., July 5, 1856, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1876. He 
studied law in Boston with Joseph Nickerson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1879. He has been a member of the Boston Common Council and of the 



300 HISTORY OF THE' BENCH AND BAR. 

House of Representatives. He married Mary C. Y. , daughter of 'William H. and 
Charlotte E. (Read) Gardiner in Acushnet, September 20, 1883. 

Chester F. S.vngek, son of Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was bom in Sonier, 
ville, Mass., December 22, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1880. He studied 
law in Boston with Morse & Allen, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. In 
1888 and 1889 he was a representative from Cambridge, and in 18S!) was appointed 
justice of the Third Eastern Middlesex District Court. He married Gertrude P., 
daughter of Horace P. and Lydia L. (Flint) Blackman in Cambridge, June 2."), 18S4, 
and died in October, 1891. 

Edw.-\rd Olcott Shei'Akd, son of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shepard, was 
born in Hampton, N. H., November 25, 1835, and graduated at Amherst in IKfiO. 
After serving two years as principal of the High School in Concord, Mass., he was in 
1862 commissioned first lieutenant of Company G, Thirty-second Regiment of Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, and served until 1805. During his service he was present at the 
battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Antictam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, 
and Petersburg, was wounded and taken prisoner, February 5, 1865, and confined in 
Libby Prison until released on parole, February 22, 1865. He was promoted to cap- 
tain, major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. After his discharge he studied law with 
Jewell, Gaston & Field, and was admitted to the Sufl:'olk bar March 19, 1867. In 1871 
he became a partner with Messrs. Jewell, Gaston & Field, and since the death of Mr. 
Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the Supreme Bench, he has had no part- 
ner. He was jsresident of the Boston Common Council in 1873 and 1874, and general 
counsel of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company until it was merged in the West 
End Company. He was judge advocate general on the statT of Governor Ames, and 
continued on the staff of Governor Brackett. He married Mary C, daughter of 
Micajah and Mary (Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, June 18, 1874. 

Ed(;.\k Jav Sherman, son of David and Fanny (Kendall) Sherman, was born in 
Weathersfield, Wt., November 38, 1834, and was educated at the public schools of 
Weathersfield, the Wesleyan Seminary in Springfied, Vt., and under private instruc- 
tors in Lawrence, Mass., which had become the home of his parents. He was admit- 
ted to the bar in Essex county in 1858 and became associated with Daniel Saunders 
in Lawrence, and at various other times with John K. Tarbox and Charles U. Bell. 
He was appointed clerk of the Lawrence Police Court in 1859 and served until 1861. 
In 1862 he enlisted and became captain in the Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment 
and was brevetted major after the attack on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863. In 1865 
and 186G he was representative, and in 1868 was chosen district attorney for the 
Eastern Massachusetts District. In 1!S82 he was chosen attorney-general and served 
until 1887, when he was appointed to the seat on the bench of the Superior Court 
which he still holds. He married Abbie Louise, daughter of Stephen P. and Fanny 
B. Simmons, of Lawrence, November 24, 1858. 

Charles Oiincv Tn<REi.i., son of Dr. Norton O. and Susan J. Tirrell, was born in 
Sharon, Mass., December 10, 1844, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1866. After 
serving three years as principal of the Peacham Academy and of the St. Johnsbury 
High School, he studied law in Boston with Richard H. Dana, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in August, 1870, and has since practiced in Boston. He was a repre- 
sentative from Weymouth in 1872, and in 1873 removed from Weymouth, where he 



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had for a time resided, to Natick. In 1881 and 1883 he was a senator for the Fourth 
Middlesex District, and in 1888 was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket. 
He married Mary E., daughter of Elisha P. and Eliza A. Mollis in Natick, February 
13, 1873, and now resides in Natick. 

George Ci...\rk Tr.wis, son of George Clark and Rachel Parker (Currier) Travis, 
was born in Holliston, Mass., August 19, 1847, and graduated at Harvard in 18fi9. 
From 1869 to 1872 he studied law in Medford with B. F. Hayes and Darnel A. Glea- 
son, at the same time teaching Latin and Greek in the Medford High School. He 
was admitted to the bar in Middlesex c(junty in February, 1872, and practiced in 
Holliston until 1874, when he removed to South Framingham. In 188(i he removed 
to Newton, where he still resides, with an office in Boston. He has been since March, 
1891, first assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts and is a member of the School 
Board of Newton. He married Harriet March, daughter of Austin G. and JIary 
(.'harlotte (March) Fitch, ui Holliston, April .">, 1871. 

W.\lti-;r Lincoln Bol'vk, son of Thomas T. and Emily G. (Lincoln) Bouve, was 
born in Boston, October 28, 1849, and was educated at the public schools of Boston 
and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1880, and to the 
United States Circuit Court January 14, 1885. In 1890 he was assistant district attor- 
ney in the Southeastern District, and since 188") has been special justice of the Setf- 
ond Plymouth District Court. He married Charlotte B. Harden, September 36, 
bSS."!, and lives in Hingham. 

Hak\kv Lincoln Bouivveli., son of Eli A. and Harriet W. (Weeks) Bcjutwell, was 
born in Meredosia, 111. , April o, 1860, and was educated at the New Hampshire Col- 
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. He studied law in Concord, N. H., with 
John Y. Mugridge, and at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of 
"\\\ H. Powers in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He 
married Nellie C. Booth at Natick, December 28, 1886. and lives in Maiden. 

John Pearse Treadwei.l, son of Daniel Hearl and Ann Langdon Treadwell, was 
born in Portsmouth, N. H., February 26, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 3, 1860. He married Emily Marshall Harmon at New York, July 3, 1882, and 
lives in Newton. 

WiNTHRoi' H. Wade, son of Reuben S. and Almira Howland Wade, was born 
in Boston, February 20, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Shattuck & Munroe, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. Residence, Boston. 

Francis Wales Vauchan, son of Charles and Mary Su.san (Abbot) Vaughan, was 
born in Hallowell, Me,, June 5, 1833, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in the offices of Vose & Norton in Springfield, 
and George M. Brown in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 
1856. He has been librarian of the Social Law Library since 1870. Residence, 
Cambridge. 

Pavson Eliot Tlcker, son of Eliot Pavson and Charlotte Whitman (Todd) Tucker, 
was born in Dorchester, Mass., May 16, 1834, and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He 



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studied law in New York in the office of Bangs & Ketchum and at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar in New York citj- about 1856 and to the Suffolk 
bar April 15, 1859. He was many years associated in business w-ith Benjamin Wins- 
low Harris, now judge of probate of Plymouth county, and was a member of the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1878 and 18T9. He married Adelaide 
Thorp Hermann, of St. Louis, Mo., June 12, 1889, and lives in Rrookline. He was 
commissioned second lieutenant in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment. August 1. 
1861, and resigned on account of disability, September 21, 1862. 

Peleg EiMOKV Aldkich, born in New Salem, Mass., received his early education at 
the Shelburne Falls Academy, and after teaching school at the South he attended 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., in 1845. 
In 1846 he was admitted to the Worcester coiinty bar, after further pursuing his 
studies in the office of Chapman, Ashmun & Norton in Springfield. He settled in 
Barre, Mass., where he remained seven years. In 1853 he was appointed district at- 
torney for the Middle District and served until 1866. He moved from Barre to Wor- 
cester in 1854 and became associated with P. C. Bacon. In 1862 he was chosen mayor 
of Worcester, and representative in 1865 and 1866. In 1873 he was appointed to the 
office he still holds of judge of the Superior Court. He married Sarah, daughter of 
Harding P. Wood, of Barre, in 1850, and lives in Worcester. 

Alpheus Brown Ai.ger, son of Edwin A. and Amanda M. (Buswell) Alger, was born 
in Lowell, October 8, 1854, and his early education was received at the common 
schools and High School of Lowell. He is descended from Thomas Alger, who 
came from England about 1665 and settled in Taunton. The name of the ancestor 
was "Augur," or if "Alger," it was pronounced "Augur" in accordance with the 
custom of ancient times to pronounce the letter L in the middle of a word as if it were 
U. Mr. Alger gradtiated at Harvard in 1875, and pursued the study of law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah G. Abbott. He was ad- 
mitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1877, and was at once associated in business 
with the firm of Brown & Alger, of which his father was a member, in Boston. In 
1884 he was chosen alderman of Cambridge, and in 1886 and 1887 he was a member 
of the State Senate. He has always taken an active part in politics, and was in 1886- 
87-88-89 the secretary of the Democratic State Committee. In 1890 he succeeded 
W^illiam Eustis Russell as mayor-elect of Cambridge, was re-chosen in 1891, and re- 
nominated in 1892, but defeated bj- William Amos Bancroft. 

Edwin Alijen Alger, son of David and Sarah W. (Morse) Alger, was born in Corn- 
ish, N. H., June 32, 1820, and after receiving a common school and academic educa- 
tion taught school in Canton, Mass. Leaving Canton he entered a shipping-house in 
Boston as clerk, and afterwards Burnhams' Antiquarian Bookstore in Cornhill, where 
his access to books gave him a taste which could only be gratified by securing a more 
thorough education. In 1841 he went to Lowell and entered the Dracut Academy, 
and in 1842 entered the law office of Alpheus R. Brown as a student. He was ad- 
mitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1845, and became a partner with Mr. 
Brown. In 1864 the firm of Brown & Alger removed to Boston and has since con- 
tinued in business there. In 1858-63-63 Mr. Brown was an alderman in Lowell. He 
married Amanda M. Buswell, of Hartland, Vt., September 15, 1843, and resides in 
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Edwin Augusti's Alger, son of the above, was born in Lowell, October 19, 1840, 
and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1869, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868. 

George Thorndike Angell, son of Rev. George and Rebekah Angell, w-as born in 
Southbridge, Mass., June 5, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1846. He taught 
school in Boston, and studied law in the offices of Richard Fletcher and Charles G. 
Loriug, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 18.51. He soon became 
associated in business with Samuel E. Sewall and afterwards with Samuel Jennison. 
In 1868 he founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 
mals, and has been largely devoted to its interests. In 1874 he became a member of 
the American Social Science Association, and in 1889 he founded " The American 
Humane Education Society." He has made it the prime purpose of his life to kindle 
a feeling of tenderness for our dumb animals in the hearts of our people, and his 
efforts have received their reward. He married Mrs. Eliza A. Martin, daughter of 
Warren and Lucy A. Mattoon, of Northfield, November 7, 1872. 

H.\LSEV J. Bo.'VRnM.VN, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Boardman, was born in 
Norwich, Vt., May 19, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in I808. He studied law 
with Norcross & Snow in Fitchburg, and in Boston in the office of Phillip H. Sears, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, I860.' He was associated in business 
with Caleb Blodgett, and subsequently with Stephen H. Tyng and J. Frank Paul. 
From 1862 to 1864 he was United States commissioner of the Board of Enrollment, 
in 1875 president of the Common Council, and in the same year the Republican can- 
didate for mayor of Boston. He was representative from 1883 to 1885 and senator 
in 1887 and 1888; being president of the Senate both years. He married Georgia M., 
daughter of George and Maria C. (Moseley) Hinman. Residence, Boston. 

George Sew.\li. BorrwEU,, son of Sewall and Rebecca (Marshall) Boutwell, was 
born in B'rookline, Mass., in what is now a part of the country club house, January 
28, 1818. He is descended from James Boutwell, who came to New England and 
settled in Lynn about 1638. Mr. Boutwell attended in his early years a public 
school in Lunenburg, Mass. , and at the age of thirteen became a clerk in one of the 
stores in that town. At a later time he taught school in vShirley, and the few years 
succeeding his manhood were spent in preparing himself for what has proved a bril- 
liant public career. He studied the classics, he thumbed law books, he delivered 
lectures, made political speeches, and was engaged in business in Groton which he 
continued until 1855. In 1839 he was chosen a member of the School Committee of 
Groton, and in 1840 he was an active Democrat, advocating the re-election of Martin 
Van Buren to the presidency. In 1841 he was chosen representative from Groton, 
and re-chosen in 1842-43-46-47-48-49. Up to this time he had been also railwav com- 
missioner, bank commissioner, and a member of various other important com- 
missions. In 1851 he became governor of Massachusetts by a fusion of the Demo- 
cratic and Free Soil members of the Legislature, and was chosen by the people as 
governor for 1853. After leaving the executive chair he was appointed a member of 
the Board of Education, and served five years as its secretary. From 1851 to 1860 
he was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and in January, 1860, was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar, having studied at various times with Bradford Russell 
in Groton, and with Joel Giles in Boston. In 1853 he was a member of the Consti- 



304 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

tutional Convention. In 185() he was made a member of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences, and in 1801 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. 
In 1861 he was a member of the Peace Congress, and appointed by President Lin- 
coln the first commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was a member of Congress 
from 1863 to 1869, and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treasury by President 
(rrant. In 1878 he was chosen United States senator from Massachusetts to succeed 
Henry Wilson, who had been chosen vice-president, and served until 1877 when he 
was appointed commissioner to revise the statutes of the United States. In 1880 
he was appointed counsel for the United States befoi-e the International Commission, 
appointed to try claims of citizens of France against the United States, and of citizens 
of the United States against France, under the treaty of 18S0 with France. He tried 
seven hundred and forty-six cases, involving $3.5,000,000. He is the author of " Ed- 
ucational Topics and Institutions," "Tax Acts," "The Lawyer, Statesman and 
Soldier," and one or more volumes of orations and speeches. He married Sarah 
Adelia, daughter of Nathan Thayer, of Hollis, N. H., July 8, 1841, and has his resi- 
dence in Groton, with offices in Boston and Washington. 

Fk.\n'cis M.'^RioN BoinwEi.L, son of the above, was born in Groton, Mass!, February 
36, 1847, and was educated at the Leicester and Lawrence Academies. In 1866 he 
entered the house of Burrage Brothers & Company in Boston, and in 1870 entered 
the house of John ^^. Farwell in Chicago. In 1871 he returned to Boston and entered 
the store of Norir.an C. Munson. In 1874 he studied law with his father, and is now 
a member of the Suffolk bar, acting chiefly as a solicitor of patents. 

Bf.nj.amin Fk.\nki.in Bkickf.tt, son of Franklin and Mehitabel Dow (Bradley) 
Brickett, was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 10, 1846, and graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar April 19, 1869. He taught school m Ohio, and returning to Haverhill in 1872, 
began to practice his profession. He was city solicitor of Haverhill from 1883 to 1885, 
a member of the School Board from 1870 to 1882. He married E. Jennie, daughter 
of George and Eliza (Ricker) Guptill, and lives in Haverhill. 

C.\rsTEN Brovv.n'e, son of William and Sarah Justice (Mclntire) Browne, was born in 
Washington, D. C. October 9, 1828, and was a student twf) years in Columbian 
College, Washington. He then entered the coast survey, and finally at the 
age of twenty-one began the stud)' of law with Charles M. Keller, and after- 
wards with William Curtis Noyes, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 
June, 1852. A few months after his admission he removed to Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 30, 1852, and has continued to practice there. 
He is the author of a treatise on the Statute of Frauds, published in 1857, and has 
been president of the Boston Bar Association. He married Katharine Eveleth, 
daughter of General William and Sarah (Eveleth) Maynadier, and lives in Boston. 

Gkokge Paktkidue S.\ni;ek, jr., son of George Partridge and Elizabeth Sherburne 
(Thompson) Sanger, was born in Charlestown, Mass., September 6, 1852, and received 
his early education at the Dwight Primary, the Dwight Grammar and Latin Schools 
in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1874, and studied law in Boston in the office 
of the United States district attorney, being admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2, 1876. 
He was assistant United States attorney from 1878 to 1882, and has been also com- 
missioner of the United States Circuit Court, Massachusetts District, and coinmis- 



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sif>uer of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and commissioner of the 
■ Court of Claims. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1886 and 
1887, and representative in 1889 and 1890. He maiTied Susan Emily, daughter of 
Harvey Jewell, June 14, 1883, at Boston. 

Elmer Hewitt C.\rEN, son of Samuel and Almira (Paul) Capen, was born in 
Stoughton, Mass., April 5, 1838, and graduated at Tufts College in 18G0. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Thomas S. Harlow, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1863. After practicing a year he 
studied divinity and was ordained, Octobers, 1865, over an independent church in 
Gloucester. At the end of four years he went to St. Paul, Minn., and after a year 
there he was settled over the First Universalist church in Providence, R. I. On the 
lid of June, 1873, he was inaugurated president of Tufts College and now occupies 
that position. He was chosen representative in 1860 and is now a member of the 
Board of Education. He married first Letitia H. Mussey, of New London, Conn., 
and second Mary L. , daughter of Oliver Edwards, of Brookline. 

Mei.len CH.'iMiiERL.AiN, SOU of Moses and Mary (Foster) Chamberlain, was born in 
Pembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821, and received his early education at the district school 
and Pembroke Academy. After the removal of his parents to Concord, N. H. , in 
1836, he fitted for college and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. After teaching school 
two years or more in Brattleboro, Vt. , he entered the Harvard Law School and grad- 
uated in 1849. He began practice in Boston, and in 1858 and 1859 was a member of 
the House of |iepresentatives. In 1863 and 1864 he was in the State Senate, in the 
latter year serving as chairman of the Judiciarj- Committee. On the 20th of Mav, 
1866, the Police Court of Boston was abolished and the Municipal Court of the Cit^' 
of Boston was established, consisting of one chief justice and two associate judges. 
On the 2d of July, 1866, John W. Bacon was commissioned chief justice ; on the same 
day Francis W. Hurd was commissioned associate, and on the 29th of June in the 
same year Mr. Chamberlain was commissioned the other associate. In 1871 Judge 
Bacon was promoted to the Superior Court bench, and on the 1st of December in 
that year Judge Chamberlain was promoted to his place. In October, 1878, he was 
appointed librarian of the Boston Library and resigned his seat on the bench. He 
remained in the library until 1891 -when, on account of ill health, he resigned the 
office which he had filled with so much credit to himself and the city. During the 
whole of his career he has been an indefatigable student of history, and his efforts 
in this direction have been marked by thoroughness, correctness and fidelity. He is 
a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and corresponding member of 
the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen. He is now engaged in 
the preparation of a history of Chelsea, the early publication of which is to be hoped 
for. His contributions to historical literature are too numerous to mention in detail. 
The most noted are "The History of Winnisimmet, Rumney Marsh and Pullin 
Point," "The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence," "Address at 
the Dedication of Wilson HaU of Dartmouth College," "Address at the Dedication 
of the Brooks Library Building at Brattleboro, Vt.," and "The Constitutional Rela- 
tions of the American Colonies to the English Government at the Commencement of 
the Revolution." Notwithstanding the time expended on his official duties, and his 
literary efforts, the labor which has extended through his whole life has been ex- 
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pended in a collection of autographs which for completeness and methodical arrange- 
ment cannot be surpassed. He married Martha Ann, daughter of Colonel Jesse and 
Elizaljeth (Merriam) P.utnam, of Danvers, Mass., June 6, 1H49. His residence is in 
Chelsea. 

Henuy ArsriN Ci..-\im', son of John Pierce and Mary Ann (Bragg) Clapp, was born 
in Dorchester July IT, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 18(i4, and finished his preparation for the bar in the of- 
fices of David H. Mason and Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar July 1, 1865. In 1875 he was appointed assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial 
Court in Suffolk county, and in 1888 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial 
Court for the Commonwealth. In the War of the Rebellion he served nine months 
as a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Asid,e from his 
professional and official labors he has devoted much time to the study of Shakespeare 
and the drama, and his lectures on those subjects have given him a wide and de- 
served reputation. He married Florence, daughter of Edwin W. and Charlotte (Am- 
bler) Clarke, in Oswego, X. Y., June 23, 1869. 

Is.MAH Raymond Ci.akk, son of Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, was born 
in Felchville, Vt., January 1, 1853, and graduiijted at Dartmouth in 18T3. He studied 
law in Boston in the office of Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in February, 1876. He married Katherine, daughter of Charles and Jane (Rowley) 
Cummings, in Windsor, Vt., November 14, 1878, and lives in Boston. 

Chari.es Ri;ssELL CoDMAN, son of Charles Russell and Anne (Macmaster) Codman, 
was born in Paris, France, October 38, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He 
studied law in Boston in the office of Charles G. Loring and at the Harvard Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Sep- 
tember 29, 1852. He was a representative from Boston from 187;! to 1875, and sena- 
tor in 1864 and 1865. In the War of the Rebellion he commanded the Forty-fifth Jlas- 
sachusetts Regiment during its nine months' service in North Carolina. He has been 
twice chosen overseer of Harvard College, and for several years was president of the 
board. He married Lucy Lj'man Paine, daughter of Russell Sturgis, at Walton on 
Thames, England, February 28, 1856, and his residence has been for some years at 
Cotuit (Barnstable). 

P.\TRicK Andrew Collins, son of Bartholomew and Mary Collins, was born in Fer- 
moy, Cork county, Ireland, March 12, 1844, and when four years old came with his 
mother to Massachusetts, receiving his education at the public schools in Chelsea. 
First an office boy, he was afterwards engaged in the upholstery business for a num- 
ber of years, at the same time devoting his leisure time to study. He entered the 
Harvard Law School in 1868, graduating in 1871 with the degi'ee of LL.B. , and fin- 
ished his preparatory professional studies in Boston in the office of James j\L Keith. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15. 1871. While pursuing his studies he 
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1868 and 1869, and 
in 1870 and 1871 senator. He was judge advocate-general of Massachusetts in 1875, 
'member of Congress in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congi-esses, dele- 
gate at large to the Democratic National Conventions of l.s76-8()-88-92, and president 
of the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1888. He is a man of great 
natural powers, possessing an eloquent tongue and broad views, and, though foreign 




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Ijurn, a thorough American. With life and health he has a brilliant career before 
him. He married Marjf E. Carey in Boston, Jtily 1, 1873, and resides in Dor- 
chester. 

ImiN \V. CoKcoR.\N, son of James and Catharine Corcoran, was born in Batavia, 
N. Y. , June 14, 18.J3, and his parents moved to Clinton, Mass. , when he was less than a 
year old. He was educated at the public schools in Clinton and at St. John's Univer- 
sity, New York, and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. He graduated at 
the Boston Vniversity Law School in 1875, and was admitted to the Worcester county 
barjunel7, 1875, beginning his practice in Clinton, and afterwards opening an office in 
Boston. He was water commissioner in Clinton ten years, member of the School 
Board fifteen years, and has been judge advocate-general of Massachusetts, and chair- 
man of the ilassachusetts Board of Managers of the World's Columbian E.xposition. 
His fidelity and skill were exemplified in his management of the Lancaster Bank, of 
which as receiver he paid the creditors including interest one hundred and nine per 
cent. In 1890 and 1891 he was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of 
Massachusetts, and in 1892 was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He married 
Margaret J., daughter of Patrick and Mary McDonald, in Boston, April 28, 1881, and 
his residence is at Clinton. 

Chari.ks Cowley, son of Aaron and Hannah (Price) Cowley, was born in Easting- 
'•m, England, January 9, 1832, and came with his father to Lowell when a bo}-. He 

as educated in the public schtiols of Lowell, and at an early age entered the office 

I Josiah (t. Abbott in Lowell as a student of law. He was admitted to the Middle- 
sex bar in April, 1850, and has practiced since in Lowell and Boston. In the War of 
the Rebellion he served as paymaster in the navy and on the staff of Admiral Dahl- 
gi-en as judge advocate and provost judge in the South Atlantic Squadron. He has 
published a " History of Lowell," " Famous Divorces of all Ages," " Our Divorce 
Courts," and several other valuable contributions to legal and genei-kl literature. In 
1 s,s5 he received from the LTniversity of Vermont the degree of LL. D. 

tiKORGE Glover Crocker, son of L'riel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was 
born in Boston, December 15, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1866, and in the offices of George W. 
Tuxbury and L^riel H. Crocker, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1867. 
He was representative in 1873 and 1874, and senator in 1880-1881-1882-1883, the last 
\x-ar serving as president. He was chairman of the Board of Railroad Commissioners 
from February, 1887, to February, 1892. He is the author of a work published in 
1889 entitled "Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies." He married 
Annie Bliss, daughter of Dr. Nathan Cooley and Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep, in 
Boston, June 19, 1875, and resides in Boston. 

Uriel H.vskell Crocker, sou of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was 
born in Boston December 24, 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He gradu- 
ated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after further study in the office of Sid- 
ney Bartlett in Boston was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1856. He married 
Clara G. , daughter of Joseph Ballard, of Boston, and lives in Boston. 

(jEorge Uriel Crocker, son of the above, was born in Boston, January 9, 1863, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law at the Harvard Law Sckool and 



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the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1886. 
He is or has been treasurer of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, and his 
business is confined largely to probate cases. He married Emma L. Aylsworth in 
Providence, in 18ST, and lives in Boston. 

CoRXELir? F. CroiNin, son of John and Margaret (McCarthy) Cronin, was born in 
Cork, Ireland, July 25, 1851, and came with his parents, an infant, to Boston. He 
received his education at the Boston public schools and went into bvisiness. He af- 
terwards studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the office of Gar- 
gan, Swasey & Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He was 
a representative from Boston in 1881-82-83 and senator in 1884. His residence is in 
Boston. 

Edwin LTrro.N Curtis, son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis, was born in 
Roxbury, Mass., March 26, 1801, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1883. He 
studied law with William Gaston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He 
was associated in business with William G. Reed, and in 1889 was chosen city clerk 
of Boston. Residence, Boston. ' 

Henry Ch.-vri.es Davis, son of Benjamin and Cordelia (Buffington) Davis, was born 
in Palmer, Mass., October 23, 1843, and was educated at the Wilbraham Academy 
and Williston Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was 
admitted to tlie Suffolk bar Januarj* 23, in that j'ear. Not long after he began prac- 
tice in Ware, Mass. , where he has been many years a member of the School Commit- 
tee, and in 1873 was cliosen representative. 'He married Jennie A., daughter of Lo- 
renzo and Jane (Marlen) Demond, in Ware, May 4, 1876. 

Phii.if J. DtiHERTY, SOU of Philip and Ellen (Munnegie) Doherty, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., January 27, 1856, and was educated at the Harvard Grammar 
and Charlestown High School. He graduated at the Boston University Law School 
in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 1877. He was a representative 
in 1884-85-80, an alderman of Boston in 1888, and a member of the Boston Water 
Board from 1889 to 1891. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Con- 
vention at St. Louis. He married Catherine' A., daughter of John and Catherine 
(Doyle) Butler, in Charlestown, August 16, 1878, and lives in Charlestown. 

Cn.\RLES Fk.\ncis Donnelly, son of Hugh and Margaret (Conwa)') Donnelly, was 
born in Athlone, Roscommon county, Ireland, October 14, 1836, and in his infancy 
came with his parents to Canada, whence they removed to Rhode Island in 1848. In 
1850 he entered the otKce of Ranney & Morse, in Boston, as a student of law, and in 
1859 graduated at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
September, 1858. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Board of State Chari- 
ties and for four years he was chairman, and his services were exceedingly valuable 
to the State. He has received the degree of LL.D. from St. Mary's College of 
Maryland, the oldest Catholic educational institution in the country. 

Levi Edwin Dudley, son of John Oilman and Mary Clark (Townsend) Dudley, 
was born in North Troy, Vt., October 18, 1842, and was educated in the public 
schools. After some preparatory experience, he occupied for a time a position in a 
di-ug store in Boston, and at the beginning of the war entered the service and re- 
mained until hostilities had ceased. He became hospital steward in the regular 



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army, and at one time was comniissai-y steward of Lincoln Hospital in Washington. 
After the war he was a clerk in the internal revenue department, and in 1866 actively 
sustained President Johnson in his contest with Congress. He then became con- 
nected with the Great Republic newspaper in Washington and was earnest in his 
efforts to organize grand army associations. While engaged in the work of recon- 
struction in Virginia, and serving as military secretary of the governor, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Richmond, and afterwards, in 1869, to the Supreme Court of 
the United States. In 18T2 he was appointed superintendent of Indian afifairs for 
New Mexico, and afterwards^a clerk in the Post-office Department. In 1877 he re- 
turned to Boston, where he has been for some years active as secretary of the Law 
and Order League. As a member of the bar resident in Boston, though perhaps 
not a member of the Suffolk bar, he is entitled to a place in this register. 

S.\MUEL J.^MES Elder, son of James and Deborah Dunbar (Keene) Elder, was 
born in Hope, R. I., January 4, 1850, and graduated at Yale in 1873. He studied 
law in Boston with George W. Morse and John H. Hardy, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 187.5. He was a representative in 18,85, is president of the Yale 
Alumni Association, and has acted in behalf of the International Copyright League 
before the L^nited States Senate. He married Lilla, daughter of Cornelius W. and 
Margaret J. (Wyckoff) Thomas, at Hastings on the Hudson, May 10. 1876, and lives 
in Winchester. 

Wii.i.iAM Crowninshield Endicott, .son of William Putnam and Mary (Cro\)/nin- 
shield) Endicott, was born in Salem, November 26, 1836, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1847. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Salem in the office of 
Nathaniel J. Lord, and was admitted to the Esse.x bar in 1850. He began to prac- 
tice in Salem and in 1852 was a member of the Common Council and its president. In 
1853 he associated himself in business with J. W. Perry, and from 1857 to 1864 was 
city solicitor of Salem. In 1870 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, and 
in 1871-72-73 the Democratic candidate for attorne3--general. In 1873 he was appointed 
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court to take the place of Horace Gray, who in that 
year succeeded Reuben Atwater Chapman as chief justice. In 1884 he was the 
Democratic candidate for governor, having resigned his seat on the bench in 1882, 
and in 1885 he was appointed by^ President Cleveland to a seat in his cabinet as sec- 
retary of war. In 1889, after leaving the cabinet, he resumed law practice and 
opened an office in Boston, still holding his residence in Salem. He married Ellen, 
daughter of George Peabody, of Salem, December 13, 1859. '' 

Morton Davis Andrews, son of Henry G. and Elizabeth Bliss (Davi.s) Andrews, 
was born in Plymouth, May 5, 1855, and was educated at the public schools and 
under private instruction. He studied law in Boston in the office of Elias Hasket 
Derby, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18,85. He married, October 7, 1885, 
Mary Davis, daughter of Timothy Davis and Frances (Judkins) Bond, and died while 
traveling for his health in Detroit, Mich., August 11, 1892. 

WiLLiA>[ WisNER DoiiERTV, SOU of Ross and Sarah Doherty, was born in Boston, 
August 16, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Cumberland 
University, Tennesee. He studied law at the above university and in Boston in the 
office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1859. 
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marshal. He was senior counsel for Joseph Donato and David Mooney. two capi- 
tal cases tried in Boston. He married Catherine L. Chamberlain, ncc Thompson, 
in Boston, August 17, 1S80, and lives in Boston. 

Augustus Henry Fiskk, son of Isaac and Susan (Hobbs) Fiske, was born in Wes- 
ton, Mass., September 19, 1805. He fitted for college at the Framingham Academy 
and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He studied law at the Harvard I^aw School 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1830. He was for a time associated 
with his father in Boston, and afterwards for many years with Benjamin Rand, the 
partnership being Fiske & Rand. Their business was largely office and collection 
business, but in 1844, when Charles Henry Warren resigned his seat on the bench 
of the Common Pleas Court, he removed from New Bedford to Boston, and became 
the court and jury partner of the firm. The first case tried by the new firm was that 
of the Commonwealth against Rev. Joy H. Fairchild, in which Judge Warren ap- 
peared for the defence and secured, by skillful management and a masterly argu- 
ment, an acquittal of- the defendant. Mr. Fiske married Hannah Rogers, daughter 
of Captain Gamaliel and Elizabeth (Hickling) Bradford, of Boston, in Concord in 
May, 1830, and died in Boston, March 22, 1865. 

C!i.\Ri,ES Henrv Fiske, son of the above, was born in Boston, October 26, 1840, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He studied law in Boston m his father's office 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 6, 1864. He was a representative in 
1868, and 1872 from the representative district includni.g the towns of Concord, 
Lincoln and Weston. He married Cornelia Frothin.gham, daiighter of Rev. Dr. 
Chandler Robbins, of Boston, June 4, 1868, and has his residence in Weston, with 
an office in Boston. 

Andrew Fiske, brother of the above, was born in Weston, Mass., June 4, 1854, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1875. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, 
and after further study in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880. He resides in Weston, with an office in 
Boston. 

Frederick A. P. Fiske. son of Benjamin M. and Elizabeth A. Fiske, was born in 
Chelmsford, Mass., October 4, 1850, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston at the office of Hardy, Elder & 
Proctor, and was admitted to the Suft'olk bar January 20, 1885. He married Harriet 
Lydia Locke at Winchester, Mass., July 2, 1890, and has a residence in Somerville, 
with an office in Boston. 

Jerome H. Fiske, son of Moses and Susan (Hurd) Fiske, was born in Dover, N. H., 
April 7, 1844, and was educated at the public schools, and at the Chicopee, Mass., 
High School, under the direction of George D. Robinson afterwards governor of 
Massachusetts. He studied law in Salem in the office of George Wheatland, and 
was admitted at Salem to the Essex bar October 8, 1875. He was in the Boston 
Custom House six years under Thomas Russell, collector and city solicitor of Mai- 
den, where he resides from 1883 to 1887. He was married at Chicopee. In 1884 he 
delivered an oration on the Fourth of July. 

John Fiske, son of Edmund Brewster and Mary Fiske (Bound) Green, was born in 
Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842. His original name was Edmund Fiske Green, 



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but in isr>,j he received the name ol' John Fiske after his mother's graiuU'ather. He 
received his early education at the public schools, at Stamford, Conn. , Academy and 
under private instruction, and graduated at Harvard in 1863. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 186.1, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 11, 1864. He 
began practice in Boston in IS60, but soon abandoned it for the study of and exposi- 
tion of history. He was a lecturer at Harvard on philosophy from 1869 to 18T1, in- 
structor in history there in 1870, assistant librarian from 1872 to 1879, and overseer of 
Harvard from 1879 to 1891. In 188.5 he was made professor of American history at 
Washington University, and is a member of various historical and antiquarian asso- 
ciations. His contributions to historical literature have been numerous and valuable, 
and his pen is still keeping the press busy with his publications. He married Abby 
Morgan Brooks, of Petersham, Mass., at Cambridge, September 6, 1864. 

J.\MES Afcusrrs Fo.x, son of George Howe and Emily (Wyatt) Fox, was born in 
Boston, Aug^ist 11, 1837. He was educated in the public schools, and studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of John C. Park. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 24, 18r)4, and continued his practice in Boston 
until 1861 , when he entered the service as captain in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment. In 1864 and 1865 he commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 
pany, and in 1867 and 1868 was a representative from Boston, and in 1870 and 1871 
senator. He removed to Cambridge in 1872, and has served there as alderman two 
vears and mayor four years. In 1890 he was the Republican candidate for Congress 
against Sherman Hoar, the Democratic candidate, who was chosen. He married 
Julia Elizabeth, daughter of Col. James and Julia (Sterry) Valentine, of Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

J.MiEZ Fo.x, son of Henry Hodges and Sarah Ann (Burt) Fox, was born in Tauivton, 
Mass., April 10, 1830, and graduated at Harvard in 1871. Ho graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1875, and, after further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde & 
Dickinson in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1870. He married 
Susan Elizabeth Thayer at Cambridge, in June, 1879, and resides in Cambridge, with 
an office in Boston. 

J..\MES W. Fox was born in Boston, August 15, 1849, and was educated at the pub- 
lic schools. He studied law in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1874. 

Wii-LiA.M Wesley Fren'ch, son of William B. and JIary Ann (Torrey) French, was 
born in Brockton, Mass., January 10, 1849, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1872. He 
studied law in Boston in the office of Knapp &■ Bowman, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in August, 1874. He removed to Gloucester, where he was a member of the 
Common Council from 1879 to 1883 and mayor in 1888 and 1889. He married Lelia 
Fcnuo, daughter of Moses H. and Ellen N. (Low) Shaw at Gloucester, August 1, 1878. 

Artihr Pmi.ii' Fke.nch, son of William R. and Marcia French, was born in Turner, 
Me., May 19, 18-54, and fitting for college at the Brunswick High School, gi-aduated 
at Tufts College in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in Bristol county at New Bed- 
ford June 24, 1878, but practices in Boston. He married Addie R. Jacobs, of Boston, 
October 30, 1884. 

D.VNiEi. Angell Gi.e.\so.\, son of John Fiske and Maria (Tourtellotte) Gleason, was 
born in Worcester, Mass. , May 9, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He 



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studied law in Meadville, Penn., where he taught school, and was there admitted to 
the bar in 1S59. . Returning to Massachusetts he graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1860, and after further pursuing his studies in Boston in the ofHce of 
Chandler & Shattuck, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 7, 1860, and began 
practice in Boston. In Medford, where he lives, he has been a member of the School 
Board, and water commissioner, and has held the State offices of tax commissioner, 
commissioner of corporations, and treasurer and receiver general. He has edited 
" Bouvier's Law Dictionary," " Bouvier's Institutes," an edition of " Phillips's Insur- 
ance," and assisted Emory Washburn in his work on " Easements." He married 
Annie Louisa, davighter of Richard and Mary A. (Henry) Hall in Roxbury, Jan- 
uary 7, 1863, and lives in iledford. 

Daniki. Wheei.wrighi' Gooch, son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in 
Wells, Me., Januarys, 1820, apd graduated at Dartmouth in 1843. He studied law 
in South Berwick, Me. , and in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 
18, 1847. He practiced law in Boston with success, but was drawn either by am- 
bition or the force of circumstances into a public career. He was a representative in 
1S53, member of the Constitutional Convention in 18-53, and a member of the o.ith, 
36th, 37th and 38th Congresses. He was chosen to the 39th Congress, but resigned to 
take the position of naval officer in the Boston Custom House. He resumed the 
practice of law after holding office a year, and was chosen a member of the 43d Con- 
gress. In 1875 he was appointed pension agent at Boston and held the office until 
1886. He married Hannah H., daughter of John S. and Theodore L. Pope, of Wells, 
Me., and died November 1, 1891. 

Jesse Morse Gove, son of Dana B. and Susan (Morse) Gove, was born in Weare, 
N. H., December 11, 18o2. He was educated at the Lowell schools, and after study- 
ing law in Boston with his father, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and 
has practiced in Boston. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston m 
1881, a representative from 1883 to 1885, and has been a member of the Board of 
Aldermen. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions of 1884 and 
1888. He married Agnes E., daughter of James and Jane Ballantyne at Lowell, 
August 17, 1882. He resides in Boston. 

Robert Grant, son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant, was born in 
Boston, January 24, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. He 
has been chairman of the Boston Board of Water Commissioners since May, 1889, and 
a member since Maj-, 1888. He delivered the poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Asocia- 
tion at Cambridge in June, 1883, and was the poet of the Latin School Alumni on the 
two himdred and fiftieth anniversary of that mstitution, April 23, 1885. In other 
ways he has devoted himself to literature and has published various volumes, in 
which as a writer of fiction he has excelled. He married Amy Gordon, daughter of 
Sir Alexander T. Gait and Amy (lordon (Torrance) Gult in Montreal, July 3, 1883. 
His residence is in Boston. 

John Henry Hardy, son of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in Hollis, 
N. H., Februarys, 1847, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Robert M. Morse, jr., and 
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with George W. Morse, and afterwards with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas ^V. Proc- 
tor. On the 3d of June, 1885, he was appointed an associate judge of the Municipal 
Court of Boston, and is still on the bench. He served in the War of the Rebellion 
in the Fifteenth New Hampshire Regiment, being fifteen years of age at the time of 
his enlistment. He was a representative in 1883, then a resident in Arlington. He 
married Anna J. Conant, daughter of Le-vi and Anna (Whitney) (Mead) Conant in 
Littleton, August 30. 1871. 

Fr.vnk Ei'HR.-viM Herisert G.\ry, son of Ephraim and Sarah A. Gary, was born in 
Montpelier, Vt., October 8, 1858, and graduated at the Vermont Methodist Seminary 
in 1879. He studied law with Heath & Carleton in Montpelier, and was admitted to 
the Vermont bar in 1882. He afterwards graduated at the Boston University Law 
School in 1884 and began practice in Montpelier. In 1888 he removed to Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was acting assistant dean and an 
instnictor in the Boston L'niversity Law School from 1888 to 1890. His residence is 
in Boston. 

Robert H.vli.oweli. Gardiner, son of John W. Tudor and Annie Elizabeth Hays 
Gardiner, was born at Fort Tejon, Cal., September 9, 1855, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1876. He took the name of his grandfather " Gardiner." He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of Charles P. Greenough 
& Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He 
married Alice, daughter of Edward Bangs, of Boston, June 23, 1881, and lives at 
Newton. 

John Edward Gai.vix, son of David and Mary A. (Dwyer) Galvin, was born in Bos- 
ton, November 8, 1857, and was educated at the English and Latin schools of that 
city. He studied law at the Hari^ard Law School, and was admitted to the bar of 
Middlesex county at Cambridge, October 6, 1879. His residence is in the Dorchester 
District of Boston. 

Charles Theodore Gallagher, son of William and Emily C. Gallagher, was born 
in Boston, Ma}- 21, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and the Bos- 
ton University-. He studied law- at the Boston Law- School and in the office of Ran- 
ney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 39, 1875. He was a 
member of the State Senate from Boston in 1882, and has been twelve years a mem- 
ber of the Boston School Board, ser\'ing the last three years as its president. He en- 
listed in 1864 at the age of thirteen as a drummer boy in the First Unattached Regi- 
ment. He married Nellie W. Allen at Scituate, February 19, 1880, and resides in 
Boston. 

Robert Stetson Gorh.\m, son of Daniel D. and Hannah M. (Stetson) Gorham, 
was born in Champlain, N. Y., June 28, 1863, and graduated at Harvard in 1885. He 
studied law in 1885-86 in Northampton in the office of John C. Hammond, and from 
1886 to 1888 at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan- 
uary, 1889. He married Alvine J. Thomas in Duxbury, Mass., June 27, 1890, and 
lives in Newton with an office in Boston. 

David Ellsworth Gould, son of David and Lucy (Withington) Gould, was born in 
Chatham, Mass., April 14, 1863, and was educated at the public schools and at the 
Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was 
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admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1887. He was a representative in 1890 and 
1891 from the Twenty-sixth Representative District of Suffolk county. His residence 
is in Chelsea. 

Ei)W.\Ki) Jknkins Jones, son of Jacob and Mary (Covell) Jones, was born in Boston, 
October 15, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at Hampden Academy. 
He was appointed deputy sheriff in Boston in 184.5 by Sheriff Rveleth, but after serv- 
ing some years in that capacity he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in October, 1873. During the War of the Rebellion he was captain of the Eleventh 
Massachusetts Battery, and was brevetted major for gallantry at the battle of Fort 
Stedman in Virginia. He was chief of the State Police from 18H6 to 1872, a repre. 
sentative in 1878 and 1874, and trial justice for juvenile offenders three years. He 
married Emily D., daughter of James and Fanny B. Campbell, of Milton, in Boston, 
April 2(), 1847. He has compiled Massachusetts criminal laws up to 1868, and the 
decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts up to 1868 on the liquor laws. He 
lives in Boston. 

John Davis Long, son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long, was born in Buck- 
field, Me., October 27, 1838, and receiving his early education at the public schools, 
graduated at Harvard in 1857. He is descended from old Pilgrim stock, William 
Clark, who came to Plymouth in the A7in in 1623, and John Churchill, who came to 
Plymouth in 1643, being among his ancestors. He fitted for college at the Hebron 
Academy in Maine, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. After leaving college he held 
for twf) years the position of principal of the academy in Westford, Mass., and then 
entered the Harvard Law School, which he left to enter as a student the office of 
Sidney Bartlett and complete his preparatory studies. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1861, and opened an office in Buckfield, his native town, where, it may 
be readily seen, the field of professional work was too narrow for his expanding tal- 
ents and energies. In the autumn of 1862 he returned to Boston, and after remain- 
ing for a time in the offices of Peleg W. Chandler and of Woodburj' & Andros he be- 
came a partner with Stillraau B. Allen and Thomas Savage in the law firm of Allen, 
Long & Savage, remaining in the firm enjoying a constantly increasing and respon- 
sible business until 1880. His interest in politics began in the Lincoln campaign of 
1860, when he made his maiden speech in Buckfield for the Republican candidates. 
In 1861, immediately after his settlement as a lawyer in Buckfield, he was nominated 
and defeated as the Republican candidate for the Legislature. After his return to 
Boston he took no further part in political affairs until 1871 and 1872, when as an ad- 
vocate of the election of Horace Greeley, the Democratic candidate for president, he 
was nominated for representative from Hingham, where in 1869 he had taken up his 
residence. In 1874 he was chosen representative by the Republicans of the Second 
Representative District of Plymouth county, consisting of the towns of Hingham and 
Hull. In 1875-76-77 he was rechosen, and in all those years was the speaker of the 
House. In the chair more than on the fioor Mr. Long had the opportunity of display- 
ing those peculiar traits of intellect, temper and deportment, which have given him 
an unfailing popularity with the pco])le of the Commonwealth. In 1877 and in 1878 
he was a candidate for the Republican giibernatorial nomination, but in the ctmven- 
tion of the former year he was defeated by Alexander H. Rice, who had served two 
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tenant-governor with Thomas Talbot at the head of the ticket. In 1879 he was cho- 
sen governor and rechosep in 1880 and 1881 , retiring in accordance with custom after 
three years' service. In 1879 there were four candidates in the lield, the democracy 
liaving two candidates, Benjamin F. Butler and John Quincy Adams, and the pro- 
hibitory temperance candidate being Rev. D. C. Eddy. Mr. Long received 122,7.^1 
votes, Mr. Butler 109,149, Mr. Adams 9,989, and Mr. Eddy l,«4r,, with 108 scattering. 
Ill 18.H0 and 1881 the opposing candidate was Charles P. Thompson, Democrat, and 
in the former year Mr. Long had a plurality of (!8,:jn, and in the latter 56,824. After 
leaving the executive chair he served in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth 
Congresses as the representative of the Second Congressional District. After his 
retirement from Congress he resumed the practice of law in Boston, associating him- 
self with StiUman B. Allen, his former partner, and Alfred Hemenway, with the firm 
name of Allen, Long & Hemenway. His literary work has been chiefly confined to 
speeches and a translation of the -Eneid. which has received the approbation of 
critics. In 1880 he received from Harvard as governor of the State the degree of 
LL. D., and since May, 1887, has been president of the Pilgrim Society. He married 
first Mary W., daughter of George S. Glover, of Hingham, September VA, 1870, and 
second, Agnes, daughter of Rev. Joseph D. Peirce, May 22, 1886, and his residence is 
still at Hingham. 

Samuel H. Longi-ey, son of Samuel and Ellen H. Longley, was born in Groton, 
Mass., January 11, 1861. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. His residence is at Shirley, Alass., and his office 
in Boston. 

James Risseli. Lowei.i., son of Rev. Dr. Charles and Harriet (Spence) Lowell, was 
born in Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. 
Perhaps no family in Masachusetts has been distinguished in so many generations as 
that to which he belonged. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and 
was admitted to the bar in that year. He began practice in Boston but was soon led 
away from professional efforts into the paths of literature, in which he became so 
distinguished. In 1841 he published a volume of poems entitled "A Year's Life," 
and in 1843, associated with Robert Carter, he published "The Pioneer," a liter- 
ary and critical magazine. In 1844 he published a second volume of poems, and in 
1845 a volume of prose entitled "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets." In 1848 
he published a third volume of poems, and in the same year "The Vision of Sir 
Launfal" and "The Biglow Papers." He also published in that year "A Fable for 
Critics," and soon after visited Europe. In 1854-5 he delivered a course of lectures 
before the Lowell Institute on the British Poets and immediately afterwards went to 
Dresden for study preliminary to his accession to the chair of Modern Languages and 
Belles-lettres at Harvard. From 1857 to 1862 he edited the Allaiitic Monthly, and 
in 1864 published "Fireside Travels," and a new scries of the "Biglow Papers." In 
1863, associated with Charles E. Norton, he edited for a time the North American 
Review, and in 1869 published "The Cathedral," a poem, and "L^nderthe Willows" 
and other poems. In 1870 he published " Among my Books" and my " Study Win- 
dows." In 1876 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in Cincin- 
nati and presidential elector. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain, and in 
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1885. His career in England was a remarkable one. The United States had before 
him exhibited in the various ministers to the Enjjlish Court a high order of states- 
manshij), but never before had the literary culture of America been so brilliantly 
illustrated. His speeches on various occasions, scholarly and refined as they were, 
won the admiration of English scholars and reflected honor on his country as well as 
on himself. The degree of J. C. D. was conferred on him by the University of Ox- 
ford in 1873, and that of LL.D. by the Universities of Cambridge, England, St. 
Antlrews and Edinburgh in 1874, and Bologna, 1888. He received also the degree 
of LL.D. from Harvard in 1884. He married first in 1844, Maria, daughter of Abi- 
jah and Anna Maria (Howard) White, who died in Cambridge, October 27, 1853, and 
second Frances Dunlap, who died in England in February, 1885. Mr. Lowell died 
at Cambridge, August 12, 1891. 

Wii.i.iAM MiNor, son of George Richards Minot, was born in Boston, September 17, 
1783, and graduated at Harvard in 1802. He studied law in Boston in the office of 
Joseph Hall, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. The son of an able law- 
yer, he inherited those sterling traits without which no professional man can suc- 
ceed, integrity, method, industry and tidelity to his employers. Confining himself 
to his office and the manifold duties there awaiting performance, he not only never 
sought public notice, but was never induced to accept any public position except that 
of a member of the Executive Council during the administration of Governor Everett 
between 183(i and 1840. He was particularly devoted to the law of wills and trusts, 
and his services were eagerly sought as executor or trustee where large amounts and 
intricate questions were involved. It was said of him after his death, by one who 
knew him well, that he was "a man of the purest life, of the highest principles, of 
the most scrupulous and transparent integrity ; his counsel was eagerly sought dur- 
ing a long term of years by those who had estates to bequeath, or trusts to be ar- 
ranged and executed, and no one enjoj-ed a greater share than he did, in these and in 
all other relations, of the esteem and confidence of the community in which he lived. 
Among other funds committed to his care was that bequeathed to the town of his 
birth by Benjamin Franklin, with a primary view of encouraging young and merit- 
orious mechanics. This fund was placed in his hands by the authorities of Boston in 
1804, and was gratuitously administered by him for the long period of sixty years, 
when it had increased from four thousand to one hundred and twenty-five thousand 
dollars." In 1814 a court called the Boston Court of Common Pleas was established 
and remained in existence until the Court of Common Pleas for the Commonwealth 
was established in 1821. In 1814 Harrison Gray Otis was appointed judge of this 
court, and Mr. Minot was appointed to succeed him March 2, 1818. He either de- 
clined or resigned after a month's service, as William Prescott was appointed judge 
April 31 of the same year. He married Louisa, daughter of Daniel Davis, at that 
time solicitor-general of the Commonwealth, and died in his house in Beacon street, 
Boston, which he had occupied for sixty years, June 2, 1873. 

J<.iiiN E. Hani.y, son of Michael F. and Almeda S. Hanly, was born in Appleton, 
Maine, August 5, 1851, and was educated at the Waterville, Me., Classical Insti- 
tute. He studied law in Ajjpleton with M. F. Hanly, and in Augusta, Me., with 
William P. Whitehouse, and was admitted to the bar at Augusta in October, 1872. 
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oiunty in May, 1890. He married Clara A. Hawkes in Appleton, Me., in Decem- 
ber, is7i. He lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

CiiARi.Ks Stedm.vn H.\nks, son of Stedman W. and Sarah W. Hanks, was born in 
Lowell, Mass., April 10, 1.S58, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied law at 
the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. He 
was married in Minnesota, May 17, 1888, to Clarissa B. Shumwav, and lives in Man- 
chester, Mass. He has published a treatise on the Law of Tort. 

Gkorck R. Jonks, son of John R. and Mary S. Jones, was born in Lebanon, Me., 
l\bruary 8, 1862, and was educated at the Boston University College of Liberal Arts. 
He studied law in Boston, in the office of Allen, Long & Hcmenway, and at the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1888. He 
married Helen Blanch Jeffery at Melrose, September 10, 1890, and lives in Melrose. 

J.\MF.s Einv.\RD Kki.i.f.v, son of Benjamin F. and Louisa P. (Adams) Kelley, was 
born in Unity, Me. , February 2, 1858. and was educated at the Eastern State Normal 
School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar January 17, 1888. He married Fannie E. Banks, of Belfa.st, Me., at 
Somerville, Mass., December 25, 1887, and his home is in Somerville. 

Ch.\ki.es Fr.\.nki.i.n KirrREDi;E, son of FrankUn Otis and Mary Ann Kittredge, was 
born in Mt. Vernon, N. H., February 24, 1841, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1863. 
He studied law in Boston with John P. Healy, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in October, 1867. He has been a member of the House of Representatives from Bos- 
ton, and was assistant city solicitor from 1868 to 1879. He has devoted himself 
chiefly to municipal and corporation law. He married Adelaide L. Lee at Groton, 
Mass., September 24, 1872, and lives in Boston. 

Wii.i.i.\M A. K.Nowi.ToN, son of William W. and Martha E. Knowlton, was born in 
\ash\-ille, Tenn., June 24, 18.55, and attended Phillips Andover Academy. He 
• udied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex 

ir at Cambridge in June, 1881. He married Elizabeth J. Burks at Natick, Mass., 
June 27, 1883, and he resides in Natick, with an office in Boston. 

Edw.xrd Averv, son of (Jeneral Samuel and Mary A. W. (Candler) Avery, was 
born in Marblehcad, Mass., March 12, 1828. His father was a native of Vermont, 
and ser\-ed as an officer in the War of 1812. After removing to Marblehead he com- 
manded a brigade of militia fifteen years. He was descended from .Samuel Avery, 
a civil engineer, who had a grant of land in Vermont. In Marblehead he was a man 
of note, ser\nng as selectman and representative in days when the office sought the 
man, and showed the esteem in which he was held by the community in which he 
lived rather than a greed for place and power and a manipulating skill necessary to 
secure them. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Mar- 
blehead, and in the Brooks Classical School in Boston. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Frederick W. Choate. and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Worcester county in 1849. He established himself in Barre, 
Mass., where he remained about two years, and then removed to Boston, where he 
became associated in business with George X[. Hobbs, and has secured a place amting 
the leaders of the Suffolk bar. As a jury lawyer he has been signally successful. 
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common practice of endeavoring to ex]>lain and strengthen the weak points in his 
case, but gives his attention only to tlie strong ones, so fortifying them and increas- 
ing their strength that the weaker ones are left out of sight and his victory is won. 
His devotion to the cause of the Democratic party led him early to take an interest 
in jiolitics, and he has both rendered efficient service to his party and received honors 
at their hands. Few cam])aigns during the last twenty-five years have passed with- 
out the sound of his voice on the platform and stump, and few conventions, national, 
State or local, have failed to receive his aid or counsel. He was one of the eight 
Democrats in the House of Representatives in IHfiT and in 1808, having been chosen 
to both the Senate and House, and taken his seat in the former. He has also been 
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and the candidate of the Democratic 
party for attorney-general and member of Congress. He iiiarried, fir.st, in 18.")2. Su- 
san Caroline, daughter of Caleb Stetson, of Braintree, and second in Boston, August 
14, 1883, Margaret, daughter of David Greene. 

John Edw.vrd Avf.rv, son of John and Ann Maria Avery, was born in Whitefield, 
Me., November 11, 1848, and was educated at the public schools and at the Maine 
Wesleyan Seminary. He studied law at Augusta, Me., in the office of William P. 
Whitehouse and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Cam- 
bridge in June, 1873. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

Gkokge David Avkrs, son of David and Martha Elizabeth (Huckins) Ayers, was 
born in Boston, August 26, 18.57, and received his early education at the common 
schools and the High School of Maiden. He graduated at Harvard in 1879, attended 
the Harvard Law School from 1879 to 1882, and after further study in the office of 
(Jaston & Whitney, was admitted to the Suflolk bar in February, 1883. He married 
Charlotte E. Carder at Maiden. January 7, 1888, and lives in Maiden. 

Ja.mks Francis Avi.ward, son of James and Johanna T. (Maher) Aylward, was born 
in East Cambridge, August 4, 1862, and was educated in Cambridge at the Putnam 
Grammar School and at Boston College. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar August 2, 1887. He was a member of the Common Council of Cambridge, where 
he resides, in 1888, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1889-90-91-92. 

Benjamin Vaughan Amsorr, son of Rev. Jacob Abbott, was born in Boston, June 4, 
1880, and graduated at the Xew York University in 1850. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1851, but the writer is not certain where and inserts his name in the register 
as a native of Boston and possible member of the Suffolk bar. He devoted himself 
largely to compilations and digests with his brother Austin. He was appointed 
in 1870 to revise the Statutes of the LTnited States, and aftewards prepared a United 
States Digest and a Digest of Decisions on Corporations, a Treatise on the Courts of the 
United States and their Practice, a Dictionary of Terms in American and English 
Jurisprudence, a National Digest of all Important Acts of Congress and Decisions of the 
United States Supreme Court, Circuit and District Courts, and Court of Claims, and 
the Fourth American edition of Addison on Contracts, and other works pertaining to 
law and practice. 

Zahdiei. Biivi.ston Adams, was admitted to the Supreme Court of Suffolk county 
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John H. p. Ahkkin was born in Boston, April 11, 1858, and graduated at St. Mary's 
Parochial School in 1872. He was afterwards clerk in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds 
until 1877. He then studied law with F. W. Kittredge, and acted as the conveyancer of 
Crowley & Maxwell until 188"). He then entered the Boston University Law School, 
graduating in 1886, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. 

SiMNKK Albee, son of Christopher C. and Phebe Albee, was born in Langdon, N. 
H., March 23, 1825, and graduated at Midlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. He 
studied law in Boston with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
January 2, 1854. He has been a member of the Board of Aldermen in Cambridge, 
where he lives, also of the School Board and the Board of Overseers of the Poor. He 
was a representative from Cambridge in 1881 and 1882. He married Lucy Ann, 
daughter of Rev. Andrew Rankin, of Chester, Vt., August 28, 1855, and died in Cam- 
bridge, January 12, 1893. 

RiKiis Bradford Ai.i.yn, son of Rev. John Allyn, was born in Du.xbury, March 27, 
1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. lie studied law in Boston with William 
Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1815. He removed from Boston 
the year i)f his admission to the bar and established himself in Belfast, Me. He 
married Rebecca P., daughter of Samuel Upton. 

Elkkidge Roberts Anderson, son of Galucha and Mary E. Anderson, was born in 
St. Louis, Mo., and educated at the University of Chicago. He studied law in Chi- 
cago in the office of Barnum. Rubens & Ames, and was admittted to the bar in 
Massachusetts in 1885 at Salem, practicing in Chicago two years before his removal 
to Boston. He married Lizzie Dodge Harris at Salem, Mass., May 15, 1889, and 
lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

Gk.orge Weston Anderson, son of David C. and Martha L. Anderson, was born 
in New Hampshire September 1, 18H1, and graduated at Williams College in 1886. 
He studied law in Lowell with William H. Anderson, and in the Boston University 
Law SchfKil, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1890. He lives in Boston. 

Ai'crsTfs Andrews, son of William A. and Maria B. (Brown) Andrews, was born 
in Freedom, X. H., June 19, 18,52, and was educated at the Boston public schools, 
and studied law at the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1873, and was a member of the Boston School Board in 1875. He mar- 
ried in 1878. 

Wiri.i.\M H. H. Andrews, son of Charles and Dolly (Bradstreet) Andrews, was 
born at Pleasant Ridge, Me., May 10, 1839, and received his early education at the 
Hampden Academy, the Maine State Seminary. He entered Bf)wdoin College in 
IWl, but in 1862 left college and enlisted as a private in the Eleventh Maine Regi- 
ment. He was commissioned first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster March 
1 , 1864, and captain October 30, 1865. He removed to Boston in 1867 and studied law in 
the riffice of Charles Levi Woodbury, and that of Melville E. Ingalls, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1868. He remained with Mr. Woodbury until 
1890. He has ser\-ed on the Schf>ol Board of Hyde Park, and was the manager of 
the Boston Post in 1885 and 1886. He married Elizabeth Wood, of Philadelphia, 
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Francis Hi.nkv Ari'i.KioN, son of William Appleton, was born in Boston Septem- 
ber 11, 182;i, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in lH4(i. and died in Sonierville, Mass., May 28, 18r)4. 

John Hknkv Ari'i.ivniN, son of Charles T. P. and Sarah Jane (Merrill) Appleton, 
was born in Somerville, Mass., and received his early education at the Mayhew Gram- 
mar School and the English High School, in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 
1^75. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1877, and was admitted to the 
bar in Middlesex county in June, 1878. He married Dora E. Shearer in Camliridgc, 
March 80, 1880, and lives in Cambridge. 

TiioM.A.s Henry Armstroxc, son of Elias Benjamin and Abigail (Parkhursii Ann- 
strong, was born in Watertown, Mass., July 24, 1847, and was educated at the Walt- 
ham High School and Tufts College, graduating from the latter in ISlii). He 
studied law in Boston in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar March 8, 1873. He has been a trustee of Tufts College since 1877, and 
treasurer of the corporation, and was city solicitor of Waltham from 1885 to 1889. 
He married Ellen F. Wellington at Waltham, June 5, 1876, and lives in Waltham. 

Srii.i.MAN BovD Ai.i.KN, son of Horace O. and Elizabeth Allen, was born in San- 
ford, York county. Me., September 8, 18S0, and received his early education at the 
Kennebunk Academy, the Alfred Academy, and at an educational institution in Yar- 
mouth, Me. At the age of eighteen he shipped as a sailor, and on his return voy- 
age was wrecked on Cape Cod and washed ashore with little of life remaining. 
Abandoning the sea he lived at Kittery, Me., for a time, holding a position in the 
navy yard, teaching school, and devoting some of his time to the study of law. He 
afterwards entered the office of Daniel Goodnow, of Alfred, as a student, and com- 
pleted his law studies with W. H. Y. Hackett, of Portsmouth, N. H. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in his native county in September, IS.'jS, and began practice in Kit- 
tery. In May, I8()l, he removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on 
the 17th of the following June. In 1868 he became associated in business with John 
D. Long, and in 1876 and 1877 \vas a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives. His ar'nval in Boston marked the beginning of a career which, from ex- 
tent of business and its lucrative results, has been rarely surpassed at the New Eng- 
land bar. The firm of w^hich he was the head was at first Allen, Long & Savage, but 
after Mr. Savage left it, and Alfred Hemenway entered, it became Allen, Long & 
Hemenway. Notwithstanding the large amount of professional work in which he 
was engaged, he felt a deep interest in other matters connected with the welfare of 
thecommimity and gave liberally of his means to develop and maintain them. Both 
religious and secular education he had always at heart, and the church and the school 
were his constant beneficiaries. The writer has been told that for many years he 
ke])t cf)nstantly at Harvard some poor and deserving young man, educating and sup- 
porting him at his own expense. During almost his entire residence in Boston he 
was a member of the School Board, and during the same period he was a prominent 
and active member of the Berkeley Street Church, devoting much time to the work 
of the Sunday School. It has been said by a member of this church "that the ag- 
gregate of his contributions to the church would be a handsome fortune ; yet this 
was less than his private charities, which flowed in a constant stream." He married 
at Kittery, September 7, 1854, Harriet S., daughter of Joseph and Mary Seaward, 
and died in Boston June 9, 1891, 




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SiK.i'iiKN Merrill Allen was born in Burton, now Albany, X. II., April 1"), 1819. 
At four years of age he removed to Tamworth, N. H., at eight to Dover, X. II., and 
at twelve to Corinna, Me. At seventeen he came to Boston and attended the Boston 
Latin School. At the age of fifty he removed to Duxbury, and is now again a resi- 
dent of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 9, ISoO, but never 
practiced. He married first, April 15, 1841, Ann Maria, daughter of William Grid- 
ley, and second, Ann Maria, daughter of Eli Jones, of Woburn. Horace G. Allen, 
a recent candidate for mayor of Boston, nominated by the Republicans, is his son. 

Frederick Ai.lk.v, son of Jonathan, was born in Chilmark, Mass., December 32, 
1780, and studied law with Homes Allen, of Barnstable, and in Pembroke with Kil- 
Ixirn Whitman, and in Boston with Benjamin Whitman, and after admission to the 
Suffolk bar in 1805 removed to.Waldoboro, Me., and in 1809 to Gardiner, Me. He 
married Hannah Bowen, daughter of (Miver and Abigail (Gardner) Whipple. 

John Hooker Ashmun, son of Eli P. Ashmun, was born in Blandford, Me., July 3, 
I8U0, and graduated at Harvard in 1818. In 1828 Nathan Dane, who in founding the 
law school at Cambridge had reserved to himself appointments to its professorships, 
appointed Joseph Story Dane professor of law and Mr. Ashmun Royall professor of 
law, and he took up his residence in Cambridge. He had previously been associated 
with Judge Howe and Elijah J. Mills in establishing and conducting a law school in 
Northampton. It is thought by the writer that after coming to Cambridge he had 
an office in Boston. He died in Cambridge April 1, 1833. 

Eli Porter Asiimin was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He received the 
degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1809, and was United States Senator from 1816 to 
1S18. He died in 1819. 

Edwin WRicirr, son of Jesse and Philura (Fuller) Wright, was born in North 
Coventry, Conn., March 7, 1821. He is descended from the Wright family of Kel- 
veden Hall at Wrightsbridge, Essex, England, which flourished in the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries. His father, educated for a physician, was during the larger 
part of his life an inland trader, and his mother was the daughter of a respectable 
artisan. At four years of age he removed to Lebanon, Conn. , and in his youth was 
left for long periods of time in the sole charge of his father's store and accounts. In 
the discharge of the duties imposed on him he exhibited a mature and discriminating 
judgment. He was educated in his youth at the public schools, and while pursuing 
his studies he was for two seasons the assistant of the State surveyor for New London 
county, not only helping in the practical work of the survey, but making duplicate 
and often the sole calculations and plans. His later education was received at Bacon 
Academy in Colchester, Conn., and there he fitted for Yale College, where he gradu- 
ated in 1844 with the valedictory, the highest honor of the class. After leaving col- 
lege he was temporarily employed as assistant principal in the Boston English School 
and afterwards was ajipointed principal of the Medford High School, whence he was 
promoted to the position of grammar master in one of the Boston public schools. In 
these positions his methods of instruction, though somewhat at variance from the 
ordinary formulas, were highly effective in their results and received the most 
emphatic commendation. Having absolved the pecuniary obligations incurred dur- 
ing the period of his education, he entered the Harvard Law School and after a sea- 
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322 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

son of study in that institution entered as a student the office of Benjamin F. Bi-ooks, 
in Boston, where he soon had charge of the jireparation of contracts and other legal 
documents and all matters connected with the titles and transfer of real estate. He 
\\as admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 18.10, and a year later began practice on 
his own accf)unt. Tliough securing rapidly a genei-al practice of considerable volume 
he gradually became more especially a real estate lawyer and as such acquired an 
eminence in his profession. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
reseiualives from East Boston in ISoT and 18(i7, and for several years was a member 
nf the Boston School Board. He has delivered several courses of lectures on com- 
mercial law and has been several years by ajjpointment a lecturer on medical juris- 
prudence in the medical department of the Boston University, as well as a lecturer 
throu.gh several seasons before the whole school. On the !)th of July, 18(il, he was 
aijpointed a justice of the Boston Police Court to .succeed George D. Wells, and 
served until the court was abolished in ISKIi. The business of this court was large 
and onerous, consisting of the disposition annually of ITi, ()()() criminal and ;5,l)00 civil 
cases, the inspection of pri.sons, the pardoning of criminals confined for non-payment 
of fines and the jurisdiction of insane cases, and owing to the age of Mr. Wrighfs 
associates, much more than his share of labor fell on his hands. The accuracy of his 
judgments wliile on the bench is attested by the fact that no decision of the court 
dm-ing the term of his service was ever overruled or abridged. On his retirement 
from the bench, Mr. Wright resumed practice with a gratifying accumulation of busi- 
ness for many years. His recreation has been found in the study of the various 
questions of the day, social, religious and ethical, and in their solution to ajjply the 
principles of law. On these questions he has written and lectured and always to the 
edification of his readers and hearers. He is a jjrominent Mason, having received the 
highest grade recognized by the fraternity in the United States. He married, Oc- 
tober 29, 18.511, Helen M., daughter of Paul Curtis, of Boston, and his residence is in 
Boston. 

HosEA KiNGM.vx, s<m of Philip IJ. and Betsey B. (Washburn) Kingman, was born 
in Bridgew^ater, Mass., April 11, 184H. His early education was received at the 
Bridgewater Academy in Bridgewater and the Applcton Academy in Xew Ipswich, 
X. H. He entered Dartmouth College in 18(i0, but left college in 18(i3 and enlisted 
on the 22d <ji September in that yeiir for nine months' service in Company K, Third 
Massachusetts Regiment. He went with his regiment to Newberne, X. C, and in 
December was detailed on signal service and went to Port Royal, S. C, and thence 
to Folly Island in Charleston Harbor, and was discharged at expiration of service, 
June ~3, IStiS. He then returned to Dartmouth and joined his class, making up for 
absent time and graduating in due order in 1864. He .studied law with Williams 
Latham in Bridgewater and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth in 18(H), associating 
himself at once in business with his instructor, Mr. Latham, under the (irm name of 
Latham & Kingman. Mr. Latham-retired in 1N71, and since that time Mr. Kingman 
has practiced alone, constantly strengthening himself in the law, accumulating busi- 
ness and securing the conhdence of the community. In 1H74, and for many years 
after, he was chosen commissioner of insolvency: Xovember 12, 1878, he was ap- 
pointed special justice of the First District Court of Plymouth county: in 188(i he was 
chosen district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, which posi- 



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i liL- n.Myin.u I" .i>sunie the duties (if ;i member of the Metropolitan Sewage 

■nmission, under an appointment by the j^overnor, of whieh commissicm he isehair- 

nuin. He is trustee of the Piljjrim Society, of the Bridjjewater Savings Bank and 

Bridgewater Academy, and in t^ie Masonic fraternity, is charter member of Brid};e- 

•er Lodge. Xo. l,ti:{!) of Knights of Honor, of which he is past dictator. In at- 

iptiiig to describe the traits which characterize him as a lawyer, it is perhaps suf- 

cnt to sav that he has all the qualificalions essential for a good judge, and it is 

.1 too much to say that his future appointment to a seat on the bench will depend 

chiefly on his willingness to accept it. He married Came, daughter of Hezekiah and 

Deborah (Freeman) Cole, of Carver, ifass., June 21, IHfiti. He lives in Bridgewater, 

with an office in that town and one in Boston. 

JoN,\rii.\.N WiiiTK. son of Jonathan and Abigail (Holbrook) White, was born in East 
Randolph. Mass.. August 22. ISli). and fitted for college at Phillips Academy. An- 
dover. He graduated at Vale in 1H4-I. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1847. He removed to North Bridge- 
water, now Brockton, in 1849, and established there a residence and business which 
he has continued to the jjresent time. He was a representative in 18<i5, and a mem- 
ber of the Senate in 1809-1877-1878. He is a man possessing a ulear. logical mind, 
sharp, concise and earnest in its expression, and thoroughly trusted in every position 
in which he has been called to serve. He married Nancy Mehitabel, daughter of 
John Adams, of Holbri>ok. Mass. 

Eixis Wksi f.v MoKioN. son of Ellis J. and Abby S. (Anthony) Jlorlon. was btirn in 
North Bridgewater. now Brockton, Octobers, 1848. He was educated at the Adel- 
phian Academy, the North Bridgewater Academy and the Classical High School of 
Providence, R. I. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(il, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar on the 8th of October in that year. Practicing in Boston, he 
was appointed assistant United States attorney for Massachusetts November 1, 18(il. 
and was admitted to the bar of the I'nited Slates Supreme Court in March, 18<i4. He 
was a representative and senator from Boston, and died in September. 1><7(.,nt what 
a])peared to be the threshold of a brilliant career. 

HuAi>KoRi) KiM.MAN, son of Josiah Washburn and Mary (Packard 1 i^iuyiu.ui. w ,i^ 
■1 in North Bridgewater, now Brockton, Januan- 5, 1831. During his youth he 
auended the common schools, the Adelphian Academy and the Williston Seminary in 
Easthampton, Mass. He studied law with Lyman Mason in Boston and at the Har- 
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21. IsfiS. making Boston 
his place of business and Brookline his place of residence. His taste for literary and 
historical pursuits led him early away fr<mi the paths of law. and in 18ri(i he published 
.in elaborate history of his native town. He married Susan, daughter i.f TIk.iii.i'., nul 
.mna (Bradford) Ellis, of Plympton, Mass.. and lives in Brooklim 
J \Lc,H B. H.VRKis was born in Winchester, Mass., and settled m Abingtuu, Mas^., 
in the practice of law. Where he studied law and where he was admitted to the bar 
wTiter has not been able to learn. His name is not on the admission roles of 
ii-T Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Worcester or Plymouth counties, but he was a mem- 
Ijcr of the Suffolk bar in 187:1 He was a representative from Abington in INIil and 
WVfl, and was appointed judge of the District Court of the Second Plymouth County 
District on the establishment of that court in 1874. He was selected by the Supreme 



324 ni STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAli. 

Court to defend Sturtevant, the Halifax murderer, and his efforts in behalf of the 
criminal elicited the highest praise. He died in January, 1875. 

Bknj.vmi.n WmiM.w, son of Zechariah and Abigail (Kilborn) Whitman, was born in 
Bridgewater in 1T6S, and graduated at Brown University in 1788. He established 
himself in Hanover, Mass., in 1792, and was the first lawyer in that town. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar before going to Hanover, and returned to Boston in 1805. 
While in Hanover he was postmaster, and at the establishment of the Boston Police 
Court in 1822 he was appointed chief justice. He was a representative from Boston, 
and died about ls;M. 

Wii.i.i.\M H. Wnoii, son of Wilkes and Betsey W. (Thompson) Wood, was born in 
Middlcboro', Mass., October 24, 1811, and was descended from Henrj' Wood, who 
came to Plymouth from England in 164S, and purchased land in Middleboro' in 1667. 
He was educated at Peirce Academy in Middleboro' and Brown University, grada- 
ting in 183-1. After leaving college he was for a year the principal of Coffin Academy 
in Nantucket, and then studied law in his father's office, completing his education in 
Boston in the office of Horace Mann and at the Harvard Law School. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Plymouth in 18-12, and associated himself in business with John 
S. Eldridge in Boston. Not long after, owing to delicate health, he retired to 
Middleboro', where he resided and practiced until his death. An original member of 
the Free Soil party he was chosen to the State Senate in 1848. In 1849 he was de- 
feated b)' the Whigs on account of his anti-slavery sentiments, but was rechosen in 
1850. In 185:5 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention, in 1857 was a rep- 
resentative, and in 1858 a member of the E.xecutive Council. On the 19th of Septem- 
ber, 1858, Aaron Hobart, judge of probate for Plymouth coimty, died, and Mr. Wood 
was at once appf)inted as his successor. He remained in office until his death. 

B.\RriioLo,MK\v Brow.n, son of John and Guiger (Hutchinson) Brown, was born in 
Uanvers, Mass., September 8, 1772, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and established himself m East Bridgewater. 
He was through life devoted to music, and was at one time president of the Boston 
Handel and Haydn Society. He was a composer of a large number of pieces of 
sacred and secular music, and was one of the most ])opular soloists of the society. 
The last few years of his life were spent in Boston. He married in East Bridgewater, 
November 26, 1801, Betsey, daughter of General Sylvanus Lazell, of Bridgewater, 
and died in Boston, April 14, 1814. 

Si;rn Mii.i.KR was born in Middleboro', Mass., January 10, 1801, and graduated at 
Brown University in 1823. He studied law in Middleboro' with Wilkes Wood and in 
Boston with Thompson Miller, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1826. Not long after he established himself in Warehara, and remained there in 
constant practice during life. He was a trial justice in Wareham many years, a mem- 
ber of the Constitutional Ccmvention in 1853,'and president of the Plymouth County 
Bar Association from the date of its organization in 1867 until his death. He died at 
Wareham, unmarried, August 22, 1S76. 

William Bavliks, son of Dr. William and Bathsheba (White) Baylies, was born in 
Dighton, Mass., September 15, 1776, and received his early education in one of the 
public schools of that town under the instruction of John Barrows, a graduate of Har- 
vard in 177(i. lie graduated at Brown University in 1795, and studied law with 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 325 

Seth Padelford in Taunton. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county before 
1807, and established himself in Dightcjn. He was a rejiresentative from 1808 to 
1820 and in 18!!1, and a senator in 1825. In 1812 he was chosen member of Congress 
and rechosen in 1814, and also in 1830 and 1832. In 1831 he received the degree of 
LL. D. from Harvard. For many years during the latter part of his professional life 
he made his home in West Bridgewater, and confined his business to that which 
sought him there. Since the introduction of railroads clients have more and more 
sought counsel in Boston, and as a necessary consequence country lawyers have been 
compelled to open offices in Boston to intercept them. But in the days of Mr. Bay- 
lies many of the ablest lawyers in the State had their offices in small towns and 
smaller hamlets and there lived and flourished and won enviable reputations. In 
Plymouth county there were Mr. Baylies in West Bridgewater. Ebenezer Gay in 
llingham, Kilborn Whitman in Pembroke, Thomas Prince Beal in Kingston, Nahum 
Mitchell in East Bridgewater, Abraham Holmes in Rocheslcr and Zechariah Eddy in 
Middleboro', all following the county circuits, but never finding any inducement to 

ive their native town for wider fields of efff>rt in the cities of the State. The writer 

these sketches says of him, in the History' of Plymouth County recently published, 
that "his last apjiearance in court was in January, 1849, in Alden B. Weston and 
others against Alfred Sampson and others, when he appeared for defendants. On the 
question at issue this was a leading case, the decision of which involved extended 
interests along the seaboard of the Old Colony. It was an action of trespass, quare 
clausum fregit, originally brought before a justice of the peace and submitted to the 
"Urt of Common Pleas and finally brought by appeal to the Supreme Court on the 

!lowing agreed statement of facts: It was admitted that the plaintiffs were the 
proprietors of a tract of upland described in the writ, with the fiats adjoining, at 
Powder Point (so called in Duxbury) bordering on the bay. The defendants, inhab- 
itants of Duxbury, went in their boat on said fiats, and there, at low water, dug five 
bushels of clams and carried them away in their boat. The place where the clams 
were dug was between high and low water mark and within one hundred rods of the 
shore of the plaintiffs upland. If the court shall be of the opinion that the defendants 
had a right so to dig and carry away said clams, the plaintiffs are to become non- 
suited, otherwise the case is to be sent to a jury. The court decided that fishing was 
a common law right as well fishing for shell-fish, as for those swimming in the 
water, and unless there was s<mie colonial, provincial or State law, which controlled 
or limited that right, the inhabitants had a right to go in boats to fiats between high 
and lf>w water mark, and there take shell or other fish. The plaintiffs relied on a law 
of Massachusetts Colony passed ni 1641, giving the owiier of uplands the propriety so 
far as the tide ebbs and flows, when it does not ebb more than one hundred rods; but 
the court held that, notwithstanding the union of the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colo- 
nies in 1693, the absence of any Plymouth Colony law or provmcial law after 16812, or 
State law after the adoption of the constitution, keeps the old common law right 
alive, and justifies the defendants in their acts." Mr. Baylies died immarried in 
Taunton, September 27, 186.'). and was buried in Dighton, his native town. 

WiLKics Woiiii, scm of Ebenezer and Sally (Bennett) Wood, was born in Middleboro, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. He established himself in his 
native town, and was many years judge of probate. He married first Betsey Tink- 
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326 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

WiiiiAM JosiAii FiiRsMTii, son of Josiah and Maria (Southworth) Forsaith, was 
born in Newport, X. H., Ajiril 19, is:!(i, and graduated at Dartmouth College in WTTi. 
He studied law with Burke & Wait in Newport, and in Boston in the offiees of Benja- 
min F. Ilallett and Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ISIiO. 
He was appointed special justice of the Boston Municipal Court, January 23, 1S72, 
and promoted to associate March 8, 1H,S2, and is still on the bench. He married 
Annie Maria Veazie at Bangor, Me., October 31, 18f)3, and lives in Boston. 

Cf.okce R. Fowlkr, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was Ijorn in Concord, N. 
H., April 2."), 1H44, and was educated at the common schools and the High School of 
that city. lie spent a short time at Dartmouth College, and received an honorary 
degree of Master of Arts from that institution in 1868. He studied law in Concord 
with his father, at the Harvard Law School and the Albany Law School, receiving 
the de.gree of LL. D. from the latter, and was admitted to the bar in Concord in April, 
18(57, and in Boston October 8, 18(li). He was assistant clerk and clerk of the New 
Hampshire State Senate from 18fi.i to 1868, has been a member of the Boston city 
government, and is a special justice of the West Roxbury District Municipal Court. 
He married Isabel Minol at Concord, N. H., April 24, 1H73, and lives in Boston. 

Sii;i'iiKN AisiiN FosTKR, son of Austin T. and Sarah H. Foster, was born in Derby 
Tvine, Vt. , December 33, 1866, and was educated at the Goddard Seminary and Tufts 
College, He studied at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of John 
C. Coombs, and was admitted to the Sutlolk bar February 2, 1892. He lives in Boston. 

Snvi'iir.N G I I.MAN, son of Samuel and Sarah (Goodhue) Gilman, was born in Meredith 
Village, N. H., September 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied 
law in New York city, with Man & Parsons, and was admitted to the New York bar 
November 24, 1871, and to the Suffolk bar in Ajjril, 1879. He married first Lucy 
A. Davis in New York city, March 12, 1870, and second Esther W. Mansfield. <<i 
Lynnlicld. Mass., August 7, 1881, and his residence is in Lynnfield. |^ 

Emi.kv Rki hen Gibks, .son of Phineas Stearns and Mary Catherine (Meserve) (iibbs, 
was born in Byron, Me., October 23, 1862, and was educated at the Coburn Classical 
Institute in the class of 1884, and at Colby University in the class of 1888. He stud- 
ied law in Boston in the oHiee of Joseph Willard, and' graduated at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School in 1891, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1.S91. 
lie married Jennie Barbour at Yarmouth, Me., January 13, 1892. and lives in 
Brookline. 

Loris GiRAiuiiN, son of Louis and Sophia (iirardin, was born in Philadelphia, May 
1, 1837, and was educated at the Boston Grammar and High Schools, the academy 
at Litchfield, Me. , and Phillips E.xeter Academy. He studied law in Boston in the 
office of Charles J. Noyes. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1872. He 
married Rachel A. Smith in New York city, April 20, 1862, and lives in Boston. 

Hkkui.kj Lfk Hariiim;, son of Samuel Lee and Catherine Bond Harding, was born 
in Lancaster, Mass., May 10, 18.52, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the office of Morse, Stone &• 
Grcenough, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1877. He has been a 
member of the Boston Common Council. He married Lucy Austin in Chariest o\\ :; 
Mass., Octolicr 13. 1886. and lives at Jamaica Plain. 



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JciriN Lk (tKami Hak\ e;v, son of John and Susanna Harvey, was born in North 

I-'airfield, O., Dect-inber 5, 1857, and was educated at the Ohio AVesleyan L'niversitv 

Hid Boston Tniversity. He studied law at tlie Boston University Law School, and 

Boston in the office of B. B. Johnson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 

~~>!S. He has been water commissif)ner in Waltham, where he resides. He married 

amy C. Johnson at Haverhill. October 1."). IS89. He has written treatises on "Law 

a Factor of Civilization," and on "The Torrens System of Land Transfer." 

.\i.HKKr AiiilsTis Gi.F.AsiiN, SOU of Zclotcs and Sarah Adelaide (Scott) Gleason, was 

born October 111, 18(i:5, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard 

Cnllege, graduating from the latter in 1880. He graduated at the Harvard Law 

liool in 18S9 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 18SIII. He is the author 

several historical papers. Residence, Boston. 

Wn.i.iAM Ai.ANso.N AniiK, was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 18;{5. and fitted for col- 
lege at Philli|5s Academy, Andover. He graduated at Amherst in ]8.jT and studied 
law in Boston, being admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1, 1802. Shortly after 
-admission he went to Colorado in the interest of a mining companv, and there 
came associated with Professor Hill, of Brown University, afterwards L'nited 
ites Senator from Colorado, in the Boston and Colorado Smelting Company. He 
nained in Colorado ten years, and was at one time mayor of Black Hawk in that 
ite. He finally established himself in New Bedford, where he resided the last ten 
■irs of his life, a director in several of the large mills in that city and in Fall River. 

died in New Bcdfi>rd November 2-5, ]8i(2. 
.ViiusTis Oi.n KK Ai.i.EN, son of Frederic and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen, was 
•rn in Gardiner, Me., December 21, 182G, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 
' IS. He studied law in the otTice of his father at Gardiner and was admitted to the 
!folk bar October 14, 18."iO. He was a representative in 1865 and 18(i6 from Boston, 
cl later a senator. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of Franklin Haven, of Bos- 
1. in 1869, and died in the same year. 

i'liAKiKs Edwakii Ai.i.kn, .son of Frederick and Hannah Bowen (Whipple) Allen , 
1-^ born in Gardiner. Me., November 20. 1816, and graduated at Bowdoin College 
1835. He studied law in (iardiner in the oftice of his father, and in Bangor in the 
ice of Judge Appleton, and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Me., in 1835, and 
the Suft'olk bar in 1846. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

I'rkdkric Wkiuht Buss, son of Cyrus W. and Hannah T. (Munroe) Bliss, was born 
in Rehoboth. Mass.. October 14, 1852, and studied law in Providence, R. L, with 
James Tillinghast, and graduated at the Bostcm L'niversity Law School in 1881. He 
was admitted to the bar in New Bedford in June, 1H81. He was a representative in 
lf<91 and 1892 and has been chosen for 1893. He lives in Boston. 

Hknrv J. Wki.i.s was born in Charlestown, Ma.ss., November 16, 1823, and from 
^10 to 1848 was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He then went to New Orleans, and 
184!) to California. He found employment in San Francisco first as assistant clerk 
d afterwards full clerk of the courts, which position he held until 1S53. He then 
died law and practiced until 1863, when he was appointed judge of the Municii)al 
urt of San Francisco. He was also a member of the Board of Education, police 
•nimissioner. president of the Board of Aldermen, and president of the Voung 



328 HISTORY OF THR BENCH AND BAR. 

Men's Christian Association. In 185() he returned to Massachusetts and married 
Maria A. Goodnow, of Boston. After his marriage he went back to California, where 
he remained until 18(i(>, when he ajjain returned to Massachusetts and became a resi- 
dent of Arlington. On the HOth of May, 18T1, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
and has continued in business in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge since 1877, 
where he removed from Arlington. He was a representative in 1880 and 1881, and 
afterwards two years a senator. 

Gkokge DiiXTicR RoitiN.soN was born in Lexington, Mass., January 10, 1834, and re- 
ceived his early education at the Lexington Academy and the Hopkins Classical 
School in Cambridge. He graduated at Harvard in 18.J6, and afterwards taught for 
nine years the High School in Chicopee, Mass. In 186.5 he began the study of law 
and was admitted to the bar in 18(i(), establishing himself in Chicopee, where he has 
since remained. He was a representative in 1874 and a senator in 1876. He was 
chosen member of Congress in 187(i-78-80-8'2, and in 1883 was chosen governor. He 
was rechosen in 1884 and 188.1, and has since his retirement resumed his business in 
Chicopee, with a considerable practice in Boston. 

Gkougk a. Fi.agc. was born in Millbury, Mass., May 2, 184."), and was educated at 
Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, grad ating from the latter in 180(5. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1800, and was admitted to the Worcester 
county bar. He represented the Fifteenth Worcester Representative District in the 
House of Representatives in 1877. and was a delegate to the Re]niblican National 
Convention in 1884. He was on the staff of Governor Robinson, and since 1885 has 
had an office in Bo.ston. 

Wii.M.wi HicNKV WiirrM.vN, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was 
born in Pembroke, Mass., January 20, 1817. On his father's side he was descended 
from John Whitman, who settled in Weymouth in 1038, and on his mother's side from 
Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims and governor of the Plymouth 
Colony. He was educated at the public schools, and studied law with Thomas Prince 
Real in Kingston, Mass. He practiced law in Bath, Me., a short time, and then came 
to Boston about 1844, and was associated in business with Charles G. Davis. In 1851 
he was appointed clerk of the courts of Plymouth county, and removed his residence 
to that town. After the oflice of clerk was made elective he was chosen and rechosen 
until his death, which occurred at Plymouth, August 13, 1889. He married first in 
1840 Ann Sever, daughter of William and Sally W. (Sever) Thomas, of Plymouth, and 
second, Helen, daughter of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, of Plymouth, and 
widow of William Davis of that town. 

John W. M.\h.\k was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1800. He was a major m 
the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, and died in Wash- 
ington, D. C, in 1880. 

J.\MKS A. M<,Geo((;h, son of Patrick and Mary McGcough, was born in county Ca- 
van, Ireland, June 15, 18.53, and came in 18.59, when a child, to Massachusetts. He 
was educated at Boston College, and graduated at the Boston University Law School 
in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, was a member of the 
Common Council in 1878, a representative from Boston in 1878-80-81, and a senator 
in 1883. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis 
in 1888. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 329 

John II. SiiERiu'RNK, was born in Charlestown, Mass., December 7, 1845, and jjrad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- 
tober 15, 1.S73. He was a lieutenant in the navy in the War of the Rebellion, and a 
representative in 1S79-H0. 

Micii.Mi. J. Creed was born in South Boston, August 28, 1856. He attended the 
Bigelow (Jrammar School and the English High School, and graduated at the Boston 
University Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 
1879, and was a repr^entative in 1884-85-86. 

EiiEN F. Stone was born in Newburj^iort, Mass., August 3, 1822, and was edu- 
cated at the academy at North Andover and at Harvard College, graduating from 
the latter in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. He established himself in his native town, where 
he has continued to practice up to the present time, except during his absence 
in the army, and his residence in Washington in 1865, associated in business with 
Caleb dishing. In 1851 he was president of the Common Council of Newbury- 
port, in 1867 mayor, in 1857-58-61 a senator, in 1867-77-78-80 representative, 
and a member of the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1862 he enlisted as a private and 
was chosen captain of a company recruited by him, and commanded for a time a re- 
cruiting camp at Wenham. He was afterwards colonel of the Forty-eighth Massa- 
chusetts Regiment. His home is still in Newburyport. 

Horace E. W.\re, son of Jonathan and Mary Ann Ware, was born in Milton, Mass., 
August 27, 1847, and attended the public schools of Dorchester. He graduated at 
Harvard in 1867, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of 
William S. Leland in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 
1H69. In 1877 he was in Europe, and in 1879-80 was in the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives, where he served on the Judiciary Committee both years. 

AiiR.\ii,\M BiRK.WK Coffin, son of Warren and Hannah Coffin, was bom in Gilcad, 
Me. , March 31 , 1831 , and at two years of age rernoved with his parents to Londonderrj% 
N. n. He attended Phillips Andover Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 
1856. While in college he taught school in Boxford and Andover, Mass., and the 
High School in Stoneham. After graduating he taught in Fluvanna county, Va., 
and there studied law, being admitted to the bar in Richmond, January 13, 1858. 
Returning to Boston he studied a short time in Boston in the office of John P. Healy, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858. Taking up his residence in 
Winchester, he was a representative in 1876, a senator in 1877-78, and has been a mem- 
ber of the Executive Council. He married Mary E. Stevens at Boston, August 14, 
1889, and still lives in Winchester. 

Wii.i.i.wi CoGSWEi-L was on the roll of Boston lawyers in 1885. He was born in 
Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- 
dm-er Academy, and the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. He entered 
Dartmouth College in 1855, but leaving college shipped before the mast, and in 
ls5(;-7 made a voyage around the world. He graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in I860, and in that year was admitted to the Essex bar. In 1861 he raised a com- 
pany of volunteers and was commissioned captain of Company C, Second Massachusetts 
Regiment for three years' service. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, October 
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330 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

33, 1862, to colonel, June 6, 1863, and brevetted major-general, January 17, 1865. lie 
was wounded twice during the war, and has been commander of the Grand Army of 
the Republic. He was representative in 187()-71-81-<S3, senator in 188.5-86, mayor of 
Salem from 1867 to 1873 inclusive, and has now, in 1893, been chosen for the third or 
fourth time member of Congress. 

Ei>w.\Kn D. H.-vvDEN was born in Cambridge, December 27, 1833, and was educated 
at Lawrence Academy in Groton and at Harvard, where he graduated in 18.i4. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Springfield in the office of Chief Jus- 
tice Chapman, and in Boston in the office of Ezra Ripley. He opened an office in 
Woburn, Mass., in February, 18.58, and his name is found on the list of Boston law- 
yers in 1860. In 1863 he was appointed paymaster in the navj'. In 1866 he became 
connected in business with the firm of J. B. Winn & Co., having abandoned the law, 
and continued the connection until 1875. In 1874 he was chosen president of the 
First National Bank of Woburn, was in the Massachusetts Senate in 1880-81, and 
afterwards a member of Congress. 

George C. Bent was born in Ludlow, Vt., in 1848, and attended Dean Academy 
m Franklin, Mass. He taught the High School in Machias, Me., and then studying 
law in Boston in the office of H. W. Chaplin, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 
20, 1876. His residence is in Cambridge, where he has been four years in the Com- 
mon Council, and representative in 1884-85. 

John A. Cou.ins, son of John and Catherine Collins, was born in Boston, February 
39, 1860, and received his early education at the public schools, and the Latin School 
in Boston. He graduated at the Boston L'niversity Law School in 1882, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He was a representative 1885-.86, and senator 
in 1888-89. His residence is in Boston. 

Ezra Wilkinson was born in Attleboro', Mass., February 14, 1805, and receiving 
his early education at Day's Academy, graduated at Brown University in 1834. 
After leaving college he was the ])rincipal of Monmouth Academy in Maine, and 
studied law with Peter Pratt in Providence and Josiah J. Fiske in Wrentham. He 
was admitted to the bar at Dedham in September, 1828, and after practicing a 
short time in Freetown and Seekonk, he removed to Dedham in 1835, where he 
resided until his death. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the 
Superior Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued on the bench until his 
death in 1882. Previous to his going on the bench he served twelve years, from 
1843 to 1855, as district attorney. The office of attorney-general was abolished in 
1843 and renewed in 1849, and during the interval Mr. Wilkinson conducted ten cilpi- 
tal trials. Ho was a representative in 1841-51-56, and a member of the Constitutional 
Convention in 1853. He was not only an able lawyer, but an accomplished scholar. 
Henry W. Fuller was born in Hooksett, N. H., June 30, 1840, and removed when 
young to Concord, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1857, and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1859. In 1860 he began practice in Concord, and in 1861 enlisted as a 
private in the First New Hampshire Regiment for three months' service. He was 
afterwards appointed first lieutenant and adjutant of the Fourth New Hampshire 
Regiment for three years' service, and in December, 1863, was made major. He 
was afterward made lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, 
and finally colonel of the Seventy-fifth United States Regiment of colored troops. 



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He was in the ser\-ice from April, 1861, to January, 18f>(i, and was discharged with 
the brevet rank of brigadier-general. After his discharge he came to Boston, where 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 9, 1868, and resumed practice. He was a 
member of the Boston Common Council in 1874, representative in 1875-76-77-79, and 
senator in 1880-81. He married a sister of ex-Governor William Gaston. 

Jii.iis RocKWF.i.i., was born in Colebrook, Conn., April 26, 1805, and was educated 
in his youth at the academy in Lenox, Mass., and under the private instruction of 
Rev. Ralph Emerson, of Norfolk, Conn., and of Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, of Gran- 
ville, Mass. He graduated at Yale in 1826, and studied law at the Yale Law School 
and with Swan & Sedgwick, at Sharon, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 
Litchtield, Conn., in 1829, and in ISJiO established himself in Pittsfield, Mass., where 
he practiced alone until 1842. He then associated himself with James Dennison 
Colt. He was a representative from Pittstield in 1834-35-:36-37, and the last three 
years was speaker. He was bank commissioner from 1839 to 1841, and from 1844 to 
1852 was a member of Congress. In 1854 he was appointed United States senator 
for the unexpired term of Edward Everett, who had resigned. In 1855 he was the 
Republican candidate for governor against Henry J. Gardner, the Know Nothing 
candidate, and was defeated. In 1858 he was again a representative and again 
chosen speaker. He was one of the judges appointed to the bench of the Superior 
Court at its establishment in 1859, and continued in office until his resignation in 
1886. In 1865 he removed from Pittsfield to Lenox, and at the centennial of that 
town, July 4, 1876, delivered the address. He has been president of the Pittsfield 
Bank, the Berkshire County Insurance Company, the Pittsfield Savings Bank, and 
the Berkshire Bible Society. 

James Dennison Coi.t was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 8, 1819, and was edu- 
cated in his youth at the public schools. He graduated at Williams College in 1838, 
and became a private tutor in a family in Natchez, Miss. He began the study of 
law at Natchez with General Gaines, United States district attorney, and returned 
to Pittsfield in 1840, where he studied in the office of Julius Rockwell. After fm'ther 
study at the Harvard Law Schol, he was admitted to the Berkshire bar in 1841, and 
became associated with his old instructor, Mr. Rockwell, remaining with him until 
Mr. Rockwell was appointed to the Superior Court bench. He then became a part- 
ner with his brother-in-law, Thomas P. Pingree, and in 1865 was appointed judge of 
the Supreme Judicial Court. On account of ill health he resigned in 1866. In 1868, 
after his return from a European trip, he was again appointed to the Supreme 
bench, and continued in office until his death in 1881. He was a representative in 
185:i-54, and received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 1870. 

AiGusTis LoKD SoLLE, Son of Gideon L. Soule, principal of Phillips Exeter 
Academy, was born in Exeter, N. H., April 19, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in 
1846. He studied law in New Hampshire, and graduating' at the Harvard Law 
School, was admitted to the bar in 1849. He established himself in Chicopee, where 
he remained two years, when he removed to Springfield. In 1877 he was appointed 
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, and in 1880 changed his residence to Boston. 
He was a representative from Springfield in 1873. He resigned his seat on the 
bench in 1881, and died in 1887. 



332 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Georce Marston, son of Charles and Nancy C. (Goodspeed) Marston, was born in 
that part of Barnstable, Mass., known as Marston's Mills, October 15, 1821, and in 
his youth attended the public schools. At a later period he taught school during the 
winter and was employed on his father's farm during the summer. He belonged to 
a sturdy family, firm and vigorous both in body and mind. His progenitor on Cape 
Cod was Benjamin Marston, who moved to Barnstable from Salem. No less than 
three Benjamin Marstons belonging to this family had graduated from Harvard in 
1749, and it was probably the one graduating in 1715 who received from the town of 
Barnstable in 1738 a grant of the mill privileges around which has grown the hamlet 
called Marston's Mills. The father of the subject of this sketch was representative, 
senator, executive councillor, and sheriff. Nymphas Marston, his uncle, graduated 
at Harvard in 1807, and died in 18C4, having served as senator and judge of probate. 
At about twenty years of age George Marston entered the ship-chandlery store of 
Howland & Hinckley, as clerk, but at the end of si.x months abandoned the idea of 
becoming a business man, and entered his uncle's office in Barnstable as a student at 
law. He also attended the Harvard Law School, paying the expenses of his edu- 
cation by teaching school during the winter. He was admitted to the bar in Barn- 
stable in September, 1845, and establishing himself there, remained in his native 
town until 181)9. In 1853 he was appointed register of probate, and in 1854 judge of 
probate, holding the office until 1858. In 18.59 he was chosen district attorney, and 
remained in office until 1S78, when he was chosen attorney-general. While district 
attorney in 18(i() he was the Bell-Everett candidate for lieutenant-governor, and in 
in 18(iy became a resident of New Bedford; and a partner of William W. Crapo. 
He remained in office as attorney-general until 1883, when he was succeeded by 
Edgar J. Sherman. He married Elizabeth Weston, daughter of Oliver C. Swift, of 
Falmouth, Mass., and died in 1883. 

Matthew Doi.a.n was born in Boston, October 7, 1856, and graduated at the Boston 
University Law School in 1877. He was a re]5resentative in 1875 and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1878. 

Wii.i.iA-M J. Dui.an', son of Patrick and Maria E. Dolan, was born in Boston, No- 
vember 4, 1864, and was educated at the Roxbury High School. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 
1889. He was a representative in 1892 from Boston, where he has his residence. ' 

Woodward Emerv, son of James Woodward and Martha E. (Bell) Emery, was 
born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 5, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. 
He giaduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after a year's study in Boston 
in the offices of Henry W. Paine and Ilutchins & Wheeler, was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July, 1867. He was ai)pointed in June, 1872, a special justice of the Police 
Court in Cambridge, where he has his residence, holding that office until his resigna- 
tion in 1878, was a member of the Common Council in 1877 and representative in 
1885. He married Anne Parry Jones in Portsmouth, N. H., December 5, 1878. 

James E. Fit /.cjerai-d was born in Boston, April 25, 1855, and was educated at the 
Lyman Grammar School and the English High School. He studied law at the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He was 
engaged in mercantile pursuits before he studied law, and was a member of the Com- 
mon Council from 1882 to 1884 and a representative in 1886-87. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 333 

AurinK LoKn, son of Rev. William II. and Persis (Kendall) Lord, was born at 
Port Washington, Wis., September 2, 18.")0. His father was a nephew of Rev. Nathan 
Lord, who was president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 18(i3, and brother of 
Rev. John Lord, the distinguished historical lecturer. His mother was a daughter 
of Rev. James Kendall, the venerable pastor of the Kirst Church in Plymouth, Mass., 
who died in ISOO, after sixty years of service, and his second wife, Sally, daughter of 
Paul Kendall. THi^subject of this sketch was educated in Plymouth, and fitting for 
college at the High School in that town, graduated at Harvard in 1872. He studied 
law in Boston in the otiice of Lathrop, Abbot & Jones, and was admitted to the bar 
in Plymouth in May. 1874. After admission he associated himself in business with 
Albert Mason with an office in Plymouth, where he has continued to reside up to the 
present time. For some years, however, he has had an office in Boston, where his 
steadily enlarging business has occupied the larger part of his time. Since Mr. 
Mason was drawn away from general practice by his judicial and other appointments 
he has jjracticed alone. In 1885 and 1886 he was a representative from Plymouth and 
had he not been defeated for a third term by the Democratic candidate, he would 
have been a leading aspirant for the speaker's chair. In 18S:i he was chosen a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is now a trustee of the Pilgrim So- 
ciety and the Plymouth Savings Bank, and a member of the State Civil Service Com- 
mission. He manied, October 3, 1878, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Rush R. and Zoe R. 
Shippeu, now of Washington, D. C. 

Charles Albert Prince, son of Frederick Octavius and Helen (Henry) Prince, 
was born in Boston, August 2fi, 1852, Knd fitting for college at the Boston Latin 
School gi'aduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law with Henry W. Paine and 
Robert D. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1876. He 
married Helen Choate, daughter of Edward EUerton Pratt, and granddaughter of 
Rufus Choate. 

Edward A. McLai giili.v was born in Boston, September 25, 1853, and was edu- 
cated at Boston College and at Loyola College, Baltimore, from which he graduated 
in 1871. He afterwards received the degrees of A. M. and LL.D. from Boston Col- 
lege. He was a professor at Loyola College three years and at Seton Hall College, 
New Jersey, two years. He entered the office of William Gaston in 1876 for the study 
of law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 20, 1877. In 1878 he was aj)- 
pointed assistant clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving in 
that capacity until 1883, when he was chosen clerk, as he has been each year since. 

LfTiTKK J. Drake, son of Luther and Abigail Drake, was born in the town of 
Union, Me., October 27, 1847, and studied law in Rockland, Me., and was admitted 
to the Massachusetts bar at New Bedford January 12. 1874. He was first lieu- 
tenant in the War of the Rebellion from February, 1865, to March, 1866. Residence, 
Boston. 

Henry Hill Downks, son of Commodore John and Maria Gertrude (Hoffman) 
1 lownes, was bom in Boston, November 24, 1830, and was educated at the Chauncy 
Hall School and under the care of George Partridge Sanger, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1852. He studied law in Boston in the otiice of Charles B. Goodrich, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1855. He began practice in Boston, but remos-ed first to De- 
troit, then to Grand Rapids, and finally in 1860 to Davenport, la., where he served as 



334 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

clerk of the Common Pleas Court until he removed to Quincy, III., where he enlisted 
as private August 11, 186'2, in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Regi- 
ment. He died in the United States Hospital at Vicksburg of intermittent fever 
September 36, 18«4. 

Wii.i.i.AM Hk.nry Harrison Emmons, son of James B. and Jane M. Emmons, was 
born in Cleveland, O., August 29, 1841, and was educated in his youth at the public 
schools of Cleveland, and at Union School, LockportT, N. Y. After fitting for college 
he entered the army and served four years. He then studied law in New York city 
in the office of Oliver Dyer and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the 
SutTolk bar April 24, 1875. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant 
and adjutant m the One Hundred and Thirtieth Xew York Regiment of Infantry, 
afterwards made the First New York Dragoons, captain and assistant adjutant-gen- 
eral of the Cavalry Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, also assistant adjutant-gen- 
eral of the district of West Tennessee and of Mississippi. He was a member of the 
Boston Common Council in 1884 and 1885, and has been judge of the East Boston 
District Court since March, 1886. He married Sarah T. Butler in Boston, Septem- 
ber 18, 1866, and lives in Boston. 

Cn/\KLKS A. Drew graduated at Harvard in ISTO, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1872, and lives in Boston. 

Frkkm.-\n Emmons, son of Dimon and Mary Ann (Currier) Enmions, was born in 
Lyman, Me., March 1, 1845, and was educated at the common schools in Lyman and 
at the High School in Alfred, Me. He studied law in Boston in the office of Daniel W. 
Ciooch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1880. He was clerk and treas- 
urer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company previous to its sale to the State 
of Massachusetts in 1884. He is largely engaged in the pension busiiiess, and has 
had at one time as many as four thousand claims in his hands. He married Maria 
Richardson at Waterville, Me., September 2, 1869, and lives in Wakefield, Mass. 

Hf.nrv Bl'tler E.mmons, son of William II. H. and Sarah Tilton (Butler) Emmons, 
was born in Boston, July 29, 1867, and attended the public schools. He studied law 
with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. His residence is 
in Boston. 

John Henrv Colhv, son of John F. and Ruthey E. (Cloutman) Colby, was born in 
Randolph, Mass., January 13, 1862, and fitting for college at the Boston public schools, 
graduated at Dartmouth in 1885. He studied law with John F. Colby and at the 
Boston University Law School, where he graduated in 1889, and in June of that year 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He married Annie Evarts Cornelius in Boston, Oc- 
tober 8, 1891, and lives in Boston. 

Mark C. Collins, was born in Boston, September 24, 1849, and was educated at 
the public schools. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879 and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. 

Freeman Turner CRoM.MErr, son of James R. and Betsey (Turner) Cronimett, was 
born in Sebec, Me., October 2, 1850, and was educated at Foxcroft Academy and at 
Bates College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied law in South Paris, Me., 
with George A. Wilson, and graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1879. 
He was admitted to the bar at Oxford, Me., in April, 1877, and to the Suffolk bar in 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 335 

December, 1S7!). He was a member of the School Board in South Paris from 1875 to 
1877, and taught school in that town from 1874 to 1877. He married Annie C. daugh- 
ter of Orrin W. and Mary Bent, in Pari-; Me October 20, 1880, and lives in 
Chelsea. 

John F. Ckon.w was born in Boston April i), l.S.")li, and was educated at the com- 
mon schools and the Boston English High School. He studied law at the Boston 
Universitv Law School, and in the office of F. A. Perry, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in May, 1879, at the age of twenty-three. He was a campaign speaker 
in 1876, advocating the election of Samuel J. Tilden to the presidency. 

Guv CiNNisnii.v.M, son of Sylvester, was born in Gloucester, Mass., April 19, 1867, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He attended the Harvard Law School and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. His residence is at Gloucester. 

Fr.vncis p. CrRR.VN, son of Patrick and Ellen Curran, was born in Woburn, Mass., 
August 31, 1862, and was educated at the Woburn High School. He studied law at 
the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the bar of Middlesex county 
in July, 188.'). He has been selectman, city solicitor, water commissioner, and chair- 
man of the Board of Assessors in Woburn, where he has his residence. He married 
Ida M. Gilman (Colby). He is editor of the Woburn City Press, with his law office 
in Boston. > 

N.\TH.'\s CiRRiKK, son of Albert and Hannah Currier, was born June 22, 1858, and 
was educated at the Goddard Seminary and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 
1883. He was admitted to the bar of York county. Me., January 8, 1880, and to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He married Clara May Smith in Enfield, N. H., July 14, 
1SS6, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

Charles H. Crosby, son of Watson and Desire Crosby, was born in Brattleboro, 
Vt., and was educated at the Brattleboro Academy. He studied law with Luther 
Adams in Chester, Vt., and was admitted to the Vermont bar in Woodstock, Febru- 
ary 2, 1848, and to the Suffolk bar November 7, 1878. He is the author of "Letters 
from Abroad." He married Mary L. Hart, at Guilford, Vt., November 8, 1849, and 
lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

J. PoRi EK Crosby, son of Asa Stone and Eliza Barker (Snow) Crosby, was born in 
Boston, May 23, 1870, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law Sch<X)l, and in the office of Arthur F. Means, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston. 

S1.M0N Greenleaf Croswell, son of Andrew and Caroline Augusta (Greenleaf) 
Croswell, was born in Newton, Mass., August 3, 1854, and was educated at the Cam- 
' bridge High School and at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1875. He stud- 
ied law at the Harvard Law Schof)l, and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He is the author of " Croswell on 
Executors," and a "Collection f)f Patent Cases." He has also edited "Greenleaf 
on Evidence," "Washburn on Easements," and jointly with J. Willard, "Wa-sh- 
burn on Real Property." He lives in Cambridge. 

James T. Cummings, son of John and Mary R. Cummings, was born in Providence, 
R. L. July 20, 1865, and graduated at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. 
He studied law with John W. Cummings, and graduated at the Boston University 
Law School, being admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. 



336 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Michael Joseph Canavan was born in Somerville, Mass., and was educated at the 
S()mer\-ille High School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1871. Immediately 
after leaving college he spent two years in Gottingen, Germany, and entering the 
Harvard Law School graduated in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Febru- 
uary 12, 1877. He is a trustee of the Somerville Public Librarv and lives in that 
town. 

Ira Osborn Cakiek, son ot Lewis and Sarah (.Sawyen Carter, was bom in Berlin, 
Mass., November 18, 1832, and graduated at Paducah College, Kentucky, in 18.~>3, and 
was afterwards for a time one of its professors. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1864. He married March 6, 
186(», Susan French, daughter of Walter and Roxana (Fletcher) Shattuck, of Groton, 
Mass., and died at Arlington, Mass., February 13, 1885. 

William E. Cassidv was born in Boston in 1S,")() and was educated at the Lawrence 
Grammar School in that city. He studied law at the Boston University Law School 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency in 
1884-8.5-K6. 

Thomas Hendekso.n Cuamilkk was born in Boston. Julj- 4, 1827, and fitting for 
college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1848. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1853. He taught in the Latin School three years and a 
private school three years. In 1857 he began the study of dentistry, and has been 
for a number of years dean of the dental department of Harvard, and jjrofessor of 
mechanical dentistry. He is in the practice of denti.stry in Boston. 

Salmon Chase was born in Cornish, N. H., in 1761, and graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1785. He studied law with Judge Sherburne, and his name is on the roll of ad- 
missions to the Suffolk bar by the Su])renic Court before 1807. He practiced in 
Portland, and died in 1806. 

Edward Vernon Chilpe, son of David Weld and Abigail (Dorr) Child, was born 
in Boston, March 13, 1804. His original name, Ebenezcr Dorr Child, was changed 
by act of the Legislature February 8, 1823. He fitted for college at the Boston I^atin 
School, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied law in Boston in the office of 
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suff'olk bar by the Common Pleas Court in 
October, 1826, and by the Supreme Judicial Court in October, 1829. He soon aban- 
doned the law and became a resident of Paris, France, where he devoted himself to 
literary pursuits. He was the Paris correspondent of the London Times from Novem- 
ber 3, 1845, to June 7, 1856, and of the New York Courier and Enquirer from October 
17, 1846, to December 4, 1856. His letters to both journals were published in a 
vohmie for private circulation. He married in 1831 Mildred, daughter of General 
Henry Lee, of Virginia, and died in Paris, January 23, 1861. 

Walter Le^noir Chirih, son of Samuel S. and Julia (Lenoir) Church, was born in 
Lexington, Ky., October 17, 1849, and was educated at the Kentucky L^niversity, the 
Missouri Lhiiversity, and Washington University. He studied law in St. Louis, Mo., 
with Thomas A. Russell, and at the Washington University Law School. He was 
admitted to the bar in Missouri in 1872, in Colorado in 1880, in Kentucky in 1887, 
and in Massachusetts in 1890. He has devoted himself to literary pursuits, aside 
from his law practice, and has published essays, poems and stories. He married 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 337 

Sue Alexinc Campbell in St. Louis, December iS, ISTIi. and lives in the Brighton 
District of Boston. 

John Maitlani) Brkwkk Cm Ktiiii.i., son of Asaph and Mary (Brewer) Churchill, 
was born in Dorchester, Mass., January 18, 1858, and was educated at the Boston 
Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 187!). He"studied law at the 
Harvard I>aw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. Me is unmarried, 
and lives in Boston. 

Ci-.okcK KiHN Ci.ARKK, soTi of Samuel (Jreeley and Martha (Kuhn) Clarke, was horn 
in Cambridge. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 188:i, and 
became a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Kllen M, daughter of Harrison 
Dudley, of Cambridge. 

.\i.iii. Cauv Ci..\kk. son of Satchwell \V. and Ruth (Folsom) Clark, was born in 
Franklin, \. H., August 31, 183(), and was educated at the Gilmanton Academy and 
at Phillips E.xeter Academy. He studied law in Lowell in the office of John P. 
Robinson, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 18.i2. He has been a member of the Dorchester School Board, and was a 
representative in 1878-74. He married at Lowell, October 1, 18.5.5, Josephine Varney, 
and lives in the Dorchester district of Boston. 

.\i,BF.RT E. Ci.ARV, son of John and Sybel H. Clary, was born in 'I'roy, Me. , March 
1.5, 1848, and was educated at the jjublic schools and at Wilbraham Academy in Wil- 
braham, Mass. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 187.5 and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in the same year. While living in Troy he was town 
clerk and chairman of the School Board and is now special justice of the East Boston 
District Court, appointed in 1886. Prior to 187.5 he taught school a number of years 
in Maine. He married at Saco, Me., April 14, 1881, Rosalia L. Dunn, and lives in 
East Boston. 

Ani>kkw J.vckson Ci.oicii, son of Winthrop and Susan (Bryant) Clough, was born 
in Montpelier, Vt., August 3, 1831. He studied law in New Ipswich with John Pres- 
ton and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May .5, 
IS")". He practiced at Groton Junction and lived in Shirley, and was appointed trial 
justice September 28, 1858. He served in the war as captain of Company D, Fifty- 
third Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged January 32, 1863. He married, 
March 6, 1860, Mary Jane, daughter of Lewis and Almira Woods (Hartwell) Blood, 
of Shirley, and died at Shirley, June 14, 1868. 

MipsKs Gii.i. ColiU, son of Elias Hull and Rebecca Buttrick (Gill) Cobb, was born in 
Princeton, Mass., November 24, 1820, and removed with his parents to Groton in 
1834. He was educated at the Lawrence Academy in (Jroton and at Harvard, where 
he graduated in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 26 in that year. lie was associated in ]3rac- 
tice with James Dana in Charlestown, where he was a member of the Common Council 
in 1S47 and 1848, and an alderman in 1853. In 18.55 he removed to Dorchester and 
was a member of the E.xccutive Council in 1856. He married, October 14, 1846, 
Sophia, daughter of Edmund and Sophia (Sewall) Munroe, of Boston, and is now in 
the practice of his profession in California. 
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338 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

John SniKKK Coiui, son of John Saxelby and Harriett W. Cobb, was born in Eng- 
land, January 7, 1842, and was educated in the higher schools of England. He 
studied law at the Columbia College Law School in New York, and was admitted to 
to the New York bar in 187"), and to the Suffolk bar in 1ks4. His residence is in 
Boston. 

Amorv Ei.ior, son of William Prescott and Eleanor (Chapin) Eliot, was born May 
i>(!, 18")(3, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the 
offices of M. it C. A. Williams and James C. iJavis, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in May, 1880. He married Mary Clark in Boston, December 7, 1881. 

TnoM.\s Jefikkson Emery, son of Hiram and Margaret (Young) Emery, was born 
in Poland, Me., December 26, 1845, and graduated at Bovvdoin College in 18()8. He 
studied law in Boston in the office of D. C. Linscott and at the Boston L^'niversity Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 15, 1877. He was a member of 
the Boston Common Council in 1881-82-83, and of the Boston School Board in 1889- 
90-91. He lives in Boston. 

AiiKAiiAM Eiju .\Ki)s, son of Abraham and Martha Edwards, was born in Boston, 
September 7, 1790, and was fitted for college under the care of Charles Folsom. He 
graduatedat Harvard in 1819, and after studying law with Judge Fay was admitted 
to the bar in Middlesex county in September, 1822. He began to practice in Brigh- 
ton, now a part of Boston, and continued there until 18B2, when he removed to Cam- 
bridge, of which city he was mayor in 1848. He married Anne, daughter of Josiah 
and Nancy Moore, and died in Cambridge, February 5, 1870. 

Charles H. Edson, son of Henry iijid Mary M. Edson, was born in East Bridge- 
water, Mass., September ij, 1848, and was educated at the East Bridgewater High 
School, and the Bridgewater Academy. He studied law at the Columbian Law 
School at Washington, D. C. , and in East Bridgewater in the office of William H. 
Osborne, and was admitted to the bar in Washington in October, 1879, and to the 
Massachusetts bar in Plymouth in I'ebruary, 1880. He married at HIast Bridgewater, 
December 24, 1879, Mary M., daughter of Benjamin Wiiislow Harris, and lives in 
Whitman, Mass., with his office in Boston. 

George Ai.i-ked Pail Codwise, son of George W. and L. C. Beatrice Codwise, was 
born in York, Penn., September 5, 1859, and was educated at Union College, Sche- 
nectady, N. Y. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and in the 
office of George Z. Adams, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884. He 
married Annie M. Pope at Waltham, Mass., June 9, 1891, and lives at Wellesley 
Hills, near Boston. 

John W. Co.nvkksk, son of Nelson and Sally M. Converse, was born in Marlboro', 
N. H., July 3, 1848, and was educated at the Marlboro' public schools, the academy 
at Newbury, Vt., the academy at Westbrook, Me., and the academy at New Ipswich, 
N. H. He studied law in Keene, N. H., with Wheeler & Faulkner, and in Spring- 
field, Mass., with .Soule &■ Lathrop, and was admitted to the bar October 29, 1872. 
He has been jin alderman in Somerville, where he has his residence. He married at 
Laconia, N. H., Mrs. Georgiana E. Huckins, March 3, 1880. 

Mk.'Hai.l H. Coocan was born in New Bedford, March 21, 18.58, and was educated 
at the public schools in Providence, R. L, and at the Phillips Grammar School in 





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Unstoii lie studied law in Boston in the offices of Joseph Bennett and Owen A. 
(ialvin, ;iiul was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1888. He was a clerk in the 
office of the United States marshal under Nathaniel P. Banks and Henry B. Lover- 
ing, and also special ojjerative of the United States secret service of theTreasury De- 
partment in 1H8S and IHSit, but is now in active practice. He married, November 29, 
1883, in Boston, Mary E. Connell, and has his residence in Cambridgeport. 

HoK.\cK Hoi'KiNs Cooi.iDOK, SOU of Amos and Louisa (Hopkins) Coolidge, was b.orn 
in Boston, February 11, 1832, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 18.52. He graduated at the Har\-ard Law School in 
lf<.")(i, and after further study in Boston in the office of Brooks &r Ball was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in June, 1857. He has been commissioner of insolvency and master 
in chancery, was a member of the Massachusetts Ht)use of Representatives in 186.1- 
(>(>-67, and a member of the Senate in 1869-70-71-72, serving the last three years as 
its president. He married in Boston, October 27, 18.')7, Eunice Maria Weeks, and has 
his residence in Boston. 

Wii.i.i.\.\i Hknrv CooLiDiJK, son of William Leander and Sarah Isabella (Washburn) 
Coolidge, was born in Natick, Mass., February 28, 18.59, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of 
Hyde, Dickinson &: Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1885. 
Heisassistantattorneyof the Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine Railroads, and 
lives at Newton, with an office in Boston occupied by the firm of .Strout & Coolidge, 
of which he is a member. He married May Humiihreys, of St. Louis, October 8, 
1H87, at Bergen Point, N. J. 

John Colby Coomhs, son of Josiah C. and Abigail P'. Coombs, was born in Bow- 
doinham. Me., March 9, 1845, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1869. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the oflice of Jewell, Gaston & Field, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1872. He lives in Boston. 

Ci,.ARENCE H. Cooi'KR, son of Elias H. and Ruth E. Cooper, was born in New 
Haven, Conn., March 18, 1853, and was educated at the common and high schools 
of that city. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston with John 
Lathrop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He is at jiresent 
assistant clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for SutTf)lk county, and lives in Boston. 

Fr.\nk M. Co|'KI,.\M), son of Almon and Elizabeth A. Copeland, was born in Mans- 
field, Mass., April 19, 1854, and was educated at Marietta College, Marietta, O. 
He studied law at the Boston L'niversity Law School and in Boston in the office of 
Ely & Gates, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He lives in Newton. 

William A. Copeland, son of Almon and Elizabeth A. Copeland, was born in Mans- 
field, Mass., October 28, 18.55, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law Schoc*)! and in Boston in the offices of Richard H. 
Dana and of J. E. Maynadier, and was admitted to the bar of Bristol county in 1880. 
lie has held many town offices in Mansfield, where he has his residence, and was a 
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the First Bristol Dis- 
trict in 1883. 

Joseph J. Cokheit, son of James and Hannah Corbett, was born in Charlestown, 
Mass., December 24, 1863, and was educated at the Charlestown High School. He 



j40 n J STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

graduated at the Boston University Law School in IHH"), and in December of that 
year was admitted to the Suffolk bar. His residence is in the Charlestown District of 
Boston. 

JosiAit P.vksoN^ CooKK, son of Noah and Mary Rockwood Cooke, was born in New 
Ipswich, N. H., February 15, 1787. He was descended from Major Aaron Cooke, 
who probably came from Earls Colne in Essex county, England, with the first set- 
tlers of Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. The ancestor Aaron removed to Windsor, Conn., 
and in 1661 settled in Northampton, where he died in 1690. His son Aaron lived in 
Hadley, and there Noah Cooke, the fourth in descent from him, was born. Noah 
Cooke graduated at Harvard in 1769 and served as chaplain in the Revolutionary 
War. He practiced law in New Ipswich, and married Mary Rockwood, of Winchester, 
N. H. The subject of this sketch, at four years of age, in 1791 removed with his 
parents to Keene, N. H., where he attended the public schools and the Chesterfield 
Academy, and entering Dartmouth College graduated in 1807. He studied law with 
his father in Keene and was admitted to the Common Pleas bar of Suffolk county in 
1810 and to the Supreme Judicial bar in 1818. He began practice in an,office in the 
old State House in State street, Boston, and from the tower of fliat building saw the 
battle between the Chesapeake and Shannon. Mr. Cooke at his death was the 
oldest member of the Suffolk bar and had held a commission of justice of the peace 
and of the quorum sixty-four years, his first commission having been signed by Gov- 
ernor Strong in 1816 and his last by Governor Rice in 1878. It has been said by one 
who knew him well and revered his memory, "that he had so long outlived his gen- 
eration that he was not known to many of the recent active members of his profes- 
sion ; but the records of the courts and the fruits of his industry furnish abundant 
evidence that during his active life few legal advisers were more trusted than this 
quiet and unostentatious attorney." Mr. Cooke was the confidential counsellor and 
friend of the saintly Bishop Cheverus, who from his subsequent great elevation wTOte 
to his Boston lawyer: "The httle Bishop of Boston enjoyed more real peace and 
happiness than the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux and Peer of France." Mr. 
Cooke married in 1826, Mary, daughter of John Pratt, a Boston merchant, who died 
five years after marriage at Santa Cruz. Josiah Parsons Cooke, Erving professor of 
chemistry and mineralogy in Harvard College, is his son, and his only daughter 
married Professor II. B. Nash of the same institution. Mr. Cooke died in Boston, 
February 29, 1880, at the age of ninety-three years. 

John Spaulding, son of John and Eleanor (Bennett) Spaulding, was born in Town- 
send, Mass., Augusts, 1817. He is descended from Edward Spaulding, who came 
to New England about 1630, and settled in Braintree, Mass., and his father, John 
Spaulding, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth in descent from the 
ancestor. He was educated in the public schoo s of Townsend, and at Phillips Acad- 
emy, and entered Yale College in 1842. At various times before entering college he 
was employed on his father's farm and in teaching school, all the while gaining all 
the knowledge he could from observ-ation and study preparatory to the career he had 
marked out for himself. He was obliged on account of ill health to leave college in 
his senior year, but though failing to graduate with his class, he received at a later 
period the degree of Master of Arts. In 1850 he graduated at the Harvard Law 
School, and after further pursuing his law studies in Groton, in the office of George 



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Frederick Farley, was admitted to the bar in 1851. He began practice in Groton 
and after remaining there, in the central village and at Groton Junction, about twenty 
years, removed to Boston, where he has continued in business to the present time. 
At the time of the establishment of the First Northern Middlesex District Court he 
was api)ointed special justice, and still holds that office. He married Charlotte A., 
daughter of Alpheus Bigelow, of Weston, who died June 24, 1889. He lives in the 
Ro.xbury District of Boston. 

Gkorge Francis Richardson, son of Daniel and Hannah (Adams) Richardson, was 
horn in Tyngsboro, Mass., December 6, 182S). He was educated at Phillips Exeter 
Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 18.j0. He graduated at the Har- 
vard Law School in I8.l:{ and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2.5 of that year. 
After practicing in Boston a few years he became in 1858 a partner of his brother, 
Daniel S. Richardson, in Lowell, as the successor of his brother, William A. Rich- 
ardson, who had been appointed judge of probate and insolvency for Middlesex 
county. In 18()2 and 18(53 he was a member of the Common Council of Lowell, and 
president of the Board. In 1864 he was alderman, and in 1867 and 1868 was mayor 
of the city. In 1871 and 1872 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. He 
has also been a member of the School Board, trustee of the City Library, presi- 
dent of the Middlesex Mechanic Association, director of the Prescott National Bank, 
president of the Lowell Manufacturing Company, and either trustee, director, or 
president of other institutions. ' 

Charles Russei.i. Train, son of Rev. Charles and Hcpsibah (Harrington) Train, 
was bom in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817. He was educated at the Fra- 
mingham public schools, the Framingham Academy, and at Brown University, where 
he graduated in 1837. He read law in Cambridge and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in July, 1841. He settled in Framingham, and was a representative in 1847 and 
member of the Constitutional Convention m 1853. He was district attorney from 
1848 to 1855, a member of the Executive Council in 1857-58, and member of Congress 
from 1859 to 18(i3. Not long after his retirement from Congress he removed to Bos- 
ton and in 1871 was a representative from that city, and held by election the office of 
attorney-general of the Commonwealth from 1872 to 1879. He published in 1855, 
jointly with Franklin F. Head, "Precedents of Indictments, Special Pleas, etc.. 
Adapted to American Practice." He died at North Conway, N. H., July 29, 1885. 
Me was a volunteer aide on the staff of his friend. General George H. Gordon, and 
took part in the battle of Antietam. He was an excellent lawyer, a man of fine 
social qualities, and was universally beloved. 

\Vii.i,i.\M Wetmorh SioRv, son of Judge Joseph Story, was liorn in Salem, Mass., 
February 12, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. He graduated at the Har\-ard 
Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1841. He soon 
abandoned the law for the profession of sculpture, in which he has become dis- 
tinguished. Among his best works are the bust of his father and the statues of Ed- 
ward liverett and Chief Justice Marshall, one in the Boston Public Garden and the 
'ither in Washington at the west front of the Capitol. He is now in Italy. 

Damki. Samiei. Richakiison, son of Daniel and Hannah (Adams) Richardson, was 
descended from Ezekiel Richardson, who came to Massachusetts with Winthrop in 
l<i30. Daniel, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a lawyer in Tyngsboro, 



342 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Mass., who at various times was senator and representative, and had three children, 
Daniel Samuel, the oldest, William Adams, late secretary of the treasury, and now 
chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, and George Francis, already 
mentioned in this register. Daniel Samuel fitted for college at the Derry Academy, 
New Hampshire, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He graduated at Harvard 
Law School in 1839 and was admitted to the Suflfolk bar July 9 of that year. He set- 
tled in Lowell, and it is said that during his long practice he argued more than three 
hundred cases, which are included in the Massachusetts Reports. In 1842-43-47 he 
was a representative, and in 18G2 a Senator. In 1845 and 1846 he was a member 
and president of the Lowell Common Council, and in 1848 a member of the Board 
of Aldermen, and an officer of corporations and other institutions too numerous to 
mention. He died in Lowell, March 21, 1890. 

Joel Giles was born in Townsend, Ma.ss., in 1804, and graduated at Harvard in 
1829, and was for a time after graduating a tutor in the college. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in April, 1837. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 
1848, was a representative and senator, and a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
tion in 1853. He died in Boston in 1882. 

John Giles, brother of the above, was born in Townsend in 1806, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1831. He read law with Parsons & Stearns in Boston, and died in June, 
1838. 

Alfred Brew.ster Ely, son of Rev. Alfred Ely, was born in Monson, Mass., Jan- 
uary 13, 1817. He was educated at the Monson Academy and at Amherst College, 
where he graduated in 1836. After leaving college he taught the Donaldson Academy 
at Fayetteville, JSJ. C. , and the High School in Brattleboro, Vt. He studied law in 
Springfield, Mass., with Chapman & Ashmun and in Boston with Sidney Bartlett, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 22, 1844. He established himself in Boston with 
a residence in Newton, and became an early and active " Native American." He in- 
troduced into Massachusetts in 1846 the " Order of United Americans." He was at 
one time State director of the Western Railroad and commissioner of Back Bay Lands. 
In 1861 he was ([uartermaster of the Thirteenth Connecticut Regiment, and in 1862 as- 
sistant adjutant-general of the Northern Division of the Department of the South. He 
married first a daughter of Charles J. Cooley, of Norwich, Conn., and second, Har- 
riet Elizabeth, daughter of Freeman Allen, of Boston, and died in Newton, July 30, 
1872. 

Henry H. Fi ller, son of Rev. Timothy Fuller, was born in Princeton, Mass., in 
1790, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He read law in Litchfield, Vt., with Chief 
Justice Reeves and Judge Ciould, and also in Boston, and was admitted to theSufl'olk 
bar in the Common Pleas Court September 19, 1815, and in the Supreme Judicial 
Court December 26, 1817. He died in Concord, Mass., Sci)tcmber 15, 1853. He was 
not only a sound lawyer, but a man of pungent humor and keen sarcasm. His pres- 
ence as counsel in court was always sure to attract a general attendance of the 
younger members of the bar. If his opponent had any strong point in his favor, 
whether of the law, or oratory, or personal character, he would inevitably weaken it 
by some sally of wit, which often gave not only the laugh but the verdict to his side. 
He was, for instance, once trying a case with Samuel Hoar, of Concord, on the other 
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anil intcjfritv, and his almost prayerful seriousness rarely failed to imijress the jury 
with the justice of his cause. After one of his impressive appeals, Mr. Fuller arose 
and said, " Now, gentlemen of the jury, let us close the exercises of this solemn occa- 
sion, etc." From that moment Mr. Hoar's appeal was dead. Its recall only excited 
a smile and the effect which his solemnity usually inspired was lost. 

Gkorc.k Mdkky was born in Walpole. Mass., June 12, 1789, and graduated at Har- 
vard in IKll. He read law with Luther Lawrence in Groton, Mass., and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March l(i, IHIS. He was an active member of the Whig 
party, and was a member of both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, and of 
the Executive Council. He died in 1860. 

Jamks Tkmi'I.h, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., September 20, ITHfi, 
and graduated at Dartmouth in 1794. He taught school in Concord in 179.5 and 1796, 
and read law with Jonathan Fay of that town. His name is on the roll of admissions 
to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court before 1807. He settled in Cambridge, and 
died March 10, 1802. 

Sii.AS Lf.e, son of Joseph Lee, was born in Concord, Mass., July 3, 1700, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1784. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in what 
is now Wiscasset, Me. He was a representative in 1800 and 1801, and a member 
of the Sixth Congress. In January, 1802, he was appointed LTnited States district at- 
torney for Maine, and in 1807 judge of probate of Lincoln county. He died March 1, 
1814. 

Petkr Ci.ARK, son of Benjamin, was born in Concord, Mass., in 1756, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1777. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in South- 
boro'. where he died in July, 1792. 

Daniki. Bliss Rii'i.Ev, son of Rev. Ezra Ripley, was born in Concord in 1788, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1808. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and died at St. 
Stephens, Ala., April 30, 1825. 

SrF.i'iiEN Scales, born in Boston, graduated at Harvard 1763. He was admitted to 
the bar, and in 1772 removed from Boston to Chelmsford, where he died on the 5th 
of November in that year. 

John Wesley Trrus, son of Asher S. and Betsey N. (Ellsworth) Titus, was born in 
Salem, Ma.ss. , and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in Boston in the office of Josiah W. Hubbard, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar April 25, 1859. He is unmarried and lives in Dedham. 

Charlf;s E. Toi>1), son of Charles A. and Mary A. Todd, was born in Xewbury- 
port, Mass., August 21, 1856, and was educated at the Lyme High School and under 
private instruction. He graduated at the Boston University Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in Salem, Mas.s., May 1. 1880. He lives in Melrose. 

William Nelson Titus, son of William Nelson and Martha J. Titus, was boni in 
Alna, Lincoln county. Me., January 12, 1855, and received his early education at the 
common schools, afterwards attending the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and Waterville 
Classical Institute, and Maine State College. He studied law with William H. Hilton in 
Damariscotta, Mc, and with Almore Kennedy in Waldoboro', Me., and was admitted 
to the Maine bar in Lincoln county in April, 1879. He was on the bench in the Rhode 
Island District Court from 1882 to 1885, and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1885. 



344 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Removing to Massachusetts he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in Feb- 
ury, 1886. He has been a frequent contributor of financial and other articles to the 
Kennebec Journal and Boston Daily Advertiser. He married Frances Gracia at 
Waldoboro', Me., December 27, 1881, and has his residence in Medford. 

(iKciKUK Arnold Torrey, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Arnold) Torrey. was born in 
Fitchburg, Mass., May 14, 1838, and was educated at Leicester Academy and at Har- 
vard College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at Fitchburg in June, 1861. He was 
senator from the Fifth Worcester District in 1873 and 1873, and has been general 
counsel for the Fitchburg Railroad Com])any since 1887. He married Ellen M. Shir- 
ley at Boston in June, 18G1, and lives in Boston. 

George Makepe.vce Towle was born in Washington, D. C, August 27, 1841, and 
graduated at Yale in 1861. He attended the Harvard Law School, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. He was United States consul at Nantes from 
1866 to 1868, and then consul at Bradford, England, till 1870. He was a delegate to 
the National Republican Convention in 1888, manufacturing editor of the Com- 
mercial Bullelin in 187l)-71, and foreign editor of the Boston Post from 1871 to 
1876. 

WiLi.i.i.\M Warren Towle, son of Di'. William C. and Annie E. Towle, was born in 
Fryeburg, Me., August 21, 1860, and was educated at the Fryeburg Academy and at 
Bowdoin College, where he gradtiated in 1881. He graduated at the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School in 1884, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1884. He 
was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1889 and 1890, and lives in Boston. 

William Roi-es Tkask, son of Charles Hooper and Martha (Reed) Trask, was born 
in New York city, Jannary 9, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 188.1. He attended 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the SutTolk bar in 1888. He is un- 
married and lives in Boston. 

Bentlev Wirl Warken, son of William Wirt and Mary (Adams) Warren, was born 
in Brighton, Mass., April 20, 1864, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and 
at \\'illiams College, where he graduated in 188.5. He studied law at the Boston 
University Law School and in the ofiice of Thomas P. Proctor, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He was a representative in lSlll-92. Me lives in 
the Brighton District of Boston. 

George Hill Mili.in, son of Arthur and Mary Mullin, wa> liorii in llie countv of 
Londonderry, Ireland, November 17, 1834, and coming to America, was educated at 
the Madras and grammar schools of New Brunswick. He studied law with Judge 
Duff, late of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and at the Harvard Law School, 
from which he graduated in 186.S. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of New' Brunswick October 21, 1869, and as barrister in 1870. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1871. 

Sherman Leland w-as born in Grafton, Mass., March 29, 1783, and was educated 
at the common schools. He began to study law in October, 1805, and was admitted 
to the bar in Worcester in December, 1809. He began practice at East]jort, Me., in 
January, 1810, and ( )ctober 11, 1811, he was appointed attorney for Washington county. 
He was a representative in 1812, and from December, 1812, to April, 1813, he served 





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as first lieutenant on the frontier. lie was then made captain in the Thirty-fourth 
I'nited States Regiment, and served until January 5, 1814, when he removed to 
Roxbury and soon after opened an office in Boston. He was a representative from 
Roxbury in 181H-19-21-22-2o, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a 
senator from Norfolk county in 182:^-24-28-39, and president of the Senate in the last 
year. He was appointed judge of probate for Norfolk county January 26, 1831), and 
served until his death, which occurred November 19, 185:!. He received the degree 
of Ma.ster of Arts from Harvard in 182(i. 

\Vii.Li.\M SnKK.M.\.\ Lei..\ni), Son of the above, was born in Ro.xbury, October 12, 
1824, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law with his father and 
was a member of the Suffolk county bar in 18ii2. He succeeded his father as judge 
of probate for Norfolk county and remained in office until 1858, when the office was 
abolished and that of judge of probate and insolvency was established. He died 
July 26, 1869. 

S.xMiKi. H.AVK.N, son of Rev. Jason Haven, was born in Dcdhani, April 5, 1771, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1789. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Dexter, 
of Uedham, and Samuel Dexter, the distinguished lawyer, was his cousin. He 
studied law in Dedham with Fisher Ames, and in Boston with his cousin, and was 
admitted to tlie Suffolk bar. When the county of Norfolk was established in 
179:H he was ajjpointed register of probate and register of deeds. In 1802 he was 
appointed a special justice of the Court f)f Common Pleas for Norfolk county, and in 
1804 chief justice, serving until the court was abolished in 1811. He held the office 
of register of deeds until 18:5:^, when he removed to Roxbury where he died September 
4, 1847. 

Thomas Gree.nle.\f was born in Boston May 1"), 1767, and graduated at Har\-ard 
in 1784. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk county in October, 1809, and early 
in the century removed to Quincy. He was a representative from Quincy from 1808 
to 1820, a member of the Executive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1806 was ap- 
pointed a special justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He died Januarj- .5, 1854. 

Ebf.ne/.er F. Tii.wek was born in Braintree June 12, 1784, and studied law with 
Henry Maurice Lisle in Milton, and with James Sullivan in Boston. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1811, and practiced in Boston six or eight years 
assfjciated with Samuel K. Williams, when he removed to Braintree, where he died 
February 15, 1824. 

J'lHN B. Dkkiiv was admitted to the bar in 1821, and practiced in Boston and 
Dedham. 

David Ai.i.en Sim.mo.ns was born in Boston, November 7, 1785, and wa.s educated at 
the Chesterfield Academy in New Hampshire. He studied law with Thomas Will- 
iams in Ro.xbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 28, 1816. He practiced 
law in Boston, associated at various times with George Gay, James M. Keith and 
Har%'ey Jewell. He received the degree of LL.B. from Dartmouth, and died in 
Roxbury, November 20, 1859. 

Pkkiv G.akdnkr Boi.srEK, son of Solomon A. and Sarah (Jordan) Bolster, was born 
in Roxbur)-, August 20, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He studied law at 
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346 HISTORY OF '1HE BENCH AND BAR. 

the Harvard Law School, in the otVicc of Hamlin & Holland, of Chicago, and with 
William Gaston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. 

Isaac F. Pal'I. was born in Dedham, November 26, IBoB, and was educated in the 
public schools of that town, and at i:)artmouth, where he graduated in 1878. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, but has up to the present time devoted himself 
largely to teaching. For the last twelve years he has been an instructor in the even- 
ing schools of Boston, and for the last six years the headmaster of the Boston Even- 
ing High School. Since November 8, 1892, he has resumed the practice of 
law, having resigned the position which he held in the schools. He was for several 
years editor of the United Slates Digest. His residence is in Boston. 

William F. Mikkav was born in 1809, and studied law at the Boston University 
Law School. For a time he was a teacher in the Evening High School in Boston, but 
since about 1880 has been connected with the Boston Herald and other journals. 
He is the secretary of the Boston Press Club, and resides in the Charlestown Dis- 
trict. The editor is not sure that he was ever admitted to the bar. 

Timothy F. McDonoltcjii, son of Michael and Margaret McDonough, was born in 
Portland, Me., November 2, 1858, and was educated at the Portland public schools 
and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, where he graduated in 1880. He studied 
law with William L. Putnam in Portland, and was admitted to the bar in Portland in 
October, 1882, and to the Suffolk bar February 5, 1883. He married June 14, 1887, 
at Woonsocket, R. L , Mary F. Feely, and lives in Boston. 

Theophii.us Parsons Ciiandlek was a descendant from Edmund Chandler, who 
came to New England and settled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. His ancestors lived 
in Duxbury through four generations until 1762, when Peleg, the great-great-grand- 
son of Edmund, removed to New Gloucester in Maine, where he acquired a large 
tract of land at what afterwards became the Lower Corner village, and where he 
lived to a great age. He was a prominent man in the district in which he lived, 
serving as coroner by appointment of Governor Hutchinson, and in 1784 as repre- 
sentative .to the General Court of JIassachusetts Bay, of which Maine was a part. 
His son Peleg Chandler, jr., was born m New Gloucester, September 9, 1773, gradu- 
ated at Brown University in 1795, and studied and practiced law in his native town 
until 1826, when he removed to Bangor, where he continued until his death January 
18, 1847. He married Esther, daughter of Col. Isaac Parsons, of New Gloucester, a 
Revolutionary soldier, a representative in 1783 and 1785, and the first cousin of Chief 
Justice Theophilus Parsons. She died in Brookline, Mass. , in her nmety -first year. 
February 10, 1865. Peleg Chandler, jr., and his wife Esther Parsons were the parents 
of ten children of whom the three sons living to maturity were Charles Parsons 
Chandler, a lawyer of Foxcroft, Me., who was a State senator in 1857 and died in 
that year, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, the subject of this sketch, and Peleg Whit- 
man Chandler, who died in Boston, May 28, 1889. Theophilus Parsons Chandler 
was born in New Gloucester, Mc., October 13, 1807, and was educated at the public 
and private schools of his native town, receiving however in 1837 the honorary de- 
gree of Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. He studied law with his father and 
in the office of Frederick Allen, of Gardiner, Me., and was admitted to practice in 
Kennebec county, August 13, 1829. He opened an office in Bangor. Me., October 8, 
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N'ovember 4, 1831, where he remained in full practice until the summer of 1836, when 
he removed his office to Boston, where it continued more than forty years. For more 
than fifteen years he occupied the same offices at No. 4 Court street with John A. 
Andrew, with whom at one time he was in partnership, and with whom a warm 
friendship was of lifelong duration. Among others with whom he was connected by 
a strong attachment and by relations of a most confidential character were William 
Pitt Fesscndcn, Charles Sumner and Salmon P. Chase, all of whom often sought by 
an interchange of views to guide and fortify their political courses by the aid of his 
counsel and advice. The unhesitating and heroic integrity of Fessenden, the fearless 
expressions of anti-slavery sentiments of Sumner, and the masterly ability of Chase 
as a financial minister received from him unstinted words of praise and an incentive 
to still higher and better efforts. At one time Mr. Sumner says to him, "My dear 
Chandler, cheerfully and often I read all that you write. If I do not acknowledge it 
at once, it is because I am absorbed in other things. Pray write me always. Vou 
always go right to the point and I understand you." At another he says, "My dear 
Chandler: You are in favor of free banking. Will you put the argument on paper? 
Vou always state a case clearly and strongly. Let me have the benefit of your way 
of stating the case." Nor did Mr. Chase, full of resources as he was, hesitate to ask 
for suggestions from Mr. Chandler which might aid him in formulating that system 
of finance including national banks, which made the suppression of the Rebellion 
possible. The preference of Mr. Chandler was for equity principles and practice, 
and he was actively engaged in important cases chiefly on the equity side of the court 
until 1849, when he was called by his clients to take the presidency of the Northern 
Railroad of New York, known also as the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Rail- 
road, an enterprise of great concern to Boston, which office he held for four years. 
William A. Wheeler, of Malone, N. Y. , late vice-president of the United States, with 
whom Mr. Chandler became associated at that time, attributed his success in life to 
Mr. Chandler's early recognition and aid. Lender a resolve of the Massachusetts 
Legislature, pa.ssed February 5, 1861, Mr. Chandler was appointed one of seven com- 
missioners to attend the peace convention in Washington, and in June, 1863, he was 
appointed United States assistant treasurer for Boston, holding the office until 1868. 
From 1836 to 1848 he was a resident of Boston, and in May, 1848, moved to Brookline, 
where he remained until his death, always taking a deep interest in the welfare of 
the town. His efforts were largely the means of establishing the Brookline Public 
Library in 1857, and he was one of the trustees until 1866. He organized the 
Brookline Land Co., and was a trustee until his death. In politics he was a Free 
Soiler and Republican, in theology- he was first a Calviiiist, but the larger part of his 
life a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and was a leading spirit in the erection of 
the Brookline Swedenborgian church. He married September 20, 1837, Elizabeth J., 
daughter of William Schlatter, a merchant of Philadelphia, and (me of the founders 
of the Swedenborgian church in that city. Mr. Schlatter was a grandson of Rev. 
Michael Schlatter, of St. Gall, Switzerland, whose travels and labors in America pro- 
moted by the Christian Synod of the Netherlands lasted from 1746 to 1790, and who 
served as chaplain in the French and Indian wars and in the War of the Revolution, 
when in 1777 he was imprisoned and his house in Philadelphia sacked by the British 
on account of his loyalty to the colonists. Mr. Chandler died at his home in Brook- 
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348 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

daughters, all of whom together with his wife survive him, excc])t his oldest son, 
Charles Lyon Chandler, lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, who fell in battle near Hanover Court House, Va., May 24, 1864. 

Francis Wavi.and, son of Rev. Francis Wayland, U. D., and Lucy Lane (Lincoln) 
Wayland, was born in Boston in 1826, and was educated at Phillips Academy, 
Andover. and at Brown L'niversity, where he graduated in 184(i. He studied law in 
Providence, Springfield, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the 
Suft'olk bar in July, IHoO. He practiced in Worcester aboiit eight years and then 
moved to New Haven, Conn., where in 1864 he was chosen judge of probate for the 
District of New Haven and served two years. In 1869 he was chosen lieutenant- 
governor of Connecticut, and in 1872 was appointed professor in the law department 
of Yale Universit}-. 

Oi.iVKR P. C. Bii.i.iNc'.s was born in Woodstock, Vt. , September 21, 1886, and was 
educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at the University of Vermont, where 
he graduated in 18.57. He studied law in Woodstock and at the Harvard Law School 
where he graduated in 1860, and after studying a short time in Boston in the office 
of Edward F. Hodges, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1860. In 1861, 
after a trip to Europe, he began practice in Boston, but in 1864 moved to New York, 
associating himself in business with Coles Morris. Some years later Michael H. 
Cardozo became a member of the firm under the title of Morris, Billings & Cardozo, 
and subsequently Billings & Cardozo. In 1872 he was chosen alderman at large for 
the city of New York and served four years. He is still in New York city in active 
business. 

John Shirley Williams was born in Ro.xbury, May 3, 1773, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807 and practiced 
chiefly in Ro,\bury and Dedham. He was appointed clerk of the courts of Norfolk 
county in 1811 and was also at one time county attorney. He died while traveling, 
at Ware, Mass., in May, 184:1 

ENt)S TiioMi'soN LucE,'son of Jonathan F. and Sally Luce, was born in Wilton, Me., 
Januury 37, 1833, and was educated at Kent's Hill Seminary, Readfield, Me., Norway 
Academy at Norway, Me., Farmington Academy at Farmingtcm, Me., and at Bow-, 
doin College where he graduated in 1856. He studied law with Nathan Clifford in 
Portland, and with Charles W. Walton, in Auburn, Me., and was admitted to the bar 
at Auburn January 27, 18.i9. He practiced in Auburn until 1874, when he moved his 
residence to Somerville, Mass., and opened an office in Boston, svhere he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 16, 187."). In Auburn he was a member of the School 
Board and of the City Council, judge of the Lewiston Municipal Court, judge of pro- 
bate for Androscoggin county, and United States assessor of internal revenue. In 
Somerville he was a member of the School Board, and since his removal to Walthani, 
where he now resides, he has been judge of the Second Eastern Middlesex District 
Court, an office he still holds, and president of the Waltliam Savings Bank. He is 
the author of " Maine Probate Practice." He married first at Niagara Falls, N. Y. , 
July 22, 1860, Mrs. Phebe L. Adams, and second at Somerville, Mass., September 9, 
1879, Sarah J. Mills. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-third Maine Regiment 
in the War of 1861. 



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Charles Mam>f.vii.i.f. Liddkn, son of John M. and Eleveni J. Ludden, was born at 
Canton Point, Me., and graduated at Tufts College in 188(i. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1889 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, 1889. 
He has been city solicitor of Waltham, where he resides, since January 4,' 1891, 
and was associate editor of the Har7nxrd Law Review in 1888-89. He married in 
Medford, Mass., November 24, 1891, Kathleen Hobart Hayes. 

RuD.NEV LuXD was born in Corinth, Vt., and educated at the Corinth and Bradford 
Academies in Vermont. He studied law with Judge Spencer of Corinth, and Robert 
McK. Ormsbv, of Bradford, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 18o2. He was 
deputy secretary of state in \'erniont in 181)5 and 18(iG, and in 1867 removed to Bos- 
ton where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 24 in that year. He married 
at Walcott, Vt., in 1854 Elmyra J. Chubb, and lives in Boston. 

Aktiii K LvMA.N, SOU of Arthur T. and Ella (Lowell) Lyman, was born in Waltham, 
Ma.ss. , in 1861, and was educated at a private school and at Harvard, where he grad- 
uated in 188a. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the 
office of Gaston & Whitney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1885. He 
married Susan C. Cabot in Brookline in October, 1888, and lives in Waltham. 

Gkorge Hinckley Lv.max, son of Dr. George H. and Maria C. R. (Austin) Lyman, 
was born in Boston, December 13, 1850, and was educated at the Boston Latin 
School, St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., and at Harvard, where he graduated in 
1873. He studied law in Boston in the office of John C. Gray, at the Harvard Law 
School, and in Boston in the office of Lathrop, Bishop &- I^incoln, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878. He married Caroline Amory, April 26, 1881, and 
lives in Boston. 

Alonzo V. LvNDE, son of Daniel and Prudence A. \'. Lynde, was born in Stone- 
ham, Mass., December 28, 1823, and was educated at Gates Academy in Marlboro' 
and the Stoneham High School. He studied law in Woburn with Albert H. Nelson, 
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 
1847. He was register of probate for Middlesex county in 1851-52-53, representative 
from Stoneham in 1854, and member of the School Board in that town. He married 
in Stoneham in 1846, A. Julia Sweetser, and lives in Melrose. 

FoRKKST C. Manchester, son of Albert B. and Elizabeth M. (Sessions) Manchester, 
was born in Randolph, Vt., September 11, 18,59, and was educated at the Randolph 
Vermont State Normal School. He studied law at the Boston L^niversity Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1884, in the office of Perrin & McWain, of Ran- 
dolph, and with William Ga.ston in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 
21, 1885. He was counsel of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange against the 
Pennsylvania Railroad before the Inter-State Commerce Commission, where a prec- 
edent of national importance was established and a saving secured of S-iO,000 
annually in rates of freight. This was the first case decided by the commission in 
favor of Boston. He married at Pepperell, Ma.ss., October 22. 18^5 Minni,- T, Beard, 
and lives in Winchester. . 

Wai.ik) Coi.hukx, son of Thatcher and Hattie Cleveland Colburn, was b.>rii iii Ded- 
ham, Mass., November 13, 1824. He was descended from Nathaniel Colburti, who 
came from England in 1637 and received a grant of land in Dedham. He was edu- 
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350 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

1847, entered the office of Ira Cleveland in Dedham as a student of law. He was ad- 
mitted to the Norfolk county bar May 3, 1850, after spending a short time at the 
Harvard Law School, and settled in Dedham, where he continued in practice till May 
27, 1875, when he was appointed by Governor Gaston a judge of the SuiJerior Court. 
In 18H2 he was appointed by Governor Long to a seat on the bench of the Supreme 
Judicial Court, where he remained until his death. He was a representative from 
Dedham in 1853-54, and a senator in 1870, and for several years the Democratic can- 
didate for attorney-general. He was at various times chairman of the Board of 
Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor in Dedham, president of the Dedham 
Instution for Savings, and director of the Dedham National Bank. He married first, 
November 21, 1852, Mary Ellis, daughter of Bunker Gay, of Dedham, and second, 
August 5, 1861, Elizabeth C, daughter of Ezra W. Sampson, of Dedham. and died, 
September 26, 1885. 

LoAMMi Baldwin, son of Loammi and Mary (Fowle) Baldwin, was born in 
Woburn, May 16, 1780, and fitting for college at Westford Academy, graduated at 
Harvard in 1800. He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the 
Middlesex bar in September, 1803. After a short practice in Boston and Cambridge 
he iitjaudoned the law and became a civil engineer. He was a member of the E.xecu- 
tive Council in 1835, and presidential elector in 1830. The dry dock in the Charles- 
town navy yard was built under his direction. He married first, May li), 1816, in 
Boston, Ann, daughter of George and Lydia (Pickering) Williams, and second, June 
22, 1828, in Charlestown, Mrs. Catharine (Williams) Beckford, daughter of Samuel 
Williams, the distinguished banker. He died June 30, 1838. 

JosHi'A DoRSEV Ball, son of Walter and Mary Ball, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
July 11, 1828, and was educated in the schools of his native city. He studied law in 
Boston in the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler and John A. Andrew, associated 
under the firm of Chandler & Andrew, and also in the office of Peleg Whitman Chand- 
ler. During a portion of the period of his study he was an assistant clerk in the Cir- 
cuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 13, 1849. From 1852 to July 1, 1881, he was associated as 
partner with the late Benjamin F. Brooks under the firm name of Brooks & Ball. 
He has been associated also with Moorfield Storey, and from April, 1887, to his death 
he was associated with Benjamin L. M. Tower under the firm name of Ball & Tower. 
Mr. Ball, though an ardent Democrat, never mingled his business with politics, but 
pursued unremittingly the paths of his profession. In 1801-62 he was a member of 
the Boston Common Council and in the latter year president of that body. In the 
early part of his career he was an assistant to Peleg Whitman Chandler, city solicitor. 
He continued until his death in an active practice covering a wide range of cases in 
both the State and United States Courts. He married, July 10, 1856, in Boston, 
Emily A. Cole and died in Boston, Sunday, December 18, 1892. 

Charles M. Bar.nf.s. son of Dr. William A. and Eleanor Barnes, was born in Deca- 
tur, Macon county. 111. , October 12, 1854, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Sufi'olk bar November 22, 1880, and in 1882-83 was 
an instructor in the Law School. He was associated two years in business with 
Nathan Matthews, jr., and afterwards was a member of the law firm of Barnes, Bond 



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& Morison, and has edited the thirteenth edition of Kent's Commentaries. He mar- 
ried, October 31, 1882, in Philadelphia, Lillian J. Young, and died in Boston in 
March, 1893. 

Ja.mks P. Baki.ow was born in Xorth Raston, Mass., February 22, IHfiS, and was 
educated at the public schools, graduating from the North Easton High School June 
28, 18Ti). He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar July 20, 188G, and is now. in practice in Bost<ra. 

Edward A. Bangs, son of Edward and Anne Outram Bangs, was born in Water- 
town, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in January, 1887, and lives in Boston. 

Hakkv Hudson Barkkit, son of Henry and Lucy T. G. (Stearns) Barrett, was born 
in Maiden, Mass., March 10, 1851, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, 
Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 18T4. He .studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of E. R. & Samuel Hoar, 
Charles G. Fall and Stearns & Butler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 
1882. He represented the Ninth Middlesex District in the House of Representatives 
in 1891, and lives unmarried in Maiden. 

William Bakrktt, son of Zimri and Per.sis (Batchelder) Barrett, was born in Wil- 
ton, N. H., Jnly 2, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in lH,j9. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 8, 1861. He settled 
in Wilton, was a representative in 1861, and in 1871 was on the staff of Governor 
Weston, of New Hampshire. He married, September 24, 1861, Sarah Ellen, daugh- 
ter of Christopher and Maria (Leslie) Paige. 

Thomas J. Bakkv was born in South Boston, January 1, 1857, and attended at vari- 
ous times the Lawrence Grammar School, the English High School, the Latin School, 
the Chauncy Hall School, Comer's Commercial College, and the College of the Holy 
Cross in Worcester. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after a 
term of study in the ofHce of J. JI. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 
1882. He has been prominent in the ranks of the Democratic party, and taken an 
active interest in the public schools of Boston. 

Chaki.ks W. BARTLEir was born in Boston, August 12, 1845, and graduated at 
Dartmouth College in 1869. He studied law in the Albany Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the New York bar in Albany in 1871. He practiced in Dover, N. H., two 
years, when he moved to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 
1873. He served in the war of 1861, and has been commander of the John A. An- 
drew Post of the Grand Army. 

Nehhmiah Chask Bkrrv, son of Joshua and Patience (Chase) Berry, was born in 
Pittsfield, N. H., November 28, 1811, a twin with a mate, Joshua C. Berry, now liv- 
ing in Elvaston, 111. He was educated at the common schools, the Pittsfield Acad- 
emy, the Kimball Union Academy, and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated 
in 1839. ■ He studied law in Randolph, Mass., with Aaron Prescott, and was admit- 
ted to the bar in Dedham in 1847. In 1850 he opened an office in Boston, where he 
continued to practice until December, 1891. He was the author of a work entitled 
"Answers and Pleadings in Actions at Law." He married first, January 1, 1840, 
Elizabeth W. Berry, and second Hannah H. King, and was killed at the Harvard 



352 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

street crossing in Dorchester, where he hved, by a Xew York and New England 
train March 19, 1892. 

JosKi'H Irving Bknneti , son of Joseph and Elizabeth R. Bennett, was born in Rox- 
bury, Mass., January 3f), 1807, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1891, and his residence is in the Brighton TJistrict of 
Boston. 

Fr.v.ncis Bern.vki) was born in Nettlcham, England, in 1714, and graduated at Ox- 
ford in 1736. He studied law and became a bencher of the Middle Temple, and af- 
terwards steward and recorder of the city of Lincoln. In 1758 he was appointed 
governor of New Jersey, and after two years was transferred to Massachusetts, 
where he served until 17(i9, in which year he was raised to a baronetcy. He died at 
Aylesbury, England, June 16, 1779. 

S.\MUEL C. Bennrit, son of Edward Hatch and Sally (Crocker) Bennett, was born 
in Taunton, Mass., April 19, 1858, and was educated at St. Mark's School in South- 
boro, Adams Academy, Quincy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He 
studied law with his father, and at the Boston University Law School, where he 
graduated in 1882, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 188-t. He has 
held the position of assistant dean and professor in the Boston University Law 
School. He married in Hrookline, Mass., September 9, 1885, Amv Reeder, daughter 
of Edward I. Thomas, and his home is in Weston, Mass. 

John A. Bennett, son of Alvin W. and Mary Holman Bennett, was burn in Wil- 
brahani, Mass., October 23, 1848, and was educated at Monson Academy and at Am- 
herst College, where he graduated in 1873. He studied law in the Boston University 
Law School and in the office of George S. Hillard, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1876. He has been public administrator for Suffolk county since 1889. 
He married Julia R. Smith, of South Hadley, Mass., December 25, 1877. who died 
January 4, 1886. His residence is in Boston. 

Josi.Mi Kend.m.i. Bennett, son of Josiah K. and Lucinda (Nutting) Bennett, was 
born in Groton, Mass., February 4, 1831, and was educated at the Lawrence Acad- 
emy in Groton, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He was for a time 
master of the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, and afterwards graduating at 
the Harvard Law School in 1855, was admitted to the Suft'olk bar November 22, 1856. 
He practiced in Boston three years and then removed to (iroton, where. May 15, 
1872, he was appointed standing justice of the First North Middlesex District Court. 
He married June 29, 1865, Abby Ann, daughter of Reuben Lewis and Lucinda (Hill) 
Torrey, of Groton. He died January 23, 1874, at Ayer, to which place he had moved 
the previous year. 

M.\i<K A. Bi..\isi)Ei.i., son of David L. and Marv J. Blaisdell, was born in Boston 
January 21, 1842, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1868. At his graduation from the Harvard Law 
School in 1867, he received the first prize for an essay on "The Sources and Limita- 
tions of the American Common Law." He married Ellen S. Pearsall June 13, 1887, 
and lives in Boston, 



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Lafayktik Gii.hkkt Bi.AiK, son of David Gilbert and Mary Jane Pierpont, was born 
in Cumberland, Md., May 8, 1849, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and 
at Harvard. He studied law in Boston with George S. Hale, and at the Boston Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. He married, June 30, 1887, 
at Cambridge, Kmmu Augusta Coon, and lives in Watertown. 

Fkancis WirrrNKV BiiiKi.ow, son of Tyler Bigelow, was born in Watertown, Mass.. 
June 4, 1824, and graduated at Harvard in 184:i. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar October 6, 1846, and died in San Francisco, July 11, 1853. 

EiiwiN MosKs BiGEi.ow, son of Levi and Nancy (Ames) Bigelow, was born in 
Marlboro", Mass., March "iG, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 184S. He studied 
law in Boston in the office of Edward Blake, and was admitted to the bar in Spring- 
field in October, 1847. He married in Boston, where he lives, in 1854, Maria Craw- 
ford. 

Frank Buli.es, son of John A. BoUes, was born in Winchester, Mass., October 31, 
1856. and studied law in New York at the Columbia Law School and in Cambridge at 
the Harvard Law School. He was at one time assistant editor of the Boston Daily 
Advertiser and was probably a member of the Suffolk bar. He married Elizabeth 
Swan, of Cambridge. 

Lawrknck Bond, son of Edward P. and Sarah (Wight) Bond, was born in Nawili- 
wili Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Brooks.jand was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He has been a member of the Board of Alder- 
men, president of the Common Council, and one of the School Board in Newton, 
where he lives. 

John U. Bkaim.kv, son of Richard and Sarah Ann (Williams) Bradley, was born in 
Boston, February 9. 1864. and was educated at St. Pauls School, Concord, N. H., a 
private school in Boston and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1886. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and lives in Boston. 

Hknkv W. Bragg, son of Willard and Mary E. (Claflin) Bragg, was born in Hol- 
liston, Mass., December 11, 1841, and was educated at the University of the City of 
New York and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1861. He studied law in Nat- 
ick, Mass., with John W. Bacon and George L. Sawin, and was admitted to the 
Middlesex bar in October, 1864. He was city solicitor of Charlestown from 1867 to 
lH(i9 inclusive, and has been justice of the Municipal Court of the Charlestown Dis- 
trict of Boston since 1886. He married in Milford, Mass., January 11, 1866, Ellen F. 
Haven, and lives in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM F. CotKTNEV was boni in Lowell, Mass., December 10, 18.55, and was edu- 
cated at the jjublic schools. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in Boston with 
Isaiic S. Morse. In 1887 he was city solicitor in Lowell. 

Jamks Uknison Coi.i. jr., s(m of Judge James Denison Colt and Elizabeth (Gilbert) 
Colt, his wife, was born in Pittsfield, Ma.ss., November 8, 1862. and graduated at 
Williams College in 18,84. He studied law in Worcester with Bacon, Hopkins & 
Bacon, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in 
February, 1H87. He lives in Boston 
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354 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Ai.iiERT F. CoNVKRSE, SOU ol' Sheiiiian and Elizabeth C. Converse, was horn in 
Woburn, Mass., April 5, 1863, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and lives in Woburn. 

Joii.N Shki'ARD Kkvks, of Concord, had an office in Boston in 1860, and his name 
appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston in that year. The son of John and Ann 
(Shepard) Keyes, he was born in Concord, Mass., September 19, 1821, and graduated 
at Har\'ard in 1841. He studied law with his father in Concord, with Edward Mellen 
in Wavland, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar in March, 1844. He practiced in Concord until 18.53, when lie was appointed 
sheriff' of Middlesex county, serving by appointment and election until 1860. In 1860 
he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, which nominated 
Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and in April, 1861, he was appointed by Mr. 
Lincoln United States marshal for Massachusetts. In 1866 he resigned and returned 
to Concord, where he has always been active in every movement to promote the wel- 
fare of his native town. He has held various town offioes, and in 1879 was appointed 
justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, an office which he still holds. In 
1876 he delivered in Concord an oration on the Fourth of July, and in 1885 presided 
at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town. In 1849 
he was a State senator from Middlesex county. He married, Sejitember 19, 1844, 
Martha Lawrence Prescott, of Concord, and still resides in his native town. 

CuAui.F.s Edward Powkrs, son of Charles and Sarah (Brooks) Powers, was born in 
Townsend, May 9, 1834, and was the seventh in descent from Walter Power, who 
was born in England in 16(59, and came to Salem in 1654. Walter, the American an- 
cestor, bought of the Indians a tract of land in what is now Littleton, Mass., and set- 
tled there. In the second generation the name of the family became changed to Pow- 
ers, and has since remained in that form. Charles Powers, the father of the subject 
of this sketch, first a farmer in Pepperell, where he was born, September 6, 1809, re- 
moved to Townsend and, associated with Noah Adams, carried on an extensive mill busi- 
ness, was at one time sheriff, gradually became a capitalist of considerable importance 
in the community in which he lived. Charles Edward attended the public schools, the 
Classical Institution of New Hampton, N. H., and graduated at Harvard in 1856. 
After leaving college he entered the Harvard Medical School, but after a suspension of 
his studies caused by his father's death he abandoned the plan of a medical career 
and entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1858. He studied 
also for a time in Boston in the office of Ebenezer Rock wood Hoar, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. In 1859 he became associated in the law with Linus 
Child and his son, Linus M. Child. He was many years president of the Middlesex 
Street Railway Company, and after that company was merged into the West End 
Company he performed considerable service for the latter corporation in an advisory 
capacity. In the early days of street railroads, having confidence in their success, he 
made their affairs a matter of special study and became probably the best authority 
in New England on all questions affecting their interests. He was a member of the 
Boston City Council in 1873-74, and a member of the Water Board prior to the estab- 
lishment of the Water Commissioners. As a Free Mason he was active and promi- 
nent, deeply interested in the order and one of its most trusted members. He was at 
various times master of a lodge, eminent commander of Boston Commandery of 



BIOGRAPHtCAL kkGISTET!. 355 

Knights Templar, and g^and master of the Select and Royal Masons of Massachu- 
setts. He married in 1858 H. E., daughter of Walter Fessenden, of Townsend, and 
died at his residence in Boston, September 11, 1892. 

S.vMiKi. Kim; H.vmii.ton, son of Benjamin R. and Sarah (Carl) Hamilton, was born 
in Waterboro, Maine, July 27, 1H:!7. He is descended from a Scotch ancestor who 
settled in Berwick, Me. .about UilK!. The youngest of si.'c sons, he attended first the 
public schools, and afterwards Limerick Academy and the Saco High School, and in 
February, IHoO, at the age of nineteen, began to teach a district school in his native 
town. In September of that year he entered the Chandler Scientific Department of 
Dartmouth College and graduated in I80O. His education was secured by means 
obtained by teaching school in the winter months, and other employment, and with 
a view to the legal profession he entered as a student the office of Ira T. Drew, of 
Alfred, Me., where he remained several years, still pursuing at times the occupation 
of a teacher in Wakefield, Mass. , and in the Alfred Academy, to enable him to com- 
plete his preparatory legal education. He was admitted to the bar in Alfred in June, 
1S(>2, and became associated in practice with his instructor, Mr. Drew, with whom he 
remained as a partner until 1867. He then removed to Biddeford, Me., where he haid 
his home and office until December, 1872. While in Biddeford he represented the 
town in the Maine Legislature, and was chosen a member of the Board of Alder- 
men. He remf>ved to Wakefield, Mass. , on leaving Biddeford, and until 1878 was 
associated with Chester W. Eaton, with law offices in Wakefield and Boston, having 
been admitted to the Middlesex bar in Decemlier, 1872. Since 1878 he has managed 
alone a business chiefly confined to Boston. Since he became a resident of Wake- 
field he has served nine years as chairman of the School Board, two years as chair- 
man of the Board of Selectmen, and several years as chairman of the Board of 
Trustees of the Beebe Town Library. His interest in the welfare of the schools of 
Wakefield has been so conspicuous that the town has recently named a new 
school house the "Hamilton School Building." Since his removal to Wakefield 
from Maine his business has been steadily increasing, and though his office is now in 
Boston his clientage throughout Middlesex county is constantly enlarging. The 
most important cases in which he has been employed as counsel, with the exception 
of the Wakefield water cases in which he was engaged, have been criminal trials, in- 
cluding a murder tnal in Maine in 1867, another in Middlesex county in 1873, a trial 
for defrauding insurance companies, and the trial of a United States medical exam- 
iner in Boston. He married in Newfield, Me., February 13, 1867, Annie E., daugh- 
ter of Joseph B. and Harriet N. Davis, and his residence is still in Wakefield. 

Marcelli's Cogoan, son of Leonard C. and Betsey M. Coggan, was born in Bristol, 
Lincoln county. Me., September 6, 1847, and was educated in his youth at the public 
schools and at Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Me. Before entering the academy he 
followed the sea for a time in the coasting trade to southern ports and the West 
Indies. After leaving the academy he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in 
H72. After leaving college he was appointed principal of the Nichols Academy in 
Dudley, Mass., where he remained until 1879, serving four years also as a member 
of the School Board. In 1879 he removed to Maiden and entered as a law student 
the office of Child & Powers in Boston, being admitted to the SufTf>lk bar in Novem- 
ber, 1880. Practicing alone until 188'i with assured success, he then became associ- 



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ated with his present partner, William Schofield. at that time an instruetor in the 
Harvard Law School, with offices in both Maiden and Boston. In 1S80 he was 
chosen a member of the School Committee of Maiden and served three years. In 
1S85 he was chosen Mayor as an independent candidate, and rechosen in 1886 by a 
nearlv unanimous vote. Refusing a nomination for a third term, he has since given 
his undivided attention to the practice of his profession. He has recently been 
brought into wider notice by his able though unsuccessful efforts in behalf of 
Trefethen, indicted for murder and tried in Middlesex county. He married in 1872 
Luella B. , daughter of C. C. and Lucinda Robbins, of Bristol, Me. 

Isaac O. Barnrs was in the practice of law in Lowell from 1832 to 1835. In 1833 
he was associated with Francis E. Bond, and in 1835 with Tappan Wentworth. He 
removed to Boston about 1836, and was I'nited States marshal for Massachusetts 
under President Polk. 

Henry Vose, son of Elijah and Rebecca (rorham (Bartlett) Vose, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., May 21, 1817, and was educated at the Concord Academy and 
at Harvard, where he graduated in 1837. After leaving college he was private tutor 
in a family in Western Xew York, and afterwards studied law in (Ireenfield, Mass., 
with George T. Davis, and in Springfield with Chapman &• Ashmun. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Springfield and was a member of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives from that town in 1858. In 1859 he was appointed one of the judges 
of the Superior Court on its establishment in that year, and removed to Boston. He 
married October 19, 1842. Martha Barnett Ripley, of Concord, and died in Boston 
January 17, 1869. 

Wir.i.iAM Pi.i'MER Fowi.ER, son of Asa and Mary C. K. Fowler, was born in Con- 
cord, N. H., October 3, 1850, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1H72. He studied law 
at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Sumner Albee, of Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He is now chairman of the 
Overseers of the Poor of the city of Boston, where he resides. 

Fr.vnk E. Fitz, son of Eustace C. and Sarah J. (Blanchard) Fit?., was born in Cam- 
bridge November 14. 18.57, and graduated at Brown University in 1880. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and graduated at the Boston University Law School 
in 1883, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. He was associated in 
business with J. Converse Gray from 1884 to 1889, and in the latter year was chosen 
city solicitor of Chelsea, which office he still holds. He married in Chelsea, where he 
resides, Adeline F. Slade of that city. 

David Sim.mons Fisher, son of Warren and Nancy D. (Simmons) Fisher, was bom 
in Boston October 2, 1835, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1856. He studied law in Boston with George Sils- 
bec Hale and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1S61. He died in Roxbury Sep- 
tember 3, 1865. 

Eugene Fellner, son of Albert and Harriet Fellner, was born in Savannah, Ga., 
November 23, 1867, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at the Paris 
Lycee, France. He studied law at the Bosti)n University Law School and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1889. Aside from the practice of law he 
has been engjaged in play-writing and journalism. He married a Miss Allen in New 
York citv and lives in Brookline. 







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* BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 357 

Hayks LorcKE, son of Sylvester T. and Ruhama Loujjee. was born in Effinjiham, 
N. H., September 19, 1.S48, and was educated at the public schools and the North 
Parsonstield Seminary. He studied law in Laconia, N. H., with Colonel Thomas J. 
Whipple, and was admitted to the Belknap county, N. H., bar in March, 1872, and 
to the Suffolk bar May 39, 1876. He has been a member of the Chelsea City Council. 
He was one of the counsel in the noted Buswell and Abbott and Cone trials. He 
married in Moultonboro', N. H., January 18, 1874, Nettie E. Lee, and lives in 
Newton. 

Vu roK JdsKi'ii LoKiNc,, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Lorinj;, was born 
in Marlboro', Mass., January 11, 18.')9, and was educated at the Boston Latin School 
and the Boston L'niversity. He studied law at the Boston University Law School 
and in the office of Charles Francis Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar June 13, 1881, and to the bar of the United States Supreme Court March 24, 
1885. He married, December 9, 1891, Emilie Baker, and lives in Boston. 

John W'insi.ow, son of Eleazer Robbins and Ann Corbett Winslow, was born in 
Newton, Mass, October 24, 1825, and received his early education at the school of M. 
S. Rice in Newton Centre, and with Gardner Rice of Holliston Seminary. He after- 
wards spent two years at Phillips Academy, Andover, and two years at Brown Uni- 
versity. He afterwards graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1852, receiving a 
prize for an essay on "The Responsibility of a Principal for the Acts and Repre- 
sentations of his Agent." He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but shortly after 
removed to Brooklyn, N. V., where he v/as admitted to the bar and began practice 
associated with his brother, D. C. Winslow. In 18.5:{he was assistant district attorney 
under (Jeneral Harmanus H. IJuryea, and in 1855 was appointed corporation attorney. 
In m59 he was chosen district attorney t>f Kings county and held the office three 
years. In 18H6 he became a partner with Joshua M. Van Cott in New York city and 
continued with him seventeen years. On the 22d of March, 1809, he w-as admitted 
to practice in the United States Supreme Court. On the 9th of May, 1874, he was 
appointed district attorney by Governor Dix, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the 
death of Thomas M. Rodman. In 1873 he was the Jiepublican candidate for judge 
of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District. He is a director and the cor- 
responding secretary of the Long Island Historical Society, is president of the 
Brooklvn Harvard Club, and is e.\-president of the Brooklyn New England Society. 
He married first, December 23, 1855, Sarah M., daughter of John J. Baker, of Bay 
Ridge, N. Y., and second at Milton, Mass., January 5, 1888. Grace Eliza, daughter 
of Edward B. Woodhcad, of Huddersfield, England. He lives at Bay Ridge. 

Gkorce Frederick Farlev was the grandson of Lieutenant Samuel Farley, one of 
the settlers of New Ipswich, N. H. This grandfather married, October, 1744, Han- 
nah Brown, and had Ebcnezer October 9, 1745, Samuel March 14, 1747, Hannah 
Januarv 27, 1749, Benjamin March 11, 17.56, and Anna February 19. 1768. Of these 
children Benjamin married Lucy Fletcher, June 18, 1780, and had Sarah and Betsey 
twins June 3, 17H1, Benjamin Mark August 8. 1783, Lucy December 26, 1784, Luther 
December 25. 1786, Charles October 13, 1788, George Frederick April 5, 1793, Percy 
September 12, 1798, and Clarissa November 12. 1801. One of the children, George 
Fredenek Farley, is the subject of this sketch, and was born in Dunstable, Mass., 
during a visit of his mother to her father's home. He was fitted for college at West- 



358 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ford Academy, and j^raduatud at Harvard in 1816. He studied law in the office of 
his brother, Benjamin Mark Farley, in Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Mid- 
dlesex bar in June, 1820. He established himself m Xew Ipswich, the home of his 
parents, where he remained until 1832, devoting himself unremittingly to the prac- 
tice of his profession, yielding but once to the attractions of political life, when in 
18:51 he occupied a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. During his 
ten years' life in New Ipswicli he developed and began to display those peculiar and 
striking mental traits which were destined to make him one of the ablest and most 
successful lawyers which New England has produced. In 1833 he removed to Groton, 
Mass., and as at the New Hampshire bar he measured lances with its ablest and 
most e.Kperieneed members, so at the Middlesex bar he found legal warriors worthy of 
his steel. With these he feared no encounter, and in contests with them all his vic- 
tories were more numerous than his defeats. As a lawyer his legal instincts were 
unerring, and his use of ])recedents was rather to confirm and fortify than to frame 
and construct an opinion. Sound in his law, clearly comprehending always the 
points of his case, forcible and clear in his presentation of facts to the jury, adroit m 
the examination of witnesses, keen in his ridicule of either witness or opiX)sing coun- 
sel, his arguments were well nigh irresistible. The physical weakness of a trembling 
hand added impressiveness often to his speech, and thus a gift of oratory was con- 
ferred on him by nature which many a fervent speaker has sought to imitate in vain. 
The writer, whose acquaintance with him began while attending the Free Soil Con- 
vention in Buffalo in 1848, remembers well the only time it was his good fortune to 
see him in court, when during a ])rotracted trial his opposing counsel was Tolnian 
Willey, of Boston. Probably no man at the Suffolk or any other bar possessed lips 
from which words flowed so smoothly and rapidly as from those of Mr. Willey. 
Fluency was his marked characteristic, and though a skillful lawyer, this character- 
istic always made a more striking impression on his audience than his logic. It was 
a matter of constant wonder to his hearers including the jury how it was possible for 
the brain and mouth to do their work so rapidly. The question would come up 
whether the brain would fail first in its supply of thoughts or the mouth in giving 
them expression. Thus the fluency of Mr. Willey became a weakness, and after 
hearing him a listener was as oblivious of the merits of his efforts as the young lady 
to the speech of Webster, whose only memory was of his form and face. The jjur- 
pose of Mr. Farley was to call the attention of the jury to this characteristic of Mr. 
Willey, knowing that with that in their mind they would give little thought to his 
address. He began his peroration by describing Demosthenes and Cicero, and after 
a brilliant eulogy of these orators of ancient times he concluded by saying, " but, gen- 
tlemen of the jury, an orator greater than these will follow me, for I believe that tra- 
diti<m .says that even Demosthenes and Cicero had sometimes a slight hesitation in 
speech." In 18-V2 Mr. Farley opened an office in Boston, and while retaining his 
residence in Groton made Boston his business headquarters until his death. He 
married in Ashby, Mass., November 2.J, 1823, Lucy, daughter of John and Lucv 
Rice, and died in Groton, November 8, 18.5.5, leaving as surviving members of his 
family a son, George Frederick Farley, a Boston merchant, since deceased, a daugh- 
ter, Sarah E. Farley, and another daughter Mary F., wife of Edward A. Kelly, a 
member of the Suffolk bar. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 359 

John yiiNCY Adams Brackeit, son of Ambrose S. and Nancy (Brown) Brackett, 
was born in Bradford, N. H., June 8, 1S42, and in his youth attended the public 
schools of Bradford and Colby Academy in New London, X. H. He graduated at 
Harvard in lS(i5, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 12, ISIiH. He established himself at once in Boston, making 
that city also his residence, and for several years was associated in practice with Levi 
C. Wade. Notwithstanding a successful entrance upf)n a professional career, his 
(jualifications for public life were so manifest that he was early called to positions of 
prominence and responsibility. Soon after his admission to the bar he was made 
president of the Mercantile Library Association, an institution to which he with many 
other public men is indebted for much of that training and discipline which has made 
his career a successful one. The Republican party, to which he early attached him- 
self, found in him a popular and available candidate for office, and while making him 
often a means of its own success at the polls, enabled him to satisfy an ambition 
which in most men ])roves a hopeless one. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of 
the Boston Common Council, and in the last year of his service president of that 
body. From 1877 tf) 18S1 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives from Boston, and aided largely in legislation which resulted in the estab- 
lishment of co-operative banks. In 1883 he changed his residence to Arlington, and 
from 1884 to 1886, inclusive, was a representative from that town, sers'ing as speaker 
the last two years. In 1887-88-89 he was lieutenant-governor of the Commonwealth, 
acting during the larger part of 1880 as governor in consequence of the illness of 
(lovernor Ames. In November, 18S9. he was chosen governor and served during 
IHOO, being renominated in November, 1890, but defeated by William E. Russell. 
After his defeat, though by no means looked upon as retired from public life, he re- 
sumed the practice of law and enjoys a large and increasing practice, with Walter 
H. Roberts as his partner, with whom he has been associated since 1880. He de- 
livered the address at the centennial celebration of Bradford, September 17, 1887. 
He married Angeline JI., daughter of Abel G. Peck, at Arlington, where he now re- 
sides, June 20, 1878. 

Thomas Hkhkr Wakkkiki.h, son of Thomas L. and Jane (Perry) Wakefield, was 
Iwrn in Chelsea, Mass., August 28, IS.W, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1870. He 
studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 
9, 1873. He has been trial justice in Norfolk county. He married at Arlington, 
Mass., September 16, 1875, Amelia B. Conant, and lives in Dedham. 

Joii.N Lathroi- Wakki-iki.ij, sf>n of Thomas Lafayette and Frances (Lathrop) Wake- 
field, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 3, 18,~)9, and was educated at the public 
schools and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in Boston with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in January, 1SS4. He has been for five years manager's assistant of the Massachu- 
setts Title Insurance Company, and lives in Dedham. 

Alfeed Clarence Vinton, son of John Adams and Laurinda (Richardson) Vinton, 
was born in Stoneham, Mass., July 16, 1844, and was graduated at Harvard in 1866. 
He studied law at the Harx'ard Law School, and in Boston in the oflice of Edward 
S. Rand, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 31, 1S71, He is a trustee of 
the town library in Winchester where he resides. He married Emma Frances Mills 
in Boston, October 11, 1872. 



360 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Stei'IIEN W. Tkowdridijk, son of Stei)hen W. and Sarah E. Trowbridge, was 
born in Newton, Mass., October 5, 1834, and was educated at the Newton ^jublic 
schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1IST9. He has been trial justice in Middlesex county. He 
married in Cambridge in August, 1856, Mary R. Baird, and lives in the Brighton 
District of Boston. 

D.\RW1N ER.vsris W.\RF., son of Erastus and Clarissa Dillaway Wardwell Ware, 
was born in Salem, Mass., February 11, 1881, and was educated at the Salem Cram- 
mar, High and Latin Schools, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and after a further study in Boston 
in the oflfice of C. T. &■ T. H. Russell was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1«, 
1856. He was a representative from Boston in 1863, a senator in 1864-65, and mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Harbor Commission from 1866 to 1874, when he resigned. 
In 1866 he was commissioned by the secretary of the treasury to aid in the codifica- 
tion of United States Customs Revenue and Shipping Laws.- From 1884 to 1889 he 
was president of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association, was fourteen years a 
member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, and has been director and treasurer 
of the Associated Charities Association since its organization. He married in Wash- 
ington, D. C. , May 36, 1868, Adelaide Frances Dickey, and lives in Boston. 

CiLARLEs HosMER AV.VLCOTT, Son of Joel \V. and Martha P. (Hosmer) Walcott, was 
born in Concord, Mass., November 9, 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in Boston in the offices of E. R. Hoar 
and Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. Since 
the establishment of the State Board of Arbitration in 1886 he has been a member, 
and the last three years its chairman. He is the author jointly with H. F. Buswell 
of a work on "Practice and Pleadings in Personal Actions in the Courts of Massa- 
chusetts," and also the author of a history of Concord, Mass., from 1639 to 1889. He 
married first Florence Keyes at Concord, September 22, 1875, and second Jessie Mc- 
Dermott at Washington, D. C, July 21, 1891, and lives in Concord, with offices in 
Concord and Boston. 

Henry Warren, son of Dr. John and Abigail (Collins) Warren, was born in Bos- 
ton, Mav 13, 1795. His father was the first professor of anatomy and surgery in Har- 
vard College, and his mother was a daughter of John Collins, of Newport, governor 
of Rhode Island. He was a brother of the late eminent surgeon of Boston, Dr. 
John Collins Warren, who was also professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard. 
He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and at a private school kept by 
Rev. Dr. Gardiner, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law in Boston 
with William Sullivan and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1816, opening 
an office in Boston. Socially and in a literary way he was the friend and a-ssociate of 
Wm. H. Prescott, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks, and Theophilus Parsons. At an 
early period he became engaged in various speculations in lands and coal mines in 
various parts of the country, which, occupying so much of his time and attention, pre- 
cluded him from pursuing continuously the practice of his profession. In June, 18()9, 
he came to Boston to attend the musical jubilee, and upon his return to New York, 
where he then resided, he was attacked hy a disra>;c "f the lungs and died unmar- 
ried luly 6 in that vear. 



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Samuel Dennis Warren, son of Samuel Dennis and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) War 
rcn, was born in Boston, January 25, 18.i2, and graduated at Harvard in 187.5. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Shattuck, Holmes & 
Munroe. in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. Asso- 
ciated with Louis D. Brandeis, he was the author of "Watuppa Pond Cases," "The 
Law of Ponds," and " The Right to Privacy." and has edited the Ilarr'ard Law 
Rcviiw for December,- 1888, April, 1889, and December, 1890. Me married in Wash- 
ington, D. C, January 2."i, 1883, Mabel Bayard, of Wilmington, Del. 

Ankkkw H. Bkiggs, son of Rev. Otis and Ann (Williams) Briggs, was born in 
Hampden. Me., October 23, 1820, and graduated at Waterville College, now Colby 
I'niversity, in 1839. He studied law with Hamlin (ex-vice-president) & Hill, and was 
admitted to the Penobscot b^r in 1842. and the Suffolk bar in 18(i.5. He married. De- 
cember 4. 1841, Caroline P. Hopkins at Hampden, Me., and lives at Wyommg with 
an office in Boston. 

Percv A. Bridgham, son of Albert and Martha C. (Maddocks) Bridgham, was born 
in East Eddington, Me., November 5. 1850, and attended the public schools of 
Bangor, Me. He studied law in the office of Chief Justice Peters in Maine and in 
Boston in the office of A. J. Robinson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 
8, 187."). He was clerk of the Common Council of Bangor from 1870 to 1872, assistant 
register of deeds of Penobscot county from 18G9 to 1872, and after his removal to Mas- 
sachusetts, was a member of the Common Council of .Somerville in 1879. He was coun- 
sel for the receivers of the Mercantile Savings Institution in Boston in 1878-79-80, and 
attended to the foreclosure of more than si.K hundred mortgages. He has edited a 
legal column in the Boston Daily Globe since 1887, and published in December, 1890, 
" One Thousand Legal Questions Answered by the People's Lawyer" of that journal. 
He married in Bangor, September 12, 1870, Lydia M. Wentworth, and now resides m 
Cambridge. 

Jamks Bridge graduated at Hai-\-ard in 1787, studied law with Theophilus Parsons, 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, practiced in Augusta. Me., and died 
in 1834. 

Edward W. Brewer was born in West Roxbury, October 19, 1858, and graduated 
at Har\-ard in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1884. 

Damei. Chauncev Brewer, son of Daniel Chauncey and Mary Ada (Turpin) Brewer, 
was bom in Boston, September 14, 1861, and was educated at WiUiston Seminary, at 
Williams College and at Princeton. He studied law at the Boston University Law- 
School and in the office of Allen, Long & Hemenway, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He is the author of " Madeleine," published by 
the Putnams of New York. He married, October 18, 1888, at Chicago, Gene\neve, 
daughter of Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, and lives in Boston. 

Josei'ii Beij. was born in Bedford, N. H., in 17.S7, and was the son of Joseph and 
Mary(Houst<m)BeU. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1807, and received the degree of 
LL.D from his alma mater in 1837. After leaving college he taught the academy in 
Haverhill, N. H., as principal and afterwards studied law with Samuel Bell, of Am- 
herst, N. H., with Samuel Dana, of Boston, and Jeremiah Smith, of Exeter, N. H. 
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He established himsell' in jjiactiue in Haverhill where he remained until 1842, when 
he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In the early part of his 
career he was for a time the cashier of the Grafton Bank and later its president. He 
was solicitor for Grafton county, State representative, and in 1835 candidate for Con- 
gress. For many years he stood at the head of the Grafton county bar, where he met 
as equals such men as George Sullivan, H;zekiel Webster, Ichabod Bartlett, Joel Park- 
er, Levi Woodbury and his old instructor, Jeremiah Smith. It was said by one who 
knew him that "as a lawyer he was clear-headed, keen, discriminating, logical and 
thoroughly read. His influence w-ith the court and with the jury was very marked, 
and his services were always in demdnd." His success was largely due to the jjos- 
session of that spirit which his advice to his son manifested, " Your standing at the bar 
depends entirely upon your industry, assiduity and diligence in your profession." 
When he came to Boston he bougUt and occupied a house in Summer street below 
Winthrop Place, and the writer remembers him well as he appeared walking to and 
from hishome, illustrating in his figure andbearing many of those physical traits which 
distinguished many of the New Hampshire la%vyers of the last generation. (Jn his ar. 
rival in Boston he entered into partnership with Henry F. Durant and continued with 
him until his death. He was representative and senator from Boston and president 
of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He married Catherine, daughter of Mills Olcott, 
of Hanover, N. H., a sister of the wife of Rufus Choate, and died suddenly at Sara- 
toga, N. v., in the summer of \HTA. 

JiisEi'H Mills Bkll, son of the above, was born in Haverhill, N. H., and graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law in Boston with his father and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar August 19, 1847. He became associated in practice with his uncle, 
Rufus Choate, and about 1853 married his daughter, Helen Olcott Choate. In the 
War of 1861 he entered the service and while on the staff of General Butler as judge 
of the Recorder's Court in New Orleans rendered valuable service. A severe injury 
received while in the service resulted in mental disturbance, and he died at the asy- 
lum in Somerville, Mass., in 1867. 

H. G. O. CoLBV, son of Rev. Philip and Harriet (Sewall) Colby, was born in Hal- 
lowell. Me., in 1807. His father was born in Sanbornton, N. H., July 30, 1779, and 
moved to Portland in 1800, and afterwards to Hallowell, being engaged in both places 
in business. He finally removed to Salem, Mass., where he studied divinity with Rev. 
Dr. Worcester perparatory to his settlement as pastor in North Middleboro', Mass., 
where he remained from 1817 to the date of his death, February 27, 1851. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was educated in his youth by his uncle. Dr. Sewall, in Washington, 
I). C, and graduated at Brown University in 1827. He was admitted to the bar in 
Bristol County and settled in Taunton, removing later to New Bedford, where he 
married a daughter of John Avery Parker. In 1845 he was appointed judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas and resigned his seat in 1847. He died February 22, 1853. 

J()siu!.\ C. Stone, son of Henry B. and Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston, 
August 25, 1825, and fitti'ng for college at the Leicester Academy, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1844. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in New Bedford in the 
oflice of John Ham W. Paige, and was admitted to the Bristol county bar. He was 
associated with Mr. Paige until 1853 when he removed to Boston, continuing his busi- 
ness tliere until 1862, when he returned to New Bedford, forming a partnership with 








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Win. W. Crapo, which lasted until his death. He was judge of insolvency for a time 
and representative in 1866 and 1867. He married, September IT, 1850, Elizabeth, 
laughter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, and died at New Bedford in 1869. 

JciiiN M,\s()N Wii.i.i.v.Ms, son of Gen. James Williams, wasborn in New Bedford, Mass., 
June 'iA. 1780, and graduated at Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the 
I'.ristol county bar in 1803, and beginning practice in New Bedford afterwards removed 
tci Taunton. In July, 1821, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas 
and in 1839 chief justice to succeed Artemas Ward. He resigned in 1844 and wa.s ap- 
pointed commissioner of insolvency. He received the degree of LL.D. from Brown 
in 1843 and from Harvard in 184.5. He married EJizabeth Otis, daughter of Lemuel 
Williams, and died in New Bedford December 26, 1868. 

JosKi'ii Otis Wii.i.i.\ms, son of the above, was born in Taunton in 1820, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law .School in 1843, and was 
admitted to the bar in Bristol county, but was in 1853 a member of the Suffolk bar. 
He served as captain m the War of 1861 and was severely wounded at the battle of 
Antietam. He married Emily, daughter of Dr. Keenan, of Springfield, Ma.ss., and 
(lied in 1875. 

CuKSTER Isii.vM Rkki), SOU of William and Elizabeth Dean (Dennis) Reed, wasborn 
in Taunton November 23, 1823, and received his early education at the Taunton High 
School and the Bristol Academy. He entered Brown University, but left college 
before graduating, receiving later an honorary degree. He studied law with 
Ansclm Bassett, and in 1863 was chosen attorney-general, holding office from 1864 to 
1.867, when he resignedand was appointed judge of the Superior Court. He resigned 
his seat on the bench in 1871. In 18.59 he was a member of the Senate. He married 
at New Bedford, February 24, 1851, Elizabeth Y. Allj-n, of New Bedford, and died at 
White Sulphur Springs. W. \'a., September 2, 1873. Judge Reed, who was well 
known to the writer, was a man universally esteemed for his straightforward honesty 
of judgment and purpose, for his thorough independence, and for his freedom from 
all those influences which so often disturb the moral sight and antagonize the dic- 
tates of conscience. He was a sound lawyer, a most social companion, and a de- 
voted friend. 

Oscar A. M.\rden, son of Stephen P. and Julia (Avery) Mardcn, was born in 
Palermo, Me., August 20, 1853, and was educated at the Westbrook Seminary in 
I leering. Me. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office 
■ if Samuel K. Hamilton, of Boston, and wa-s admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 
l'<76. He lives in Stoughton, with an office in Boston. He is judge of the Southern 
Norfolk District Court. 

James Hewins was born in Medfield, Mass., April 27, 1846, and was educated at 
the high schools of Medfield and Walpole, and studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of Robert R. Bishop, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
February 26, 1868. He was a representative in 1884 and has his home in Medfield. 

Georce WiNsi.ow WioGiN was born in Sandwich, N. H., March 10, 1841. He was 
educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied law with Samuel Warren, of 
Wrentham. He began practice in Franklin in 1872, having been admitted to the 
Norfolk bar. He has been county commissioner several terms of three years each 



364 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

aiul has been chairman of the board. For the last three or four years he has prac- 
ticed in Boston. 

Jamks E. CorricR, son of James and Margaret (Callaban) Cotter, was born in Ire- 
land, County of Cork, in 184H, and came a boy to Marlboro', Mass. He was edu- 
cated at the pubHc schools of that town and at the Bndgewatcr Normal School, and 
studied law at Marlboro' with William B. (Jale. He was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar January 3, 18T4, and settled in Hyde Park. He was a member of the School 
Board in Hyde Park five years, in 1877 was the Democratic candidate for district at- 
torney, and in. 1888 .was a candidate for presidential elector on the Democratic 
ticket. 

James M. Mauukn, son of Nathan and Sarah J. Marden, was born in Chichester, N. 
H., December 13, 186U, and was educated at the ])ublic schools, the School of Prac- 
tice at Penacook, N. H., and in Olivet, Mich. He studied law in the office of Charles 
Allen Taber, of Boston, but the editor is not sure that he has been admitted to the 
bar. His residence is in Boston. 

A.NDKEW WiGGi.N, son of Zebulon and Mary (Odell) Wiggin, was born in Stratham, 
N. H., October 9, 1837, and was educated at New Hampshire academies. He studied 
law with Judge William W. Stickney, of Exeter, N. H., and was admitted to the 
New Hampshire bar at Exeter in April, 1801, to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and 
to the bar of the United .States Supreme Court in 1881. He married in Boston 
March (i, 1880, Elvira L. Hamlin, and lives in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM Howard Whme, son of Francis A. and Caroline (Barnctt) White, was 
born in Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1808, and was educated at the jjublic schools 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in ISSil. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in the office of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July, 1884. He is secretary of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Asso- 
ciation and clerk of the Boston Children's Aid Society. He lives in Brookline. 

Oeorcie Warner White, son of (leorge Warner and Harriet Randall (Farrar) 
White, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 8, IH.il, and graduated at Harvard in 
1874. He studied law in the office of Charles J. Noyes and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in May, 1878. He married, January 38. 1883, in Boston, Emma Louise, 
daughter of William T. Adams, who died May 35, 1884. He lives in Melrose. 

Everett C. Bumpus, son of C. C. Bumpus, was born in Plympton, Mass., Novem- 
ber 38, 1844. He attended the High School in Braintree, to which town his parents 
had moved, and in 1861 entered the army, serving under various enlistments as 
officer and private during a larger part of the war. At the close of the war he 
studied law in the office of Edward Avery in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar May 10, 1867. ' He was a trial justice in Weymouth from 1868 to 1873, when he 
was appointed judge of the East Norfolk District Court, resigning October 1, 1883, 
and succeeding Asa French by election in the office of district attorney for the South- 
eastern District. He lives in Quincy, but his law business, which, since his resigna- 
tion as district attorney has been a rapidly increasing one, is conducted in Boston. 

JoH.\ LoRi.NG Ei.DKiDc.E was born in Provincetown, Mass., December 35, 1843, and 
fitting for college at the Boston Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1864. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School and after further study in the office of Joseph 
Nickerson, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867. 



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Jamks E. TiRRia.i. was born in Weymouth, March 28, 18JJ3, and was educated in 
the public schools of his native town. He studied law with Fisher A. Kingsbury and 
l-.lijah F. Mall in Weymouth, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1856. 

MosKS DRArER, son of Philip and Mehitable (Kingsbury) Draper, was born in 
Dedham, Mass., January 5, 1791, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. After leaving 
college he taught school a year in Marblehead and then entered on the study of law 
in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and continued practice in 
Boston until his death, with a home in Dorchester. He married, in 1S41, Sabrina 
(Waill) Draper, the widow of his brother Jeremiah. He died November 5, 1870. 

Edwaru Haven Mason, son of David H. and Sarah W. (White) Mason, was born 
in Newton, Mass., June 8, 1849, and was educated at the Newton public schools and 
at Harvard, where he graduated in 1809. He studied law with his father and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872. He was a member of the Newton Common 
Council from 1882 to 1884 inclusive, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1885 and 1886. 
He married at Newton, February 1, 1877, Lelia S. , daughter of Thomas and Sylvina 
Xickerson, and lives in Boston. 

John Murray Marsham., son of Benjamin De Forest and Catharine Russell 
Marshall, was born in Lockport, N. Y., June 11, 1859, and studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in October, 1885. He has 
been assistant United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts since 1890. 
He married Margaret Rowland Clapj) at Pawtucket, R. I., November 4, 1886, and 
lives in Winchester. 

John Ai.den Lorino, son of Bailey and Sally Pickman (Osgood) Loring, was born 
in Andover, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in the offices of William Stevens, of Andover, and William 
Brigham, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk Ijar February 16, 1847. He 
lives at North Andover, with his ofHce in Boston. 

John White Browse, son of James and Lydia (Vincent) Browne, was born in 
Salem, March 29, 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He studied law at the 
I larvard Law School and in the offices of Rufus Choate and Leverett Saltonstall, and 
was admitted to the Essex county-bar. He practiced in Lynn until about 1848, when 
he removed to Boston and continued there his business as a conveyancer. He was 
a representative from Lynn in 1837. He married in 1842, Martha Ann Gibbs, daugh- 
ter of Captain Barnabas Lincoln, of Hingham, and was killed by falling off a rail- 
road car. May 1, 1860. 

Loi IS D. Brandeis, son of Adolf and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis, was born in 
Louisville, Ky., November 13, 1856, and was educated at the Louisville High School 
and at the Anneureal Schule in Dresden, Saxony. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and was admitted to the Missouri bar at St. Louis, Mo., in December, 
187H, and to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. He married Alice Goldmark, March 23, 
1891, and lives in Boston. 

James Aliserf Brackeit, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Small) Brackett, was born 
September 28, 1867, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and the Boston 
University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and graduated 
from that institution with the degree of LL.B. After further study in the office of 



366 HISORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Edmund H. Bennet in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 18S!). 
His residence is at Jamaica Plain. 

RiiiiKRT H. Bowman, son of Robert and Annable (Guthrie) Bowman, was born in 
Yonkers, N. Y., September 2(!, 18")0. and was educated at the High School in Rock- 
ville, Conn., and in Germany. He studied law at the Boston University Law School 
and in the office of Bordman & Blodgett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in July, 1883. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1887-88, and 
a representative in 1889-90. In 1887 he assisted in editing a list of city council con- 
tested election cases from 1827 to that date. He lives in Boston. 

John Lockk, son of Jonathan and Mary (Haven) Locke, was bom in Hopkinton. 
Mass., February 14, 1764, and with his parents moved to Framingham in 1709, to 
Fitzwilliam, N. H., m 1770, and to Ashley, Mass., in 1772. He spent one year at 
Dartmouth, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. In 1793 he entered the office of 
Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, as a student of law, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar in 1790. He settled in Ashley, Mass. ; was a representative in 1804-05, '13, '23, 
a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1820, a member of Congress from the 
Worcester North District from 1823 to 1829, State senator in 1830, and member of 
the Executive Council in 1831. In 1837 he moved to Lowell, and in 1849 to Boston, 
where he died March 20, 18r).5. He married Hannah, daughter of General Nathaniel 
aud Molly (Jackson) Goodwin, of Plymouth, Mass. 

J.\.\iF.s Brow.n Lord, son of Aaron P. and Sarah (Sawyer) Lord, was born in 
Ipswich, Mass., June 6, 1835, and graduated at Amherst College in 18.55. He studied 
law with Otis P. Lord in Salem, and at the Harvard Law School, where he gradu- 
ated in 1800, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 1860. He married at 
Methuen, Mass., April 11, 1800, a daughter of Darius Hibbard, and lives in Boston. 

Algi'stus Pe.abodv Lori.ng, son of Caleb William and Elizabeth S. Loring, was 
born in Boston, December 7, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He gradu- 
ated at the Harvard Law School in 1881, and after further study in the office of 
Benjamin F. Brooks in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1881. 
He manied Ellen Gardner, June 3, 1884, at Boston, and has his home at Beverly 
Farms. 

Frank P. M.vgke was born in Boston, January 27, 1859, and was educated at the 
public schools. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1882. He was commissioner of insolvency 
three years from January 1, 1887. 

Cii.AKi.i-.s Fr.ancis Loring, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring, was 
liorn in Marlboro', Mass., February 25, 1853, and was educated at Phillips Andovef 
Academy. He studied law with E. D. Loring, of East Boston, and Barron C. 
Moulton, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He was a member 
of the Executive Council in 1892, aud a member of the School Board in Melrose six 
years. He married at Woonsocket, R. I.. C-iioliiu' P. Th;itrh.<r. May 28, is.s5, and 
died at Melrose, January 26, 1892. 

Benj.amin R.vnd was born in Weston, Mass., April IN, I In."), and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1808, receiving a degree of LL.D. from that institution in 1840. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813 and was many years associated in the practice of 



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law in Boston with Augustus H. Fiske, also a native of Weston. He was considered 
one of the best read lawyers at the bar. He died in Boston, April 36, 1852. 

John p. Rkynolpb was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 30, 18.")i), and was edu- 
cated at the iniblic schools and at Boston College. He graduated at the Boston 
L'niversity Law School in 18SG and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in that year. 

Ezra Ripley, son of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham, was born August 10, 1826, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1846 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 
1850. He settled in East Cambridge, where he married, May 14. 1853, Harriet M. 
Hayden. He served as first lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts 
Regiment, in the War of IHiil, and died near Vicksljurg, July 28, 1863. 

Gkiirck H. Riss, son of Capt. James A. and Laura Abbie (Weymouth) Russ was 
born in Belfast, Me., March IT, 1863, and was educated at the Boston University, 
where he studied law, as also in the office of Edwin C. Oilman, of Boston. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar August 31, 1886, and married in Boston. December 15, 
1882, LiUa E. Houghton. Residence in Somerville. 

Hiram McKnight Bi-rtoN, son of Smith P. and Elizabeth Burton, was born in East 
Greenbush, X. Y., and was educated at the Boston University. He studied law with 
W. E. L. Uillaway, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1880. 
His residence is in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM W. BuRRAGE, SOU of Josiah and Abigail (Studley) Burrage, was born in 
Cambridge, Mass., February 7, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 35, 
1857. He lives in Cambridge. 

John H. Burke, son of John and Mary Burke, was born in Chelsea, Mass., Septem- 
ber 6. 1856. AVhile an infant his parents moved to Ohio, and two years afterwards 
to South Boston. He attended the Boston public schools and in 1872 entered Boston 
College. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1877, and after 
further study in the office of Patrick A. Collins, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1878. In 1886 he became associated in practice w-ith Mr. Collins. In 1888 
he was president of the Charitable Irish Society, and February 11, 1891, was appointed 
associate judge of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. He married Mary E. 
Ford, of Boston, and lives in the Dorchester District of that city. 

Fka.n-cis BiiRKE, son of James and Catherine Burke, was bom in the Brighton Dis- 
trict of Boston, March 8, 1861, and, was educated at the Boston public schools and 
under the private instruction of Dr. Humphrey, an Oxford, England, scholar. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1882, and after further study in the office of 
Jewell, Field & Shepard, was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in February, 1883. He has 
been an instructor in Greek and Latin and is the author of a sketch of the Life and 
Works of Thomas Carlyle. He lives in the Brighton District. 

Wii.i.iAM Aici sri s Crai'ts, son of Ebenezer and Sarah H. (Spooner) Crafts, was 
born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School amd in Boston in the office of Willard Phillips 
and Richard Robins, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844. He was a mem- 
ber of the City Council of Ro.xbury, and its president several years, a member of the 
SchiMil Board, and at one time the editor of the Norfolk County Journal. He has 



368 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

been almost continuously the clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners since its 
establishment, and much of the ability displayed in the reports of that board has been 
due to his experience and skill. He married November 2, 18-)2, Kniily, daughter of 
Samuel Uoggett. 

John Duncan Bryant, son of John and Mary A. (Duncan) Bryant, was born in 
Meriden, N. H., October 21, 1829, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy, 
the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1853. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of William Dehon, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1857. He has been a director in various 
railroad corporations, and has been largely engaged as counsel for fire and marine 
insurance companies. He married in Boston, October 18, 18G4, KUen M. Reynolds, 
of boston, and lives in Boston. 

Walter Darling Buck, son of John A. and Charlotte M. Buck was born in Orland, 
Me. , June 8, 18(i5, and was educated at the East Maine Conference Seminarv at Bucks- 
port, Me. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1891 , and was admitted to the 
Maine bar in Portland, in October, 1890, and to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. He 
lives in Boston. 

Ai;gi:stus Russ, .son of Daniel and Sarah (Bateman) Russ, was born in Hawkins 
street, Boston, February 6, 1827. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother was 
a native of Castine, Me. He attended the old BoyLston School on Fort Hill, and the 
public school in East street, but on account of a trouble with his eyes abandoned 
school before he was twelve years of age. He then entered the hardware store of 
Oliphant Bros., in Pearl street, and in 1851 went to California, where he was associ- 
ated in business with Moses Ellis. A little later he went to the Sandwich Islands 
with a general cargo, and remained there about two years engaged in a general trad- 
ing business. On returning to San Francisco he came to Boston to purchase goods 
for the finn of which he and Mr. lillis were the members, and on reaching that city 
was induced by friends to abandon business and prepare himself for a legal career. 
He studied law in the office of John C. Park, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
January 29, 1855. At various times since his admission he has been associated in 
practice with John C. Danforth, Melville O. Adams, R. W. Nason, John W. McKim, 
M. F. Howard and W. G. A. Pattee. He was, as the above meagre record shows, a 
self-made man, and like all such men, his life was one of continuous study, without a 
collegiate education, which is so often thought by those whose privilege it is to enjoy 
it, the be all and end all of mental instruction and discipline. His practice was of an 
unusually diverse character, now engaging his attention as counsel for the Faneuil 
Hall or Maverick National Bank, now for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Rail- 
road, now for the American Express Company, and again for the Globe or HoUis or 
Howard Theatres, and all the while in real estate work, questions of title and the 
management of important trusts. Nor did he confine his interest to the limits of his 
profession. He was president of the Boston Old School Boys' Association, one of the 
founders and promoters of the Boston Vacht Club, trustee of the Warren Street Chapel, 
and though watching with a sharp eye the movements of the political current, bound 
himself with no permanent shackles to any administration or party. He died un- 
married at the Hotel Hellevue, Beacon street, Boston, Tuesday, June 7, 1S92, and his 
funeral service was held at Warren Street Chapel on the following Thursday. 




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Amukose Arnold Ranney, son of Waitstil R. and Phebe (Atwood) Ranney, was 
born in Townshend, Vt., April 16, 1821, and gfradiiated at Dartmouth College in 
1S44. He taught school two years in Chester, Vt., and studied law with Tracy & 
Converse, of Woodstock, Vt., where he was admitted to the Vermont bar, December 
■-", 1S47. He soon after moved to Boston where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
July in, 1848. With a mind thoroughly disciplined by education and with unerring 
legal instincts he was not long in securing by the aid of mental and physical capacity 
for unremitting work, an extensive and lucrative practice. He was solicitor for the 
city of Koston in 18r)5 and 18.56, a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives in 185T-.58 and '63, and member of Congress from 1881 to 1887. In the 
National House of Representatives his legal attainments were early recognized, and 
few members were accorded a more general and attentive hearing in the discussion 
of questions requiring legal study to unravel and expound. For many years he has 
been associated in practice with Nathan Morse, and no firm title in the profession is 
a more familiar one than that of Ranney & Morse. He married Maria D. Fletcher, 
of Cavendish, Vt., and has his home in Boston. 

Isaac Homer Sweetser, son of Isaac and Elizabeth S. Sweetser, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., September 3, 1846, and fitting for college at the Charlestown 
High School, graduated at Harvard in 1868. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School, and in Boston in the office of Delion. Bryant & Goodwin, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in September, 1871. 

Robert P. Clapp w..as admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and practices in Boston. 

Sa.miei. Bradley Noyes, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morrill) Noyes, was born in 
Dedham, April 9, 1817, and received his early education at a private school in Ded- 
ham kept by Francis W. Bird, now li\'ing in Wal])oIe, Mass., and at Phillips Andover 
Academy. He graduated at Harvard in 1844, and studied law in Worcester with 
Isaac Davis, in Dedham with Ezra Wilkinson, and in Canton with Ellis Ames. He 
was admitted to the Norfolk bar in April, 1847, and settled in Canton, where he has 
always lived, with the exception of two years which he spent in Florida, and where 
he has carried on his law business in connection with an ofhce in Boston. He was 
appointed trial justice in 1850, commissioner of insolvency, 1853; chosen special 
county commissioner in 1856, was a member of the Canton School Board from 1849 
to 1871, superintendent of public schools in 1857-.58-G1-64 and 1867 to 1871. In 1864 
he was appointed by the secretary of the treasury a special agent and acting collector 
of the customs at Fernandina, Fla., and remained there two years. On his return 
he was ajipointed in 1867 a register in bankrujitcy for the Second Congressional Dis- 
trict in Massachusetts, which office he still holds. His partial retirement from 
business has been necessitated by a somewhat serious impairment of his sight. He 
married, in January, 1850, Georgiana, daughter of James and Abigail (Gookin) 
Beaumont, and still resides in Canton. 

AiiEi. Ci siiiNC graduated at Brown Univer.sity in 1810 and studied law with Eben- 
ezer Gay in Hinghani. He was admitted to the Plymouth county bar and settled in 
Dorchester, where he continued to practice until June 30, 1843, when he was ap- 
l)ointed one of the justices of the old Police Court of Boston, which office he held 
until shortly l>efore his death, which occurred in 1H66. 
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370 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Ai;nkk L. Ci'SHiNG, son of the above, was born in Dorchester and graduated at 
Harvard in 1838. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar, April 15, 1841. He began practice in Boston, but soon removed to Randolph 
and practiced extensively in Norfolk and Plymouth counties. In 1863 he removed 
to New York, where he is believed by the editor to be still living. 

Gkokck C. Wii.dk. son of Judge Samuel S. Wilde, was admitted to the Norfolk 
county bar in October, 1826. He practiced in Wrentham until 183.5, when he was 
appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the county of Suffolk, and died in 
187.5. 

Fk.vnk L. W.\siiiii kn, son of George and Abby M. (Cheney) Washburn, was born in 
Peterboro". N. H., May 1, 1849, and was educated at New Hampton. N. H., and at 
Bates College. He studied law in Boston with Horace R. Cheney, his cousin, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He has been associated with 
General Butler about fourteen years. He married in Candia, N. H., June 14, 1877, 
Annabella E. Philbrick, and lives in Melrose. 

Ai.K.\.\Ni)KR Cai.vin WAsimrRN, son of Calvin and Lydia Washburn, was born in 
Raynham, Mass., November 6, 1819, and fitting for college at the Boston Latin School, 
graduated at Harvard in 1839. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in 
Boston in the offices of Charles B. Goodrich and Edward S. Rand, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1845. His home is at Norwood. 

JosKi'H Bangs Warner was born in Boston in 1848, and graduated at Harvard in 
1869. He graduated at the Har\ard Law School in 1873, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1874. 

CiiAKLKs EviiRETT Washiu'rn, Son of Charlei Henry and Elizabeth Ann (Gifford) 
Washburn, was born in Minot, Me., and graduated at Cornell University in 1876. He 
studied law at the Boston University Law School and in the office of Hyde, Dickin- 
son & Howe in Boston, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar in 1880. He married in 
Bradford, Mass., in 1889, Helen Chadwiek Webster, a graduate of Bradford Acad- 
emy, and lives in Wellesly. 

Km(ikv Wasiiiukn, son of Joseph Washburn, was born in Leicester, Mass., Feb- 
ruary 14, 1800, and was descended from John Washburn, who lived in the Plymouth 
Colony in its early days. He spent two years at Dartmouth College, and graduated 
at Williams College in 1817, receiving a degree of LL.D. from both Williams and 
Harvard, in 18D4. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
the Berkshire bar in Leno.x in 1821. He settled in his native town and practiced 
there until 1828, when he removed to Worcester and became the partner of John Da- 
vis. He was a representative from Worcester in 1826-27 and 1838, and a member of 
the Senate in 1841-42. He was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas and 
resigned in 1847, and was governor of Massachusetts in 1854. In 1856 he was ap- 
pointed Buzzy professor of law at the Dane Law School in Cambridge and resigned 
in 1876. He then opened an office in Cambridge, and was a representative from Cam- 
bridge at the time of his death, March 18, 1877. He was the author of " Judicial 
History of Massachusetts," " History of Leicester," a " Treatise on the American 
Law of Real Property," and a "Treatise on the American Law of Easements .and 
Servitudes." 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 371 

Solomon Lincoln is the son of Solomon Lincoln, of Hinjjhani. and was born in that 
town August 14, 1838. His father was a man of prominence and possessed various 
accomplishments, having been a noted lawyer at the Plymouth county bar, a pains- 
taking and accurate historian, a conservaUve and sagacious bank commissioner by 
executive appomtment, and during the last years of his life the chief manager of the 
affairs of the Webster Bank in Boston. The subject of this sketch graduated at Har- 
vard in 1S57 and at the Harvard Law School in 1804, having served for a time as 
tutor in the college. He pursued his law studies further in the office of Stephen B. 
hes in Salem, and was admitted to the Essex county bar at Lawrence in October, 
1S«4. He established himself in Boston, where he enjoys a large and increasing 
practice, the result of the possession of large intellectual gifts, a thorough prepara- 
tion for a legal career, and assiduity and faithfulness in the pursuit of his prof essi<m. 
One of the most noted cases with which he has been connected was that of the (Hop- 
kins) Searle will, involving the division of an estate of many millions of dollars. 
Cokinel Lincoln derives his title from the occupancy of a position on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Thomas Talbot in 1879. He married, February 15, 1865, at Haydenville (Wil- 
liamsburg) Ellen B., daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Joel Hayden, and lives in 
Boston. 

Da.niel Cl.vkk LiNscoi'T, son of Jonathan and Hannah Linscott, was born in Jef- 
fer.son. Me., March 17, 1828, and was educated at the Lincoln and Yarmouth Acade- 
mies in Maine, and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1854. He studied 
law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 3. 1860. He was a member 
of the City Council of Chelsea in 1864, and has been president of the Phi Beta Kajjpa 
Society of Bowdoin College. He married at Topsham, Mc. , July 29, 1855, Annie 
Barron, and lives in Boston. 

Frederick E. Lncni-iEi.n, son of George A. and Sarah M. (Gurney) Litchfield, 
was born in Winchester, Mass., September 2, 1866, and studied law at the Harvard 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He is a member 
of the city council of Quincy, where he has his home, with an office in Boston. 

George Shkrm.vn Lrni.EFiELD. son of George Thomas and Ann (Thorpe) Little- 
field, was born in Watertown, Mass., April 27, 1851. and graduated at Harvard in 
1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the offices of IC. 
R. Hoar, O. S. Knapp, and Selwyn Z. Bowman, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar at Cambridge in October, 1872. He was a member of the School Board of Win- 
chester thirteen years, trial justice of Middlesex county seventeen years, and special 
justice of the Fourth District Court of Eastern Middlesex ten years. He married in 
Somerville, June 20, 1874, Georgiana Stevens, and makes Winchester his home. 

C.M.EB Wii.LL\M LoKiNc;, SOU of Charles Greeley Loring, an eminent lawyer of Bf>s- 
ton, whose sketch may be found elsewhere in this register, was born in Boston, July 
:il, 1819. The maiden name of his mother was Anna Pierce Brace. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1839 and at the Harvard I>aw School in 1841, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 6, 1842, becoming associated in business with his father and William 
Uehon. He has been largeh' interested in various real estate and manufacturing 
companies, among which may be mentioned the Fifty Associates and the Plymouth 
Cordage Com])any. of the latter of which he is president. He married in 1847, Eliza- 
beth Smith, daughter of Augustus Peabody, of Salem, and has his residence at Bev- 
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372 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

\Vii.i.iA.M CaI-KH Luring, son of the above, was born in Beverly, August 24, IHril, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. From December, 
187(i, to July, 1878, he was assistant attorney-general of the Commonwealth. He 
married Susan Mason Lawrence in 1883, and lives in Boston. 

H. Ski.don LouixG, son of Hollis and Laura W. (Hitchcock) Loring. was born in 
Marlboro', Mass., and was educated at Andover. He studied law at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge July 1. 
1885. He was seven years in the United States consular service and three years as 
a commissioned officer in the War of 1861. He married at Marlboro', October 19, 
ISIil, Sarah Howard Allen, and lives at AUston, a district of Boston. 

Pe-.ikk S. Maiikk was born in South Boston, December 21, 1847, and after attend- 
ing the public schools entered the employ of James M. Bcebe & Company, with whom 
he remained five years. He was then clerk in the banking house of William Chad- 
born and afterwards studied law in Worcester with (Jeorge F. \'ery, and was ad- 
mitted to the Worcester bar in 1882. He came from Worcester to Boston in 188.5, 
and became associated with Charles J. Noyes. 

John p. Man.ni.ng was born in Boston, June 17, IS.")!, and was educated at the 
public schools. He studied law in the office of John W. Mahan and was admitted to 
the Suffolk comity bar January 1, 1874. In September, ]8(i8, he entered the office of 
the clerk of the Superior Criminal Court as copyist, and in May, 1874, he was ap- 
pointed assistant clei-k. On the death of the clerk. Henry Homer, John C. Park 
was appointed to fill the vacancy, but at the ne.xt election Mr. Manning was chosen 
clerk, and still holds the office. 

Fka.nk Atlee Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) Mason, was born in 
Newton, Mass., April 12, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1884. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and the Boston University Law School, and with William 
H. Orcutt, Albert T. Sinclair, and Edward H. Mason, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in the autumn of 1888. He is unmarried and lives in Newton. 

Harry Wurre Mason, son of David Haven and Sarah (White) M^on, was born in 
Newton, May 20, 18.~)7, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Ida 
P. Dawes at Boston, June 80, 1884, and lives in Newton. 

Edmund Hatch BENNErr, son of Milo Lyman and Axieline (Hatch) Bennett, was 
born in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 1824. His father, a jurist of note, was born in 
Sharon, Conn., in 1790, and graduated at Yale in 1811. He studied law at the Law 
School in Litchfield, Conn., and establishmg himself in practice in Burlington, Yt., 
became in 1839 an associate justice of the Supreme Court in Vermont, and died ip 
Taunton, Mass., July 7, 18()8. The subject of this sketch was educated at Vermont 
University in Burlington, where he graduated in 1843, and where he received the 
degree of LL. D. in 1872. He studied law with his father and was admitted to prac- 
tice in Vermont in September, 1847. He soon after came to Boston and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1848. Not long after his admission to the bar he 
removed to Taunton, where he has continued to reside, with for many years an 
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ante of every duty, he soon became a marked and trusted man at both the Bristol 
and SulTolk bars. At the time the offices of judj;e of probate and judge of insolvency 
in the several counties were merged and the office of judge of probate and insolvency 
was created by law m 1858, he was appointed to that office for Bristol county, and 
held it until his resignation in 1883. He was mayor of Taunton from 1805 to 180T 
inclusive, lecturer at the Harvard Law School from 1869 to 1871, and is now dean 
and professor in the Boston University Law School. In 1889 he delivered the his- 
torical address on the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
settlement of Taunton, a production illustrating the thoroughness and exactness of 
research and statement which characterize all his efforts. His labors in the literature 
of the law have been constant and valuable. He has edited all of the law works of 
Judge Story, Brigham on Infancy, Blackwell on Tax Titles, Cushing's Massachusetts 
Reports, volumes 9 to 12 inclusive. Digest of Decisions, Goddard on Easements, 
Greenleaf's Reports, 8 volumes, English I^aw and Equity Reports, 30 volumes, Ben- 
jamin on Sales, Poperoy's Constitutional Law, Leading Criminal Cases, 3 volumes, 
Inderraauer's Principles of Common Law, Fire Insurance Cases, 5 volumes, has been 
co-editor of the American Law Register several years, and contributor to the Al- 
bany Law Journal axiA the Boston Law Reporter. He married, June 23, 1853, at 
Taunton, where he still has his residence, Sally, daughter of Samuel L. Crocker, of 
that city. 

Ciiaki.es Brooks Brown, son of Major Wallace and Mary (Brooks) Brown, was born 
in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 1835, and graduated at Harvard in 1856. He 
studied law in the office of Griffin & Boardman in Charlestown, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar January 28, 1858. He first practiced in Springfield, then in Charles- 
town, and finally in Boston. He delivered an oration, November 14, 1860, before 
the Cambridge High Sch<jol Association. In the War of 1861 he was a private in 
Company C, Third Massachusetts Regiment, during a three months' service, and a 
private in Company G, Nineteenth Massachusetts three years' Regiment, and was 
killed in the Wilderness, May 13. 1864. 

Edward Evp;RErr Bi.oDc.Krr, son of Warren K. and Minnie P. Blodgett, was born 
in Boston, Januarj' 22, 1865, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Gaston & Whitney, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 18S9. He married, November 17, 1891, 
Mabel L. Fuller, and lives in Brookline. 

JosKi'ii Ci.MMiNGs, son of Joseph and Susan T. (Howland) Cummings, was born in 
Taunton, Mass., October 21, 1856, and was educated at the Taunton High School 
and at Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston 
University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. He was 
a member of the Common Council of Somerville in 1888-89. He is unmarried, and 
lives in Somerville. 

Samif.1. W. Crkk(jii was horn in Boston, November 7, 1839, and was educated at 
the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1862, and was associated 
for a time with Wm. J. Hubbard. 

Jav Boyd Crawford, son of Nathaniel B. and Lucretia R. Crawford, was born in 
Trumbull county, O., February 1, 1850, and was educated in Michigan. He studied 
law in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1875. He is engaged 



374 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

wholly in civil business, He is the author of a History of the Credit Mobilier. He 
married in Baltimore, Md., November 4, 1880, Eva J. Hunter, and lives in the Rox- 
bury District of Boston. 

HiKAM Burr Ckandai.i., son of Hiram T. and Elberia (Jenks) Crandall, was born 
in Adams, Mass., October 21, 1834, and was educated at the Adams High School, 
the Fort Edward Institute, and at Williams College, where he graduated in 1859. He 
studied law with Jarvis N. Uunhamy, of Adams, and John Albion Andrew, of Bos- 
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1861. He was appointed commis- 
sioner of insolvency for Suffolk county, June 15, 18()1 ; inspector of Rainsford Island 
hospital, October 13, 1865; public administrator for Suffolk county October 15, 1872; 
member of the Common Council of Boston in 1867, and adjutant of the Sixty-first 
Massachu.setts Regiment November 30, 1864. He lives in Boston. 

Fkkkf.ric CuN.Ni.NGHA.M, SOU of FredeHc and Sarah M. (Parker) Cunningham, was 
born in Cohasset, Mass., and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1874. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1877, and after further study with Lewis S. Dabney in Boston, was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in November, 1878. His business is confined chiefly to marine cases. 
He married in Brookline, December 11, 1877, Hetty S. Lawrence, and lives in 
Brookline. 

Thomas Florian Cirrier, son of Thomas Sargent and Betsey Currier, was born in 
Newbury, Mass., about 1835, and attended public and private schools. He studied 
law with A. L. Gushing in Randolph, Mass., and was admitted to the Norfolk county 
bar at Dcdham in 1863. He lives in Boston, where he has his office. 

John Henry Butler, son of William and Hannah (Paine) Butler, was born in 
Thoniastcm, Me., October 11, 181!), and fitting for college at Sandwich, N. H., and 
Fryeburg, Me., graduated at Dartmouth in 1.S46. After leaving college he was usher 
in the Brimmer School in Boston three years and master three years. He studied 
law in Boston with Lyman Mason and with Ranney & Morse, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in the winter of 1852-3, and was associated for a time with Aaron 
Kingsbury. He married in 1849, Charlotte P. Libbey, of Portland. 

Wii.i.iAM Henry Brown, son of Daniel H. and Anna Maria (Abbot) Brown, was 
born in Ashland, Ky., and was educated at the Bridgewater Normal School. He 
studied law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1886. He is unmarried and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

Chari.es Browne, son of Moses and Mary Browne, was born in Beverly, Mass., 
May 24, 1793, and studied law in Beverly with Nathan Dane. After his admission 
to the bar he came to Boston and became a partner in the book firm of Ililliard, Gray 
& Co., and was a director in the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. He 
married, December 14, 1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P. Tilden, and 
died in Boston, July 21, 1856. 

Edward Ingersoi.l Browne, son of the above, was born in Boston, February 11, 
1833, and was educated at the English High and Latin Schools in Boston, and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1855. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
where he graduated in 1857, and in Boston in the office of Edward D. Sohier and 
Charles A. Welch, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 1S5H. He is un- 
married and lives in Boston. 



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Warren Prkston Dcdi.ey, son of Harrison and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was 
born in Auburn, Me., June 25, 1853, and was educated at the public schools in New 
Bedford. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 
1877, and in Boston in the office of Sanford Harrison Dudley, and was admitted to 
the Middlesex bar October 31, 1877. He has been secretary of the Massachusetts 
Civil Service Commission since its inauguration Aujjust 15, 1884. He is unmarried, 
and lives in Cambridge. 

George Addiso.n Brown, son of James S. and Polly Frazier Brown, was born in 
Ph-niouth, Vt, November 24, 1854, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1877. He studied 
law at the Harvard I^aw School and at Bellows Falls in the ofHce of J. D. Bridgcman, 
and was admitted to the Windham county bar in N'ermont, and to the Suffolk bar 
March 3, 1891. He married Flora E. Pierce in Springfield, Vl., July 18, 1877, and 
lives in Everett. 

Howard Kinmonth Brown, son of George Bruce and Marrianne E. (Sprague) 
Brown, was born in Boston, September 25, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of George V. 
Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1883. 

John F. Brown was bom in Douglas, March 20, 1848, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July, 1874. He was a representative in 1887-88. 

Georue Erasti s CiRRV, son of James C. and Minnie (Young) Curry, was born in 
Cleveland, Tenn.. February 13, 18.54, and was educated at the Boston Latin School 
and Boston University. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. He married Clara A. Xeal in Dorchester, 
July 10, 1880, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

Henry Otis Cl'SHMan, son of George F. and Luella M. Cushman, was born in Lis- 
bon, N. H., and graduated at Dartmouth in 1887. He studied law with H. C. Ide 
and W. P. Stafford, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and at the Boston University Law School, 
and was admitted to the Vermont bar at Montpelier, and to the Sitffolk bar Oct(jber 
20, 1891. He was a lecturer on commercial law at the Howard University Law 
School in Washington. D. C in 1890. He married in Boston Isabel Poland Rankin, 
and lives in Boston. 

Francis Lowell Di 1 jun, son of Warren and Elizabeth Cal)i)l i^Lowell) Dutton, was 
born in Boston, June 21, 1812, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He graduated at 
the Har\-ard Law School in 1834, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 
Brookliue, December 15, 1854. 

RiciiARU Sylvester Dow was born in Davenport, la.. May 2, 1863, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1891, and lives in Boston. 

Marquis Fayette Dickinson, son of Marquis F. and Hannah S. (Williams) Dickin- 
son, was born in Amherst, Mass., January Hi, 1840. He received his early education 
at the public schools, at the Amherst and Mon.son Academies, and at Williston Semi- 
nary in Easthampton, from which he graduated in 18.58. He then entered Amherst 
College, and after graduating in 1862 he was a teacher in the Williston Seminary un- 
til 1865, after which he studied law in Springfield in the office of Wells & Soule, in 
Boston in the office of George S. Hillard and at the Harvard Law School. He was 
admitted to the bar in Boston in 1867, and was a.ssistant United States attorney from 



376 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1869 to 1871. He then became associated in practice with (leorge S. Hillard and 
Henry IJ. Hyde, as a member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, and after 
the death of Mr. Hillard the firm was changed to Hyde, Dickm.son & Howe, it now- 
being Hyde & Dickinson. The busmess of the firm was early established, and 
through its various changes has maintained a leading position at the Suffolk bar. It 
has been specially prominent in the management of a large number of important 
cases for the West End Street Railway Company: The process of merging a number 
of companies in that corporation, the changes from horse to electric power, the ac- 
quirement of new rights and privileges from the Legislature, from the city govern- 
ment, and the authorities of towi^f contigtious to Boston, together with the numer- 
ous questions and claims necessarily attending the life and maintenance of a com- 
pany on whose methods and acts the rapid transit of suburban travel depends, have 
imposed on this firm constant and increasing responsibilities, which have been met 
and discharged with fidelity and skill. Mr. Dickinson has been a member of the 
Boston vSchool Board, trustee of the Boston Public Library, trustee of the Williston 
Seminary, overseer of the Charity Fund of Amherst College, was a member of the 
Boston Common Council in 1871 and 1872, and during the latter year the president of 
the board. He delivered the centennial address in Amherst in 1876. He married at 
Easthampton, Mass., November 23, 1864, Cecilia R., an adopted daughter of Samuel 
Williston, and has his legal residence at Cohasset, with a winter residence in Brook- 
line. 

Tuo.MAs Amory Di'.-XTf.k was born in Boston May 16. 1790, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1810. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813. and died in Boston, March 
9, 1873. 

Artiuk Lrni(;ow Df.vkns, son of Charles and Mary (Lithgow)Devens, and brother 
of General Charles Devens, was born in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 1821. He fitted 
for college under the instruction of Joseph Lovering and Abiel Abbot Livermore, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1840. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, 
and after admission to the bar began practice in Walpole, N. H., moving afterwards 
to Northfield and Ware, Mass., and remaining in the latter place until 1850. In J848 
he was a representative from Ware. In IS.'JO he was appointed agent of the Otis Man- 
ufacturing Company, and continued'in that position until 18.59, when he became a 
partner in the firm of James W. Paige & Co., of Boston. In 1862 he was appointed 
treasurer of the Applcton and Hamilton Manufacturing Companies, and so continued 
until his death. He married Agnes H., daughter of Abijah White, of Watertown, 
and died at Nahant July 22, 1867. 

IsA.ic Jones Ci;ttek, son of Daniel and Sally Cutter, was born in Jaffrcy, N. H., 
May 21. 1830, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1852. He studied law with Edward S. 
Cutter in Peterboro', N. II., and with John Q. A. Griffin in Charlestown, Mass., and 
was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 1855. He married at Boston in 
1858, Margaret F. Wood, and lives in Boston. 

Loiis Thomas Cushinc, son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Baldwni) Cushing, was 
born in Boston May 31, 1849, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1870. He studied law in Boston in the office of Ly- 
man Mason and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1875. He was a representative in 1883, and has been chairman of the 



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School Committee and trustee of the Cohasset Public Librarj' a number of years. He 
married at Cohasset February 14, 1871. Mary Rebecca Johnson, and lives in Cohasset. 

Hkxrv Codman, was born in Portland October 1, 1789, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1808. He was admitted to the Sufl'olk bar in October, 1811, and practiced in Bos- 
ton. He died in Roxbury May 4, 1853. 

RoHEKT Orne Burmiam, SOU of John and Sarah (Choate) Burnham, was born in 
l-'ssex, Mass., October 28, 1849, and was educated at Colby Academy, New London, 
X. H., and at Brown University, where he gi-aduated in 1875. He studied law in 
Salem with George F. Choate and William D. Northend, and in Boston with Edgar 
Jay Sherman and E. B. Hagar, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8, 1884. 
Soon after lea\'ing college he was attacked by a disease of the eyes, which, until re- 
lieved by an operation about two years since, threw a serious obstacle in the way of 
his preparation for the bar, and subsequently in the way of his entrance upon his pro- 
fession. The relief so fortunately secured has enabled him to advance rapidly towards 
access in his career. 

James W. McDonald, son of Michael and Jane McDonald, was bom in Marlboro', 
Mass., May 15, 1853, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law in Marl- 
boro' with William B. Gale, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge m . 
July, 1876. He has been a member of the School Committee in Marlboro' twelve 
years, special justice of the Marlboro' Police Court, city solicitor, representative in 
1880, and senator in 1891-92. He lives in Marlboro'. 

Sajiuel W. McDaniel, son of Joseph A. and Hannah McDaniel, was born in Phila- 
delphia, November 18, 1833. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12, 1878. He was a representative in 1873, a 
member of the Cambridge School Board from 1874 to 1877, a councilman in Cambridge 
in 188'2-83, alderman in 1884, has been trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, sjje- 
L ial justice of the Third District Court of Cambridge, and trustee of the State Reform 
School, which office he now holds, for five years from July, 1890. He lives in Cam- 
l)ridgc. 

Jamks E. May.nadier, son of General William Maynadier, was born in Baltimore, 
November 23, 1839, and was educated in Maryland and Washington. He came to 
Boston in 1856, and entered as a student the office of Causten Browne, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1859, at the age of twenty years. He served 
' ■nc year in Company K, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, in the War of 1861. His 
jiractice is chiefly connected with patents. 

J\MKS AuDLEV Maxwell, son of Joseph Edward and Sarah Holmes Maxwell, was 
Imrn in Sunbury, Ga., and was educated at Franklin College, University of Georgia 
and the L'nited States Military Academy at West Point. He studied law with Chief 
Justice Lumpkin, of Georgia, and T. R. R. Cobb, author of the " Digest of the Law 
of (ieorgia," and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1H74. He is the author of a work 
'■n the " Causes and Consequences of the Civil War." He married Kathleen Came- 
ron, of Ridgewood, N. J., February 34, 1870, and lives in the Roxhurv District of 
iit>ston. 

Gkrakii CiRTis ToiiKV, son of Joshua B. and Susanna K. (I'raii) Tohey, was born 
in Warcham, Mass., October 16, 1836, and was educated at the public schools in Ware- 
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378 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ham, the Bridj^ewaler Academy, the Pierce Academy in Middleboro', at Paul Wing's 
private school in Sandwich, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. He grad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further study in the office of 
Brooks & Ball in Boston, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 4, 1863. He be- 
came associated with Brooks & Ball as partner and continued with them in active 
practice until 1872. Since that time he has been extensively engaged in a business 
combining the departments of banking, manufacturing, and shipping. He is un- 
married and lives in Wareham. 

HiiNKV Guilds Merwin, son of Elias and Anne (Childs) Merwin, was born in Pitts- 
field, Mass., August 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
May, 1877. He is associate justice of the Central Middlesex District Court, and lect- 
urer in the Boston University Law School. He is the author of a work on the " Pat- 
entability of Inventions," and a book entitled " Road, Track and Stable." He mar- 
ried Anne Amory Andrew in Boston, April 22, 1884, and has his residence in Con- 
cord, with an office in Boston. 

Bknj.vmin Lowei.i, Mkkkii.i. TowliK, son of iJr. George and Adelane (Lane) Tower, 
was born in Boston, June 17, 1848, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and 
at Har\'ard, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston with Brooks & Ball, and was admitted to the Suff'olk bar in December, 
1871. In 1874 he became a partner in the firm of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and in 1887, 
after the death of Mr. Brooks and the departure of Mr. Storey from the firm, the 
firm name has been Ball & Tower. 

Thomas French Temme was born in Canton, Mass., May 2, 1838, and was educated 
at the public schools of Dorchester. He was clerk and treasurer of the town of Dor- 
chester before its annexation to Boston in 1869, w'hen he was appointed judge of the 
Municipal Court of the Dorchester District of Boston, Since 1871 he has been regis- 
ter of deeds of Suffolk county. 

Benj.\min Frank Watson was born in Warner, N. H., April 30, 1826, and was 
educated chiefly in the public schools of Lowell, where he lived from 1835 to 1848. 
lie studied law in Lowell, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1849. He settled in 
Lawrence, was the editor and proprietor of the Laiurciice Sentinel, postmaster under 
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln, and as major and lieutenant-colonel served with the 
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment three months at the beginning of the war. He was in 
command of the detachment of the Sixth Regmient which was attacked in its passage 
through Baltimore in April, 1861. In 1867 he removed to New York. 

Pal;i, Barron Waison, son of Dr. Barron C. and Julia (Willis) Watson, was born 
in Morristown, N. J., March 25, 1861, and was educated at the St. Mark's School in 
Southl)oro', Mass., and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Worcester in the office of Frank P. Goulding, and 
was admitted to the Worcester county bar in March, 1885. He is the author of 
"Bibliography of the Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America," "Marcus Aurelius 
Antoninus" and the "Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa." He married 
Katharine H., daughter of Henry M. Clarke, and lives in Boston. 

I'uANcis Oshorn Waits, son of Francis and Mehitable (Lord) Watts, was bom in 
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to l^ilS, when his family removed to Boston. He fitted for college at the Chauncy 
Ilall School and graduated at Harvard in 1822. He studied law at the Northampton 
Law School and with Augustus Peabody in Boston, and after his admission to the 
Suffolk bar, October 8, 1825, was for six years associated with Mr. Peabody in busi- 
ness. In 1831 he formed a partnership with William J. Hubbard, which was only 
terminated by death. He was a senator in 1846. He married, May 1, 1820, Caroline, 
daughter of Thacher and Lucy (Joddard, and died in Roxbury, September 28, 1800. 

JniTN M. Way, son of Lorin and Lettice C. Way, was born in Rochester, Vt., and 
was educated at the Brandon Seminary. He studied law in Boston with Edward 
.\very, and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar in 18i58. He married in Boston 
in 1859 Fannie D. Thomas, and lives in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

ToLMAN Wii.LEv, son of Isaac and Susan (Ryan) Willey, was born in Campton, N. 
H., May 25, 1809. His family was among the oldest in the town and associated with 
its settlement. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and studied law in 
Lowell with Samuel H. Mann, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar. He began 
jiractice in Lowell, but removed in 1837 to Charlestown, and in 1844 to Boston. 
After establishing himself in Boston he was associated for a time with Horace G. 
Hutchins, but during the larger part of his career was alone. He married, Septem- 
ber 7, 1844, Phebe L., daughter of Captain William and Hettie (Langdon) Lithgow. 
.\bout the year 1875 he was compelled to retire from business by a mental disease 
from which he never recovered. After a short residence at the Insane Asylum in 
Somerville he was removed to the asylum in South Boston, where he died, July 4, 
1883. At the centenial celebration of the town of Campton, September 12, 1807, he 
was selected as its most distinguished living son for president of the day. 

Nathan Clifford was born in Rumney, N. H., August 18, 1803, and was educated 
at the Haverhill, N. H., Academy and the Hampton, N. H., Academy. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in York county. Me., and began practice there at the age of twenty- 
four. He was a representative from 1830 to 1834, and speaker of the House two 
years. From 1834 to 1838 he was attorney-general of Maine, and in the latter year 
was chosen member of Congress, serving four years. In 1846 he entered the cabinet 
of President Polk as attorney-general, and at the close of the Mexican War was sent 
to Mexico to negotiate a treaty. In 1858 he was appointed by President Buchanan 
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. After the presidential cam- 
paign of 1876, owing to conflicting certificates of election from the States of Florida, 
Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina, an act of Congress was passed, January 29, 
1877, establishing an electoral commission consisting of five senators chosen by the 
Senate, five members of the House chosen by that body, four justices of the Supreme 
Court designated in the act, and a fifth selected by the four. To this commission the 
conflicting certificates were to be referred and its decision was to be final. Its mem- 
bers were Justices Clifford, Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley; Senators Edmunds, 
Morton, Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard, and Representatives Payne, Hunton, 
Abbott, Garfield and Hoar. Justice Clifford presided and the commis.sion decided 
eight to seven in such a way as gave Mr. Hayes a majority of one over Mr. Tilden 
in the electoral college. Justice Clifford died at Cornish, Mass., July 25, 1881. 

Lesi.ik C. Wkap, son of Samuel C. and Mary E. (Kasson) Wead was born in Malone, 
N. Y., Februarj- 17, 1852 and was educated at the Franklin Academy in Malone and 



380 HISTORY OF THE BMA'CI/ AND BAR. 

at Dartmouth College, where he giaduatcd in 1ST2 from the C. S. Department. He 
studied law at the Albany Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar 
at Albany in 18T:i, and to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1891. He was president of the 
\\Y>ad Paper Company from 1880 to 188(), vice-president of the National Bank of 
Malone from 1877 to 1885 — president after 1885 — and represented the principal legatees 
in the contest of the will of Willam A. Wheeler, late vice-president of the United 
States. He is now a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Wead & Company, real estate 
and investment brokers in Boston. He married Kate H. Whitcomb in Boston, Octo- 
Irer 4, 1S77, and his residence is in Brookhne. 

Si: 111 Wki!1!, son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar) Webb, was born in Scituate, Mass., 
February 14, 182;{, and was educated at a private school in Hingham, Bridgewater 
i\cademy, Phillips E.xeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1843. 
He studied law with (ieorge T. Bigelow and Manlius S. Clarke, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar July 2, 1845. He began business associated with Ozias Goodwin 
Cha])man, with whom he remained until 1848, when he opened an office alone in 
Brighton. In 1S51 he became a partner in Boston with Charles G. Davis, and con- 
tinued with him uiitil the removal of Mr. Davis to Plymouth. In 1858 he went to 
New York, where he spent one year in jjractice, and returned home to Scituate in 
])oor health. In July, 1861, he was appointed commercial agent at Port Au Prince, 
but did not remain there long. He married, November 18, 1853, Helen, daughter of 
George M. and Mary D. (Billings) Gibbons, and died at Scituate, August 31, 1802. 

D.AMKi. Fi.ETCiiKR WiiiisTKK, Son of Daniel and (Jrace (Fletcher) Webster, was born 
in Portsmouth, N. H., July 23, 1813, and fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
School, graduating at Harvard in 1833. He studied law with his father in Boston 
and with Samuel B. Walcott in Hopkinton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc 
tober 5, 183G. He went to Detroit in 1837 and then to La Salle, 111., where he re- 
mained initil 184(1. While his father was secretary of state under Harrison and Tyler, 
he was private secretary and assistant secretary of state. In 1843 Caleb Gushing 
was sent United States commissioner to China and Mr. Webster was his secretary of 
legation, returning in January, 1845. In 1H45 he was a representative from Boston, 
and in 1850 was appointed surveyor of the port, holding the office until 1861. In 
1S46 he delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston. In June, 1861, he raised the 
Twelfth Regiment of JIassachusetts Volunteers, for three years' service, in three 
days, and was commissioned colonel June 21. The regiment consisted of five com- 
panies from Boston, one from North Bridgewater, now Brockton, one from AVey- 
mouth, one from Stoughton, one from Abington, and one from Gloucester. He mar- 
ried Caroline Story, daughter of Stephen White, of Salem, and was killed at the sec- 
ond battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862. 

Pkkni iss Wkhsi KK, son of William P. and Susan H. Webster, was born in Lowell, 
Mass., in 1851. His father was for thirty years an active attorney-at-law in Middle- 
sex county, and died in 1877 at Frankfort on the Main, where he went in 1860 as con- 
sul-general of the United Stales. He was educated at the schools of Lowell and at 
the LTniversities of Heidelburg and Strassburg in Germanj', where he also pursued 
the study of law with Professor Bluntschli, ol Heidelburg. On his return home he 
studied with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 
1880. Since his admission he has been in active practice in Suffolk county associated 



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with Benjamin F. Butler. In 1ST:! lie was ajipointecl consular agent of the United 
States to Mayence in the Grand Duthy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, and held 
that position until 1H77. lie is the author of "The Law of Citizenship," published in 
Albany in 1891, and "Acquisition of Citizenship in the United States," published in 
the Aincrkau Law Riportcr. He married Sarah MaiHa Burlingame in Providence, 
R. I., in 1881, and has his residence in Lowell, with his office in Boston. 

Ai oN/.o RoGKRs Wkki), son of Alonzo S. and Esther A. (Marston) Weed, was liorn 
in Bangor, Me., January 22, 1H6T, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He studied 
law at the Boston University Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 
20, 1890. His residence is in Newton. 

Georck Marston Wkkd, brother of the above, was born in Bangor, Me., Septem- 
ber U, 18(i4, and was educated at the High School in Newton, Mass., and at Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 188fi. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 23, 1889. He was a member in 
1891-92 of the city government of Newton, where he has his residence. 

Gi;orc:k Lkvkkktt Wkii., son of Louis and Anna M. (Tuttle) Weil, was born in 
North Andover, Mass., November 5, 1857, and was educated at Phillips Andover 
Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law in 
Lawrence with Edgar J. Sherman and W. Fiske Gill, and was admitted to the Essex 
bar in Salem in November, 1882. He was selectman in North Andover, where he 
lives, in 1890-91-92, and has been trial justice. He married Emma A. Brown at 
Concord, Mass. , June 24, 1885. 

CuARi.KS H. Wki.cii, son of Charles F. and Kate H. Welch, was born in that part 
of Marlboro' now Hudson, Mass., September 6, 18G1, and was educated at the com- 
mon and high schools of Hudson. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and in the office of Burbank & Lund, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar January 13. 1884. His residence is at Lynn, with his office in Boston. 

Bknjamin L. Wr.i.n was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1814, and died in 1828. , 

Bknjamin Wki.i.ks, son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles, was born in Boston, 
August 13, 1781, and graduated at Harvard in 1800, after fitting at the Boston Latin 
School and under the instruction of Rev. Thomas Prentiss, of Medfield, Mass. He 
studied law in Worcester with Levi Lincoln and in Boston with Harrison Gray Otis^ 
and w;us admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1803. After admission he went to Eng- 
land and continued his professional studies there, returning to Boston in 1804. In 
1807, associated with Stephen Higginson, William Parsons, and Thomas H. Perkins, 
he engaged in iron mining in Vergennes, Vt., and in 1812 was appointed agent of 
the company and moved to Vergennes. In 1816 he became a partner with John 
Welles in the corresponding Boston house of Welles & Company, Paris, France, and 
continued the business twenty-eight ycar.s. He married first, August 1, 1815, 
Mehitable Stoddard, daughter of Governor Incrca.se Sumner, and second, Susan, 
daughter of William Codman, and died in Boston, July 21, 1860. 

Artih R IIdi.hrook Wki.i.man, son of Joshua W. and Ellen M. Wellman, was born 
in East Randolph, now Holbrook, Mass., Oetolier 30, 1855, and was educated at the 
High School in Newton, Mass., and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1878. 



382 HISTORY OF THE £ENCH AND BAR. 

He studied law at the Harvard and the Boston University Law Schools, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He was a member of the council of Maiden, 
where he lives, in 1885, was city solicitor in 1889-1891, and representative in 1892. 
He is now a professor in the Boston University Law School. He married Jennie L. 
Faulkner at Maiden, October 11. 1887. 

Ai.iiN/.o BuMi Wi:.NTVvoKrn, son of Aniasa and Susan W. (Nowell) Wentworth, was 
born in Somersworth, N. H., March 28, 1840, and was educated at Phillips Exeter 
Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the ofKce of Jordan & 
Rollins, Great Falls, N. H., and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in 
November, 1802. He was a representative from Cambridge in 1870, and in 1884 from 
Dedham, where he has his residence. He was a trial justice from ISSJi to 1891, and 
district attorney for the Southeastern District in 1890, and has edited several law- 
books. He married Isabel Sewall Goodwin, November 1, 1860, at Berwick, Me. 

Gi;i)Kc;e Lrrii.Ki'iKi,i) Wentworth, son of Stacy H. and Rebecca L. Wentworth, 
was born in Ellsworth, Me., May 24, 1852, and was educated at the common schools 
and under private instruction. He studied law at the Boston L^niver.sity Law School 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge in October, 1881. He has been 
a member of the School Committee of Weymouth, w'here he has his residence, three 
j'cars, and special commissioner of Norfolk county. He married Annette Small in 
December, 1881. 

S.vMUEi. HiDDKN Wentwortii, son of Paul and Lydia (Cogswell) Wentworth, was 
born in Sandwich, N. H., and was educated at New Ipswich, N. H., Appleton Acad- 
emy, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1858. His father was a brother of 
Hon. John Wentworth, late of Chicago, 111. He studied law with John H. George, 
at Concord, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18C1, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in ISGl. He has been a representative from Boston two 
years, and a member of the School Board. He received an honorary degree of Master 
of Arts from Dartmouth in 1879. His residence is in Boston. 

Ci,.\REN'CE Percival WES'roN was born in Skowhegan, Me., and graduated at Colby 
University in 1873. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and was a member 
of the Common Council of Boston, where he resides, in 1891-92. 

John T. Wheelwright, son of George W. Wheelwright, was born in Roxbury, 
Mass., February 36, 1826, and was educated at the Roxliury l^atin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1876. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in May, 1879. He has been during the last two years on the staff of Governor 
Russell as assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel. 

Thom.xs Wetmore, son of William and Sarah (Waldo) Wetmore, was born in Bos- 
ton, August 31, 1795, and graduated at Harvard m 1814. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 21, 1817, and practiced in Boston. He was a member of the 
Common Council from 1829 to 1832, and alderman in 1833-34-35-37-38-39-11-42-4:5- 
44-47. He died unmarried in Boston, March 30, 1860. 

Wn.i.iAM B. F. Whai.i., son of William J. and Anne Whall, was born in Boston, 
March 10, 1856, and was educated at Boston College and at College of Holy Cross, 
where he graduated in 1874. He studied law at the University of Maryland and at 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 383 

the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Maryland bar at Haiti- 
more in July, 1876, and to the Suffolk bar in November, 1877. He was commissioner 
of insolvency for Suffolk county from 1888 to 1889, and a member of the Boston Com- 
mon Council in 1886-87. He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 18, 1888, Helena 
Angela L. Blanc, and lives in East Boston. 

Wii.i.nM Aiiij.Mi WiiiTK, son of Abijah and Anne Maria (Howard) White, was born 
in Watertown, Mass., September i, 1818, and fitting for college at the school of Rev. 
Sanniel Ripley in Waltham, graduated at Harvard in 1838. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston m the office of Charles P. and Benjamin R. Cur- 
tis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1841. He lived on his father's farm 
in Watertown until his father's death in 1845, and took an active interest in the anti- 
slavery cause. In 18.'53 he moved to Madison, Wis., and on the 7th of October, 1856, 
went to Milwaukee to attend the State Fair, on the 8th to Chicago by steamboat, and 
returned to Milwaukee on tlie 9th. On the 10th he left the hotel and was never seen 
until his body was found May 1, 1857, near the lake shore above North Point in Mil- 
waukee. He married. May 7, 1846, Harriet T., daughter of Nathaniel R. Sturgis, of 
Boston, and Maj' 15, 1855, Ada, daughter of Justin Littlefield, of Chicago. 

Edmund Allen Whitman, son of Edmund Burke and Lucretia (Clapp) Whitman, 
was born in Lawrence, Kan., June 11, 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Jan- 
uary, 1886. He is the author of the titles " Estates," "Infants," " Parent," " Child," 
" Novation," and " Seduction" in the American and English Encyclopedia of Law. 
His residence is in Cambridge. 

Cn.\RLEs Wheeler, son of Daniel Prescott and Mary Ann Wheeler, was born in Or- 
ford, N. H., February 8, 1839, and wa,s educated at Orford and Kimball Union Acad- 
emies and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1800. He studied law in 
Worcester with Charles Devens and George F. Hoar, at the Harvard Law School, and 
in Boston in the office of Hutchins & Wheeler, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
October 11, 1863. He was a member of the Bostim Common Council from 1878 to 
18.81, and representative from Boston in 1883-83. His residence is in Boston. 

Charles H. Whittemore, son of Benjamin B. and Martha E. Whittemore, was born 
in Cambindge, Mass., January 24, 1864, and was educated at the Cambridge High 
School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. He married, De- 
cember 11, 1888, Evelyn C. BuUard, of Cambridge, where he resides. 

Francis Ali ked Fahens was born in Salem, Mass., July 10, 1814, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1835. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died at Sauccleto, Cal., June 10, 
1873. 

Lewis Grieve Farmer, son of Thomas and Henrietta C. Farmer, was born in Ro.x- 
bury, Mass., November 5, 1H49, and was educated at the Boston public .schools, the 
Roxbury Latin Schf)ol and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1872. He 
studied law at the Boston University I^aw School and in the office of Ambrose A. 
Ranney in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1875. He was a 
member of the Boston Common Council in 1884, and an alderman in 1891. He mar- 
ried, May 28, 1879, Marian S. Foss, and lives in Boston. 



384 HISORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

JliciiAi:i, F. F.VRKKi.i. was born in Kilkennuy, Ireland, September 13, 1848, and came 
to New York in 18(i2, and to Boston in 1864. He was educated in this country in the 
public schools of New York and at Boston College. He was admitted to the Middle- 
sex bar in June, 1871. He was a member of the School Board of SomervlUe from 
1874 to 1879. 

HKKitKRT MRLANcriioN pKDKKHKN, jr., son of Herbert M. and Georgiana P. Fcder- 
hen, was born in Boston, May 1, 1867. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and in the oflice of John B. Goodrich, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in June, 1890. He was a member of the City Council of Ouincy, where he 
had his residence in 1891-92. He is unmarried. 

Amikf.w FisKK was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1880, and is a jjartner 
with George S. Hale, under the firm name of Hale & Fiske. 

Fk.\ncis C. FosricK, son of Leonard and Lydia Geaubert Foster, was born in Bos- 
ton, March 17, 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 18.^0. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 13, 18(10. He has never practiced. He married in November, 
18r)7, Marion, daughter of Kdward Padelford, of Savannah, Ga. 

As.\ P/\i.MER Fkencii, son of Asa and Sophia B. (Palmer) French, was born in Brain- 
tree, Mass., January 39, 1860, and was educated at the English High School and at 
Yale, where he graduated in 1883. He studied law at the Boston University Law 
School and in the offices of his father and George Fred Williams in Boston, and was 
admitted to the Norfolk bar in 1884. He was clerk to the judges of the Court of 
Commissioners of Alabama Clauns at Washington from 1884 to 1886. He married. 
December 13, 1887, at Randolph, Mass., Elizabeth A. Wales, and has his residence 
in Randolph. 

Li'.wis Pierce Frost, son of \'arnum and Sarah R. (Pierce) Frost, was born in Bel- 
mont, Mass., January 1, 1806, and graduated at Harvard in 1886. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1889, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1. 
1889. He lives in Belmont. 

RoDERr W. Friisi', son of William S. and Ann Elizabeth Frost, was born in Craw- 
ley, Sussex county, England, and was educated at the 15oston Latin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1887. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1890. He lives in the Brighton 
District of Boston. 

Waeier Si'RAciE Fros'I, son of George and Elizabeth A. Frost, was born in Rox- 
bury, Mass., August 7, 18.55, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied law with Bolster & Dexter in 
Boston and at the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar February 10, 1880. He has been a special justice of the JIunicipal Court of the 
Roxbury District of Bo.ston since April 29, 1885. He married in Indianapolis, Ind., 
May 23, 1883, Salome A. Waite, and lives in Boston. 

Ciiaki.es Frv, son of Joseph Reese and Cornelia (Nevins) Fry, was born in Phila- 
delphia. Penn., December 6, 1850, and was educated at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. He studied law with John J. Ridgway, of Philadelphia, and was admitted 
to the bar in that city April 29, 1S76, and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He maiTied in 
Boston, April 15, 1885, JIaria D. Burnham, and has his home in Manchester, Mass. 



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Gkokck Pope Fi'rwkk, son of George E. and Maria L. Kiiiber, was born in lioslon, 
AuRiist IG, lH(i4, and was educated at the Dwivrht (iriininiar School and the Roxbury 
Latin School. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and w^is admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 39, 1890. He lives in Boston. 

William Gasion, son of Alexander and Kesia (Arnold) Gaston, was born in Kill- 
ingly,Conn. , October 3, 1830. He is descended from Jean Gaston, who left France in the 
early part of the seventeenth century and settled in Scotland, aud whose sons moved 
over to the North of Ireland about KiTo. John Gaston, the American ancestor, came 
to America about ITliO and settled in Connecticut. Dr. Alexander Gaston, of North 
Carolina, an ardent Whig, who was shot by the loyalists August 30, 1781, and his son, 
William (iaston, of Newbern, N. C, a member of Congress and judge of the Supreme 
Court, were members of the same family. The father of the subject of this sketch 
was a merchant of repute, and gave his son a liberal education at academic .schools 
and at Brown University, where he graduated in 1840, receiving later a degree of 
LL.D. from his alma mater and the same degree from Harvard in 1875. He studied 
law in Roxbury with Judge Francis Hilliard and in Boston with Charles P. and 
Benjamin R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1844. In 
184G he opened a law office in Roxbury and soon secured a position in the front 
rank of lawyers at the Norfolk county bar. In 1865 he associated himself in Boston 
with Harvey Jewell and Walbridge A. Field with a firm name of Jewell, Gaston & 
Field, the partnership continuing until 1874. He was city solictor of Roxbury five 
years, and in 1861 and 1863 its mayor. The annexation of Roxbury to Boston 
took place in 1867, and in 1871 and 1873 he was mayor of Boston. He was a repre- 
sentative from Roxbury in 1853-54-56, and senator from Boston in 1868. In Novem- 
ber, 1874, he was chosen governor of the Commonwealth, and served in 1875, the first 
Democratic governor since George S. Boutwell in 1853, with a Republican lieutenant- 
governor, Horatio G. Knight, of Easlhampton. As both mayor and governor, 
though chosen by Democratic votes in opposition to Republican candidates, his ad- 
ministrations were marked by no extreme partisanship, and won almost universal 
apiiroval. In 1879 he took as a partner Charles L. B. Whitney, and in 1883 his son, 
William Alexander Gaston, who was in that year admitted to the bar. He married. 
May 27, 1853, Louisa Augusta, daughter of Laban S. Beecher, and resides in 
Boston. 

Jamks Gkrrisii, son of George and Elizabeth Thompson (Furbush) Gerrish, was 
born in Lebanon, Me., May 3, 1813, and studied law at South Berwick, Me., at Great 
Falls, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar in Lowell. He practiced in Lowell and Boston until about 1848, when he re- 
moved his residence to Shirley village and opened an office at Groton Junction. He 
married first, Anna R. Foster, of Bristol, Me., who died at Shirley, March 5, 1859, 
and second, Mrs. Sarah (Brooks) Powers, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Wallace) 
Powers, and died at Shirley, July 30, 1890. 

John B. Goodrrii, son of John and Mary Ann (Blake) Goodrich, was born in 
Fitchburg, Mass., January 7, 1836, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. He studied 
law with Norcross & Snow of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the Worcester bar at 
Worcester in February, 1859. He represented Newton, where he lives, in the Legis- 
latures of 1860 and 1861, and was district attorney for Middlesex county from 1872 to 
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386 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

1875. He was the senior counsel of Sarah J. Robinson, convicted of murder in 
Somcrville in 1886. He married at Newton, April 25, 1865, Anna L. Woodward, of 
that city. 

Ai.i.KN Crocker Spoonkr, son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Willard) Spooner, was born 
in Plymouth, Mass., March 9, 1814, and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar SeptemVjer 3, 18;!9. He married in 1840. Susan Leach, 
daughter of John and Anna (Burgess) Harlow, of Plymouth, and died in Boston June 
28, 1853. 

EvF.i.VN Bonn Goodsei.i. was born under the British flag at sea, between Ham- 
burg and England, his father being of Roman descent and his mother a German. 
He came to America at the age of twelve to live with Renfield B. Goodsell, then pub- 
lisher and proprietor of the Boston Saturday E~i'tiiing Gazftti\ who subsequently 
adopted him and gave him his family name. He was educated at the English High 
and Latin Schools in Boston, at the Adams Academy in Quincy, under private instruc- 
tion and in Europe. He studied law at tlie Harvard Law School and the Boston 
University Law School, and in the offices of Ambrose A. Ranney and J. B. Richard- 
son in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. He was the first petitioner 
to the Legislature for a change in the law relating to employers' liabilities, which re- 
sulted in the statute of 1887, was of counsel for the plaintiff in the action of Page 
Richardson against the Fall River, Warren and Providence Railroad, involving a liabil- 
ity of more than $2", (•()(), and which on its decision for the plaintiff, after twenty 
years' litigation, resulted in five other suits. He was sole counsel for the plaintiff in 
the suit of Collamore against CoUamore, involving a question of title imder a will in 
which as much as $200,000 was at stake. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

John M.\RK Gourgas, son of John Mark and Margaret (Sampson) Gourgas, was born 
in Milton, Mass., March 25, 1804, and graduatad at Harvard in 1824. He studied law 
with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1828. He settled in 
Quincy, Mass., and died in Roxbury unmarried, June 28, 18G2. 

John Chii'MAN Gray, son of Horace and Sarah Russell (Gardner) Gray, was born in 
Brighton, Mass., July 14, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk baV September 18, 
1802. He married Anna S. L. Mason, and lives in Boston. 

J. Converse Gray, son of Joseph H. and Maria L. I). Gray, was born in Boston^ 
June 3, 1855, and was educated at the Chauncy Hall School, Noble's School, and at 
Amherst College, where he- graduated in 1877. He studied law at the Boston Univer- 
sity and in the office of Hyde, Dickinson & Howe, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 21, 1881. He married in Rochester, N. Y., October 22, 1885, Helen 
Hart Brewster, and lives in Boston. 

Morris Gray, .son of Dr. Francis H. and H. Regina Gray, was born in Boston, 
March 7, 1856, and graduated at Harvard in 1877. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School and in the office of Bryant & Swcctser, of Boston, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is the author of a treatise on the law of communication 
by telegraph. He married at Nahant, Mass., in September, 1883, Flora, daughter of 
Patrick Grant. His home is in Boston. 

Orin T. Gray, son of Robert D. and Lurana D. Gray, was born in Norridgewock, 
Me., June 2, 1839, and was educated at Maine academies and under private instruc- 




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tion. He studied law at Waterville, Me., with J. H. Drummond, and was admitted 
to the bar in Aujfiista, Me., in 18fi(), and to the Suffolk bar in 1803. He has been 
chairman of the School Board of Hyde Park where he has his re.sidence. He married 
Louise B. Holmes at Waterville, Me., in 18(!0. 

EiGENK Fi'i.i.KR, son of Timothy and Margaret (Crane) Fuller, was born in Cam- 
bridge May 14, 181.^, and graduated at Harvard in 18:54. He studied law with (ieorge 
F. Farley in Groton, to which place his father had moved in 1833, and was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar in June, 1839. He practiced two years in Charlestown, now 
Boston, and then went to New Orleans. He married, Ma^- 31, 1845, at NewOrleans, 
Mrs. Anna Eliza Rotta, and was drowned on the passage to New York from New 
Orleans, January 21, 18.59. 

Aktiitr E. G.\i;k, son of Arthur A. and Mary F. Gage, was born in Stratham, N. 
IL, December 3, 18.'58, and graduated at Brown University. He studied law with 
Ropes, Gray & Loring in Bo.ston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 2, 1887. 
He married Marilla M. Sanborn in Tilton, N. H., December 8, 1883, and lives in 
Woburn. 

Georgk Lint was born in Newburyport, December 31, 1803, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1824. He was admitted to the Essex county bar in 1833, having pre- 
viously held the position of principal in the Ncwburv-jiort High School. He [jracticed 
law in his native town until 1848, when he moved both his residence and business 
to Boston. From 1849 to 1853 he was United States attorney for Massachusetts, and 
at a later period he was the editor of the Boston Courier. He published a book of 
poems in 1839, another in 1843, and at various later times occasional poems of much 
merit. He died May 17, 1885, in Boston, where in the latter part of his life he spent 
his winters, residing in summer at Scituate, Ma.ss. 

N.MHAN M.viTiiKws, jr.. Son of Nathan, born in Boston, March 28, 1854, was edu- 
cated at public and private schools and at Harvard, where he graduated with mathe- 
matical honors in 1875. After leaving college he spent two years in Lcipsic studying 
political economy and jurisprudence, and on his return entered the Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He associated him- 
self in business with Charles M. Barnes, devoting himself chiefly to equity cases, and 
acting for a time as law editor of the American Architect. In 1888 he was a dele- 
gate to the national convention of Democratic clubs held in Baltimore, and the same 
year was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket. He presided at the Demo- 
cratic State Convention in 1889, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the 
Democratic State Committee in 1890, and was chosen mayor of Boston in December 
of 1890, 1891 and 1892. He married in 1884 Ellen B., daughter of Colonel Manlius 
Sargent. 

Edwin Guthrie McInnf.s, son of John and Elizabeth Jane (Morrow) Mclnnes, was 
born in Washington, Penn., July 14, 18G2, and was educated at the Roxbury Latin 
School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1883. He attended the Harvard Law 
School, also studying in the offices of Charles S. Lincoln and Samuel N. Aldrich, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in 1886. He married Mabel Hook Folsom in 
Boston, June 5, 1888, and lives in Boston. 

Richard J. McKf.li-k<;et, .son of Patrick and Hannah (O'Connell) McKelleget, was 
lx)rn in Cambridge, Mass., April 10, 1853, and was educated in the Cambridge schof>ls. 



388 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles J. Mclntirc, 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge June '2(i, 1877. He was a mem- 
ber of the School Board in Cambridge, where he lived in 1888-89-90. He was a ]>art- 
ner of Isaac S. Morse from 1877 to 1881. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 20, 
1881, Emma L. Hanlon. 

John D. McLaugiimn, was born in Boston, December !5, 18()4, and graduated at 
(ieorgetown College in 1883. He studied law at the Boston University, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. 

Hknkv Si..\1)K. Mii.iiiN, son of George Bruce and Lticy Kidder (Slade) Milton, was 
born in Boston, September 38, 18.").'), and was educated at the Boston Latin School 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1875. He studied law at the Boston Uni- 
versity and in the office of Proctor, Warren & Brigham, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 31, 1876. He has been a member of the School Board of Waltham, 
where he resides, was a representative in 1889-90, and has been a special justice of 
the Second Eastern Middlesex Court since its establishment. He married in Wes- 
ton, Mass., November 7, 1877, Lilias Constance Haynes. 

Wii.i,i.\M MiNOT, jr., son of William and Katharine (Sedgwick) Minot, was born in 
West Roxbury, Mass., now a part of Boston, May 7, 1849. He graduated at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1869. and after further study with Minot & Balch was admitted 
to the Sufl'olk bar May 9, 1870. He has been a member of the Boston Common Coun- 
cil, and is the author of "Taxation in Massachusetts," 1877, "Local Taxation and 
Municipal Extravagance" and other treatises. He married Elizaljeth Veredenburgh 
\'an Pelt at Trumansburg, N. V., June 24, 1882, and lives in Boston. 

Wii.i.i.\M Ingai.i.s Mt)NKOF., Son of George Harris and Alice Maria (Ingalls) Monroe, 
was born in Boston, August 1, 1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He studied 
in the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, of Josiah W. Hubbard, of Boston, 
of Josiah H. Benton, jr., of Boston, and at the Boston L^niversity Law School, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He lives in the Roxbiiry District of Boston. 

Gi-.oRGE Bakrell Moody, son of Joseph and Maria (Barrell) Moody, was born in 
Kennebunk, Me., July 17, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He studied law 
in Boston with James Sullivan, and after his admission to the bar, practiced in 
Kennebunk, Gardiner, Brewer, Oldtown, and Bangor. He married Marj', daughter 
of John Barker, of Bangor, and died in Bangor, July 6, 1856. 

EiGKNE H. MooKi;, son of Hobart and Ellen R. Moore, was born in Boston, Feb- 
ruary 17, 1864, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the 
Boston L'niversity and in the office of Solomon A. Bolster, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar, July 21, 1885. He lives unmarried in Boston. 

George W. Moore, whose name appears on the roll of lawyers in Boston for 1892. 
is engaged in newspaper work. He was admitted to the bar in Nebraska. 

Howard Dcdi.ev Moore was born at Moore's Mills, in New Brunswick, November 
21, 18.54, and was educated at the High School in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at 
the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1887. He 
married Maud E. Roberts at Worcester, May 27, 1891, and has his home in Somer- 
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MiniAEi. J. Moore was born in South Boston. May 20, 1864, and was educated at 
the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to 
tlic .'Suffolk bar in ISSK. 

Cit.\Ki.i;s Cakkoi.i. MoKr.AS, son of Charles and Sarah Ann (Robinson) Morgan, was 
born in Meredith Bridge, now a part of I.aconia, N. H., July ".J."). 1H:}2, and was edu- 
cated at the public schools, at tiuilford Academy, N. H., and at Brown University. 
He studied law in Nashua, N. H., Saco, Me.. New York city, and Indianapolis, Ind., 
and was admitted to the bar in Marion county, Ind., February 17, 1880, and to the 
Suffolk bar in 1885. He has been the editor of re\Hsed editions of Colton & Fitch's 
Introductory Geography and Modern School Geography; editor of Lloyd's Battle 
History of the Rebellion; editor and author of revised and enlarged editions of 
I'itch's Physical Geography and Descriptive List, of Colton's Parlor and Lil)rary 
Atlas; author of American School Geography, and of various other works. He 
married, at Toledo, O., October 12, 1859, Marianna Robinson Gove, and has his home 
in Nashua, N. H., with an office in Boston. 

William Moir Morga.n, son of Edwin and Harriet (Tyler) Morgan, was born in 
Griswold, Conn., May 13, 1862, and was educated at the Milford High School, Mass. 
He studied law at the Boston University, and with Frederick D. Ely and Charles G. 
Keyes in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Februar)- 2, 1887. He lives in 
Waltham, with an office in Boston. 

Joii.N Holmes Morison, son of Nathaniel H. and Sidney (Brown) Mori.son, was born 
in Baltimore, Md., January 21, 18.56, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and with George Hawkins Williams, of Baltimore, 
and was admitted to the Baltimore bar in 1881 and to the Suffolk bar in 1885. He 
married Emily Marshall, daughter of Samuel Eliot, of Boston, where he has his 
home. 

Aliiert Gordon Morse, son of Albert and Ellen R. (Webster) Morse, was born in 
Boston, August 29, 1855, and was educated at the Dorchester High School and Rox- 
bury Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of 
Robert M. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. 
He lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. 

Isaac S. Morse, son of Rev. Bryant and Susannah (Stevens) Morse, was born in 
Haverhill, N. H., December 27, 1H17, and was educated at the public schools, re- 
ceiving an honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1857. He studied 
law with Elisha Fuller in Lowell, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar at Lowell, September 25, 1840. He was seventeen years district 
attorney in Middlesex county, his term expiring in 1871, when he declined further 
service. In 1849, while residing in Lowell, he was a member of the City Council, and 
for a time was city solicitor. He married, at Lowell, September 25, 1844, Eloise 
La Barte, of Groton, daughter of John J. and Marj- La Barte, of South Carolina. 
He now resides in Cambridge, with an office in Boston. 

Ellis Loring Moite, son of Mellish Irving and Marianne (Alger) Motte, was born 
in Boston June 30, 1836, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied law in the 
office of Ellis Gray Loring and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 9, 1862. He married, January 20, 1863, Annie L. Lobdell. and 
lives in Boston. 



390 History of the bench and bar. 

(JscAK Hkdwnki.i. Mowry, son of Warren B. and Hannah A. (Brownell) Mowtj- was 
born in Woonsocket, R. I,, and graduated at Brown University in 1863. He studied 
law at Harvard Law School and- in Boston in the office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 17, 1860. He has served three years in the 
Boston Common Council. He married Georgianna J. Goodwin at Boston in 1879, 
and has his home in Brookline, Mass. 

Hknkv Cooudgk. Mui.LuiAN, son of Simtm and Almaria (Coolidge) Mulligan, was 
born in Natick, Mass., March 6, 18ri4, and was educated at Adams Academy, Quincy, 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1879. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar January 14, 1883. He married at Wor- 
cester December 22, 1886, Minna Rawson, and has his home in Natick. 

William Ad.uisMinkoe, son of William Watson and Hannah Foster (Adams) Mun- 
roe, was born in Cambridge November 9, 1843, and graduated at Harvard in 1864. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shat- 
tuck & Thayer, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2.'), 1868. He began to 
practice in 1869, and in 1870 became associated as partner with Shattuck & Holmes. 
He was several years a member of the School Committee of Cambridge, where he 
resides, was one of the commissioners to revise the Cambridge charter in 1890, presi- 
dent of the Boston Baptist Social Union in 1882, and jiresident of the Cambridge Club 
in 1890. He married, November 22, 1871, at Plymouth. Mass., Sarah D. Whitney, a 
native of Salem. 

Thomas Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell, was born in 
Plymouth, Mass., September 26, 182.'), and graduated at Harvard in 184.'i. He studied 
law in Boston with Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Novem- 
ber 12, 1849. He was appointed justice of the Police Court of Boston February 26, 
18.52, and on the establishment of the Superior Court in 18."i9, was appointed one of 
its judges. He sat on the bench until his resignation in 1867, and after the accession 
of General Grant to the presidency, was appointed collector of the port of Boston. 
While collector he was one of the trustees of the Massachusetts Nautical School by 
appointment from the governor. During General Grant's second term as president 
he resigned the collectorship and was appointed minister to Venezuela, where he re- 
mained until the domestic troubles of that country caused his return. In 1879 he was 
chosen president of the Pilgrim Society, and continued such until his death. He 
married Nellie, daughter of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, many years the preacher at 
the Seamen's Bethel in Boston, and died in Boston, February 9, 1887. 

John W. Mason, .son of Judge Albert and Lydia F. (Whiting) Mason, was Imru in 
Plymouth August 18, 1861, and was educated at the schools of Plymouth and Brook- 
line. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Charles Henry Drew, son of Abijah and Sally (Faunce) Drew, was born in Plym- 
outh, Mas.s. , November 4,1838, and was educated at the PlyTTiouth schools. He 
studied law in Plymouth and was admitted to the Plymouth bar in 1860. In August, 

1861, he wascommissioned as first lieutenant in Company H, Eighteenth Massachusetts 
Regiment for three years' service. At the battle of Fredericksburg he was severely 
wounded. When the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment wa.s recruited in July, 

1862, he was designated as captain of Company D, then first lieutenant in Comi)any 
H, Eighteenth Regiment, but the War Department refused to muster him out to enable 



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hini to receive his commission. He was, however, afterwards promoted to a captaincy 
in his own regiment. After the war ho settled in Boston, where he has continued 
to the present time with a constantly increasing practice. He lives in Brookline, 
where he is the justice of the Brookline Police Court. He married Mary A., daugh- 
ter of Samuel liradford, of Plymouth. 

Charles Tracy Murdoch, son of John, was born in Havana, January 5, 1804, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1828. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 18:53, 
and practiced there. He died in Cambridge, November 25, 18o3. 

Jamks J. MvF.Ks, son of Robert and Sabra (Stevens) Myers, was born in Frewsburg. 
N. Y., November 20, 1842, and graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873. He lives, 
unmarrried, in Cambridge. 

Bradley Webster Palmer, son of Henry Wilbur and Ellen (Webster) Palmer, was 
born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., June 38, 1866, and was educated at Phillips E.xeter 
Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1888. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and was admitted to the bar at Wilkes-Barre in March, 1890, and 
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1892. He lives, immarriod, in Boston. 

Grant M. Palmer, son of Calvin G. and Elizabeth H. Palmer, was born in Repub- 
lic, O., September 21, 1861, and was educated at the Higli School in Lynn, Mass. 
He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of W. H. Anderson in 
Lowell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188.i. He married, October 29, 1X91, 
Marion K. Breed, of Lynn, and has his home in Weston, Mass. 

BownolN Strong Parker, son of Alonzo and Caroline G. Parker, was born in Con- 
way, Mass., August 10, 1841, and was educated at the common schools, the Green- 
field High School, and at Boston University. He studied law in Greenfield with 
Wendell Thornton Davis and in Boston with Thomas William Clarke, and gradu- 
ated at the Boston L^niversity Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
December 20, 1875. He served during the war in the Fifty-second Regiment of 
Massachusetts Volunteers, was representative in 1891, and has been three years a 
member of the Boston Common Council. He married in New York city, June 25, 
1867, Kate H. Eager, and lives in Boston. 

Wn.LiAM Ellison Parmentkr, son of William and Mary (Parker) Parmenter, was 
born in Boston, March 12, 1816, and was educated at Framingham Academy, at the 
Angier School in Medford, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1836. He studied 
law with Jf)hn Mills, United States district attorney at Boston, and at the Harvard 
Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1842. He has lived in 
Arlingt(jn many years, and has been a member of the School Board in that town 
nearly a quarter of a century. He was appointed special justice of the Municipal 
Court of the city of Boston in March, 1871, associate justice December 12, 1871, and 
chief justice January 24, 1883, which position he still holds. He married Helen 
James at South Scituate, now Norwell, June 30, 1853. 

James Parker Parmeniek, son of William Ellistm and Helen (James) Parmenter, 
was born in West Cambridge, now Arlington, Ma.ss. , November ,39, 18.59, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1881. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1885. He lives in Arlington. 



392 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Frank Parsons, son of Edward P. and Alice B. (Rhees) Parsons, was born in 
Mount Holly, N. J., November 14, 1855, and was educated at Aaron's Academy at 
Mount Holly, and at Cornell University. He studied law in Southbridge, Mass., 
with A. J. Bartholomew and at Worcester with F. P. Goulding, and was admitted to 
the bar at Worcester in 1881. He has rewTitten ".Morse on Banks and Banking." 
edited enlarged editions of "May on Insurance." "Perry on Trusts," and "Black- 
well on Tax Titles." He has now in press " Herbert Spencer and Nationalism," and 
" Our Country's Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System." He is 
also a lecturer in Boston University on insurance law. He is also the author of 
" The World's Best Books, or a Key to the Treasures of the Great Literatures." He 
lives, unmarried, in Boston. 

Joseph Nicholas Pastene, son of Louis and Clara Catherine (Moltedo) Pastene, 
was born in Boston, October 3, 186*!, and was educated at jjublic schools and under 
jirivate instruction of Professor J. B. Torricelli. He studied law at the Boston Uni- 
versity, graduating in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 1888. He 
was appointed April 29, 1891, a public administrator for Suffolk county. He married 
Pauline M. Ceppi at Boston, April 21, 1889, and lives in the Ro.Kbury District of Bos- 
ton. 

CiiAKi Ks H. Pai'iee, son of Asa D. and Laura B. Pattee, was born in Charles- 
town, Mass., Octobers, 1843, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He 
studied law in Boston with George E. Betton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
January 7, 1865. He is the author of "Recollections of Old Play Hills." He lives, 
immarried, at Winthrop. 

Wii.i.i.\M Greeni.eaf Apple ion Pattee, son of Dr. William S. and Mary E. (Apple- 
ton) Pattee, was born in Ouincy, Mass., August 28, 1854, and was educated at the 
Chauncy Hall School in Boston. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and 
in the office of Augustus Russ, of Boston, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar at 
Dedham May 14, 1879. He was a representative in 1 883-84 from Quincy and was 
city solicitor during the first two years of its city government. He married at New- 
ton, February 10, 1887, Laura Saltonstall, and has his home in Quincy, with an office 
in Boston. 

F. Alakic Pelton, son of Florentine W. and Mary (Reed) Pelton, was born in 
Newton, Mass., Januarys, 1804, and attended Williams College two years and Hos- 
t<m University two years. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office 
of Edmund H. Bennett in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 
1890. He married in Boston, October 17, 1891, Mabel S. Clarke, and lives in Boston. 

Sidney Pkrley, son of Humphrey and Eunice (Peabody) Perley, was born in Box- 
ford, Mass., March 0, 1858, and after studying law at the Boston University, was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. He is the author of a History of Boxford. 

Geokce Horcii Perry, son of Baxter E. and Charlotte (Hough) Perry, was born in 
Medford, Mass., July 25, 1866, and was educated at the public schools. He studied 
law in Boston with his father and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in August, 1888. He lives unmarried at Medford. 

Lemiel Waru Peters, son of Lemuel E. D. and Maria (Wescott) Peters, was born 
at Blue Hill, Me., July 39, 1860, and was educated at the Wesleyan University in 




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Mi<l(tlct()\vn, Conn. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in June, 1887. His home is in Boston. 

(JiLiiKKT A. A. Pf.vky, son of Abiel and Loui.sa (Stone) Pevcy, was born in Lowell, 
August 22, 18.">1, and graduated at Harvard in 1873. He studied law in Boston with 
Sweetscr & Gardner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. He has been 
for two years assistant district attorney for Jliddlesex, and is a director in the Cam- 
bridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He married at Lowell, November 28, 187(i, 
and lives in Cambridge, with an office in Boston, 

EnwiN Alkx.\nder PiiF.i.rs, son of Alexander Steele and Laura (Waterman) Phelps, 
was born in Waitesfield, Vt., October 29, 1841, and was educated at Kimball Union 
Academy in Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1870. 
He studied law in Boston with Charles G. Keyes, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
July ."J, 187G. He married in Boston, January 10, 1877, Laura E. A. Smith, and has 
his home in Cambridge. 

Cassius Cl.w Powers, son of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born in 
Pittsticld, Me., January 23, 1846, and graduated at Bowdoin in 18(i!). He studied law 
in Augusta, Me., with Artemas Libby, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1871, 
and to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1872. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council from 1886 to 1888, and makes a .specialty of commercial law and patent cases. 
He married, October 24, 1876, Annie M., daughter of Rev. John Orr, and lives in the 
Roxbury District of Boston. 

Edmind W. Powers, son of Richard K. and Clarissa A. Powers, was born in Ster- 
ling, Mass., September 18, 1856, and was educated at Lancaster Academy and at 
Tufts College, where he graduated in 1881. He studied law at the Boston University 
and in the office of Samuel C. Darling, of Boston, andwasadmitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1883. He was admitted also to the New York bar in 1888. He was attorney for the 
plaintiff in Duff vs. Hutchinson et al., involving $3,000,000, with Joseph H. Choate on 
the other side. His home is in New York city, with offices there and in Boston. 

Samlel Leland Powers, son of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in 
Cornish, N. H., October 26, 1848, and was educated at Kimball Union Academy in 
Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1874. He studied 
law in the University of New York, with Jordan, Stiles & Thompson, of New York, 
and with Very & Gaskill, of Worcester, Mass., and was admitted to the Massachu- 
setts bar in Worcester November 17, 1875. At Newton, where he has his home, he 
has been a member of the City Council three years, and an alderman one year. Since 
18S7 he has made a specialty of electrical matters, and been connected as counsel 
with the American Bell Telephone and New England Telephone Companies. He 
married at East Dennis, Mass., June 21, 1878, Eva Crowell. 

Erastus Barton Powers, brother of the above, was born in Cornish, N. H., Jan- 
uary 31, 1841, and was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., 
and at Dartmouth, where he gp-aduated in 1865. He studied law at the Harvard Law- 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January lit, 1H67. He married at Wor- 
cester, Ma.ss. , in 1871, Emma Frances Besse, and has his home in Maiden. 

James Loren Powers, son of Loren (). and Jane (Oakes) Powers, was born in 
Athens, Vt., and was educated at Chester Academy, Vermont. He studied law al 
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394 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Bellows Falls, Vt., with W in slow S. Myers and in Boston with Burbank & Lund, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 13, 1875. He married, February 9, 1879, at 
Boston, Mary E. Davis, and has his home in Maiden. 

J.vMF.s C. WiuTNKY, son of John A. and Sarah E. Whitney, was born in Xatick, 
Mass., September .j, 1863, and was educated at the Natick High School. He studied 
law in Boston with John D. Bryant, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 
1890. He married at St. John, N. B., September 18, 1890, Louise M. Horlon, and has 
his home at Needham, Mass. 

EiiK.NKZER Stowkll Whittkmoke was born in Rindge, N. H., September 4, 1828. 
While a child his parents with their family moved to Illinois, traveling by team the 
whole distance. He received his early education at Elgin and Kalamazoo, and grad- 
uated at the University of Michigan. He graduated also at the Harvard Law School 
in 18,')5, and after studying two years in Boston in the office of Charles Grandison 
Thomas, was admitted to the Suffolk bar OctoVjcr 6, 1857. After his admission he 
taught school in Barnstable and Provincetown, and July 19, 1858, opened an office in 
Sandwich, Mass., where he afterwards, until his death, had his home, with an office 
for fifteen years in Boston. He was a commissioner of Barnstable county nine years, 
trial justice thirty-one years, and special justice of the First Barnstable District Court 
from its establishment in 1890 until his death. He was for a time chairman of the 
School Board of Sandwich, and employed his leisure hours in the investigation of his- 
torical matters. He died at Sandwich, Mass., February 27, 1892. 

Georgk WurnF.MORE, son of George and Anna (Mansfield) Whittemore, was born 
in Boston, December 19, 1836, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at 
Harvard, where he graduated in 1857. He studied law with John J. Clarke and 
Lemuel Shaw, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1861, on the 
morning of his departure for the war as a private in the First Unattached Comjiany 
of Massachusetts Sharpshooters. He was promoted to corporal and sergeant, and 
killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. 

Henry L. WHinxESEV, son of C. M. and Maria L. (Ayer) Whittlesey, was born in 
Chelsea, Mass., November 30, 1862, studied law at the Boston University, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1886. He is clerk of the Police Court of Newton, 
w-here he has his home, with an office in Boston. 

Benjami.n WiinwEii. was born in Boston about 1770, and graduated at Harvard in 
1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1793, and settled in Augusta, Me. He 
returned to Boston in 1820, and, in a year unknown to the writer, delivered a poem 
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, entitled •' Folly as it Flies." He 
died in 1825. 

George Wigc.i.eswortii, son of Edward and Henrietta May (Goddard) Wiggles- 
worth, was born in Boston, February 3, 1852, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He 
w-as admitted to the bar in July, 1879. 

Sidney Wii.i..\rd, son of Joseph and Susanna Hickling (Lewis) Willard, was born in 
Lancaster, Mass., February 3, 1831, and was educated at the Boston Latin School 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School and in the offices of Edmund Cushing, of Charleslown, N. H., and Charles G. 
Loring, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 1856. After his ad- 



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mission he went to St. Paul with the \'iew of settUng there, but returned to Boston 
and began i>ractice. He entered the service as captain in the Thirty-fifth Massachu- 
setts Regiment, August 13, 1862, and married, August 21, the day before his depart- 
ure for the war, Sarah R., daughter of Augustus H. Fiske, of the Suffolk bar. Ho 
was promoted to major August 27, 1862, and died December 14, 1862, of wfmnds re- 
ceived the day before in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. 

Bh^NjAMiN Payson Wir.i.iAMS, SOU of Benjamin and Margaret (Childs) Williams, was 
born in Roxbury, February 6, 1827, and graduated at Harvard in IS.'iO. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1853, and died in West Roxbury, May 17, 
18.56. 

Frederick Homer Williams, son of Virgil Homer and Xancy R. (Briggs) Williams, 
was born in Foxboro', Mass., January 7, 1857. and graduated at Brown University 
in 1877. He studied law in Taunton with W. H. Fox, and at the Boston University, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1882. He was a representative 
from Foxboro' in 1883-84. He married J. Annette Blake at Whitman, Ma-ss., July 
10, 1881, and has his home in Brookline. 

George Frederick Williams, son of George W. and Henrietta (Rice) Williams, 
was born in Dedham, Mass.. July 10, 1852, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1872, and afterwards attended the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He 
studied law in Boston with Thomas L. Wakefield, and at the Boston University, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. He was a member of the ilassa- 
chusetts House of Representatives in 1890, and a member of Congress from 1891 to 
1893. He taught school in Brewster, Mass., in 1873-73; was a reporter for the 
Boston Clohe in 1873. He delivered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1886, 
and in 1889 an address before the faculty and students of Dartmouth College. He 
is the author of "Williams' Ma.ssachusetts Citations," and the editor of United 
States Digest, volumes ten to seventeen inclusive. His home is at Dedham, with an 
office in Boston. 

Gorham D. Williams, son of George A. and Sarah (Deane) Williams, was born in 
East Bridgewater, Mass., January 10, 1842, and was educated at Phillips Exeter 
Academy and at Har\-ard, where he graduated in 1865. He studied law in Green- 
field, Ma-ss., with Charles Mattoon, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at 
Greenfield in March, 1868. He was trial justice in Franklin county from 1876 to 
1890; has been one of the trustees of Deerfield Academy since 1871, and president of 
the Board since 1888. He is the author of " The Penal Statutes of Massachusetts," 
and of the '• Ma.ssachusetts Peace Officer." He married at Greenfield, Januarj- 17, 
1871, Ella C. Taylor, and has his home in Arlington, with an office in Boston. 

Henrv Webb Williams, son of Benjamin W. and Clarissa R. Williams, was born 
in Taunton, ^fass., June 6, 1847, and was educated at the Boston public schools and 
the Boston Latin School. He studied law with Arthur H. WcIIman in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Norfolk bar at Dedham in 1886. His specialty is patent practice. 
He married at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1869, Emma R. Robinson, and has his resi- 
dence in Milton, with an office in Boston. 

William J. Williams, son of James Munroe and Maria Williams, was bom in 
Toronto, Canada, December 25, 1863, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy. 



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He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1889. His residence is in Chelsea. 

Samuel Wii.i.iston, son of Lyman Richards and Anne (Gale) Williston, was born 
in Cambridge, September 24, 1861, and was educated at the Cambridge High School 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1882. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1888-80 he 
was law clerk of Justice Horace Gray of the United States Supreme Court, and in 
September, 1890, was appointed assistant professor of law in the Harvard Law 
School. He has written articles in the Hart'ard Law Ri'Tiew and American Law 
RipQittr, and has been connected in the courts with Goodwin vs. Trust Company, 
ir)2 Massachu.setts, 189; Corlin vs. West End Railway, 154 Massachusetts; Kneeland 
vs. Trust Company, 136 United States, 89; and Batcheller vs. Bank of Republic, 
argued in November, 1801. He married at Roxbury, September 12, 1880. Marv 
Fairlie Wellman. 

Buri-KK Roi.AND Wilson, sou of John R. and Mary Jane Wilson, was born in 
Greensboro', Ga., Jul)- 22, 1860, and was educated at Atlanta University, Atlanta, 
Ga. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1884. His residence is in Boston. 

WiLLL\M Power Wilson, son of James Hamilton and Margaret McKim (Marriott) 
Wilson, was born in Baltimore, Md. , November 15, 1852, and was educated at Phillips 
Andover Academy. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 16, 1877. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council in 1886-87; an alderman in 1888-89-90, being chairman in 1890, and was a 
representative in 1891. He received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from 
Dartmouth College in 1880. He married in Boston, where he lives, April 30, 1884, 
Louise Keith Kimljall. 

John Winihroi', jr., son of Governor John Winthrop, was born at Groton Manor, 
in England, February 12, 1606. and was educated at Bury St. Edmund's and at 
Trinity College, Dublin. He entered Inner Temple and became connected with the 
naval service. In 1631 he came to New England and was chosen assistant 
eighteen years while living in the Massachusetts Colony. In 1640 he received a grant 
of Fisher's Island in Long Island Sound, and in 1641 went to England, returning in 
1643 with men and machinery for iron works in Lynn and Braintree. In 1640 he 
began the New London plantation and moved to Connecticut in 1650. In 1657 he 
was chosen governor of Connecticut, and with the exception of one year continued 
in office until his death. From 1661 to 1663 he was in London and obtained the 
charter of Connecticut and Xew Haven. He maiTied first in 1631, his cousin Mar- 
tha, daughter of Thomas Fones, of London, and second, in 1635, Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Edmund Reede, of Wickford, Essex. He died in Boston, April 5, 1676, while 
attending a meeting of the commissioners of the United Colonies, Pl)'TOOuth, Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. 

Hkrhert L. Baker, son of Gideon H. and Olive E. Baker, was born in Falmouth, 
Mass. , August 9, 1850, and was educated at the public schools, at Bryant & Strat- 
ton's Business College, and at Boston University. He studied law at the Boston Uni- 
versity and was admitted to the bar in Barnslalile, Mass., in June, 1885. He is a 




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senator the present year, 1803, from Boston, where he now resides and practices law . 
He married in Wareliam, Mass., October 22, 1886, Mary Ahce Handy. 

Thomas Weston, jr., son of Thomas and Thalia (Eddy) Weston, of Middleboro", 
Ma-Sii., was born in that town, June 14, 1H34. His father was many years a select- 
man and representative. He is descended from Edmund Weston, who came from 
England to Boston in the Elizabeth and Ann in 1635, and settled in Duxbury. His 
father and grandfather were e.\tensively engaged in the iron manufactory in Middle- 
boro" many years, and both occupied prominent positions in that town. He was 
educated at the Pierce Academy in Middleboro, and in 1864 received the honorary 
degree of A. M. from Amherst College. Before entering on his professional career 
he was some years engaged in teaching and was two years the principal of the 
Plynii«on Academy. He studied law in Middleboro' m the office of William H, 
Wood and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 
18.59. He first opened an office in Fall River, Mass., where he soon secured an ex- 
tensive practice. In 1865 he removed to Boston, and has there largely added to both 
his business and reputation. In addition to his labors at the bar he has made a 
specialty of historical studies and matters relating to the history of the Congrega- 
tional Church and Polity. He is the author of a small volume entitled "A Sketch of 
Peter Oliver, the Last Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in the Prov- 
ince of Massachusetts Bay," "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Edmund Wes" 
ton," and many short articles in various papers and magazines. His residence is in 
Newton, from which place he was sent representative to the General Court in 1883 
and 1884, and he has been president of the Congregational Club of Boston. He is 
a member of various historical associations, a lover of books, the owner of a good 
library, and finds relief from his professional work in antiquarian study. 

Charlks Grandison Thomas was bom in Denmark, N. Y., the son of poor parents, 
and was brought up as a charcoal burner. The history of the Massachusetts bar can 
show among its members no career more picturesque than his. After reaching man- 
hoixl he determined to gratify a passion for learning which had been growing 
stronger with his years, and in some mysterious way succeeded in reaching the sea- 
board and securing an humble position as an a,ssistant and man of all work under 
the keeper of the East Chop Light on Martha's Vineyard. Here he found his way to 
books of various kinds, and as he studied their contents a still higher ambition was 
excited to obtain a collegiate education. In entire ignorance of the necessary quali- 
fications for admission to Harvard, he groped along, from reading to geography, 
from geography to mathematics, from mathematics to Latin, from Latin to Greek, 
and when he thought himself equipiied for a trial, he went on foot to Cambridge and 
presented himself ff>r examination. Being probably favored by the faculty, to whom 
the peculiar circumstances of his case were made known, he was admitted, and pa.ss- 
ing through his collegiate course, always known under, the sobriquet of Light- 
house Thomas, he graduated creditably in 1838. He then entered the Law School 
at Cambridge, graduating in 1841, and the Nvriter remembers him well, often seeing 
him walking into Boston studying a law book on the way. Precisely by what means 
he was enabled to pass through the various stages of his education the writer has 
never Ijeen informed. It is probable, however, that he was a beneficiary of one or 
another college fund and received also aid from some one of the many benevolent 



398 HISTORY OF 7 HE BENCH AND BAR. 

persons in Boston and Cambridge, who are always ready to assist those seeking a 
better position in hfe. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 28, 1841, and un- 
til his death practiced in Boston, with a residence in Cambridge. He married a very 
worthy attendant at a restaurant in Tremont Row, where for many years he was an 
habitiiL-, and outlived his wife a number of years. The writer is under the im])res- 
sion that he died in Cambridge about 1872. 

D.VNIKI. Wki.ls was born in Greenfield, Mass., in 1793, and graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1810. In 1837 he was appointed district attorney, and in 1844 was 
appointed to succeed John Mason Williams as chief justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas. He continued on the bench until his death. In 1849 he removed to Cam- 
bridge, where he died, June 23, 18o4. 

Horatio Bvington was the son of Isaiah Byington, a farmer in Stockbridge, Mass. 
He studied law in Stockbridge and with Judge Howe in Wrirthington, and was ad- 
mitted to the Berkshire bar in 1S30. He began practice in Plainfield, but returned to 
Stockbridge and continued in practice there until he was ap])ointed in 1846 a judge 
of the Common Pleas Court. He continued on the bench until his death, which 
occurred at Stockbridge, February 5, 1856. He lived at one time in Lenox. 

Ji'.Nii:s H.M.i., son of Hon. John Hall, of Kllington, Conn., graduated at Yale in 1831, 
and was admitted to the Sutfolk bar May 26, 1846. He settled first in Alton, 111., but 
returned to Boston and died there, August 3, 1851. 

George Gorh.\m Wii.i.i.ams, son of Samuel K. and Eliza Winslow (Whitman) Will- 
iams, was born in Boston in 1829, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, and died in 
Boston the year of his admission to the bar, June 25, 1851. 

JosHi'.A Hoi.voKE W.\RD was born in Salem in 1809, and graduated at Harvard in 
1829. He studied law with Lqverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to the Essex bar 
in 1832. He was appointed a judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1844, and contin- 
ued on the bench until his death, which occurred at Salem, June 5, 1848. 

Ch.\ri.f.s WorthinotoN was born in Lenox in 1823, and graduated at Williams 
College in 1840. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the 
office r)f Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1844. 
He died in Stockbridge, Mass., May 38, 1848. 

EowARi) Cruft, jr., was born in Boston about 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 
1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1834, and after praticing a short time 
in Boston went to St. Louis, and there died, April 22, 1847. 

Samiei, Gay, a brother of Ebenezer Gay, sr., already refened to in this register, 
graduated at Harvard m 1775. He studied law and after admission, being a loyal- 
ist, retired to New Brunswick, where he became chief justice of the Court of Common 
Pleas. He died at Fort Cumberland, N. B., January 21, 1847, at the age of ninety- 
three. 

FisHKR Ames Hakdint, was born in Dover, Mass. , and graduated at Har\'ard in 
1833. He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston, and after admission to the 
bar removed to Detroit, Mich, where he died in 1846. At the time of his death he 
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(iF.DKUE Gay, son of Willard Gay, was born in Dedham, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1810. He was admitted to the bar as early as 1817, as his name appears on the 
roll of Boston lawyers in that year. He died in Andover, November 9, 1843. His 
residence and office were in Boston, and the writer, who remembers his death, is un- 
der the impression that he died suddenly in the cars. 

Wii.i.i.vM Simmons was born, the writer thinks, in Hanover or Scituate, Mass., about 
1782. He graduated at Harvard in 1804. His name appears on the roll of Boston 
la\v)-ers in 1811. He was appointed, June 10, 1822, one of the justices of the Police 
Court of Boston, which was established in that year. His a.ssociates were Benjamin 
Whitman, senior justice, and Henry Ome. He died June 17, 1843, in Boston, and 
A1k>1 Cushinjc was appointed to succeed him. He married in 1810, Lucia, daughter of 
Abraham Hammatt, of Plymouth. 

Pkter Oliver Ai.iif.x was born in Middleboro', Mass., August 20, 1772, and 
graduated at Brown University in 1792. He studied law with Seth Padelford, of 
Taunton, and was admitted to the bar in 1797. His name appears on the roll of ad- 
missions to the Suffolk bar by the Supreme Court. He removed to Maine and died 
in Brunswick, February 14, 1842. 

Albkkt Bakkk was born in Bow, N. H., in ISIO, and graduated at Dartmouth in 
1834. He studied law with Franklin Pierce in Hillsboro', N. H., and with Richard 
Fletcher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April. 1837. He settled 
in Hillsboro', \. H., was a representative in 1839-40-41 . .-ind died in that town Octo- 
ber 17, 1841. 

RiiBF.Kr WoKMSTKD Trevkit was born in 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1808. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1811, and died in Lynn, January 13, 
1841. 

Daxiei. Parkman was born in Boston in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1813. 
lie studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 
1, 1816. He soon abandoned the law for mercantile pur.suits.' At a later period he 
was a deputy sheriff and city marshal of Bo.ston. He died at Cambridge, February 
25, 1,840. 

Henry C. Simonds was born in 1810, and graduated at Harvard in 1831. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, and died in Boston, April 3, 1840. 

Cai.eii Ai.e.xanokr Bickinuham, son of Joseph Tinker Buckingham, for many years 
editor of the Boston Courier, was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 
1834. He studied law. and after admission to the Suffolk bar removed to Geneva, N. 
Y. He died in Chicago, January 13, 1840. 

KzEKiKi Hersev Derky was lx)rn. perhaps, in Hingham in 1799, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1818. He was a member of the Suffolk bar, and died in Boston, Xovcm- 
ber 14, 1839. 

Edward Preui.e, son of William Piti and Sarah A. Preble, was born in Portland. 
Me., April 1, 1855, and was educated at Hanover, Germany, at Phillips Andover 
Academy and the Pennsylvania Military Academy. He studied law in Boston in the 
office of L. C. Southard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He 
was m Paris during the siege of 1870-71, and was the autlior i)f interesting articles in 
the magazines describing its incidents. His home is in Boston. 



400 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

VVii.i.iAM IIk.n'ky Prkhi.k, son of Jeremiah and Elizivbeth M. (Freeman) Preble, was 
born in Charlestown, Mass., August 12, IS.iiG, and was educated at the public schools. 
He studied law with F. Hutchinson and George E. Smith in Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. He was a representative in 1888 and 
1889. He married, December 8, 1880, Amy Bertha Nash, and lives in the Charles- 
town District of Boston. 

Ai.iiF.Ki' Jr.KOMK Prati', son of C. T. and Mary (Post) Pratt, was born in Saybrook, 
Conn., January (51, \Wi. and was educated at Wibraham Academy and at Boston 
Univer.sity. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in June, 1881. His home is in Boston. 

Cii.\Ri.Ks Edward Pr.vtt, son of Rev. Joseph H. and Martha E. Pratt, was born in 
Vassalboro', Me., March 13, 184.5, and graduated at Haverford College, Penn., in 
1870. He studied law in Boston with Leonard A. Jones and Albert B. Otis, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1871. He was a member of the Boston Common 
Council in 1877-79-80-81-82, and president of the board the last two years. He 
makes a specialty of j)atent causes, and has been the attorney of the Pope Manufact- 
uring Company and connected corporations since May, 1881. He is the author of 
"The American Bicycler," he founded and edited The Bicycling World, edited 
Oiilinx two years, and for a number of years has been a writer of pamphlets, essays, 
stories and poems for magazines and newspapers. He married at Worcester in 1872 
Georgiana E. Folic, and lives in Boston. 

Nathan H. Pratf, son of Nathan and Sarah E. Pratt, was born in Norwich, Conn., 
August ;il, 1848, and was educated at the public schools of Weymouth, Mass., the na- 
tive town of his father, who returned to it from Norwich. He studied law with 
Everett C. Bumpus, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in Dedham, January 1, 
1880. He was of counsel for the mill owner's in their suits against the town of Wey- 
mouth to recover damages for taking water from Weymouth Great Pond, in which 
$30,000 or more was recovered. He lives unmarried in East Weymouth, with an of- 
fice in Boston. 

Sami'KI, Jackson Prf.scott, son of Dr. Oliver and J^ydia (Baldwin) Prescott, was 
born in Groton, March 15, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1795. He studied law 
with William Prescott, but left the profession not long after admission on account of 
deafness, and went into business with Aaron P. Cleveland. He was subsequently a 
notary public in Boston for thirty years. He married, November 13, 1804, Margaret. 
daughter of Joseph Hillier, of Salem, and died in Brookline, February 4, 18.57. 

WiiiiAM MiiRio.N PKEsr, Son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Prest, was born in 
Blackburn, Lancashire county, England, February 22, 1862, and graduated at Am- 
herst in 1888. He graduated at the Boston University Law School in 1891, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He married at Uxbridge, Mass., 
in 1880, Emma A. Day, and his home is in Hudson, Mass., with an office in Boston. 

John Prf.ston, son of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Champney) Preston, was born in 
New Ipswich, N. H., April 12, 1802, and graduated at Harvard in 1823. He studied 
law with George F. Farley in New Ipswich, and with Samue) Hulibard in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1827. He settled in New Ipswich and 
and there and at Townsend passed his life. lie was a representative seven years, 



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and seiKilor ill IS4H-4y. He marriod in Towiisciul. October 27, 182H, Elizabeth S., 
danK'liter of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder) French, of Billerica, and died at New 
Ipswieh, March o, 18t)7. 

Georce Henry Preston, son of Marshall and Maria (Parker) Preston, was born in 
Billerica, Mass., June 6, 1825, and graduated at Harvard iu 1846. He studied law 
in Boston with Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the Suffolk barand practiced 
in Boston until his death. He married, January 1, 18r)(), in Billerica, Catherine 
Rogers, daughter of James K. Faulkner, and died in Boston, May 29, 1868. 

WiNFiEi.p Forrest Prime, son of Oliver and Emma F. Prime, was born in Charles- 
town, Mass., November 22, 1860, and was educated at the Boston public schools and 
at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of 
Joseph H. & H. W. B. Cotton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1886. 
He was a representative in 1890. He married Mary A. Fontaine, May 13, 1891, at 
Boston, and lives in the Charlestown District of Boston. 

James Perrott Prince, son of James P. and Eliza T. (Burns) Prince, was born in 
Rockport, Ma.ss. , June 7, 1861, and graduated as Bachelor of vScicnce at Amherst 
College in 1881. He studied law in Boston with Wni. F. SlocumandWm. A. Herrick, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1883. He married in Chelsea, Septem- 
ber 20, 1885, Carrie E. Hodgdon, and has his home in Lexington. 

JosEi'ii Hardy Prince, son of Henry and Sarah (Millet) Prince, was Ixirn in Salem, 
June 7, 1801, and graduated at Harvard in 1819. He studied law in Salem with John 
Pickering, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1824. He settled in Salem and was 
a representative in 1825. In 1834 he was an inspector in the Boston Custom House, 
and in 1835 was private secretary of Commodore Eliot on board the Constitution on 
a voyage to France to bring home the American Minister, Edward Livingston. In 
1848 he was ajipointed to ati office in the surveyor's department in the Boston Custom 
House, and on leaving that position resumed the practice of law in Boston. He 
married Mary Hunt, of Salem, and died in Boston November 18, 1861. 

Thomas Wii.i.iam Procior, son of Thomas and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor, was born 
in HoUis, N. H., November 20, 1858, and receiving his early education at the public 
schools and at Grot<.>n Academy, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1879. He studied 
law at the Boston University and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1883. 
He was first a member of the firm of Hardy, Elder & Proctor, and later of the firm of 
I'-lder & Proctor. He was first appointed second assistant district attorney for .Suffolk 
county, then first assistant, and in May, 1891, he was appointed city solicitor, which 
office he still holds. 

(lEORCK Pi'TNAM, Son of Rev. Dr. George and Elizabeth Ann (Ware) Putnam, was 
born in Roxbury, Mass., October 28, 1834, and fitting for college at the Roxbury 
Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1854. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
Sch<M)l in 1858, and after further study in the office of Chandler & Shattuck, of Boston, 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1858, and is now associated in business 
with William (5. Russell. He married in Cambridge, where he has his home. June 
9, ISIil), Harriet Lowell. 

Henrv Ware Pi tn.\,m, brother of the above, was born in Ri>xbury, April 29, 1847, 
and fitting for college at the Roxbury Latin School, graduated at Harvard in 1869. 
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402 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in October, 1872. He has been overseer of Harvard College. He married Flor- 
ence Haven Thwing, in October, 1873, and Mary Nelson Williams, in August, 1882, 
and lives in the Highland District of Boston. 

Wij,i.i.\M LiiwEi.i, Pi'TN.VM, son of George and Harriet (Lowell) Putnam, was born 
in Roxhury, November 22, lS(il, and fitting for college at the Cambridge High 
School, graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied law at the Harvard Law Schfiol 
and in Hoston in the office of Ropes, Gray & Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar January 26, 1886. He married Elizabeth Lowell, June 9, 1888, and has his home 
in Boston. 

IIknkv Ornf. was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1816. He was ap- 
pointed an associate justice of the Boston Police Court, June 10, 1822, at the time of 
the establishment of the court. 

John Winsi.ow Whitman, son of Kilborn and Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, was born 
in Pembroke, Mass., in 1798. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 18:ill. 
He married in 1828 Sarah Helen Power, of Providence, R. 1., a lady well known in 
her day as a poet. He died in Boston in 183;J. 

John G.m.uson, a nephew of Chief Justice Sewall. was born in Marblehead in 
October, 1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. He was admitted to the Essex 
bar in 1810, and after practicing a short time in his native town, removed to Boston, 
and had an extensive practice. He died December 25, 1820. 

Christopher Chari.es List came to Boston from Philadelphia, and studied law 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1847. He married, in 1848, Harriet 
Winslow, a native of Portland, the author of the " Stanzas to the Unsatisfied," be- 
ginning with the lines: 

" Why thus lonjjiriK, thus forever sighing. 
For the far off unattained and dim. 
While the beautiful, all around thee lying, 
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn ! " 
He died in Boston not many years after his marriage. 

PiMi.ir Sidney Rist, son of Dr. William Appleton and Sarah J. (Goodenow) Rust, 
was born in South Paris, Me., and graduated at Harvard in IS87. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 189(1. 
He lives in Boston. 

George Hoi.ton Rvther, son of William E. and Delia P. Ryther, was born in 
Brattleboro', Vt., April 20, 1852, and was educated at Powers Institute, Bernards- 
town, Mass., and at Williston Seminary, l-^asthamijton, Mass. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November of 
Lhat year. He has been a member of the Cambridge Common Council. He married 
in Cambridge, in 1883, Martha R. Dickinson, and has his home in Cohasset, with an 
office in Boston. 

Geokoe Ahhott Sai.imarsh, .son of Gilman and Harriet IC. Saltmarsh, was born in 
Bow, N. H., October 18, 1858, and having received his early education at the public 
schools of Concord, N. H., at the Tilton, N. H., Seminary, and under private in- 
struction, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1884. He studied law in Concord, 
N. PL, with Chase & Streeter, and at the Boston University, and was admitted to 





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the Suffolk bar in February. 1S89. He married Nellie Gertrude Soule at Everett, 
Mass., June 0, 1890, and has his home in Everett. 

Fr.\.nki.in Bknja.min Sanuor.n, was born in "Hampton Falls, December 15, 1831, and 
was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 
lS.").'i. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and after admission, practiced 
for a time in Boston. He began, however, to devote himself to social science and 
sanitary and reformatory ethics, and was appointed secretary of the the State Board 
of Health and Charities in 1863, and from 1874 to 1876 was its chairman. He was 
appointed, July 1, 1879, inspector of charities, and served some years in that capacity, 
bringing to the performance of his duties a wisdom and judgment of great value to 
the State. He has been secretary of the American Social Science Association and was 
president of the National Conference of Charities from 1888 to 1891. He is now in 
.\thens, Greece, and is the writer of "The Breakfast Table," in the Boston Daily 
.lih'ir/ist-r, a series of interesting papers on topics of special interest to people of 
taste and culture, which he has not permitted his departure and temporary absence 
from home to interrupt. He married Louisa Leavitt. 

M. Lendslev Sanborn, son of Ephraira and Sarah Sanborn, was born in Baldwin, 
Me., September 30, 1859, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1882. He studied 
law in Portland, Me., with Mattock, Coombs & Neal, and was admitted to the Maine 
bar at Portland. May 20, IRSfi, and to the Suffolk bar July 20. 188(«. He lives, un- 
married, in Boston. 

Caleb Sainders, son of Daniel and Phebe T. Saunders, was born in Andover, 
Mass., September 4, 1838, and was educated at the High School in Lawrence, Ma.ss., 
and at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1859. He studied law with Daniel 
Saunders, of Lawrence, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 1863. He has been 
alderman and mayor of Lawrence, each three years. He married, Februarv 8, 1865, 
Carrie F. Stickney, and has his domicile in Lawrence. 

Charles Girlev Saunders, son of Daniel and Mary J. (Livermore) Saunders, was 
born in Lawrence, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1867. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in 1870. He lives 
in Lawrence. 

Thomas Savage, son of Rev. Thomas and Sarah Webster Savage, was Ixirn in Bed- 
ford, N. H., January 20, 1X52, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873. He 
studied law in Manchester. N. H., with Da\'id Cross, and was admitted to the Florida 
bar at Key West in January, 1874, and to the Suffolk bar in October of the same year. 
He has been United States district attorney for the Southern District of Florida, city 
solicitor of Key West, and city solicitor of Maiden, Mass., where he has his residence. 
He married, August 20, 1891, Lucy Burkhalter Curtiss. 

Wh.liam Si uofield, son of John and Margaret (Thomp.son) Schofield, was born in 
Dudley, Mass., February 14, 1857, and was educated at the public schools, at Nichols 
Academy, Dudley, and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1H79. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1883, and after serving two years 1884-85 as private sec- 
retarj- of Justice Horace Gray in Washington, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 
1885. He has been instructor in torts in the Harvard Law School and in Roman law 
in Harvard College, and a contributr)r to the Harvard I.aui Review. He married 
Ednah May Green at Rutland in December, 1890, and has his residence in Maiden. 



404 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAH. 

Jamks SciKUM.KK, son of William and Francis E. (Warren) Schouler, was born in 
Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1859. He studied 
law in Boston in the office of George D. Guild, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in the Supreme Court January 23, 1862, and to practice in the Supreme Court of the 
United States December 10, 1867. In the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a pri- 
vate in the Forty-third Massachusetts N'olunteer Regiment August 4, 1S()2, was pro- 
moted to second lieutenant September (>, 1HC2, and assigned to the Signal Corps, and 
mustered out July 30, 1803. Mr. Schouler has been a prolific writer in the fields of 
both legal and historic literature. He is the author of a " History of the United 
States under the Constitution," which has been pronounced by a no less competent 
authority than the New York Nation to be " the most real history of the United 
States yet produced for the period which it covers." It comprises in five volumes 
the period from 1T83 to 1861. In the field of law he is the author of " Schouler on 
Domestic Relations," of which four editions have been published, "Schouler on Per- 
sonal Property," "Schouler on Bailments, including Carriers, etc.," "Schouler on 
Executors and Administrators," "and " Schouler (m Wills." Concerning these works 
the Alliany Low Joiirnat says that " to Mr. Schouler must be given the praise of 
being the best law writer of our day in point of style." Mr. Schouler has mingled 
with his labors as a writer the occupation of lecturer on American Political History 
at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and on various law topics at the Na- 
tional University in Washington, and the law school of the Boston University in 
Boston. He married at Boston, December 14, 1870, Emily F. Cochran, and has his 
residence in Boston. An impaired hearing, perhaps fortunately, prevents the inter- 
ference of general practice with his occupation as a writer, and he is still at work 
with his j)en with the promise of further enriching the shelves of both the lawyer and 
historian. 

Chakli'.s p. Si'..\ki.i'., son of Richard and Emily Searle, was born in New Marlboro', 
Mass., and graduated at Amherst College in 1876. He studied law in Boston with 
Henry F. Buswell, and at the National Law School in Washington, D. C, and was 
admitted to the SuflFolk bar in 1884. He married Cora A. W. Hogg in 1885, and lives 
in Boston. 

NoK.MAN SkavI'.r, son of Ilcman and Elizabeth (Week) Seaver, was born in (iroton, 
Mass., April 7, 1802. He spent one year at Middlebury College, and graduated at 
Harv^ard in 1822. He studied law with Luther Lawrence inOroton, and was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar in October, 1827. He settled in Boston, was a member of the 
Boston Common Council in 1828, and in 1834 abandoned the profession. He was 
later a member of the mercantile firm of Stone, Seaver & Bush. He married, Decem- 
ber 1, 1820, Anna Maria, daughter of Luther and Lucy (Bigelow) Lawrence, of Gro- 
ton, and died at St. Louis, May 12, 1838. 

George Henry Parsons Shaw, son of Parsons and Mary (Kearsley) Shaw, was born 
in Manchester, England, January 31, 1809, and was educated at Owens College, Vic- 
toria University in Manchester. He graduated at the law school of the Columbian 
l^niversity, Washington, D. C, and was admitted to the bar of South Dakota at 
Sioux Falls March 2, 1890, and to the Massachusetts bar at Cambridge January 29, 
1891. His domicile is in Somcrville. 



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JdiiN Oakes Shaav, son of John (). and gratidson of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, 
was born in Milton, Mass., in August, lS,i(t, and jjraduated at Harvard in 1H73. He 
studied law with his uncle, Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 
2:!, 187(i. 

John F. SiiKA was born in Boston, June 3, lH,")f), and was educated at the public 
schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18S2, was a representative in ]8H(i, 
and a senator in 1887-88. 

JosKi'H W. SiiF.KRAN, son of Thomas W. and Annie M., was born in East Boston, 
Mass., Februarv (>, 1876, and was educated at the Boston public schools. He studied 
law with William C. Williamson and at Boston University, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He lives in Boston. 

JouN (if)i)i)AKi) J.\rKsi>N, son of Abraham and Harriet Otis (Goddard) Jackson, was 
born in Plymouth, Mass., March 8, 1823. He was descended on his fathers side from 
Abraham Jackson, who married at Pl\-mouth in lfir)7 Remember, daughter of Na- 
thaniel Morton, the secretary of Plymouth Colony, and on the mother's side from 
John Otis, who was born in 1581, and came from Barnstable in England and settled 
in Hingham in 1035, and also from Benjamin (ioddard, an early emigrant from 
England. He fitted for college at the Plymouth High School, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 19, 184G, and practiced in 
Boston many vears. About 1880 he removed to Aiken, S. C, and there died unmar- 
ried in 1884. 

Wii.i.iAM Helh-.e, son of Thomas and Lydia Coffin (Goodwin) Hedge, was born in 
Plymouth, Mass., February 2H, 1840, and was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
School. He graduated at Harvard in 1802. He enlisted September 12, 1862, as cor- 
poral in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment for nine months' service in the 
War of 1861, was made sergeant October 1, 1862, first lieutenant January 15, 1863. 
and was mustered out June 18, 1863. He then studied law in Boston in the office of 
Whiting & Russell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 27, 1866. He is 
in active practice as a conveyancer with a business extending from Suffolk into Plym- 
outh, Bristol. Norfolk, Middlesex and Essex counties. He married at Plymouth, Oc- 
tober 11, 1871, Catherine Elliott, daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine (Elliott) Rus- 
sell. He lives in Plymouth, with an office in Boston. 

Edwin Day Siklev, son of Edwin and Hannah Elizabeth (Day) Sibley, was born in 
Boston, April 18, 1857, and studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in 
the office of George Y. Leverett, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 22, 1882. 
He married in Boston, October 28, 1886, Ellen M. Ayers, and has his domicile in 
Somer\-ille. 

Henry R. Skinner, son of Hiram U. and Eliza A. Skinner, was born in Foxboro', 
Mass., and studied law in Boston with George S. Littlefield, Frank T. Benner and 
Montressor T. Allen, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar July 3, 1S9(> W'^ resi- 
dence is in Watertown. 

Wiii.iAM F. Si.oci'M, son of Oliver E. and Polly Mills Slocum, was born in Tolland, 
Mass., January 31, 1822, and was educated at the public schools and at the academy 
in Winsted, Conn. He studied law in Sheflield. Mass., in the office of Billings Palmer, 
and was admitted to the Berkshire bar at Lenox, then the shire town of the county. 



4o6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

in October, 1S4(>. IIo has bet'ii a representative, selectman and member of the 
School Committee in Grafton, but now he has his residence in Newton. He married 
Margaret Tinker at Tolland, Mass., April 21, 1847. 

WiM-iKi.i) S. Si.ix-i M, son of the above, was born in Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, 
and graduated at Amherst College in 18G9. He studied law in Boston in the office 
of Slocum & Staples, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. He has been a 
member of the School Committee of Newton, where he has his residence, city solicitor 
and representative in 1888-89. He married at Newtonville in 1878, Annie A. 
Pulsifer. 

Gkokgk EmviN SMrni, son of David H. and Esther (Perkins) Smith, was born in 
New Hampton, N. H., April 5, 1840, and was educated at Bates College, Lewiston, 
Me. He studied law in Lewiston in the office of Frye, Cotton & White, and of 
Horace R. Cheney in Boston, and at Boston University, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar April 80, 1875. He was a representative in 1883-84, and is trustee of the 
Public Library, and a member of the School Committee in Everett, Mass., where he 
resides. He married Sarah F. Weld at Bu.\ton, Me., October 31, 1876. 

Henkv Baknkv Smith, son of Harney and Ann (Otis) Smith, was born in Boston, 
October 26, 178!(, and after fitting for college under the instruction of Rev. Nathaniel 
Thayer, of Lancaster, graduated at Harvard in 1809. He studied law at the Litch- 
field, Conn., Law School, and in Boston with William Sullivan, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 19, 1812. In 1822 he delivered an oration on the Fourth of 
July in Dorchester at a democratic celebration of the day, another in Boston in 1824, 
and in 1830 another before the Washington Society. He died unmarried in Boston, 
April I, 1861. 

Mknkv Hyiik Smith, son of Greenleaf and Nancy (Churchill) Smith, was born in 
Cornish, Me., February 2, 1832, and was educated at the Parsonsfield Seminary, the 
Bridgeton Academy, the Standish Academy and at Bowdoin College, where he grad- 
uated in 18r)4. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and after further 
study in Portland in the office of Fessenden & Butler, he was admitted to the Cum- 
berland bar at Portland February 2, 1860. He came to Boston in 1867, and was ad- 
mitted to the SulTolk bar July 18 of that year, and has since practiced at that bar. 
He married, December 24, 1861, at Portland, Mary Sherburne, daughter of John 
Winchester and Eliza Ann (Osgood) Dana. His domicile is at Hyde Park. 

JcisKi'H R. Smith, son of Joseph E. and Charlotte (Richardson) Smith, was born in 
Hollis, N. H., August 18, 1856, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1879. He studied 
law at the Boston University and in Nashua, N. H., with General H. F. Stevens 
and in Boston with John O. Teele, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. 
He has been an instructor since 1886 in the Boston University Law School. Ik- 
married at Epsom, X. 11., May 26, 1881, Annie E. Towle, and has his residence in 
Boston. 

CiiAi NCKV Smiiii, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was bom in Waites- 
field, Vt., January 11, 1819, and was educated at the Waitesfield public schools, at 
Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Gouverneur, N. Y., at the University of Vermont 
in Burlington, and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1849, 
and has since that time been engaged in active practice in Boston. In later years he 



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has been connected as counsel witli telephone and other patent cases. lie married 
at Cambridge, where he has his residence, December 10, IHSfi, Caroline K. Marshall. 

Clarence Cheney SMrrii, son of David H. and Esther S. (Perkins) Smith, was 
l)()rn in New Hampton, N. H., March 1, 186r), and educated at the Edward Little 
High School and at Bates College in Lewiston, Me. He studied law at the Boston 
University Law School and with George E. Smith in Boston, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1H90. He has been principal of the York, Me., High School, 
and is now principal of the Evening School in Everett, where he has his residence. 

EowARn Ikvinc SMrrii, son of Cyrus G. and Emily M. Smith, was born in Lincoln, 
Mass., October 20, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 188.'). He studied at the Har- 
vard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married 
Lucia G. Campbell, and has his domicile in Waltham. 

RoDERi- Dickson Smith, son of Dr. John De Wolfe and Judith Wells (Smith) Sniilli, 
was born in Brandon, Miss., April 23, 1838. His parents removed in his youth to 
Hallowcll, Me., where he passed his boyhood, and hegraduatedat Harvard in 18.57. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(i0, and began practice in Boston with 
Henry W. Paine. In 1882 he became associated with his brother-in-law, Melville 
M. Weston. He was a representative in 1870, and declined a nomination for Congress 
as well as appointments to the benches of the Superior and Supreme Courts. He de- 
livered the Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1880, and was an overseer of Harvard 
College from 1878 until his death. He married Paulina Cony Weston, daughter of 
George Melville Weston, of Washington, D. C, and cousin of Chief Ju.stice Fuller of 
the United States Supreme Court. He died in Boston, May 30, 1888. 

Herbert Milton Sylvester, son of Ezekiel J. and Miriam T. Sylvester, was born 
in Lowell, Mass., February 20, 1849, and was educated at the Bridgeton Academy in 
Maine. He studied law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and was admitted 
to the Cumberland bar in April, 1872. In 1886 he removed to Boston and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 24 in that year. Aside from his professional 
work he has done much in the field of literature. He is the author of "Prose Pas- 
torals" and "Homestead Highways," and has at the present time in press two 
novels, a book of boys' adventure and a series of articles from the Xcw England 
Mai^iicinf. He married at Portland, August 5, 1872, Clara M. Elder, and has his 
home in Boston. 

Freeerick Crosby Swu-t, son of Charles F. and .Sarah A. Swift, was born in Yar- 
mouth, Mass., December 18, 18.56, and was educated at the public schools and under 
private instruction. He studied law in Barnstable with Joseph M. Day and at the 
Boston University, and was admitted to the Barnstable bar at Barnstable in October, 
1880. He was for two j'cars the editor of the Yarnioiilh Re^^islcr. He married in 
Brookline, Mass., June 2, 1890, Stella Nichols Hobbs, and lives in Boston. 

Eri)1.\ Tenny Swikt, son of Phineas and Deborah Swift, was born in Corinth, \\.., 
and educated at the public schools. He studied law in Boston with Nathaniel Rich- 
ardson, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in 1859. He was a member of the 
Common Council four years and chief of ])oli(;e five years of Charlestown before its 
annexaticm to Boston, but has now his oHice in Boston, and his domicile at Reading, 
Mass. He married at Foster, R. I., March 17, 1836, Waty A. Rounds. 



4o8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Samiki. SwKrr, son of Dr. John Barnard and Charlotte (Bourne) Swett, was born 
in Xewburyport, June 9, 1782, and graduated at Harvard in 1800. He studied law 
with Jeremiah Smith in E.Keter and with Charles Jaekson and Edward Liverniore. 
He bejjan to practiee in Salem in 180;i, and in 1810 removed to Boston. He was a 
member of the Boston Common Council in 1838, representative three years, and 
soon after coming to Boston abandoned the law and became a partner in the hou.se 
of William B. Swett & Company. He married at Salem, August 25, 1807, Lucia, 
daughter of William Gray, and died in Boston, Oct<A)er 28, 1866. 

Fk.wcis KrrrKii)(;K Swkktsek, son of Francis K. and Myra A. Sweetser, was born 
in Stoneham, Mass., January 21, 1865, and graduated at Tufts College in 1886. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the office of Charles Robinson, jr., 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September. 1889. He married, October 
21, 1891, at Saco, Me.. Jennie M. Clement, and lives in Stoneham, with an office in 
Boston. 

J.XMF.s F. SwKKNEv, Son of Michael and Johanna Sweeney, was born in Stow, now 
Maynard, Mass., and was educated at Boston College. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar January 18, 1888. He lives in Maynard, with his office in Boston. 

Geokc.e R. Swasev, son of Horatio J. and Harriet M. (Higgins) Swasey, was born in 
Standish, Me., and gi'aduated at Bowdoin College in 1875. He studied law with his 
father in Standish and at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Maine bar 
in 1879 and to the Suffolk bar February 24, 1879. He lives, unmarried, in Boston. 

Hai.es Wallace Si'ikk, son of John and Sarah (Wallace) Suter, was born in Bo.s- 
lon, December 80, 1828, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1850. He studied law with William J. Hubbard and 
Francis O. Watts in Boston, at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of John J. 
&• Manlius S. Clarke in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1852. He 
has been a member of the Boston Common Council and president of the Massachu- 
.setts Title Insurance Company. 

Joseph Lewis Slacki'ole, son of Joseph Lewis and Susan Margaret (Benjamin) 
Stackpole, was born in Boston, March 20, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar September 3, 1860. He was first assistant city solicitor of Boston from 1870 to 
1870. and United States general appraiser from August to December. 1891. In the 
War of the Rebellion he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-fourth Massachu- 
setts Regiment September 2. 1861, captain and C. S. of L'nited States Volunteers 
August 80, 1862, major and judge advocate July 10. 1868. brevet lieutenant-colonel 
March 13. 1865, and resigned A])ril 20. 186.5. He has appeared in the Xonh Ameri- 
can Ki'iifcii' for November. 1865. ;is the author of " Military Law." and in the 
Amirican /,(Hi' liiviev.' as the author of "Rogers \-s. Attorney-General," October. 
1866; "Law and Rennancc," April. 1867; "Book about Lawyers." October, 1867: 
"Lord Plunkct," April, 1868; "Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham,'' 
January, 1870; " Howland Will Case," July, 1870, and " Early Days of Charles Sum- 
ner," April. 1879. He married. March 8. 1863, at Cambridge, Martha Watson Par- 
.sons. and has his domicile at Mattapoisett. with his office in Boston. 

Aktiiir LAN(;Dt)N Si'RiN(;. son of John Langdon and Ellen M. Spring, was born in 
Salmon Falls, N. H., February 35, 1857, and was educated at Kimball Union Acad- 





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cniy and at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1880. He studied law at 
Boston University and with John L. Spring at Lebanon, N. H., and was admitted to 
the New Hampshire bar in August. 1H83, and to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He has 
been a member of the Common Council three years in Boston, where he has his 
residence. 

Ch.xri.f.s H. Si'raghe, son of Homer B. and A. E. Sprague, was born in New 
Haven, Conn., July 21, 18.56, and studied law at the Boston University Law School. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 26, 1879, and was a member of the Common 
Council of Newton, where he has his domicile, in 1891, and an alderman in 1892. 
He married Jennie Starbuck, of Cincinnati, O., August 11, 1877. 

CiiAKi.KS Fk.vnki.in Si'KAciF,, Son of .Seth Edward and Harriet B. (Lawrence) 
Sprague, was born in Boston, June 10, 18.57, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and at Boston University, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1889. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, 
where he lives, in 1889-90, and a representative in 1891-92. He married in Boston, 
in November, 1891, Mary B. Pratt. 

Wn.i.iAM JoNP'.s Si'ooNKK, SOU of William and Mary Phillips Spooner, was born in 
Boston, April 15, 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 18l:i. He studied law at Litch- 
field, Conn., and with Peter (). Thacher in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in October, 1816. He died in Boston, October 17, 1824. 

Wu.i.iAM Edward Si'Kak, son of Archibald G. and Angelica Si)ear, was born in 
Rockland, Me., January 2, 1848, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1870. He 
studied law with A. P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1878. He was of counsel for the United States in the Alabama Court of 
Claims, and is at present counsel for the United States in the French Spoliation 
Claims. He married in 1878 in Boston, Marie Josephine Graux, and lives in Boston. 

Samuel Snow, son of Caleb Hopkins and Sarah (Drew) Snow, was born in Dux- 
bury, Mass., November 18, 1832. His father was the author of a history of Boston, a 
physician of note, who died in 1835. He graduated at Brown in 1856, and after at- 
tending the Harvard Law School and studying in the office of Caleb William 
Loring, of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1858. Before entering Brown 
he went to California, one of the first at the breaking out of the gold fever, sailing 
in the ship N/anlic, July 5, 1849. He has been a member of the Common Council of 
Cambridge, where he resides. He married in Cambridge, August 20, 1861, Ophelia 
A. Smith. 

Ciiari.es Armstrong Snow, son of Franklin and Anna E. (Armstrong) Snow, was 
born in Boston, September 23, 1862, and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He studied 
law at the Harvard I^aw School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1.SS5, since 
which time he ha., been associated in business with E. W. Burdctt, and makes a 
specially of corporation law. He is unmarried and lives in Boston. 

William Christopher Smith, son of Christopher and Sally T. Smith, was born in 
Chatham, Mass., September 16, 1861, and graduated at Harvard in 188.5. He at- 
tended the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He 
married in Chelsea, October 31. 1889, Florence Ilsley, and has his residence in Mel- 
rose, with his office in Boston. 
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4IO HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

'riii.oi'iiii.rs (ill. MAN Smuh, son of Theophilus Staniells and Mary Burley (Oilman) 
Smith, was born in Stratham, N. H., December 39, 1848, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1871. He studied law with E. Rockwood Hoar in Boston, and at Boston Uni- 
versity, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April KJ, 18T4. In 1887 he moved to 
(iroton. He married, May 11, 1875, at Somerville, Julia Warton, daughter of George 
and Marie (Warton) Kaan, of New York. 

Skth p. Smiiii, son of Samuel and Ruth T. Smith, was born in Hollis, Me., Janu- 
arv 4, 1857, and was educated at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and at Dartmouth 
College, where he graduated in 1882. He studied law at the Boston University and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1885. He has served two years in 
the Common Council of Boston, where he lives. 

S.\ML'EL Heruert S.MiTH, SOU of Samuel Abbott and Maria E. (Edes) Smith, was 
born in Arlington, Mass., April 5, 1864, and graduated at Harvard in 1887. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
December, 1888. His residence is in Arlington. ' 

S.\MiEL Emekson Smiih, son of Manasseh and Hannah (Emerson) Smith, was born 
in Hollis, N. H., March 12, 1788, and fiilting for college at Wiscasset. Me., and at 
Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1808. He studied 
law W'ith Samuel Dana, of Groton, and with his brothers Manasseh and Joseph Em- 
erson, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 25, 1812. He re- 
moved from Boston to Wiscasset, and represented that town in the Legislature of 
Massachusetts in 1819, before the incorporation of Maine, and in the Legislature of 
Maine in 1820. He was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Maine from 
1822 to 18:!0; governor from 1831 to 1833; reappointed justice of the Common Pleas 
Court in 1835, and resigned in 1837. In 1837 he was appointed one of the commis- 
sioners to revise the laws of Maine. When chosen governor he removed to Augusta, 
but in 183(i returned to Wiscasset. He married, September 12, 1832, Louisa Sophia, 
daughter of Henry Weld Fuller, of Augusta, and died in Wiscasset, March 3, 18(i0. 

Samcei. Savage Shaw, son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston 
anfl graduated at Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1855 and was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in April, 1856. 

John L. Swift, was born in Falmouth, Mass., May 38, 1828. He came to Boston 
in 1843 and entered a store as clerk. He was an active member of the Mercantile 
Library Association from 1848 to 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
was a representative in 1855-57, was appointed pilot commissioner in 1858, and United 
States storekeeper in June, 1861. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the Thirty-fifth 
Massachusetts Regiment, and was made sergeant, lieutenant, and then captain in the 
Forty-first Regiment. He was provost judge at Baton Rouge, captain and judge ad- 
vocate on the stalT of General Grover, and adjutant-general of Lousiana in 1863. In 
18(;(> he was appointed naval officer of the ]«)rt of Boston, and in 1867 deputy collector, 
holding that office till 1869, when he went into business in New York. Afterwards 
returning to Boston he was reappointed in 1874 deputy collector, and remained in 
office till 1885. From 1886 to 1887 he was editor of the 5/rt/f, a weekly journal, and 
from 1887 to 1890 was with the Eveniiit; Traveller. In March, 1890, he was reap- 
pointed deputy collector, and is still in office. 



Biographical register. 41 * 

Ei-isiiA Greenwood was horn in Dedham, Mass.. July 15, 1803, and was educated 
at the public schools. He studied law at the Boston University and in the office of 
Henry W. Hrajjg, of Boston, and was admitted to the St. Louis bar February 1, 1884, 
and to the SutTolk bar January 18, 1880. He has been a representative from Ded- 
ham, where he lives. He has been counsel in many important cases to be found in 
the reports of the Supreme Court, was editor of the Central Laiv Journal in 1883-^14, 
and is the author of " Public Policy in the Law of Contracts," and two volumes on 
" Constitutional Law " for " Federal Decisions." 

Wii.i.i.vM Cahoone Grki'.ne, son of Samuel D. and Susan (Oibbs) Orcene, was born 
in Batavia, N. Y., Octobers, 1838, and was educated at the Monson, Westlield and 
Kastham])ton Academies in Massachusetts and at Amherst College and Brown Uni- 
versity. He studied law with Bates, Beach & Gillett in Westlield, Mass., and with 
Beach & Bond, and Henry Morris in Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 
Springtield in October, 1852. He married first, Virginia CroU, of Philadelphia, and 
second, Maria H., daughter of Noah Lincoln, of Boston. He lives in Boston. 

Reginald Gray, son of Francis Henry and Hedwiga Regina (Shober) Gray, was 
born in Boston, March li), 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1875. He studied law 
at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 187!). He 
lives in Boston. 

Samiei. Jackson Gardner, son of Caleb Gardner, was born m Brookline, July !), 
1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1807. After his admission he practiced law in 
Ro.xbury, now Boston, and in 1838 moved to Newark, N. J., where in 1850 he became 
editor of the Ne'^cark Daily Ad'icrtiser. He died at the White Mountains, N. H., 
July 14, 1S(;4. 

Wii.i.iAM Parkinson Greene, son of Gardner and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Greene, was 
born in Boston, September 7, 1795, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied 
law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, who married his sister, and wa.s admitted to 
the Suffolk bar March 14, 1820. He became a partner with Mr. Hubbard and con- 
tinued in practice in Boston seven years. In 1824 he moved to Norwich, Conn. He 
married, July 14, ISIO, Augusta Elizabeth, daughterof Leonard Vassal! Borland, and 
died in Norwich, June 18, 18(14. 

WiLLiA.M B. Gale, son of John Gale, was born in Southampton, N. H., Augusts, 
1829, and after fitting for college under private instruction, spent two years at Har- 
vard. He studied law with Franklin Pierce at Concord, N. H., and Asa Fowler at 
the same place, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 18.53, and to the 
Middlese.x bar in Massachusetts in June, 18(i0. He has practiced in Boston many 
years, coming to that city from Marlboro, where he had previously practiced. 

John P. Gale, son of the alxjve, and born in Marlboro' in 185(1, was a member of 
the Suffolk bar as early as 1885, but moved to Seattle, Wash, and died at Redlands, 
Cal., May 11, 1892. 

Robert DicksoiN Weston-Smith, son of Robert Dickson and Paulina Cony (Weston) 
Smith, was born in Xewton, Mass., May 8, 18(54, and was educated at the B()ston 
Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 188(i. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of his father, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in January, 1888. In 1890 he was associate counsel of the New York 



4i2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

and New England Railroad Company. He married in Cambridge, October 4, 1888, 
Anstiss Walcott, and lives in Cambridge. 

GiioKc.K A. Gkikkin, son of George A. and Eliza T. Griftin, was born in Lowell. 
August 38, 1842, and graduated at Tufts College in 1864. He studied law in Lowell 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in February, 1866. He married 
in Maiden, August 28, 1S7;!, Victoria \V. Hulcliings, and has his residence in Mel- 
rose. 

Jamks Wilson Grimes, son of James Forsaith and Sarah (Jones) Grimes, was born 
in Hillsboro', N. H., November 21, 186,'), and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad- 
emy. He studied law at the Boston University and with Jolin F. Colby, of Boston, 
and was admitted to the bar at Des Moines, la., October S, 1891), and to the Suffolk 
bar in January, 1892, His residence is in Boston. 

Cii.AKi.F.s Edward Gkinnki.i., son of Charles Andrews and Anna (Almy) Grinnell, 
was born in Baltimore, Md., May 7, 1841, and graduated at Harvard in 1860. He 
studied divinity at the Yale Divinity School and the Divinity School in Cambridge, 
and also pursued a course of study at the university of Gottingen, Germany. After 
preaching for a time he studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the 
office of Chandler, Ware & Hudson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 
28, 1876. He has been master in chancery in Suffolk county since 1878, and was edi- 
tor of the Aiiurican Law ReTU'w in 1881-82. He has written editorials in the above 
Review in 1880-61-82, a book entitled "A Study of the Poor Debtor Law of Massa- 
chusetts," another entitled "The Law of Deceit," and a third entitled "Points in 
Pleading and Practice under the Massachusetts Practice," an article in the Ameri- 
can Law Re7iiew on "Cross Bills by Assignees," and one in the Har-i'ard Law 
Review on " Subsequent Payments under Resulting Trusts." He married in Boston 
July 11, 1865, Elizabeth Tucker Washburn, and lives in Boston. 

Wi 1,1,1AM Pf.nn Harding, son of Isaac and Abigail (Young) Harding, was born in 
Duxburv, Mass., February 15, 1831, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied 
law in Boston vi-ith Richai-d F. Fuller and at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1856. He married, December 25, 1861, in Can- 
ton, Mass., Abby Anceline Morse, and lives in Cambridge. 

Chari.ks N.vniAN Harris, son of John L. and Sarah E. Harris, was born at Port 
Byron, 111., October 6, 1860, and was educated at the Boston Latin School. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 22, 1882. He was appointed second assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts 
January 21, 1891. He has been engaged in the preparation of portions of "Gould 
and Tucker's Notes on the Revised Statutes of the United States," of the second edi- 
tion of Keller's " Index Digest," and portions of the ninth American edition of 
" Smith's Leading Cases." He married at Cambridge, September 30, 1890, Sarah 
W. Bird of that city, and has his residence in Cambridge. 

David Gkkknk Haskins, jr., son of Rev. David Greene and Mar)- Cogswell 
(Daveis) Haskins, was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 5, 1845, and was educated at 
the Roxbury Latin School and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1866. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Henry W. Paine, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1870. He has been secretary of the Massa- 




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chusetts Society of the Cincinnati, and recording secretary of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society. He is unmarried and lives in Cambridge. 

Simon W. Hathkw.w, son of Thomas G. and Harriet E. (Bates) Hatheway, was 
born in St. John, N. B. , September 10, 1837, and graduated at Amherst College in 
1857. He studied law in Worcester with Dwight Foster and George W. Baldwin, 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in Cambridge in October, 18(i6. He has his 
domicile in Dedham. 

Gl'stavus Hay, jr., was bom in Boston in 1860, and graduated at Harvard in 188K. 
He studied law at Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Janu- 
ary 20, 1891. He lives in Boston. 

CnAiu.Es \Viij.iA.M Storev, SOU of Charles William and Elizabeth (Burnham) 
Storey, of Newburyport, was born in Clareniont, N. H., July 18, 181G, and was 
educated at the Newburyport Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy and at Har- 
vard, where he graduated in 1835. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston with C. P. & B. R. Curtis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 
15, 1840. He was clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1844 
to 1850, has been register of insolvency for Suffolk county, and clerk of the Superior 
Criminal Court. He married in Newburyport, Elizabeth Eaton Moorfield, and lives 
in Brookline. 

MooRFiELD Storey, son of the above, was bom in Roxbury, Mass., March 19, 
1>>45, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he grad- 
uated in 1866. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Washington 
with Charles Sumner, and in Boston with Benjamin F. Brooks and Joshua D. Ball, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 28, 1869. He has been assistant dis- 
trict attorney of Suffolk county and an overseer of Harvard College. He married in 
Washington, D. C, January 6, 1870, Anna Gertrude Cutts, and lives in Brookline. 

David Tha.xter, son of Joseph B. and Sally (Gill) Thaxter, was born in Hingham, 
Mass., March 24, 1824, and was educated in his native town. He studied law in 
Boston with Sidney Bartlett and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21, 1848. 
He practiced in Boston, and died in Hingham, June 10, 1878. 

Edward Ei.i.kkton Pratt, son of George and Abigail H. (Lodge) Pratt, was born 
in Boston, December 24, 1880, and was educated at the Boston Latin School and at 
llar\'ard, where he graduated in 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School 
and in Boston with John J. Clarke, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He mar- 
ried in 1856, Miriam Foster, daughter of Rufus Choate. 

Wii.i.iAM Bates, a native of Wareham, Mass., was a soldier in the W^ar of 1812, and 
distinguished himself in the battle of Bladensburg. He practiced law and taught 
school in Wareham, and in 1850 opened an office in Boston. He became conspicuous 
in the early days of the Free Soil party, and was at one time its candidate for secre- 
tary- of state. 

Thomas Lafayette Wakefield, son of Thomas and Submit (Ross) Wakefield, was 
born in Londonderry, Vt. , June 15, 1817, and graduated at Darmouth College in 
1843. He studied law with Horace E. Smith in Broadalbin, N. Y., and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1849, and became a partner of Mr. Smith, his instructor, 
who had removed to Boston. Before coming to Boston he was admitted to the bar 



414 HISTORY OF THE BENCH ANb iAR. 

in New York and was the first district attorney chosen under the law making thr 
office elective. On coming to Massachusetts he resided first in Chelsea, then in 
Dedhani, then in Chelsea again, and finally in Dedham in \HTiA, where he lived un- 
til his death. He married first at Fayetteville, Vt., about 1845, Jane, daughter of 
I). Perry, and second at Dedham, Frances A. L., daughter of Rev. John I^athrop. 
He made a specialty in the latter part of his career of patent cases. He was an 
associate of the writer on a commission ajipointed by the Supreme Court under an 
act of the Legislature to widen the draws of the Charlestown bridges, and was also 
on a commission to construct the State Prison, now the Reformatory, at Concord. 
He died at Dedham, June 21, 1888. 

Francis S. Fiskk was born in Keene, N. H., in 182."), and graduated at Dartmouth 
College in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 184(i, and was admit- 
ted to the New Hampshire bar and settled in Keene. He was commissioned lieu- 
tenant-coUmel of the Second New Hampshire Regiment in 18(il, and afterwards 
while in command of a Pennsylvania regiment, he contracted the army fever and 
resigned in ]8(i2. He resumed practice in Keene, but came to Boston in 1865, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He has been auditor and clerk 
of the LTnited States Bankruptcy Court, and is now, as commissioner of the United 
State, conducting the business of Henry L. Hallett, recently deceased. 

A. W. G.MES Faik«,-\nks was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 23, 1874, and is now 
in Boston. He was jjreviously admitted to the Connecticut bar in New Haven and 
to the New York bar in New York city. In these ]5laces he was admitted as A. W. 
Gates. 

Geokc.e Sii.shki'. Hai.k, son of Salraa and Sarah Kellogg (King) Hale, was born in 
Keene, N. H., September 24, 1825, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850, and is now in active practice in Boston. 
He married, November 25, 18(i8, KUcn, daughter of Colonel John and Ann (1 )ana) 
Sever, of Kingston, Mass., and widow of Rev. Theodore Tibbetts. 

Georck Dwii'.ht Grii.i), son of Moses and Juliette (Ellis) Guild, was born in Ded- 
ham, Mass., March 17, 1825, and fitting for college at the Wrentham Academy, grad- 
uated at Har\-ard in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and in 
Boston in the office of Charles M. Ellis, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 
i), 1848. He married in 1800, Mary M., daughter of ^Villiam Thomas, of Boston, and 
died in Brookline, Mass., May 5, 18G2. 

John Edward Hannigan, son of William and Anne Hannigan, was born in Brigh- 
ton, Mass., September 24, 18(i8, and was educated at the Brighton High and Boston 
Latin Schools. He studid law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in August, 1890. He married Annie M. Judson, May 21, 1891, in Bos. 
ton, and lives in the Brighton District of that city. 

Ai.iiERT Feari.m; Havde.n, son of Edward B. and Anna ((lOodspccd) Haydeu, was 
born ni Plymouth, Mass., May 5, 1865, and was educated at the Plymouth High 
School. He studied law at Boston University and in the office of Gaston & Whitney, 
with which firm he is still connected, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 17, 
1888. He married in Boston. December 23, 1891, Lucy Seaver Parker, and lives in 
the Ro.xbury District of Boston. 



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Aniikhw W.\vi,ani> Hayks, son of Andrew and Caroline (Gowell) Hayes, was born 
in Lebanon, Me., August 9, 1857, and was educated at the East Lebanon Academy 
and at Boston University. He studied law at Boston University and in Quincy, 
Mass., in the office of Judge K. Granville Pratt, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar 
at Dedham in May, 1870. He married in (Juincy in September, 1879, Hattie Louise 
Lincoln, and has his domicile in Revere. 

Georiik Edward Hkad, son of Jo.seph and Elizabeth (Erazicr) Head, was born in 
Boston, February 25, 1793, and after studying at Phillips Academy, at the Boston 
Latin School and with Rev. S. J. Gardiner, D. U., of Boston, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1812. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., with Judges Reeve and Gould, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1815. He was a representative 
from Boston in 183(1-37—17^8, alderman in 184(M7-48, and permanent assessor from 
1848 to 18.5.5. He married, February 2(i, 1815, Hannah, daughter of Grove Catlin, of 
Litchfield, Conn., and died in Boston, July 5, 18()1. 

Chari.ks Edward Hei.i.ikr, son of Walter S. and Eunice (Bi.xby) Hellicr, was born 
in Bangor, Me., July 8, 1864, and was educated at the Bangor High School and at 
Yale, where he graduated in 1886. He attended law lectures at the University of 
Berlin, and after completing his .studies with Robert M. Morse, was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in January, 1889. He married in New Haven, Conn., July 8, 1886, 
Mary L. Harmon, and lives in Boston. 

Samif.i. a. Fuller, jr., son of Samuel A. and Susan E. Fuller, was born in Dres- 
den, Me., February 22, 1859, and was educated at the Pinkerton Seminary, N. H., 
and the Berlin University. He studied law in Salem with Otis P. Lord and Stephen 
B. Ives, jr., and was admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in May, 1883. 

Henry Day was born December 25, 1820, in South Hadley, Mass., and graduated 
at Yale in 1845. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1848. He soon after went to New York and became a partner of Daniel 
Lord, whose daughter he married. He was a member of the Presbyterian Assem- 
bly of St. Louis in 1867, and of Albany in 1868. In 1865 he became a director in the 
Princeton Theological Seminary, and a trustee of the Union Seminary in New York. 
He was the author of " The Lawj'er Abroad, or Observations on the Social and Po- 
litical Condition of Various Countries," and " From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of 
Hercules." He died in New York city, January 9, 1893. 

HoKAi K Green Hi'Tciiins, was born in Bath, N. II.. July20, 1811. and graduated at 
Dartmouth in 183.5. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1839, and prac- 
ticed in Boston, a.ssociated at different times with Theodore Otis and Tolnian Willey. 
He died in the Roxbury Di-itrict of Boston, April 7, 1877. 

Cyrus Woodman, son of Joseph, was bom in Buxton, Me., in 1814, and graduated 
at Bowdoin in 1836. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard and Hulibard & 
Watts, and was admitted tf) the Suffolk bar in July, 1839. He went west as the agent 
of the Boston and Western Land Company, and became a partner of C. C. Washburn 
at Mineral Point, Wis., remaining with him eleven years. He returned to Cambridge 
in 1863, and was for a time an overseer of Bowdoin College. He married in 1842 
Charlotte, daughter of Ephraim Flint, of B.ddwin, Me., and died in Cambridge, 
March 30, 1889. 



4i6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Wii.i.iAM Boi.TON was an attorney in Boston in the last century. He married Fran- 
ces, daughter of Governor William Shirley, and was sent to England in 1760 by the 
Province of Massachusetts Bay to obtain reimbursements for expenses in the capture 
of Louisburg. He was also with Franklin in London in 1774-5. 

S.XMfF.i. Ui'iiAM, a native of Worcester county, graduated at Dartmouth in 1801, was 
admitted to the bar in Worcester county, and settled in Bangor in 1804. In 1806 he 
came to Boston and soon abandoned the law and entered the counting-room of the 
firm of Gassett & Upham. 

Jon Nelso.n was born in Middleboro in 1766, and graduated at Brown University in 
1790. He settled in Castine, Me., in 1793, was a representative from 1801 to 1803, 
and judge of probate from 1804 to 1830. In the latter year he came to Boston, where 
he ])racticcd two years, and returned to Castine in 1888. In 184.5 he moved to Or- 
land. Me., and there died July 2, 1850. 

Hknkv C. HiJiiii.vKi) was born in Boston, and graduated at the Boston University. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1873, and is in active practice in Bos- 
Ion. 

Akmhk E. Jdnks, S(m of L. S. and Sophia E. ((Sould) Jones, was born in Green- 
field, Mass., August 7, 1846, and attended the Boston Latin School, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1867. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and after 
further study with Henry W. Paine, of Boston, was admitted to the SuiTfolk bar Oc- 
tober 18, 1870. He was a member of the Common Council in Cambridge in 1881-83. 
He married, February 14, 1879, Elizabeth B. Almy. 

John Chakm.s Kkn.nf.dv was born in Bedford, X. M., July 7, 1854, and was edu- 
cated at Phillips E.xeter Academy. He studied law at the Boston University and in 
the office of George W. Morse, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in No- 
vember, 1880. He was a member of the city government of Newton, where he lives. 
five years, and was appointed June 12, 1889, justice of the Newton Police Court, 
which office he still holds, with his law olBce in Boston. 

Fred H. Kiddkr, son of Francis H. and Julia T. Kidder, was born in Medford, 
Mass., May 5, 1853, and graduated at Harvard in 1876. He studied law at the Bos- 
ton University and in the office of Thomas L. Wakefield, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He married in Medford, February 9, 1881. 
Carrie Edith Farnsworth, and has his residence in Medford. 

Patrick Bernard Kiernan, son of Peter and Ann Jane Kiernan, was born in Bos- 
ton, March 2, 1851, and was educated at the Boston public schools and at a private 
school in South Reading. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He married 
Catherine Kiernan, of Maiden, and has his home in Chelsea. 

Benjamin Kimhai.i,, son of Otis and Lucy (Savill) Kimball, was born in Boston, No- 
vember 18, 1849, and was educated at the public schools. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School and in the office of Peleg W. Chandler, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 31, 1874. He married in 1880 Helen M. Simmons, and 
lives in Boston. 

D. Frank Ki.mhai.i,, son of Charles and Mary Sibley Kimball, was born in Boston, 
December 4, 1846, and was educated in the schools of Chelsea and under private in- 
struction. He studied law in the office of Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston, and at 



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the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23, 1873. He 
has been a member of the Common Council of Chelsea two years, representative two 
years, and senator two years. He has been connected as counsel in several impor- 
tant cases, among which may be mentioned that of Captain Mosher, charged with 
larceny of the bark Wcslfiii Sfu, and that of the failure of Charles \V. Copeland 
i"t Conijiany. His home is in Chelsea. 

EiiGAK L. KiMiiAi.i., son of Daniel B. and Charlotte C. (Tenny) Kimball, was born 
in Bradford, Mass., December 6, 1844, and was educated at Phillips Andover Acad- 
emy. He studied law with Alfred Kittredge in Haverhill and Lyman Mason in Bos- 
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 29, 1868. He is unmarried, and 
has his domicile in Bradford. 

EiiMi Ni) K[Mi!Ai,i. was bom in Ipswich, and graduated at Har\'ard m 1814. He 
studied law with Asahel Stearns, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1H17. He died in 1873. 

W. Frederick Kimhai.i, son of Charles and Mary F. Kimball, was born in Chelsea, 
Mass.. July 18, 1851, and was educated at the Chelsea High School and at Harvard 
College. He studied law at the Boston University and with Alfred Henienway, of 
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 18, 1878. He has been a coun- 
cilman and alderman in Chelsea, where he resides. He married Hattie T. Nealley, 
of Cambridge, September 6, 1879. 

Geokce H. Kingsiu'RV, son of Henry and Julia Bowene Kingsbm-y, was born in 
Kennebunk, Me., March 4, 1827, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1845. He 
studied law in Kennebunk in the office of Judge Bowene and in Boston in the office of 
Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He has been deputy collector 
of the port at Boston, and collector of internal revenue. He married Marion Win- 
chester, in Boston, December 30, 18.59, and lives in Boston. 

Marsiiai.i. Kittredge Abbott, son of Thomas S. Abbott, of Portland, was born in 
Conway, N. H., Octobers, 1830, and studied law at the Harvard Law School, and 
settled in Boston, from which place he was a representative. He married Hannah 
Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Boston January 11, 18.59. 

CiiARi.Ks Swift Knowles, son of James and Caroline Munroe Knowles was born in 
\'armouth. Ma.ss., and was educated at the Yarmouth and Cambridge High Schools 
and at Harvard. He studied law at the Boston University and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1886. He married at Yarmouth, September 25, 1890, Kate Sears, and 
lives in Boston. 

Warren Ozro Kyi.e, son of Amos M. and Sarah G. (Bacheller) Kyle, was born in 
Lowell, October 30, 1855, and graduated at Amherst College in 1877. He studied law 
at the Boston University and in the office of William (Jaston, of Boston, and J. M. 
Marshall, of Lowell, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar at Cambridge, in Decem- 
ber, 1H79. He married Kllen J. Parsons at Northampton, Mass.. October 24. 1883, 
and has his residence in Brookline. 

James Harris Wolff, son of Abraham and Eliza WollT, was born August 4, 1H40, 
,ind was educated at the Kimball Union Academy and College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic .Arts of New Hampshire. He studied law in the office of Daniel Wheel- 
right Gooch in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the 
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Suffolk lull- J line 2(i, 1875. He married in Boston, January 21, 1880, Mercy A. Bir- 
mingham, and lives in the Brighton District of Boston. 

E/.K.v Wksicin, son of Kzra Weston, was born in Duxbury, Mass., December 2:!, 
1800, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in 1882, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October of that year. He was at one 
time city marshal of Boston. He died in Duxbury unmarried, September 6, 1852. 

Cii.\Ki.Ks M.wo. son of John and Lydia (Laha) Mayo, was born in Brewster, Mass., 
I'ebruary 10. 1809. In 1813 his parents removed to Andover, and he was educated 
in the common schools of that town. At the age of eighteen he began teaching 
school, and taught in Natick and other places. At twenty he went on a fishing voy- 
age to the coast of Labrador, and then studied medicine one summer. In 1831 he 
went on a whaling voyage into the South Atlantic from Fairhaven in the ship Coluin- 
bus, Gustavus A. Bailies, master, sailingjune 1, 1881, andreturning to New Bedford 
in March, 1883, with thirty-five right and three sperm whales, making twenty-two 
hundred barrels of whale oil and two hundred and sixty barrels of sperm oil, and 
twenty thousand pounds of bone. After settling up his voyage he learned and worked 
at the trade of carriage painting in Chatham, Charlestown and Newton, and then, 
c<mcluding to study law, he entered the office of J. P. Bishop, in Medfield, October 1, 
1839. He remained there until April 1, 1840, and then entered the office of Peter S. 
Wheclock, in Roxbury, and afterwards the Harvard Law School, July 2C, 1841. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1842, and .settled in Boston. In 1851 
he was appointed by Governor Boutwell inspector-general of fish, and was a mem- 
ber of the Common Council of Boston in 1854-55. From January 1, 1851, to January 
1, 1850, he was recording secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 
On the 22d of December, 1856, he left Boston with the expressed intention of going 
West. After reaching New York he sailed for Nicaragua, and for a time followed 
Walker, the filibuster, in his expeditions. Afterwards coming North he stopped in 
Kansas during the unsettled affairs of that State, and was appointed school superin- 
tendent in Olathe, and judge of probate, and died at Olathe January 2, 1859. He 
married first at Newton, August 21, 1834, Lucinda Ware, and second, July 6, 1844, 
Lydia Lyneoln Ball, of Northboro'. 

FiiKDKKicK HoiiDs, son of Isaac and Mary (Baldwin) Hobbs, was born in Weston, 
Mass., February 28, 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1817. He studied law with 
Isaac Fiske in Weston, and Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the 
SutTolk bar October 81, 1820. In 1821 he went to Maine to assume at Eastport the 
business of Francis E. Putnam, who was coming to Boston. (.)n his way he was ad- 
milted to the Maine bar at Portland in July, 1821. In 1880 he removed frofii East- 
]i(irt to Bangor, where he died October 10, 1854. He married at Bangor, July 10, 
1828, Mary Jane, daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Harrod) Coombs. 

Francis E. Putnam is thought by the writer to have come to Boston from East- 
port, Me., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 13, 1819. 

SiKi'iii'..N Fai.ks, son of Stephen and Hannah (Smith) Fales, was born in Boston, 
May 3, 1789, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He was tutor two years at Bowdoin 
College, and the writer is not certain that he ever practiced at the Suffolk bar. He 
studied law with Jeremiah Mason; went to Cincinnati in 1819, to Dayton in 1821, and 
in 1831 back to Cincinnati, where he died September 8. 1854. 





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George Alexander Otis, son of George Alexander Otis, was born in Boston in 
1804. and graduated at Harvard in 1821. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
May, lS2(i. He married Anna M. Pickman, and died in 1831. He was a scholar of 
repute and the translator of Botta's History. 

EuMi .M) Bi RKK. Oils, brother <if the above, was born in Boston, March 18, 1822, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1:5, 
1847, and died in Boston in 1884. 

Georce Ni.\on Briggs, son of Allen and Mary (Brown) Briggs, was born in Adams, 
Mass.. April 12, 179(!. After learning the hatter's trade, he studied law at Adams and 
was admitted to the Berkshire bar in October, 1818. He practiced in Adams, Lanes- 
boro' and Pittsfield; was register of deeds from 1824 to 1881; member of Congress 
from 18:}] to 1843, and governor of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1850 inclusive, and 
judge of the Common Pleas Court from 18r)4 to ISoO, when the court was abolished. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard, Williams and Amherst. His death, 
which occurred at Pittsfield, September 12, 1861, was occasioned by the accidental 
discharge of a gun. 

Wii,i.i.\M Croswkli. Tardei.i., son of John P. Tarbell, graduated at Harvard in 187'.> 
and was an attorney in Boston in 1885, associated in business with Freeman Hunt. 
He died in Boston, December 6, 1886. 

George \V. Adams was a native of Cambridge. He studied law with Timothy Fuller, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1828. He was a good classical 
scholar, and as remembered by the writer in 1850, devoted much of his time to the 
study of Shakespeare and other poets. He has been dead many years. 

TiioMi'soN Mii.i.KR, son of Seth Miller, of Middleboro', was an attorney at the Suf- 
folk bar in 1809, and was living in Boston in 1849. He died unmarried. 

Amos B. Merrii.i. was born in Lyman, X. H., March 6, 1815, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in February, 1841. He married a daughter of Rev. John Goldsbury, 
of Hardwick, Mass., and died in Boston, August 30, 1872. 

Anms Merrii.i., brother of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8, 
1844. He was associated with Rufus Choate in the defence of Albert J. Tirrell, 
charged with murder. The ground taken by the counsel, that the homicide was 
committed while the defendant was in a state of somnambulism, makes the record of 
the trial a remarkable and interesting one. Mr. Merrill went from Boston to Cali- 
fornia. 

Alfred Dii'ont Chandler, son of Theophilus and Elizabeth Julia (Schlatter) 
Chandler, was born in Boston, May 18, 1847. William Schlatter, the father of his 
mother, was an eminent merchant in Philadelphia in the early part of the centurv, 
while on his father's side he is descended in the eighth generation from Edmund 
Chandler, who settled in Duxbury in 1633. When a year old his parents removed to 
Brookline, where he now resides, and he received his early education m the public 
--chools of that town. He graduated at Harvard in 1868, and studied law in the 
offices of his father and of Abbot & Jones and of Richard H. Dana in Boston, and 
of Porter, Lowrey & Soren in Xew York city. He was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar at Cambridge, December 13, 1809, on examination after about eighteen months" 
preparation, and to the Supreme Court of the United States April 17, 1877. In pur- 



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suing his profession his preference has been for chamber practice, and his attention 
has been given chiefiy to corporation law, though at times directed to admiralty, 
tariff, will and patent cases. He has aided in perfecting inventions and exploiting 
patents for patentees, and in arguing corj^oration receivership questions in the 
United .States Courts. He drafted the bill for the creation of national savings banks, 
offered by Mr. Windom in the United States Senate in 1880, and his arguments be- 
fore the Senate Finance Committee on the subject of these banks have been published. 
He advocated, in 1882, before a committee of the Massachusetts General Court, 
the creation of a tribunal to decide that the necessity for a railroad exists before 
property can be taken for its construction, and to his efforts the act of 1882 on that 
subject is largely due. As a resident of Brookline he has been one of its most active 
and progressive citizens. The construction of the Riverdale Park, between Brook - 
line and Boston, is due mainly to his skill and energy in surmounting legal and 
practical difficulties. The financial methods of the town, now perfected, were 
modeled and established in accordance with plans suggested and urged by him. He 
was chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, Board of Health, 
and Overseers of the Poor in 1884-8.5-80, and was a trustee of the Public Library in 
1874-7.5-76. It may be further mentioned that he was one of the first to import and 
encourage the use of bicycles in America, and was sustained by the United States 
Court, June 28, 1877, in his appeal to have bicycles subject to the duty on carriages, 
and to all laws relating to the same. He is the author of a " Bicycle Tour in Eng- 
land and Wales," published in Boston and London in 1881. Though holding no 
political office outside of his own town, he has been prominent in social organizations, 
having served during the last year as president of the Brookline Republican Club, 
composed of business and professional men of that town. He married in Brookline, 
December 27, 1882, Mary Merrill, daughter of Ilonry V. and Mary \V. (Pierce) Poor, 
and is the father of four children. 

Stei'Iien Bkadshavv Ives, son of Stephen B. Ives, was born in Salem, March it, 
1827, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He taught school in Xewbury one season 
and afterwards had charge as principal of one of the Salem (irammar Schools. He 
studied law in the office of Northend & Choate in Salem, and was admitted to the 
Essex bar in March, 1851. For a year or two he was clerk of the Salem Police Court, 
and in 18.53 began practice. After some years' practice in Salem, his enlarging busi- 
ness demanded a wider field, and as early as 1867 his name appears on the roll of 
Boston lawyers. He died at Salem, February 8, 1884. 

Otis Piin.i.M's Lord, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Kimball) Lord was born in Ips- 
wich, July 11, 1812, and was educated at Dummer Academy and at Amherst College, 
where he graduated in 18;i2. He studied law with Oliver B. Morris, judge of pro- 
bate in Hampden county, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836. He was 
admitted to the Essex bar in Salem in December, 1835, and settled in Ipswich, his native 
town. In 1844 he removed to Salem, where he continued until death. He was a 
representative in 1847-48-52-5iJ-S4, and in the last year he was speaker. In 184!) he 
was a State senator, and in 1853 a member of the Constitutional Convention. In 1859, 
upon the organization of the Superior Court, he was appointed one of the judges and 
held that position until December 21, 187.5, when he was appointed an associate jus- 
tice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He resigned his seat on the bench, December 8. 
1882, and died in .Salem, March 13, 1884. 



Biographical register. 421 

David Cimmins, son of David and Mehitabel (Cave) Cummins, was born in Tops- 
field, Aiij^ust 14, ITS."), and j^aduated at Dartmouth in ISOIi. He studied law with 
Samuel Futnam in Salem, aud was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem in September, 
1H09. He began practice in Salem, but afterwards removed to Springfield and 
finally to Dorchester. He was appointed justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 
1828 and resigned in 1844. He married first, August 13, 1812, Sally, daughter of 
Daniel and Sarah (Peabody) Porter, of Topsfield, and secund, Catherine, daughter of 
Thomas Kittredge, of Andover, and died in Dorchester, March 30, IH.i."). 

WiLLi.v.M C. E.NDiLorr, jr., s<m of William Crowninshield and Ellen (Peabody) 
Endicott, was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1883. He was admitted 
to the Essex bar in Salem in 1886, and has an office in Boston. 

SiErHEN HooPF.R, son of Stephen, a merchant of Newburyport, was born in that 
town in 1785, and graduated at Har\-ard in 1808. He was admitted to the Esse.x bar 
in 1810, and began practice in his native town. He was a representative in 1810, 
and a senator in 181G. In 1818 he removed to Boston, where he practiced his 
profession, and was for several years an alderman, and died in Boston in 182."). 

John William Bacon was born in Natick, Mass., in 1818, and gi-aduated at Har- 
vard in 1843. After leaving college he taught for a time in the Boston High School, 
and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1846. H practiced law in Natick fourteen 
years, and from 18.")9 to 1862 was a member of the State Senate. Ujjon the establish- 
ment of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston in 1866, he was appointed July 2 
of that year its chief justice, and in 1871 was appointed an associate justice of the 
Superior Court. He died while holding court at Taunton, March 21, 1888. 

Samuel De.xter Ward, son of Chief Justice Artemas and Maria (Dexter) Ward, 
was bom in Weston, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 6, 1813. 
He continued in practice in Boston until his death. 

Fra.nklin Gof>DRiiK;E Fessenden was born in Fitchburg, Ma.ss., in 1849, and studied 
law in Greenfield, Mass., and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, in 
which year he was admitted to the bar in Worcester county. He was appointed in 
1891 an as.sociate justice of the Superior Court, and is now on the bench. 

John Hoi-kins was born in Gloucester, England, in 1840, and graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1864, and practiced 
in Worcester and Millbury until his appointment in 1891 to the Superior Court 
bench. 

IJaniei. Webster Bond was practicing law in Northampton, Ma.ss., when he was 
appointed in 1890 an associate judge of the Superior Covirt. He is now on the bench. 

Francis Henshaw Dewey was bom in Williamstown, Mass., in 1821, and grad- 
uated at AVilliams College in 1840. He was admitted to the Worcester bar and 
practiced in Worcester until 1869, when he was appointed as.sociate justice of the 
Superior Court. He resigned in 1881, and died in 1887. 

David Aiken was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1856, and re- 
mained on the bench until the court was abolished in 1859. He is now in practice in 
Greenfield. 

Henry Walker ^isiior, of Berkshire county, was appointed associate justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas in 1851, and remained on the bench until the court was abol- 
ished in 1859. He died in 1871. 



422 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Sami;ki. Hdwk was appointed an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 
1821, and died in 1828 while on the bench. 

S()i.()Mf)N Strung, son of Judj^e Simeon Strong, was born in Amherst in 1*80, and 
graduated at Williams College. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced 
in Royalston, Athol, Westminster, and Leominster. He was a State representative 
and served two terms in Congress. He was appointed judge of the Circuit Court of 
Common Pleas in 1818 and in 1821 a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He re- 
signed in 1842, and died in Leominster in 1850. 

J.'VMKs M.MiisoN MoKiciN was practicing law in Fall River when he was appointed in 
18i)0 a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. He is now on the bench. 

DwKJHT FosrKR was born in AVorcester in 1828, and graduated at Yale College in 
1848. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1849, and practiced in Worcester and 
Boston. He was attorney-general of the State from 1861 to 1864, and judge of the 
Supreme Court from 1866 until his resignatiim in 1869. He died in 1884. 

Bi-.Nj.\MiN Fu.xNKi.iN TiioM.vs was born in Boston, February 12, 1813, and graduated 
at Brown University in 1830. He was a grandson of Tsaiah Thomas, well known 
among the ])rinters of Massachusetts. He studied law in Worcester, and was ad- 
mitted to the Worcester bar in 1834. He was a representative from Worcester in 
1842, and judge of probate for Worcester county from 1844 to 1848. In ISHS he was 
appointed associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, remaining on the bench 
until his resignation in 18.19. He then removed to Boston and there resumed the 
practice of his profession. He was in Congress from 1861 to 1863, and in 1868 was 
nominated by the governor to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court, but 
failed to be confirmed by the Council. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown 
University in 1853, and from Harvard in 1854. He died September 27, 1878. 

N.\rii.\NiF.i. Wood was born in Holden, Mass., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1821, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 1827. He settled in Fitch- 
burg, and died in 1876. 

Fr.\.\(Ts WiLLi.vM Si'KAc.i'E, SOU of Caleb H. and Isabel A. Sprague, was born in 
Barnstable, Mass., October 14, 1862, and was educated at the Boston English High 
School. He studied law at the Boston University, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar July 21, 1885. He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, his place 
of residence, in 1888-89. He married in Augusta, Me., June 29, 1887, Sarah W. 
Chick. 

Philip Howes Sk.aks, son of John and Mercy (Howes) Sears, was born in Brewster, 
Mass., December 30, 1822, and is descended from Richard Sears, (me of the founders 
of the town of Yarmouth in 1639. He traces his indirect descent also from William 
Brewster and John Howland, of the Mayflo7uer, from Thomas Prince, governor of 
Plymouth Colony: Constant Southworth, treasurer of that colony; Rev. John Mayo, 
first minister of Yarmouth and minister of the second church in Boston ; and Thomas 
Howes, one of the original grantees of the township of Yarmouth. The original 
homestead and land grant of Richard Sears, situated in East Dennis and West Brews- 
ter, formerly part of Yarmouth, have come to him by inheritance, and are now in his 
possession. Mr. Sears fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1849, and 



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was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in October of that year. While in the law school 

he was tutor of Mathematics in the University. After a visit to Europe he began 
practice in Boston in 1851, as a partner of Henry A. Scudder, and continued with him 
until the ajipointment of Mr. Scudder to the bench of the Superior Court in 1S6!). He 
was for a luiniber of years solicitor of the Old Colony Railroad Company, and en- 
joyed a large general practice. He was a rei>rescntative from Boston in ISfil and 
aided efHcicntly in the measure for sending delegates to the peace convention in Wash- 
ington, and in that for arming and equipping the State militia for immediate service. 
In 1880 he retired from active practice, having some years previously suffered from 
an injury to his eyes, which rendered that step necessary. Since his retirement he 
has devoted his time chiefly to literary pursuits and foreign travel. In five visits to 
Europe he has visited every European country except Portugal, and the winter of 
1891-92 he passed in Egypt. He delivered the historical address at the dedication of 
the new academic hall of Phillips Andover Academy in 1867, and the quarter mil- 
lenial address at the celebration of the settlement of Yarmouth, Septembers, 1889. 
He was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and of the Board of Trustees of 
the Public Library in 18.')9, a representative in 1800-01, and an overseer of Harvard 
University from 1800 to 1800. He is a member of the American Archseological In- 
stitute, and takes a deep interest in the aims and purposes of that organization. He 
married, April 23, 1801, Sarah Pratt, a daughter of George W. Lyman, of Boston, and 
has his winter residence in that city, with a summer residence in Waltham. 

John Jackson RfssELL, son of John and Deborah (Spooner) Russell, was born in 
Plymouth, Mass. , July 27, 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He studied law 
in Plymouth in the office of Jacob H. Loud and in Boston in the office of Allen Crocker 
Spooner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1848. While studying law 
he taught school in Barnstable for a time, and made a visit to Europe. He began 
practice in Boston, but in 18.50 removed to Plymouth, and continued practice in that 
town until his occupation as assistant treasurer of the Plymouth Savings Bank com- 
pelled him to retire from the profession. In 1872, on the death of Allen Danforth, 
the treasurer of that institution, he was appointed to succeed him, and he still holds 
that office. He married, November 14, 1835, Mary A., daughter of Allen Danforth 
above mentioned. 

High Montgomery was born in Middleboro', Mass., in that part of the town now 
within the limits of Lakeville, and graduated at Brown University m 1825. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1830 and settled in Boston. He was a trustee with Alpheus 
Hardy and Horatio Harris of the estate of Joshua Sears for the benefit of J. Mont- 
gomer)' Sears, now living in Boston, until he came of age. He died in Boston since 
1880. 

Edward Pickering was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in (October, 1828. He died in 1870. 

Edward Bi.ake was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. He studied 
law with Lemuel Shaw, and was admitted to. the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was presi. 
dent of the Boston Common Council in 1843. He died in 1873. 

J0N.VI HAN Chapman was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1825. He 
studied law at the law school in Northampton and in the office of Lemuel Shaw, of 
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He was mavor of Boston in 
1840-41-43, and died in 1848. 



424 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Ellis Gkav Lokinc was born in Boston in 1800, and after studying at the Harvard 
Law School, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. He was intimately connected 
with the anti-slavery movement, and died in Boston, May 24, 1852. 

W.xsiiiNcioN P. Gkkc.c was born in Boston in 1802, and admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1829. In 1880 he was chosen a member of the Boston Common Council and served 
two years. In 184;i he was chosen clerk of the council, and continued in oflice until 
his resignatiim in 188."). He was the third clerk of the council since the incorporation 
of the city in 1822, having been preceded by Thomas Clark and Richard G. Waitt. 
He died in Milton, March 7, 1892. 

Richard Rohi.ns, son of Jonathan and Frances (Crafts) Robins, was born in Boston 
in March, 1807, and graduated at Harvard in 1826. He studied law at the North- 
amiJton Law School and in the office of Lemuel Shaw in Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He was associated for a time with Willard Phillips. He 
married Susan Parkman, daughter of Edward Blake, of Boston, and died on a voy- 
age from Fayal, July 11, 18.j2. 

H. (lAKDiNKR GoKiiAM was born in Boston and studied law with Willard Phillips. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. 

Samikl H. Wai.lev, son of Samuel H. Walley, was born in Boston and graduated 
at Harvard in 1820. He studied law in Boston with Samuel Hubbard, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. He w-as speaker of the House of Representatives 
of Massachusetts in 1844-45-4(i, and served one or more terms in Congress. He died 
in 1877. 

CJi-oRCK H. WmiMAN was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. He- 
studied law with Benjamin Whitman and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lS;il. 
He died in 1890. 

John Codman was born in New York, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 182^. 
studied law with Benjamin Merrill and Leverett Saltonstall, and was admitted to 
the Essex bar in 1830. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1879. 

Grknvii.lk T. WiNiHROi' was born in Boston and graduated at Columbia College 
in 1827. He studied law with Joseph Heard and William C. Aylwin, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 18:il. 

Arnold Francis Wklles was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1827. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1830, and died in 1844. 

Framis Cai.kh Ldrinc was Viorn in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1828. He 
studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. 
He died in 1874. 

Samuel King Wii.i.ia.ms, son of George Williams, was born in Raynham, Mass., 
November 17, 1785, and graduated at Brown University in 1804. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1807. He married Eliza Winslow, daughter of Kilborn and 
Betsey (Winslow) Whitman, in Pembroke, Mass., October 27, 1817, and died in 
Boston, November 30, 1874. 

Henry J. Sargent was born in Boston, and after admission to the bar became a 
merchant. 

Thomas Power graduated at Brown in 1808 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1813. He was many years the clerk of the Boston Police Court, and died in 18(i8. 




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Hdkaik) BitJKi.iiw was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1S0!(. 
He studied law with Loamnii Haldwin and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1813. 
He died in 1S24. 

Wii 1 lAM Lrrn.K, jr., son of William Little, was born in Boston and graduated at 
Harvard in lyoi). He studied law with Timothy Bigelow, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1814. He died in 1833. 

Wii.i.iAM Gai.k was born in Waltham, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He 
studied law with George Blake, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He 
died in 183!). 

Piii.NKAs B1.AIK studied law with E. P. Ashmun, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1810. 

David SionnAKn Grkenoicii was born in Ro.xbury, and graduated at Harvard in 
1833. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1836. He died in 1877. 

William Deiion was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1833. He 
studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 
1836. He died in 187.5. 

Eben S.mith, jr., son of Eben Smith, was born in Boston and graduated at Brown 
University in 1830. He studied law with Richard Fletcher and Rufus Choatc, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. He died in 18r)(i. 

George Sparhawk was born in Brighton and graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1836. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1836, and died in 1879. 

Francis Josiaii Humphrey was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. 
I !e graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1836 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in August of that year. He died in 1883. 

George Euwaru Winthrop was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 182o. 
He studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1829. 
He died in 1875. 

(). W. WrniiNGTON was born in Boston and gratluatcd at the University of Ver- 
mont in 1829. He studied law with Willard Phillijis and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1835. He died in 1853. 

George Barstow was born in Haverhill, N. H., and studied law with William J. 
Hubbard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838. 

HiRAM Wellington was born in Lexington, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 
18:14. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1838 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1890. 

Charles Henry Parker, son of Samuel Dunn and Eliza (Mason) Parker, was born 
in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He studied law with his father, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1838. He is now treasurer of the Suffolk 
Savings Bank. 

Harrison Gray Oris, jr., son of Harrison Gray Otis, was born in Boston, August 
7, 1792, and graduated at Harvard in 1811. He studied law with his father, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1814. He married Eliza Henderson, daughter of Will- 
iam H. Boardnian, of Boston, and died in Springfield, January 3, 1827. 
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426 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

John Richardson Adan graduated at Harvard in IHliJ. He studied law with Will- 
iam Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1816. He died in 1849. 

John Gray RonicRs was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He 
studied law with William Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 
1817. He was appointed, August 10, IHHl, an associate judge of the Boston Police 
Court, and remained on the bench until the court was abolished by an act passed May 
29, 1H(!fi. He died in 1875. 

Wn.i.iAM HicKi.iNG PkescoT)', son of Judge William and Catharine (Greene) Pres- 
cott, was born in Salem. May 4, 179(i, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. He studied 
law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1818. His contributions 
to American literature are too well known to be related here. They may be consid- 
ered due to an injury to his eyes while in college, which prevented his pursuit of the 
legal profession, in which he would have acciuired lesser honors, and his country 
lost at least a part of its reputation for a high standard of education and culture. He 
received a degree of LL.D. from Columbia College in 1840, from Harvard in 1843, and 
from Oxford, England, in 1850. He married in May, 1820, Susan Amory, and died in 
1859. 

William H. Ei.iot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1815. 
He studied law with William Prescott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 
;51, 1818. He married Margaret, daughter of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Brad- 
ford, and died in 1831. 

John Brazer Davis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1SI5, and 
was a tutor in the college after his graduation. He studied law with William Pres- 
cott, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1821. He died in 1832. 

Wi I.I.I AM Augustus Warner was born in Hardwick, Mass., and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1815. He studied law with Peter O. Thachcr, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 26, 1818. He died in 1830. 

John T. Winthrop was born in Boston, and studied law with William Prescott. 
He was admitted to the bar September 9, 1818. 

Wii.i.iAM Joseph Hukbard was born in New York, and graduated at Yale in 1820. 
He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 
20, 1823. He was many years associated with Francis O. Watts. He died in 1864. 

Wn.MAM Howard Gardiner was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1816. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar Oc- 
tober 11, 1819. He married a daughter of Col. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Bos- 
ton, and died in 18,82. 

lIiiKAiio SiiiiM KV was born in Pepperell, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1828. 
He studied law with Richard Fletcher, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oc- 
tober, 1831. He died in 1872. 

AuRKi.ius IX Parker was born in Princeton, Mass., and graduated at Vale in 1826. 
He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and with Samuel Hubbard in 
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 18T5. 

Joseph Lewis Stackpole was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1824. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1828, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in January, 1830. He died in 1847. 



Biographical register. 42^ 

Charles Lowell Hancock was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1829. 
He studied law with Franklin Dexter, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 
•,>(), 1832. He died in 1890. 

Horace Gleason was born in Petersliam, Mass., in 1802, and graduated at Williams 
College in 1828. He studied law witli Bradford Sumner, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in April, 1832. He died in 1877. 

Benjami.n Halsey Andrews was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the Middle- 
sex bar in the same year. 

George William Pimi.lii's, son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston, and the 
the brother of Wendell Phillips, was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 
1S29. He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and in the office of 
Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the bar at Cambridge in October, 
1834. 

Tikjmas l)\vii;iir was born in Springfield, and graduated at Harvard iu 1827. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar iu Cambridge 
in December, 1832. He died in 1807. 

Patrick Riley was born in Boston, and studied law with Andrew Dunlap. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 2, 1836. 

JosEi'H Jenkins, jr., son of Joseph Jenkins, was born in Boston, and graduated at 
Yale in 1828. He studied law with Samuel Hubbard, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in April, 1833. He died in 1843. 

John Pickerinc, jr., son of John Pickering, was born in Salem, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1830. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1834. He died in 1882. 

Wii.LiA.M John Alden Bradeord, son of Alden and Margaret (Stevenson) Bradford, 
was born in Wiscasset, Me., in 1797, and graduated at Harvard in 1810. He studied 
law with James Savage, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. 

Oliver Wii.i.ia.m Bocrn Peabody was born in Exeter, N. H., July 9, 1799, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1822, 
and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He settled in Exeter, and removed 
to Boston in 1830. From 1836 to 1842 he was register of probate in Suffolk county, 
and in 1842 became professor of English literature in Jeffer.son College, Louisiana. 
He returned to Boston in 184.i, and was licensed to preach by the Unitarian Associ- 
ation. He was settled as minister in Burlington, Vt., and there died July 5, 1848. i 

WiLLiA.M RouNsviLLE PiERCE Washhitrn was bom in Middleboro', Mass., and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1816. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and 
was admitted to the bar in the same year. He died in 1870. 

Samuel Edmund Sewali. was bom in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1817. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar March 5, 1823. He died in 1888. 

Henry Hugle Hugceford was born in Boston, and graduated at Har\-ard in 1817. 
He studied law with Lemuel Shaw and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1820. He 
died in 1841. 



428 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Jciii.N EvKKF.TT was bom in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He studied 
law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1825. He 
died in 1826. 

Gkorgk Hknry Sneli.ing was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1819. 
He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
May 12, lS2."i. He was living in 1890. 

Wii.i,i.\M Br..\I)I.icv Dorr was born in Ro.^bury, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1824, and died in 1875. 

Edward Grkki.v Lori.ng was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1821. 
He studied law with Charles G. Loring, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1824. He was appointed, December 17, 1847, judge of probate for Suffolk 
county, and in 1858 was removed by address, as is explained in the introductory 
chapter of this volume. He was afterwards appointed chief justice of the United 
States Court of Claims. He died at Winthrop, Mass., June 19, 1890. 

Edward Jackson Lowei.i. was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1822. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1825 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in October of that year. He died in 1830. 

Frederick Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 9, 1838. 

Theodore Otis was born in Cambridge, and graduated at Union College in 1834. 
He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1838. 
He resided in Roxbury, of which city he was mayor in 1859-60. He was associated 
in business for a time in Boston with Horace G. Hutchins. 

Gei>rge F. Homer was born in Boston and graduated at Amherst in 1836. He 
studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 11, 1839. 
He died in 1876. 

Elijah Dwight Williams graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 7, 1839. He died in 1842. 

Charles Maso.n graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law School in 

1839. He also studied with Hubbard & \Vatts in Boston, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in September, 1839. While studying law he was tutor in Latin at Har- 
vard. He settled in Fitchburg, and was living in 1890. 

William Poktek Jarvis was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1833. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7, 1840, and died in 1880. 

George Cahot, son of Henry and Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot, was born in Boston 
and graduated at Harvard in 1835. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1840, 
and died in 1850. 

George Griggs was born in Brooklinc, and graduated at Brown University in 1837 
and at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 29, 

1840, and died in 1888. 

\. S. Putnam was born in Hartford, and graduted at Yale in 1837. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840. 

Edward Si'RAgie Rand was born in Newburyport, and graduated at Harvard in 
1828 and at the Harvard Law School in 1831. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1831, and settled in Boston, where he ])racticed chiefly as a conveyancer. 



niOGRAPHICAT. RRGISTER. 429 

He was lost on the steamer City of Columbus, wrecked in \'ineyartl Sound in Janu- 
ary, 1884. 

EiiwAKD Si'RAci'K Ra.N1>, jr., son of the above, was \v.<xn in Boston, October 20, 
1834, and graduated at Harvard in 18").!. He graduated from the Harvard Law 
School in 18.57, and was admitted to the SulTolk bar on the 4th of May in that year. 
He is the author of "Life Memories and other Poems," •' Flowers from the Parlor and 
• iarden," "Garden Flowers — How to Cultivate Them," and a volume on greenhouse 
plants and orchids. 

Pktf.r S. Wheki.ock was born in Vermont, and was admitted to the bar and prac- 
ticed there until 1838, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 16>in that year. 

Edwaki) Hi rciii.Nso.N Robhins, born in Milton, Mass., February 19, IT.'iS, graduated 
at Harvard in 1775. He studied law in Bridgewater with Oakes Ames, and is men- 
tioned as a member of the Suffolk bar in 1780. He was speaker of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives from 1793 to 1802, lieutenant-governor for 1803 to 180(), 
and judge of probate in Norfolk county from 1814 luitil his death, December 29, 1829. 
The town of Robbinston in Maine received its name from him. He owned large 
tracts of land in Maine, and the columns in front of the State House in Boston and 
in its Doric Hall were made from trees cut on his land for the purp<)se. The trees 
were cut by Thomas Vose, of Robbinston, near West Maguerrawock Lake, in town- 
ship No. 5, now Calais. 

George Alexander Otis was born August 29. 17S1, and married Lucinda, daugh- 
ter of Barney Smith. He was the translator of Botta's History of the American War 
of Independence. 

Bar.sev Otis, son of the above, was born in Boston in 1808, and was a member of 
the Suffolk bar. He died in 1834. 

Sawi'el Dunn Parker, son of Bishop Samuel and Anne (Cutler) Parker, was born 
in Boston in 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He studied law with Rufus 
G. Amory, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1803. He was a member 
of the Senate two years, and on the ■')th of July, 1830, was appointed county attorney 
for Suffolk county, holding that office until his resignation in February. 1832. He 
married Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Mason, and died in Boston, July 3, 1873. ^ 

James Cisiiixg Merrii.i., jr., son of Judge James Cushing Merrill, was born in Bos- 
ton, and graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 6, 1848. He died in 18C9. 

John Goi.dsiu rv, son of Rev. John Goldsbury, was lx)rn in Hardwick, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 10, 184G, 
and practiced as a conveyancer. He died in 1878. 

James Egan was born in Ireland, and came to America when a boy and lived in 
Lowell. By his own efforts he secured an education and studied law. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1847, and settled in Boston. He was the first Irish born law- 
yer at the Suffolk bar, and was a man of ability and scholarship. He died unmar- 
ried in 1872. 

Edward Yovng was born in Boston of poor Irish parents, but obtained a good 
education at the public schools. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 19, 



430 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

1845, and aside from his position at the bar won an enviable rank among men of 
learning and Lulture. The writer knew both him and Mr. Egan, and can attest the 
enthusiasm with which they explored the fountains of knowledge. He died in 18o'.). 

Ai.KXANDKK Strom; Wiiekikk, son of Asa and Emily (Strong) Wheeler, was born 
in Wayland, Mass., August 7, 1820, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840. 
He studied law at the Harvard T^aw School and in the ottice of John (i. Britton, of 
Troy, N. Y. . and Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
January 1, 1844. Since that date he has been associated in business with his college 
classmate, Henry Clinton Hutchin.s. He has been many years a director and the at- 
torney of the Second National Bank of Boston, is director of the Dwelling House 
Insurance Company, and of several manufacturing companies, president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Congregational Society, president of the Boston Farm School, member 
of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of 
other charitable and educational associations. He married in Charlestown, January 
6, 1848, Augusta Hurd, and lives in Boston. 

CiiARi.KS T. Perki.ns, son of Charles Anderson Simeon and Ann Eliza (Brown) 
Perkins, was born in Plymouth, Mass., May 6, 1855, and was educated in the public 
schools. He studied law in the Boston University Law School and in the office of 
Albert Mason, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 18T7. He 
is a special justice of the Police Court in Brookline, where he has his residence. He 
married CjTithia L. Hopkinson, of Boston, at lirookline. May 28, 187!). 

Georgk W. Morse was born in Lodi, Athens county, ()., August 24, 1845. His 
father, Peter Morse, born in 1800, at Chester, N. II., and for nearly forty years a 
follower of the sea, was the captain for a long time of a Mediterranean trading ves- 
sel, and later of an East Indiaman owned by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. Captain 
Morse was noted as a man of great firmness and decision. On one of his trips from 
the East Indies, while he was acting as chief mate, the ship took aboard at the Cape 
of Good Hope a young missionary who afterwards became the celebrated President 
P'inney of Oberlin College. The vessel, soon after leaving the Cape, encountered a 
cyclone, and the captam, while in a drunken condition, gave orders that if carried 
out would probably have resulted in the loss of the ship. Mr. Morse directed the 
sailors not to obey the orders, and an altercation between himself and the captain 
resulted in his placing the captain in irons and bnnging him to Boston. A complaint 
was about to be made against him on his arrival in port for mutiny on the high seas. 
The young missionary, Mr. Finney, interfered, however, with the result that the 
captain was relieved of his command and Mr. Morse was promoted to his place. Mr. 
Kinney, who was about to enter an educational career, stated to Captain Morse that 
he felt that he owed his life to him, and rec|uested that if he ever had a son while he 
was in a position to receive him, he would send him to his school or college, and as 
will be seen hereafter in this narrative, this request was acceded to. Mr. Morse is 
descended from Anthony Morse, who came from Marlboro', England, and settled in 
Newbury, Mass., about 1635. The site of the original Morse mansion is still called 
the " Morse Field," adjacent to the farm of Michael Little. Rev. Jedediah Morse, 
the geographer, and his son Professor Samuel Finlay B. Morse, the inventor of the 
electric telegraph, were cousins respectively in the second and third generation of 
-Captain Peter Morse. The mother of Mr. Morse was Mary E. Randall, who was 





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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 431 

born in Dorchester, Mass. Ilcr mother was Sarah Page, a descendant of Nathaniel 
Page, who settled in Bedford, Mass., in l(iH8, and whose original residence, known 
as the " Page Place," is still owned by the family. Ensign Page of this family 
carried the colors at the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Cajitain Page com- 
manded a company at Bunker Hill. Mrs. Ruhamah Lane, the great-aunt of Mr. 
Morse, and the mother of Jonathan A. Lane, of Boston, who died some years since 
at the age of ninety-five, used to tell the story of her mother's recollection of the 
sharp rap made upon her father's door in the early morning of April 19, 177."), by 
Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride. An old flag dating back of the Revolu- 
tion which was carried in the earlier wars, called " The Flag of the Three Counties," 
is now in the possession of the Bedford Public Library. It contains a mailed arm 
and hand with a sword, and is the coat of arms of- the present Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, except that the hand is set sidewise on the banner instead of jjerpen- 
dicularly. This banner was in the Page house for a century, and had originally a 
gilt fringe, which Ruhamah Page took "when a young lady for the trimming of a 
dress. Mrs. Morse was a college graduate and the recipient of a degree from a 
medical university. The parents of Mr. Morse emigrated in 1838 to the Ohio Valley, 
where he was born, and for nine years his father was the postmaster of Lodi. Twice 
each week the mail was carried to Pomeroy, a distance! of seventeen miles over rough 
country roads, and transportation was done in the saddle. It was the habit of young 
.Morse to start at three o'clock in the morning, on horseback with the mail for Pom- 
eroy, and bring the return mail, attending school at nine o'clock, after riding thirty- 
four miles in the saddle. In IS.")."), at the age of ten, he was placed under the charge 
of President P'inney, at the preparatory school of Oberlin College, but at the end of 
two years he came to Massachusetts with his parents and attended school at Haver- 
hill and Andover, and entered Chester Academy in New Hampshire, where he 
remained until the spring of 1861. On the 11th of May in that year, in his six- 
teenth year, he enlisted as a private in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of In- 
fantry, the first regiment from Massachusetts in the field, for three years' service. 
At the end of his term he re-enlisted in the field for the war, serving continuously in 
this regiment from May, 18()1, to July, 18().5, and of the original thousand men who 
left Massachusetts in 1861, he was one of less than one hundred who returned with 
the regiment in 186.1. The regiment during the war received seventeen hundred 
recruits, making in all twenty-seven hundred men on its list," and of this number only 
about four hundred returned with it at the end of the war. The Second Regiinent 
covered the retreat of the army of General Banks in the Shenandoah campaign of 
1.S62, and those who remained alive of the rear guard on skirmish line in this retreat 
were captured, including Mr. Morse. After confinement four months at Belle Isle 
and in other prisons, he was exchanged and returned immediately to service. With 
the exception of the campaign carried on during his absence as a prisoner, he was in 
every campaign and battle participated in by his regiment during the war. He was 
promoted to sergeant and first sergeant, and at the close of the war was first lieu- 
tenant commanding Company I, at the age of nineteen years. This company, 
commanded at first by Adin Ballou L^nderwood, afterwards General Underwood, 
distinguished itself in defence of a bridge against Jackson's army in the Banks 
retreat. Mr. Morse was the only original member of Company H of the Second 
Regiment who ever received a commission, although the youngest in the regiment 



432 HISTORY OF THE BEACH AND BAR. 

by two years. The regiment served in all the important campaigns of the Army of 
the Potomac until September, 1863. At Cedar Mountain a third of the regiment fell 
together with more than half of its officers; at Antietam and Chancellorsville it 
suffered severely, and at Gettysburg half of the regiment fell in less than ten minutes 
of contest in carrying the Confederate works at the base of Culjj's Hill, on the right 
near Spanglor's Spring, over which the regiment charged. The officers of this 
regiment erected the first regimental monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and 
when the monument was proposed it was suggested that a boulder, if one could be 
found between the lines, would be an appropriate base for a monument in the form 
of a section of a parapet cut from granite. Mr. Morse remembered such a boulder, 
and although he saw it but for a moment, he could almost describe its angles, for as 
the regiment advanced to assault the Confederate works, part of his company went 
on one side and part the other, and as he looked across at his comrades on the other 
side of the rock, he saw them cut down almost to a man by a volley. On an exam- 
ination of the field the rock was found, and the monument was set on it as suggested. 
In September, lH(i3, the Second Regiment was sent south to join General Hooker, 
and participated in the battle of Lookout Mountain. At the fall of Atlanta it was 
the first to enter the city and act as the provost guard during the occupation. The 
regiment had charge of the destruction of the public buildings of Atlanta previous to 
the evacuation, and was the last to leave the city on the " March to the Sea." In 
recent years Mr. Morse has been counsel for the Thomson-Houston Company, and 
in his repeated visits to Atlanta in that capacity he has been welcomed as one of 
those who have given that city an opportunity to expand and flourish as it could 
never have done under the old regime. At the close of the war, Mr. Morse attended 
Phillips Andover Academy, and in 1866 entered the C. S. D. Dartmouth College, in 
the junior year, where he remained two years. In his senior year, feeling unable to 
spend time and money in finishing his course, he left college and studied law first 
with Charles G. Stevens, of Clinton, Mass., and afterwards with Chandler, Shattuck 
& Thayer, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1869. Dartmouth 
College has since conferred upon him the degrees of Master of Science and Master 
of Arts. He opened offices in Bf)Ston and Ashland, in which latter place he fixed 
temporarily his residence. He established a weekly pa])er in Ashland called the 
Asliland Ad't'fttiser, and in connection with it a printing office carried on by him- 
self and William Walker, imder the firm name of Morse &• Walker, which, when it 
became well grounded and profitable, ho sold out to devote his whole time to his in- 
creasing professional business, with a residence in Hyde Park. For the first few 
years the most remunerative part of his practice was connected with bankrujitey 
cases. He took up the Boston, Hartford & Erie litigation ; later was counsel for N. 
C. Munson. the railroad contractor, whose failure involved millions of dollars, and 
afterwards had charge of the affairs of F. Shaw & Bros., which, in connection with 
the affairs of other houses which followed them into bankruptcy, involved ten mill- 
ions of dollars. In 1887, with health somewhat impaired by the labors attending 
these matters, he went with his family to Europe, visiting before his return Palestine, 
Syria, Asia Minor, and attending lectures at the School of Law in Paris. With re- 
stored health he resumed practice, and has been largely engaged in coriX)ration 
work. He has organized, among other things, the .several street railways now oper- 
ating in Newton, Waltham and Watertown, of which he was the president during 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 433 

their legal stages. He is also one of the special counsel of the Thomson-Houston 
Electric Company, which has brought him intf) contact with electric railway matters 
of the country and especially in the South. He married Clara R. Boit, of Newton, 
where he now has his residence. 

Hknrv T.M.i.M.v.N U.wis, son of John Watson and Susan Ilayden (Tallman) Davis, 
was born in Boston in 1823, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and settled in Boston. He was commissioned 
second lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, October 31, ISBl ; first lieuten- 
ant. May 1, 1862: captain in the Tenth United States Cavalry, and brevet major in 
lS(i(i. He died in New Vork, April 10, 18(>9. 

KiiwiN MoRTOK, son of Edward and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in Plym- 
outh, Mass., in 1832, and graduated at Harvard in 185,5. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June 27, 1867. He has been living some years in Europe. 

Mrc.Mi Dyer, jr., son of Micah Dyer, was born in Boston, Septembers?, 1829, and 
was educated at the Eliot School in Boston, where he received the Franklin Medal, 
at the Wilbraham Academy and the Tilton Seminary. He graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1850, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 13th of Maj' in that 
year. He established himself in Boston, and his entire devotion to his profession, 
together with the personal interest he took in the cause of his clients, advanced him 
rapidly in his professional career. He was chosen a member of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives in 1855 and served two years — the youngest member of the 
House. In one of these sessions he plead successfully the cause of aged citizens of 
Boston, to postpone the stoppage of burials in the city grave yards until such a time 
as might permit them to be laid by the side of the partners of their lives. He became a 
member of the Mercantile Library Association in 1849, is a life member of the Ameri- 
can Bible Society, and secretary of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance and of 
the New England Conference Missionary Society. He was for several years chair- 
man of the committee of the Eliot School District, and during that time it became 
his duty to pursue a bold and determined course in the suppression of a rebellion 
against the rules of the school. Four hundred Catholic Hbys refused to obey the rule 
which required the recitation of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue. He at once, 
when called on to aid the masters, declared that the rules of the school must be obeyed 
as long as they existed, and if they were wrong the responsibility rested on those who 
made them, and not on the teachers, whose only duty was to enforce them. The e.\- 
pulsion of the whole number of four hundred, by his direction, was a proceeding 
which e.xcited a feeling of bitterness against him for a time, but was finally acknowl- 
edged to have been wholly justifiable, and the only method of restoring a spirit of 
obedience in the school. The scholars all returned with the promise of themselves 
and their parents of no further disturbance. Mr. Dyer was the first president of the 
Female Medical College, at a time when " women doctors," as they were called, were 
almost universally frowned upon by the medical faculty. In the early days of the 
college the diplomas of the graduates bore the title of LL.B., instead of M.D., in 
consequence of the determined opposition to the institution. He was admitted to 
practice in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861. As executor or trus- 
tee he has had the management of many large estates, and the promptness and 
fidelity of his administrations have secured the entire confidence of interested parties. 
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434 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

He is a member of the Bostonian Society, taking great interest in their proceedings, 
and is an associate member of Post 58 of the Grand Army and participates enthu- 
siastically in their camp fires. He is also an honorary member of the Ladies' Aid 
Association, of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home, and of the Boston Woman's Char- 
ity Club, being a member of the Advisory Board of the latter in the care of the 
Clifford Fund donation to its hospital. Being also high in the rank of Free Masonry, 
and president of the Eliot School Association and of the Old School Boys' Association, 
it will be seen that he has abundant opportunities for relief from the routine of pro- 
fessional work. He married in May, 1851, Julia Knowlton, of Manchester, N. H., a 
lady well known in Boston as an active and able organizer of charities, which the well 
remunerated labors of her husband in his profession enable both husband and wife 
to generously dispense. 

Gkiiki;k W. C(joi,ey came to Boston from Bangor, Me. He was admitted to the 
Maine bar in 1885, and to the Suffolk bar April 18, 1848. He was appointed attorney 
for Suffolk county as the successor of George P. Sanger, September 5, 1854. and 
served until February 26, 1861, when Joseph H. Bradley was appointed. Mr. Brad- 
ley, however, declined, and on the 21st of March Mr. Sanger was again appointed. 

Daniel S.\rgf.nt Cirtis, son of Thfmias B. Curtis, was born in Boston, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1, 1849. 

John Clark Auams was born in New York State, and graduated at Harvard in 
1839. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar September 20, 1844. While studymg law he was a tutor in rhetoric and 
elocution at Harvard. He died in New York in 1873. 

Wilson Jarvis Welch graduated at Harvard in 1889, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1842. He died in 
1885. 

John Davis Washburn, son of John Marshall and Harriet Webster (Kimball) Wa.sh- 
burn, was born in Boston, March 27, 1823. When five years old his [)arents removed 
to Lancaster, Mass., where he received his early education. He graduated at Har- 
vard in 1858, and at the Harvard Law School in 1850, having previously studied in 
the offices of Fmory Washburn and (leorge F. Hoar in Worcester. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar May 27, 1856, and established himself in Worcester in partnership 
with H. C. Rice. In 1866 he succeeded Alexander H. Bullock, on his accession to the 
governor's chair, as general agent and attorney of insurance companies, and also 
served on Governor Bullock's staff from that year until 1869. He was a represent- 
ative from 1876 to 1879, and senator in 1884, and has represented the United States 
as minister to Switzerland. He married in 1860 Mary F., daughter of Charles L. 
Putnam. 

WiNsi.iiw Wakrkn, son of Dr. Winslow and Margaret (Bartletl) Warren, was born 
in Plymouth, Mass., March 30, 1838, and graduated at Harvard in 1858. He is de- 
scended from Richard Warren, of the Mtiyfloivi-r, and is a great-grandson of James 
Warren, the successor of Dr. Joseph Warren as president of the Provincial Congress. 
He studied law with his uncle, Sidney Bartlett, in Boston, and at the Harvard Law 
School, where he graduated in 1801, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12 



Biographical r eg i step. 43S 

in that year. He married, January 3, lH(i7, Mary Lincoln, daughter of Spencer and 
Sarah (LinLoln) Tinkhani, of Boston, and lives in Dedhani, with his office in Boston. 
As attorney of the Boston and Providence Railroad Company he had charge of the 
settlement of the claims arising from the Buzzey bridge accident, and out of a million 
dollars paid, onlv fiftv thousand dollars was paid on suits brought against the com- 
pany. 

Ik,\ M. V.\n Ui zm; was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1857. He married Jane 
Sturtevant, daughter of Atwood Lewis and Jane (Harlow) Drew, of Plymouth, and is 
in active practice in Boston. 

Fra.\cis TiKEV graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1H43, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar March 6, 1844. He was. at one time city marshal of Boston. 

Ai..\NsoN Ticker was born in Boston and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1835, but abandoned the law for business 
pursuits. He died in 1881. 

\,\Tii.\MEi. RussELi. Stlrgis, Son of Nathaniel Sturgis, was born in Boston and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1827. 

■ Cii.vRi.ES F. SiiiMMiN, son of William Shimmin, was born in Boston in 1822, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1842. He was admitte'd to the Suffolk bar and died July 5, 
1891. He married Mary Harriot, daughter of Daniel Parkman, of Boston. 

Benjamin Bissev, son of Beujamhi Bussey, was born in Boston about 1783, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1803. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1807, 
and died in 1808. His father, who died in 1842, leaving a widow, one grandchild, 
and several great-grandchildren, provided by his will that on the death of the last 
survivor his estate, estimated at $350,000, should pass to Harvard University, one- 
half to endow a farm school, and the other half to be devoted to the support of the 
law and divinity schools. 

RmiER r I. BuKBA.NK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1N4(>. He has been 
many years justice of the Municipal Court for the South Boston District. 

John Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Abiel and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, was born in 
Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard in 1832. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1839. He has been prevented by illness from continuous work in his pro- 
fession, but his name is found in the list of Boston lawyers in 18,53. With a humor 
()uite equal to that of his brother, the autocrat of the Breakfast Table, he has kept it 
rather for home consumption than ])ublic display, and only his friends, among whom 
James Russell Lowell was one of his most devoted, have had the privilege of its en- 
joyment. 

William Burlkv Howes was born in Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1838. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S40, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar December 27, 1841. He died in 1878. 

Bernard Rolker was born in Germany, and graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in 1833. He was many years tutor in German in Harvard, but was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar April 1*, 1841, and not long after established himself in practice in New 
York. He received the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1848. 

William Sii-.m rnev Otis, son of William Church and Margaret (Sigourney) Otis, 
was born at Nahant, Mass., July 3, 1857, and graduated at Harvard in 1878. He 



436 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

studied law at the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Ropes, Grey & 
Loring and others, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He married Pauline, 
daughter of James E. and Adelaide Root, of Boston. He died April 20, 18il3. 

Frank T. Mukto.n, son of Edwin and Betsey T. (Harlow) Morton, was born in 
Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth. June 19, 1861. He established 
himself in Boston, and is there in active practice. 

S.iMiKi. FosiF.R McClk.vrv was born in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in July, 1807, and was many years clerk of the city of Boston. He married Maria 
Lynde Walter. 

Wii.i.iAM Kapsi-r, a German by birth, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May lo, 1840. 
He married Sally Gorham, daughter of Salisbury and Sally ((Joodwin) Jackson, of 
Plymouth, and has been dead many years. 

BiCLA Farwki.l Jacobs, brother of Justin Allen Jacobs, mentioned in this register, 
graduated at Harvard in 1839, and at the Harvard I^aw School in 1844, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 2:i, 1846. 

Ai.KKKD Rodman, son of Alfred and Anna (Preble) Rodman, and grandson of Will- 
iam R. Rodman, of New Bedford, graduated at Harvard in 1870. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879, and is now the actuary of the Bay State Trust 
Company in Boston. 

Edward William Hooi'Kr, son of Dr. Robert William and Ellen (Sturgis) Hooper, 
was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1859, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1868, and has been 
some years treasurer of Harvard College. 

George Blake was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 1769, and graduated at Harvard in 
1789. He studied law with William Caldwell, of Rutland, Mass., and James Sulli- 
van, of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1792. He began practice in 
Newburyport in partnership with Dudley Atkins Tyng. After remaining in New- 
buryport one year he removed to Boston, and in 1801 was appointed United States 
attorney, holding office until 1829. He was a representative in 1801-1829-30-31-32- 
3.5-36-37-38, and senator in 183;i-34 '39. He died in Boston, October 6, 1841. 

Freeman Hunt, the son of Elizabeth and Thompson (Parmenter) Hunt, was born 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 4, 1855. His father, well known in connection with 
I flint's Merchants Magazine, w3&\ioy:T\ in Quincj-, Mass., March 21, 1804, and 
was the son of Nathan and Mary (Turner) Hunt. He was descended from Enoch 
Hunt, who emigrated to America from Berks county, England, and died in 
Weymouth, Mass., about 1652. Until he was twelve years of age Freeman Hunt, 
the father of the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools, and never 
after that time enjoyed the advantages of any other education than that secured 
by his own efforts. At that age he entered as a boy the office of the Boston 
Evening Gazette, and was soon after apprenticed to the trade of a printer. Having 
secured his trade he went to Springfield, where he was employed for a time as com- 
positor, and then returned to Boston, where he obtained a position in the .same 
capacity in the office of the Boston Traveller. While in this office he was the 
anonymous author of articles which the editor of that paper accepted and published. 
In 1828, at the age of twenty-four, he formed a partnership with John Putnam, uu- 



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(ler the firm name of Putnam .*>: Hunt, printers and pnl)Iishers, having a place of busi- 
ness where the (ilube Theatre now stands. Previous to the formation of this part- 
nership he piibUshed the Ju~ui-nile Misiiltany, edited by Lydia Maria Child, which 
readers, as old as the writer, will remember as one of the joys of then' childhood, the 
lirst number of which was issued in September, 182(i. In January, 1828, the new 
lirni began to publish the I.aitiis' A/ti<_'<ic/m\ edited by Sarah J. Hale, and soon 
after the early tales of Samuel G. Goodrich. In 1831, having removed to New York, 
he there started a paper called the Traveller, but again returned to Boston and be- 
came the managing director of the "Boston Bewick Company," an association of 
artists, printers and bookbinders. In September, 1834, he pi'ojected the American 
Mai^axinc of I'se/ut and Entertainini; Kno-ii'leds^e, and in 1835 engaged in New 
York in the publication of "A Comprehensive Atlas," edited by Thomas Gamaliel 
Bradford. In 1837 he projected the Men liants Mae^as/ne, with which his name has 
been so prominently associated, and the first number appeared in July, 1839. In 
l.'<.")2 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard. He married first, May 
II, 1829, Lucia Weld Blake, of Boston ; second, January 3, 1831, Laura Phinney, of 
Boston, and third in 1853, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Hon. William Parmen- 
ter, of East Cambridge, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 2, 1858. After the 
death of his father in 1858, the subject of this sketch was carried by his mother to her 
father's home in Cambridge, and he received his early education at the jiublic schools 
in that town. He graduated at Harvard in 18T7, and in 1881 received the degree of 
LL.B. from the Harvard Law School. He further pursued his law studies in the 
offices of (Jeorge S. Hale and William E. Parmenter, of Boston, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in January, 1882. He was first associated in practice with H. 
Eugene BoUes, and afterwards with William C. Tarbell, who died December 6. 1886. 
He is at present associated with Charles J. Mclntire, city solicitor of Cambridge, and 
has acted for that city in matters connected with the new Harvard Bridge. He is 
engaged in general i)ractice with a success commensurate with his earnest efforts to 
establish himself honorably and prominently in his profession. In Cambridge, where 
he has his home, he has served four years on the School Committee, and one year in 
the Common Council, and in 1890 was a member of the State Senate. He married, 
June 8, 1887, Abby Brooks, daughter of Sumner J. and Jane (Bullard) Brooks, of 
Cambridge. 

Edward Bangs was born in Hardwick, Mass., in 175(i, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1777. His name appears on tlie roll of the Supreme Court admissions in Suffolk 
county before 1807. It is probable that he was admitted in 1780. He settled in Wor- 
cester. He died in 1818. 

Br.NjAMtN Adams was, born in Mendon in 1764, and graduated at Brown University 
in 1788. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Uxbridge. 
lie died in 1837. 

JosKiMi Alien was born in Lancaster in 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1792. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1795, and praticed in Worcester county. 

Francis Linls Chii.ds was born in Millbury in 1849, and graduated at Brown Uni- 
versity in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December. 1873, and settled 
in Worcester. 



438 H /STONY OF THE liENCH AND BAR. 

Hhnkv J. Ci.ARKF. was born in Soutlibridj{e, Mass., and graduated at the Boston 
University in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and settled in 
Webster, Mass. 

Li'.oN K. CiioMixiN was born in Philadelphia in 1861, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1882. lie practiced in Boston and Tem])leton, and died before 18H9. 

John Adams Dana was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1833, and graduated at Yale in 
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 184H, and practiced in Wor- 
cester. 

Jamks J. Down, was born in Worcester, and graduated at St. Michael's College in 
1880. He was admitted tf) the bar in 1882, and has practiced in Worcester, Brook- 
line and Boston. 

J. W. Dkai'KR was admitted to the bar in Worcester county in l.^.")l, and was in 
practice in Boston in 1858. 

John Dankokth Dunhar, son of Elijah and Sarah (Hunt) Dunbar, was born in 
Worcester county in 17TI, and graduated at Harvard in 17Hi(. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar, and before 1794 established himself in Plymouth, Mass. He married 
in 17114 Nancy, daughter of William Crombie, of Plymouth, and died in Plymouth in 
1810. 

Farwki.i. F. Fay was born in Athol in 1H;15, and was admitted to the bar in 18.")9. 
He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1885, but died before 1889. 

Waldo Flint was born in Leicester in 1794, and graduated at Harvard in 1814. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 1, 1821, and died in 1879. 

Georgk Folsom was born in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1822. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 21, 1834. He received the de- 
gree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1860, and died in 1869. 

Hknrv Clinton Hutciiins, son of Samuel and Rosanna (Child) Hutchins, was born 
in Bath. N. H., August 7, 1820, and fitted for college at the academy at Haverhill, N. 
II., and other academies. He graduated at iJartmouth in 1840, and studied law first 
in the office of Joseph Bell, of Haverhill, N. H., second at the Harvard Law School, 
and third in the office of Hubbard & Watts, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar November 14, 1843, and has been associated in business since January 1, 
1844, with his college classmate, Alexander Strong Wheeler, under the firm name of 
Hutchins & Wheeler. "He married, October 9, 1845, at Bellows Falls, Vt., Louise 
Grout, and lives in Boston. He was chosen in 1869 an honorary member of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Socict}', and in 1887-88 was president of the Boston Bar Association. 

John W. Low came to Boston from the British Provinces and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1883. He is in active practice m Boston. 

William J. Gavnor was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1872, and is 
enjoying a lucrative practice in Brooklyn, N. V. 

Chari.ks C. Bkaman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1861 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar November 23, 1865. He is in extensive practice in New York city. 

Almon W. Griswold was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1847, and secured a 
large business in suits against the government to recover duties illegally paid. He 
removed to New York city, and there died about 1890, leaving a son, a member of 
the New ^'ork bar. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 439 

Erasmis Bahiiitt was born in Sturbridjjc in 17(ir>, and graduated at Harvard in 
1790. He was admitted to the Suffolk liar aVmut 179"), and practiced in Cliarltnn. 
(irafton, Oxford, Sturbridge and Westboro'. He died in 1816. 

Georck W. Baldwin was born in New Haven, Conn., and graduated at Yale in 
1853. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1858, and practiced in Worcester 
until his removal to Boston about 1864, in which year his name appears among the 
Boston lawyers. 

Anurfw J. Bar iimi DMKW was born in Hardwick, Mass.. in is:!;i, and graduated 
at Yale in 1856. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1858, and settled 
in Southbridge, where he now practices. 

Nelson Bartiiolomku- was bom in Hardwick in 1834, and graduated at Yale in 
18.56. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 18.58, and settled in Oxford. 
He died in 1861. . 

LiKKRTY Bates graduated at Brown in 1797 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
before 1807. He practiced in Grafton, and died in 1853. 

Arthur G. Biscof. was born in Grafton, Mass., in 1842, and graduated at Amherst 
College in 1862. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1884, and was a member 
of the Suffolk bar in 1878. He practiced in Westboro'. He died in 1879. 

J. Foster Biscoe was born in Grafton, Mass., and graduated at Amherst College 
in 1874. He was admitted to the Worcester bar in 1877, and was later a member of 
the Suffolk bar, at which he is now practicing. . 

Lewis H. Boutelle was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848, and settled 
in Westboro'. 

Albert C. Birraoe was bom in Ashburnham, Mass., in 1859, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and is now practicing in 
Boston . 

SriLLMAN Cadv was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1849, and practiced in 
Templeton. He died before 1889. 

Wri.LiAM Caldwell graduated at Harvard in 1773, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1805. 

Jerome F. Manning was born in Merrimack, N. H., in 1838, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 25, 1863. He practiced formerly in Worcester, l)ut is now ]>rac- 
ticing in Boston. 

Luther Perry was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and settled in Barre. 
I Ic died many years since. 

John B. Ratigan was born in Worcester in 1859, and graduated at Holy Cross 
College in Worcester in 1879. He was adoiitted to the bar in 1883, and settled in 
Worcester. 

William Sever, son of William and Sarah (Warren) Sever, was bom in Kingston, 
Mass., in 1755, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
county bar, and established himself in Rutland, Ma.ss., and afterwards in Worcester. 
He married about 1780 Mary Chandler, and his daughter, Penelope Winslow Sever, 
married Levi Lincoln. He died in 1798. 



440 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Bradford Scmner was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated at Brown University 
in 1808. He studied law with James Richardson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1813. He practiced in Worcester county, and afterwards, until his death, in Bos- 
ton. In 1843 he was appointed master in chancery, and in \^'ii commissioner of in- 
solvency. He died in ISHo. 

Mak\in M. Tavi.ok was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1800, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and settled in Worcester. 

John Todd graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar November 18, 1845. He practiced in Westminster and Fitchburg. 

Earnest H. Vaighan was born in (Jrecnwich in 18.58, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1884. He settled in Worcester. 

RuiiARD Gf.orge was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807, and practiced in West 
Brookfield, where he probably died. 

John S. Gori.D was born in Webster, Mass., in 1851;, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1884. He settled in Webster. 

Henry F. Harris was born in West Boylston, Mass., in 1849, and graduated at 
Tufts College in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1873, and settled in 
Worcester. 

Setii Hasiini'.s was born in Cambridge in 17(i2, and graduated at Harvard in 1782. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1786, and settled in Mendon. He was at one time a 
member of Congress, and died in 1831. 

Henry E. Hii.i. was born in Worcester in 18.50. and graduated at Harvard in Is72. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and settled in Worcester. 

Sami'EI. Hincki.ev graduated at Yale in 1781, and received the degree of A. M. from 
Harvard in 1785. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, practiced in Brookfield, and 
died in 1840. 

Wii.i.iAM S. B. Hopkins was born \\\ Charleston, S. C, in 1830, and graduated al 
Williams College in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1858, and 
has practiced in Ware and Greenfield and Worcester. Mass., and in New Orleans. 
He is now in Worcester. 

Geokoe W. Johnson was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar 
April 10, 1863. He settled in Brookfield. 

Fran<is L. Kin<; was born in Boston in 1827, and admitted to the Suffolk bar Ajiril 
10. 1863. He settled in Brookfield. 

Henry W. Kino was born in North Brookfield in 1S5(i, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in February, 1880. He practiced in North Brookfield and Worcester. 

Wii.i.iAM pRAir was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1806, and graduated at Brown 
University in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1827, and prac- 
ticed in Shrewsbury and Worcester. He died in 1839. 

Edward Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845, and finally set- 
tled in Chicago. 

Artiuk p. RiCG was born in Sterling in 1862, and graduated at Amherst College 
in 1883. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and settled in Worcester, 



lUOGkAPHlCU. REGISTER. 441 

Nathan Tvi.kk graduated at Harvard in I7T!), and settled in Uxbridge. He died 
in 1793. 

John L. Uii.KV was born in Brinifield, Mass., in 1837, and was a member of the 
Su til ilk bar in I.SIK). 

Jaiiih Wm.i.aud graduated at Hmwn I'niversitv in INO."). and was an attorney in 
Itnston ill 1S17. He died in isls. 

(1. R. M. WrniiNoniN was born in Boston, and graduated at the I'nivcrsily of 
Vermont in 1825. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Oetober, 1828, and praeticed 
in Boston and Lancaster. 

Ki>WAKi> Wkbster HriciriNs, son of Henry Clinton and Louise ((irout) Hutchins, 
graduated at Harvard in 1872. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1875. 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1877. He is associated in business with 
the firm of Hutchins & Wheeler, of which his father is a member. 

Hi:nrv W'm-.r.i.KR, son of Alexander Strong and Augusta (Hurd) Wheeler, grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. He is a.sso- 
ciated in business with the firm of Hutchins &• Wheeler, of wliich his father is a mem- 
ber. 

Joseph Warren Warren, son of George Washington and Ceorgiana Whitney 
(Thompson) Warren, was born in Charlestown, Mass., June o, 1851, and entered 
Harvard in 1870. After remaining in college a year he entered a banking house as 
clerk, visited Europe, and finally studied law with his father and at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School. The writer is in doubt whether he was ever admitted to the 
bar. In 1880 he was appointed Liberian consul at Boston, and died, August 24, 1885, 
unmarried in a hospital in New South Wales. 

Henry Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, jr., was born in Cambridge, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He died in 1885. 

Thorn roN Kirkland Ware, son of Rev. Dr. Henry Ware, sr. , was born in Cam- 
brid.ge, and graduated at Har\-ard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law' 
School in 1844, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1846. He settled in 
Kitchburg, Mass., and was many years justice of the Police Court. He died in 1892. 
SoLO.MoN Jones Gordon, son of Dr. Timothy and Jane Binney (Jones) Gordon, was 
born in Weymouth, Mass., September 24, 1826. He was descended from Alexander 
(Jordon, a young Scotchman, who, in 1650, during the English and Scotch wars, was 
released from ])rison in the cami> at Tuthill Fields in London, on condition of his 
emigration to New England. This American ancestor crossed the ocean in 1651, and 
tinally settled in New Hampshire. Timothy Gordon, the father of Solomon, was 
born in Newbury, Ma.ss. , March 10, 1795, and after studying medicine at Bowdoin 
College and with his brother in Hingham, Mass., settled in Weymouth. In 1837 he 
remcjved to Plymouth, where the remainder of his life was spent. The subject of 
this sketch was fitted for college at the high school in Plynifiuth, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1847. He studied law in the otlice of Jacob H. Loud in Plymouth and at 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18. 1H.50. In 
1853 he became associated in business with Orlando B. Potter, and took charge tem- 
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442 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

porarily of his practice in Boston after he removed to New York to give his attention 
more exclusively to the affairs of the sewing machine company with which he was 
connected. Mr. Gordon not long after followed Mr. Potter to New York, and, 
abandoning general jiractice, became intimately connected with the legal affairs of 
the sewing machine enterprises. He married Rebecca, daughter of David Ames, of 
Springfield, and after leaving Boston he made Springfield his home, with his office in 
New York. He died in 1890. 

William Sohier Dkxtkr, son of George M. Dexter, was born in Boston, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1849. He married a daughter of George 
Ticknor, the author, and lives in Boston. 

Wendf.i.i. Davis, son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis, was born in Plymouth, 
Mass., in 177fi, and graduated at Harvard in 179(i. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar about 1800, and settled in Sandwich. He was many years high sheriff of Barn- 
stable county, and was clerk of the Massachusetts Senate from 1803 to 1805. He 
married in 1802, Caroline Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Smith, and was the 
father of George T. and Wendell T. Davis, of Greenfield. He died in Sandwich in 
lH;iO. 

Will 1 AM ConswKi.L, son of Dr. George and Abigail (Parker) Cogswell, was born in 
Bradford, Mass., August 2:!, 1838, and received his early education at Phillips An- 
dover Academy and at Kimball I'nion Academy in Meriden, N. H. After entering 
riartmouth College he left and went to sea. On his return he studied law at the 
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 18fi0, in which year he was ad- 
mitted to the Essex county bar. In 1861 he enlisted as captain in the War of the 
Rebellion and was afterwards colonel of the Second Massachusetts Regiment and 
brevetted brigadier-general December 15, 1864. In 1885 he was a member of the 
Suffolk bar. He has been State Senator, and is now serving his third term in Con- 
gress. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in ISTS. 

SiGOURNEY Brn.EK, son of Peter Butler, graduated at Harvard in 1HT7, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. 

Martin Brimmer, son of Martin Brimmer, was born in Boston, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3, 1S55, but is not in 
practice. He is one of the Fellows of Harvard. 

Eugene Batciielder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1H45. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 1848. He died in 1878. 

Sidney BARTLEn, jr., son of Sidney Bartlett who is mentioned in this register, was 
born in Boston, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in l.'^.M. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1851, and died in 1871. 

Francis Barti.ei r, brother of the above, was born in Boston, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1860, but is 
not in practice. 

Sherman Hoar, son of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, was born in Concord, 
Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in Jliddlesex 
county in November, 1885, and has an office in Boston. He was chosen a member 
of Congress in 1890 for the term ending March 4, 1893. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 443 

Samuel Hoar, brother of the above, was born in Concord, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1H67. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 29, 1H70, and is in practice 
with his father in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM Ti'RELL Andrfavs was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1812. 
lie was admitted to the Suffolk county bar in IHl.'i. He was treasurer of Harvard 
College from 1853 to 1857, and died in 187it. 

Charles Greely Loring, son of Caleb Loring, an eminent Boston merchant, was 
born in Boston, May 2, 1794. His mother was Anne Greely, daughter of Captain 
John Greely, who was killed while defending his ship, a lelter-of-marque, against an 
ICnglish frigate near Marblehead, in the War of the Revolution. He was descended 
from Thomas Loring, who came from Axminster, England, in 1635, and settled in 
Hingham. Caleb Loring, a grandson of Thomas, married Lydia, daughter of Ed- 
ward Gray, a merchant of Plymouth, whose gravestone, bearing the date of 1681, is 
the oldest on Burial Hill in Plymouth. Caleb Loring settled in that part of Plymouth 
which in 1707 was set oft' from Plymouth and incorporated as the town of Plympton. 
At a town meeting held on the 1st of March, 1707-8, he was chosen one of the first 
Board of Selectmen of that town. From him Caleb Loring, of Boston, the father of 
the subject of this sketch, derived his name. Mr. Loring attended the Boston Latin 
School, leaving it as a medal scholar, and entering Harvard as a sophomore in 1809, 
graduated in 1812, with the Latin salutatory oration as his part in the ceremonies of 
graduation. At that time the only law school in the country was that at Litchfield, 
Conn., and there he began his study of law immediately after leaving college with 
Peleg Sprague, who had been his classmate, for a companion. He finished his 
studies in the office of Charles Jackson, at that time an associate justice of the 
Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court 
in September, 1815, and in the Supreme Court in December, 1817. Samuel Hubbard, 
who became in 1842 a justice of the Supreme Court, came to Boston from Maine in 
imo and associated himself with Mr. Jackson, and on the appointment of the latter 
to the bench in 1813, continued the business of the office and was in charge while 
Mr. Loring was a student. During a temporary abandonment of business by Mr. 
Hubbard, occasioned by sickness, his young student conducted the affairs of the 
office, and with the consent of clients, appeared before the Supreme Court and 
argued their cases. In 181() Mr. Loring formed a partnership with Franklin De.\ter, 
who had been also a classmate in college, which continued until 1819. Until the 
year 1H25 he advanced steadily in the estimation of the business community, at which 
date he may be said to have been in full practice, or in other words, to have secured 
all the business which it was possible for a man conscientiously devoted to the in- 
terests of his clients to thoroughly comprehend and manage. From that time until 
1855, it has been said by Professor Theophilus Parsons that " the published reports 
of decisions will show that, taking this whole period of thirty years together, no 
other man had so large a number of cases in court, and of the cases of no other was 
the proportion so large of those which by the novelty of the questions they raise, or 
of the peculiar circumstances to which they require the application of acknowledged 
principles, may be considered as establishing new law, or giving new scope and 
meaning to recognized law." To every case entrusted to him he gave unremitting 
attention, and in its preparation for trial no pains were spared to make its present- 



444 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ation both as to fact and law thorough and complete. The writer remembers him 
well as he appeared in court and was always imi)ressed with his serious earnestness, 
his apparent entire belief in the justice of his cause, and his elaborate, well con- 
structed, compact and logical addresses to the jury. In these addresses he read 
largely from full and carefully prepared briefs, sifted and analyzed the whole testi- 
mony, not only dwelling upon and enforcing the strong points but recognizing and 
explaining the weak ones, and all the wdiile impressed his hearers, including the jury, 
with the conviction that his claim for the plaintiff or his denial for the defence was 
valid and just. During nearly all the years of his professional life he was subject to 
attacks of sickness, incapacitating him for a time, from which he seemed to recover 
with a power of labor, like Artaeus after touching the earth, seemingly increased 
rather than diminished by an interval of weakness and pain. At a later period he 
suffered from a disease in his eyes, and from 1882 to 1840, while at the height 
of his professional career, he was obliged to carry on his work by the aid of the 
eyes and the pen of others. In 1854 he had abandoned much of his lesser busi- 
ness, and was offered the jjosition of actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life In- 
surance Company. Though he accepted this position he continued in charge of his 
old law cases, and argued tliem both in the courts of Massachusetts and in the 
Supreme Court at Washington. He held this office until his death, bringing to the 
performance of his duties not only the prudence and wisdom of a man of afifairs, but 
that fainiliayty with law so essential to the proper administration of the concerns 
of such an institution. The life of Mr. Loring was crowned with appropriate honors 
in the several stages of its progress. At the age of thirty he was the commander of 
the New England Guards, and in accepting that post he was only following the cus- 
tom among rising lawyers which prevailed nearly up to the time of the War of 1861. 
Chief Justice Bigelow of the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Brigham of the 
Superior Court, were both militia captains, one in Boston and the other in New 
Bedford, and many other leading lawyers might be named in proof of the preva- 
lence of the custom. In 1849, when Mr. Webster resigned his seat in the United 
States Senate, Mr. Loring was asked by Governor Briggs to permit his appoint- 
ment to fill the vacancy, and in 1858, when Mr. Everett resigned his senatorial 
chair, he was again invited by Governor Washburn to accept an appointment. In 
1862 he was a member of the State Senate, and a seat on the bench of the Supreme 
Judicial Court was many times within his reach had he chosen to accept it. In 1885 
he was appointed a Fellow of Harvard College, and retained that office until 1857, 
and in 1865 he was chosen to preside at the reception given by the college to her sons 
on their return from the war. In 185(1 he received the degree of LL.D. from his alma 
mater, and he was a member of the American Antiquarian and the Massachusetts 
Historical Society. In 1853 he visited Europe, and from the members of the legal 
profession in England he received marked attention. Absorbed as he was in his 
professional pursuits, he yot found time to make important contributions to the press 
on leading subjects of the day, and to take an active interest in the affairs of his 
church and in the various charitable and reformatory movements agitating from time 
to time the popular mind. A strong opponent of slavery, though not a member of 
the anti-slavery party, in 1851 when the trial of Sims, an escaped slave, took place 
before the United States Commission, he appeared as his counsel and made the closing 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTEH. 445 

argument. Among his literary productions the last was a pamphlet published in 
IHfili bearing the title of •• Reconstruction — Claims of the Inhabitants of the States 
engaged in the Rebellion to Restoration of Political Rights and Privileges under the 
Constitution. " in which he declared in its concluding paragrajihs " that none can be 
more profoundly impressed than he believes himself to be with the essential im- 
portance and inviolability of the rights intended to be secured to the several States 
under the Constitution. He accounts their individual independence and sovereignty 
over the domestic relations and municipal law and the internal governments'of their 
respective inhabitants as the very foundation stones of the national government. The 
preservation of this sovereignty and independence to the fullest extent warranted 
by the constitution, he considers to be the chief among the fundamental principles of 
American statesmanship: as the only means possible of maintaining a free and ener- 
getic government over territories of extent so vast as those already comprised within 
our national boundaries; as the safest barrier against attempts at executive usurp- 
ation ; as the main bulwark against the natural tendency of the general government, 
as of all others, to consolidati<m and centralization of its authority, and which, not 
thus controlled, attaining at first to the exercise of arbitrarj- power by the many, 
would, as all history prophesies, eventually terminate in practical despotism." In 
H18 Mr. Loring married Anna Pierce Brace, of Litchfield, Conn., who died in 183fi. 
In 1840 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, who died in 1845. 
In 18.')0 he married Mrs. Cornelia Cioddard, widow of George A. Goddard, and 
daughter of Francis Amory, of Boston. He had a winter home in Boston, and after 
1844 a summer home on the shore of Beverly. At the summer home he died October 
8, 1867, leaving a widow and two sons and two daughters. The sons are Caleb 
William Loring. mentioned in this register, and Charles Greely Loring, a graduate 
of Harvard in 1848, who was mustered out in July, 1865, after three years' service in 
the war, with the rank of brevet major-general. 

JoH.N Singleton Copley, as a native of Boston, and considered a Bostonian while 
preparing in England for the bar, may with no impropriety be included in this regis- 
ter. Richard Copley married in Limerick, Ireland, a Miss Singleton about 1730, and 
emigrated to America. After his death his widow kept a small store on Long Wharf 
in Boston, where she sold tobacco and other small articles. In 1748 she married Peter 
Pelham, who was one of the founders of the Charitable Irish Society about the year 
1737. John Sullivan and Thomas Amory were coteraporaries of Pelham, and came 
to America from Limerick, the first settling as a schoolmaster in Berwick, Me., and 
the last settling in South Carolina, but both afterwards coming to Boston. Peter 
Pelham was a painter and engraver, probably the son of Peter Pelham, an English 
engraver, who was born about 1864. After his marriage with Mrs. Copley he com- 
bined with his profession as a painter and engraver the occupation of teaching school, 
while his wife continued to carry on her store. John Singleton Copley, the son of 
Richard Copley, was born in Boston, July 3, 1737, and undoubtedly received instruc- 
tion in painting from his stepfather, Peter Pelham, who died in 1751. In 1769 he 
married Susanna, daughter of Richard Clark, a descendant from Mary Chilton, one 
of the Plymouth Mayfloxvcr passengers in 1620. His son, John Singleton Copley, 
the subject of this sketch, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, was born in Boston, May 21, 
1772. In 1774, when two years of age. his father was induced to visit Europe, and 



446 HISTORY OF THP. BENCH AND BAR. 

after he had concliuled to remain in London he was joined by his wife and infant 
son, taking a house in Ceorge street, Hanover Square, which he ofCUi>ied until his 
death in 1814, and which his son. Lord Lyndhurst, continued to occupy until his death 
in 18r>;i. It was at hrst the intention of the father to educate his son as an artist, and 
with that view he at one time attended a course of lectures. His education in other 
respects was received at a private school in the Manor House, at Chiswick, under iJr. 
Home, the father of Sir William Home, the attorney-general. At the age of eighteen, 
an artist's career having been abandoned, he was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, 
with the following entry of matriculation: "July 8, 1790. — Admissus est Pensonarius 
Johannis Singleton Copley, lilius Johannis Singleton Copley, de Boston in America 
c scholc apud Chiswick in Middlesexta sub praesides Doctoris Home, annos natus 18. 
Magistro Jones Tutore." In 1794 he came out second wrangler and Smith's prize- 
man, and on the 17th of May entered as a student Lincoln's Inn. Returning to Cam- 
bridge he was appointed in 179o one of the " Traveling Bachelors " nf the univer- 
sity. He visited America with Volney, the author, and was required by the terms of 
his appointment to observe everything of importance, and address letters in Latin to 
the vice-chancellor. H^s first letter described Washington, Georgetown, and Alex- 
andria; his second, the president and Mt. Vernon ; and his third, general incidents of 
travel and the Indians. Returning to England in 1798 he was called to the bar of 
Lincoln's Inn in Trinity term 1804, and joined the Midland Circuit, of which he soon 
became the leader. He was raised to the dignity of the coif in 1813, and rung out 
of Lincoln's Inn, in accordance with the custom of ringing the chapel bell when a 
member of the Inn was made sergeant at law, and of presenting him with a purse of 
money as a retaining fee for any future service in behalf of the society. At that time 
he was in politics an advanced liberal or radical, and after a noted trial in which his 
ability was recognized by the Duke of Wellington and Lord Liverpool, he was made 
a member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. 
He took his seat in March, 1818, and by his first address in favor of the extension .of 
the duration of the Alien bill won from his opponents the name of turn-coat. After 
his membership for Yarmouth he was returned to Parliament for Ashburton in 
Devonshire, and in 1826 for the University of Cambridge with Palmerston. In 1819 
he was appointed solicitor-general and knighted, and in 1824 attorney-general as the 
successor of Sir Robert Gilford. In 1827 he became chancellor and was raised to the 
peerage as Baron Lyndhurst, of Lyndhurst. In 1830 Lord Grey was made premier 
and he resigned the seals and was appointed chief baron of the Court of Exchequer, 
holding the office four years. In 1834 he became again lord chancellor, resigning 
the position of chief baron, and remained in office one year. In 1834 he received 
from Cambridge the degree of D.C.L. In 1840 he was ajipointed lord high steward 
of the University of Cambridge, and in 1841, under the premiership of Sir Robert 
Peel, was again made lord chancellor. He remained in office until his resignation 
with his party in 184G. The writer remembers him as he appeared in the latter year, 
when he had an opportunity of hearing from his lips one of those touches of sarcasm 
for which he was distinguished. In replying to Lord George Bentinck, an able 
statesman, but a somewhat ardent lover of horses and the race course, he indulged in 
the satirical compliment of alluding to him as the man of a stable mind. In 1819 he 
married Sarah, widow of Colonel Thomas, one of the heroes of Waterloo, and in 



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August, 1837, Georgiana, daughter of Louis Goldsmith, and dic'd at Tunbridge Wells, 
< )ctober 12, 1863, and was buried in the cemetery at Highgate. 

Samuel PiiiLi.irs Pkescott Fay, son of Jonathan and Luey (Prescott) Fay, was born 
in Concord, Mass., January 10, 1778, and graduated at Harvard in 1798. He was 
admitted to the Middlesex bar as attorney in May, 1803, and as counselor by the 
Supreme Court in Suffolk county before 1807. He served as captain during Shays's 
Rebellion, and in 1809 was on the staff of Governor Gore. He began practice in 
Canibridgeport, and in 1818-19 was a member of the Executive Council. In 1820 he 
was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and May 1, 1821, was ap- 
])ointed judge of probate of Middlesex county, which office he resigned in March, 
1850. Judge Fay was from 1824 to 1852 a member of the Board of Overseers of Har- 
vard College, and was at one time grand master of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic 
Order. For many years before his death, which occurred at his home. May 18, 1850, 
his residence was in Old Cambridge, near the Wa.shington VAn\. During the period 
of twenty-live years in which he administered the probate affairs of Middlesex 
county, he exhibited to a marked degree those qualities of mind and heart which arc so 
essential in the intimate relations of that office to the private and often confidential 
concerns of the jieople. He was universally rcsi^ected and beloved. He married 
Harriet, daughter of Samuel Howard, of Boston, one of the famous "tea party" of 
pre-revolutionary days, who died July 28, 1847, and after eight years, on the 18th of 
May, 1850, he followed her to the grave. Richard Sullivan Fay, one of his sons, a 
member of the Suffolk bar and included in this register, died in Liverpool, England, 
July 0, 1805, and Joseph S. Fay, another son, who for many years was a partner in 
the commercial house of Padelford & Fay, of Savannah. Ga. , is now living, retired 
from business, at his home in Wood's Hole in Barnstable county, with a winter resi- 
dence <m Mt. Vernon street, Boston. 

Skwali. Ai.i.EN Faunce, son of Charles Cook and Amelia (Washburn) Faunce, was 
born in Kingston, Mass., in 1841. He is descended from John Faunce, who came to 
Plymouth in the ship Ann in 1023, and married Patience, daughter of George Mor- 
ton and sister of Nathaniel Morton, the noted secretary of the Plymoutli Colony. 
He married, in 1808, Ann Eliza, daughter of Edward Holmes, of Kingston, and is in 
practice in Boston, where he was admitted to the bar in 1889. 

Joseph Alexander Holmes, son of Alexander and Eliza Ann (Holmes) Holmes, was 
born in Kingston, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in i8,54. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 10, 
1850. He has abandoned practice, and lives unmarried in Kingston. 

Abraham IIolmes was l)om in Rochester, Mass., June 9, 1754, and was admitted to 
the bar in Plymouth in 18{)0, when forty-six years of age. He had been previously 
president of the Court of Sessions, and thf)ugh not regularly educated for the profes- 
sion, the members of the Plymouth bar voted for his admission in consideration of 
-" his respectable official elevation, learning and abilities, on condition that he study 
three months in some attorney's office." He was subsequently before 1807 admitted 
as counsellor by the Supreme Court in Suffolk county, and he continued to practice in 
Rochester until August, 1835, when he retired. He was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention in 1.S20. and of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. He 
died at Rochester, September 7, 1839. 



448 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

William Kneeland Hedije graduated at Harvard in 1S'>(», at the Harvard Law 
School in 1823, and was admitted to the SulTolk bar March 5, 18-28. He died in 1833. 

Edward A. Dana graduated at Bowdoin College in 1838, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 13, 1845. He is now livinij in Boston. 

William Bakkon Calhoun was born in Boston, December 29, 17)Hi, and graduated 
at Yale in 1814. It is not certain that he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but as a 
native of Boston he is included in this register. He finally settled in Springfield, and 
from 1825 to 1834 was a member of the House of Representatives and the last seven 
years its speaker. He was a member of Congress from 1835 to 1843, president of the 
State Senate in 1846-47, secretary of state from 1848 to 1851, state bank commissioner 
from 18.")3 to 1855, and mayor of Springfield in 185!). He was again a representative 
in 18()1. In 18.58 he received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst College, and died 
in Springfield, November 8, 1865. 

Sanj-uri) Ballard Dole, son of Daniel Dole, a native of Maine, and a graduate of 
Bowdoin College and of the Bangor Theological School, was born iu Honolulu in 
1844, where his father had gone as a missionary in 1840. The mother of the subject 
of this sketch was a Miss Ballard, of Bath, Me. He was educated partly at Penahou 
College in the Sandwich Islands and partly at Williams College, where he spent a 
year. He then studied law in the oflice of William Brigham, of Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 186K. He returned to the Islands, where he 
practiced law until 1887, when he was elevated to the Hawaiian Supreme Bench. He 
was a representative at the Islands in 1884 and 1886, and took an active part in the 
revolution of 1887. At the date of this sketch, January 29, 1893, news of a new revo- 
lution in the Islands has been received, the result of which has been the deposition 
of the queen and the establishment of a provisional government, with Mr. Dole as 
president, favoring the annexation to the United States. 

Charles Mayo Ellis, son of Charles and Maria (Mayo) Ellis, was born in Roxbury, 
December 23, 1818, and graduated at Harvard in 1839. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar February 10, 1842. He was a leading abolitionist and the author of a his- 
tory of Roxbury. He died in Brookline in 1878. 

William Thaddeus Harris, son of Thaddeus William Harris, the entomologist and 
librarian at Harvard, was born in Milton, Mass., January 25, 1826, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, 1853. He died in 18.54. 

Benjami.n Flint King, son of Daniel Putnam King, was born in Danvers, Mass.. 
October 12, 1830. and graduated at Harvard in 18.52. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar November 26, 18.56. He enlisted as a private in the Forty-fourth Massachu- 
setts Regiment in October, 1862, was made first lieutenant' Eighteenth Regiment 
Corps d'Afrique in December, 1863, and mustered out in August, 1864. He prac- 
ticed law in Boston, and died in Boston, January 24, 1868. 

John Palmer Wvman graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in November, 1880, and lives in Cambridge. He is the son of John Palmer 
Wyman, of the Harvard class of 1842. 

Setii J. Thomas, son of Bourne and Sarah (Dmgley) Thomas, was born in Marsh- 
field, Mass., November 29, ISCT, With an ordinary common school education he 




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went to Hostim in 1S2:!, and after engaging in business many years studied law and 
was admitted t" the SulTolk bar November 7, 184!). Ho married in 18^2 Ann Maria 
Stoddard, and is now at the age of eighty-five in active practice in Boston. 

James Bour.ne Freeman Thomas, son of the above, was born in Boston in 183!), and 
graduated at Harvard in 18(i0. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar rcbruary ~(), 
18)i3, and is in practice in Boston. 

JosHiA P. CdNVKRSF. was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and in 1852 
was a member of the Suffolk bar. He is now dead. 

Robert H. Buck was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 18.')7, and moved 
lo Colorado. 

Joii.N W. May was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1851, and is now dead. 

Benjamin G. Gray probably came to Boston from the British Provinces. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar February U, 1859, but is not now in practice in Boston. 

Wii.i.iAM Rogers was admitted to the Suffolk bar March Hi, 1844, and was for a 
lime associated in business \\nth Peleg Wliitman Chandler. He was also during the 
war one of the auxiliary staff of Governor Andrew. He is now dead. 

Charles Frederick Bi.ake graduated at Harvard in 1853 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, 1857. 

Seth TonEY was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 6, 1850, and was many years 
clerk of the Boston Police Court, having been appointed May 7, 1852. 

Henry Ware Mivzev, son of Rev. Arlenias Bowers Muzzey, graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in 1855, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 8 in that 
\ear. 

John Williams Hi'dson graduated at Harvard in 18.5(>, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June 5, 1862. He died in 1872. 

Jeremiah L. Newton was admitted to the Suffolk bar April Ki, IHOd, and is be- 
lieved to be dead. 

Andrew Otis Evans graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July, 1873. He died in 1879. 

George Strong Deriiv graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1801, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 12 in that year. He died in 1873. 

Joseph Nickerson was admitted to the Suffolk bar Uecember 1!), 1853, and is now- 
dead. 

George Sennoit was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1853. He w-ent to 
X'irginia and offered his services in the defense of John Brow-n. He is now dead. 

Phineas Aver w-as admitted to the Suffolk bar July 28, 1855. He is now- dead. 

Charles Hoighton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1850, and is now- 
dead. 

Sami'ei, Eldridge was admitted to the Suffolk bar hi August, 1847, and is now dead. 

Sn.As B. Hahn was admitted to the Suffolk bar November fi, 18,50, and is believed 
to have moved to Colorado. 

Joseph Meyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 14, 1849, and removed to 
New York. 
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450 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

John Seabi'rv Eldridge graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was an 
attorney at the Suffolk bar many years. He received the degree of Master of Arts 
from Dartmouth in 18(i4. He died in 1876. 

John S. Ahbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar January- 16, 1862, and is now dead. 

William A. Abbott was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1863, and removed 
to New York. 

John T. Paink was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1854, and is now dead. 

Nicholas St. John Grken graduated at Harvard in 18.51, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1853. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1858, and at one time a lect- 
urer at the Harvard Law School. He died in 1876. 

John Gallison Kino graduated at Harvard in 1838, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar July 26, 1840. He died in 1888. 

Thomas Cari.eton was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1869, and is now 
dead. 

Arthur Williams Au.stin graduated at Harvard m 1825, and was admitted to the 
Middlesex bar in 1828. He settled in practice in Boston in 1829, and died in 1884. 

.S,\MiEL Haskell Randall graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1859, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1 1 , 18G0. He is believed in have moved to New 
York. 

Samiel Edward Ireson graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 7, 1854. He died in 1875. 

James Jackson French graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 23, 1845. He removed to Toledo, ()., and died since 1890. 

Horace L. Hazelton was admitted to the .Suffolk bar April 26, 1847, and died in 
Boston. 

Milton Andros was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852, and went to California. 
William Knait was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1850. He was an 
assistant clerk of the old Boston Police Court,- and is now dead. 

ElU'Halet Pearson was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 20, 1850, and removed to 
New Orleans. 

Thomas Riley, son of Thomas and Rose (Smith) Riley, was born in the county of 
Cavan, Ireland, in December, 1846. The family of O'Reilly is among the most noted 
in Irish history. Its ancestor, Duach Galach, king of Connaught, was converted to 
Christianity in the fifth century by Saint Patrick, who baptized him on the banks of 
Loch Scola. For more than a thousand years the annals of Ireland trace it through 
a long line of powerful chieftains of East Breifay {county Cavan). The military- and 
civil achievements of its members include brilliant service in Austria, France and 
Spain during the last two centuries. The subject of this sketch came to Boston with 
his mother when four years of age, and received his education at the Boston public 
schools, including at the last the Quincy Grammar School. He began his career in 
the office of the Boston Post, where he remained several years and acquired that 
taste for learning which finally led him into a professional life. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and in Boston in the office of Benjamin F. Butler, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867 at the age of twentv-one. He was admitted also 



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to the United States Supreme Court in 1885. Few men at tlie bar have been admitted 
so young, and with the limited ad\antages enjoyed by him for academic study, his 
early admission sutliciently attests the industry and perseverance which have always 
characterized him. Since his admission he has always been in business alone, and, 
relying wholly on his own resources, with no patron to advise or aid him, he has 
achieved a success of which more favored children of fortune might be justly proud. 
It may be mentioned as an unusual circumstance that during his whole career he has 
never been assisted by senior counsel, and thus in the management of his suits in 
court as in the mf)ulding of his professional life his own skill and energy have been 
relied on, and have proved sutiicient for his work. His business has been largely in 
the criminal line, and during the last four years of the life of Joseph H. Bradley, at 
that time the leading criminal lawyer at the Suffolk bar, most of his defenses were 
assumed and coaducted by Mr. Riley. The remarkable verdict of acciuittal wrested 
by him from a jury, before whom in the trial of Joseph Fowle in 18HU the prisoner 
was identified as the operator in perhaps the most singular series of frauds ever per- 
petrated in an intelligent community, served to confirm a reputation for ingenuity 
and legal skill already well established. In his speech he is pungent, witty, and at 
times eloquent, and has always had the respect and confidence of the judges, without 
which success is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. He has devoted himself al- 
most exclusively to professional pursuits, seeking no political office, and looking for 
recreaticm ni his home and among his books, of which he has a choice and abundant 
collection, where he finds food for the further growth of his literary tastes, and of his 
already well stored mind. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven- 
tion in 1872, and has been president of the Charitable Irish Society, and occasionally 
indulges himself in writing essays and editorials, and in delivering lectures. He 
married in Charlestown, Margaret, daughter of the late Lawrence McCormick, an 
accomplished architect in the county of Longford, Ireland, and resides in Beacon 
street, Boston. 

HoK.vTio WofiiiMAN, brother of Cyrus Woodman, mentioned in this register, was 
born in Buxton, Me., March, 1821, and studied law in Boston with William J. Hub- 
bard and Francis O. Watts. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845, an<l 
was lost overboard from the Fall River steamboat, which left New Yorjc January 1, 
1879. 

Fi.ETciiKR Rannev. son of Ambrose A. Ranney, was born in Boston, and graduated 
at Harvard in 1883, and at the Boston University Law School in 1886. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is associated in business with his father. 

Alfred Ellingwood Giles graduated at Brown University in 1844 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and 
is still in practice in Boston. 

Sii.As FisiiEK Plimi'ton graduated at Yale in 1837, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar May 1, 1841. He practiced in Boston, and died in 1867. He graduated from 
the Harvard Law School in 1839. 

Benjamin Gridlev Bridoe graduated from the Harvard Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. He died in 1830. ' 

William Cusheng Avlwin was admitted as an attorney of the Common Pleas 
Court in Suffolk county in July, 1807, and of the Supreme Court in March, 1808. 



45i HISTORY Of THE BEACH AND BAR. 

March 7, 1825, he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for Suffolk, and July 5, 
1825, for Nantucket. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Har- 
vard in 18H1, and died in 1851. 

CiiAKi.KS Cii.MNCv Emkkson graduated at Harvard in 1828, and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1832. He was admitted to tlie Suffolk bar in October, 1832, and died 
in 1836. 

SiMDN FoKKKSTER B.\Ksiow was bom in Salem, and graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1841, and was admitted to the bar in Salem in 1840, and settled in Boston. 
He was on the staff of General Meade in the War of the Rebellion, and died in 1S82. 

Hk.\kv Ti kk Parkkr, son of Daniel P. Parker, was born in Boston in 1822, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1842. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1846. Not long after he took up his 
residence in London, England, where he remained until his death, which occurred 
since 1890. 

N.vrin.NrEi. Ai'-STIN P.\rks graduated at Harvard in 1839, and became an attorney 
at the Suffolk bar, and died in 1875. 

Gi'.OKCK Fk.\ncis Parkm.\n, son of Dr. George Parkman, was born in Boston in 
1824, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in 1846, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1847. He lives in Boston. 

Nai'Maniki, Morton, son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in 
Taunton, and graduated at Brown University in 1840. He graduated at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 22, 1844. He 
married Harriet, daughter of Francis Baylies, of Taunton, and died in 1856. 

Gkokcev Washington Minns was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar July 13, 1841. 

HoRAcr, BiNNKv Sarc.knt, son of Lucius Manlius Sargent, was born in Boston, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He entered service in 
the War of the Rebellion, October 12, 1861, as lieutenant-colonel of the First Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry, promoted to colonel October 30, 1862, to brevet major-general of 
United States Volunteers March 21, 1864, and discharged for disability Septem- 
ber 29, 1864. He is now living in the West. 

Jamks Ei.iKir Cahot was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. He 
graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
January 13, 1847. 

Wii.i.iAM Gardinkr PREScon, son of William Hickling Prescott, was born in Bos- 
ton, and graduated at Harvard in 1844. He graduated at the Harvard Law School 
in 1847, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 27, 1848. 

Georce Dunc^an Wei.i.s was born in Greenfield, and graduated at Williams College 
in 1846 and at the Harvard Law School in 1848. He was an attorney in Boston in 
1850, and May 31, 1859, was appointed associate justice of the Boston Police Court. 
He resigned his seat on the bench in the early part of the war and entered the serv- 
ice, and died in 1864. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 453 

Jamks M. Whitman, son of Kilborn and Elizabeth (Winslow) Whitman, was born 
in Pembroke, Mass., and studied law with his father. He was admitted to the Plym- 
outh county bar in lS3:i, and in 1834 settled in Boston. He subsequently returned 
to Pembroke, where he died a few years ago. 

CiiAKi.i-.s Pki.ec; Chandler graduated at Bowdoin College in l.S,")l and from the 
Harvard Law Schof>l in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May Ifi, 1857, and 
died in 18(i2. 

Jamks Buown Kenhai.i., son of Rev. James Augustus Kendall, graduated at Har- 
vard in 1854 and from the Harvard Law School in 1858. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 19, 1859, and died the same year. 

Jonathan Mason Parker, son of Samuel Dunn Parker, was born in Boston, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1846. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 28, 1849. He removed to New York 
and died in 1875. 

Ha.mii.ton Ai.i'HoNso Hii.i, graduated at Harvard in 185:5 and was an attorney at 
the Suffolk bar in 1859. He lives in Boston but is not in practice. 

RoiiEKT Orr Harris, son of Benjamin Winslow Harris, was born in East Bridge- 
water, Mass., and studied law with his father after graduating at Harvard in 1877. 
lie was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in February, 1879, and lives in East 
Bridgewater, with offices there and in Boston. He was chosen in November, 1892, 
district attorney for the Southeastern District. 

Franklin Hall graduated at Harvard in 1841 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1845, and .settled in Worcester 
county, where he died in 1868. 1 

Warren Tii.ton was born in Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1844, and at 
the Harvard Law School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1847. 

James Parker Treadwell graduated at Harvard in 1844 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar April 24, 18,50,. and is now practicing in Boston. 

Gkorc.e Hknrv Timmins graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard r.,aw 
School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suflfolk bar May 16, 1850, and died in 1875. 

John Touhinter graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in August, 1870. 

LoREN Henry Edson graduated at the ILirvard Law School in 1875, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He died in 1876. 

Olaus Caeiilus Moilton graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was 
an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871. He died in 1875. 

John Frederick Dodoe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1872. He died in 1878. 

John Ai.1!ERT Niikerson graduated at Brown University in 1867, and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1870, and 
died in 1874. 

Henry Barileit Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868 and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11, 1870. He died in 1872. 



4S4 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

HoRACK Hamilton Curkikr graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1 in that year. He died in 1879. 

Chari.ks Damon Rick graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 17 in that year. He died in 1876. 

Horack RuNDi.KTT Ciii-NKV graduated at Bowdoin in 1863 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1868. He was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 187.1, and died in 1876. 

Ari'hur Kdwin Adams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1868, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 28 in that year. He died in 1878. 

Fra.ncis Smith Grkard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1869. He died in 1874. 

Edward Wkston Gi.over graduated at Amherst CoUegein ls64and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1S66. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1866, and died 
in 1874. 

Eiiwakd Em Ensign graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at the Harvard I-aw School 
in 1865. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1865, and died in 1872. 

Ai.MARiNi) Fkrdinand B.'MiGER graduated at Bowdoin College in 18!)8, and at the 
Harvard Law School in 1864. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July V-\, 1W6;!. and 
died in 1867. 

Edward Sanderson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 186:5, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 9 m that year. He died in 187.'). 

Charles Lewis Swan graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 21. 1802, and died in 
1865. 

William Edward Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1.S60 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1862. He was admitted to tlic Suffolk b^r October 8, 1867, and died in 
1879. 

William Gardner Coliurn graduated at Harvard in 1860 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February U, 1862, and died in 
187.5. 

George Browne Pf.krv graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1.S61, and- was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 20, 1863. He died in 1867. 

Thomas Ai.deri Henderson graduated at Bowdoin College in 18.55 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 12, 1861, and 
died in 1H64. 

William Akad Tiiomtson graduated at Vale in 1857 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1860, and died in 1876. 

George Lane Sawin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860. He was an 
attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1863, and died in 1867. 

Charles Francis Dana graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1860. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 21, 1856, and died in 1867. 

Henry Coit Welles graduated at Har\-ard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1859, and died in 1869. 

John Wilder graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar December 22, 1857. He died in 1870. 





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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 455 

James Bakkk Mookf. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 18r)7. He died in 1872. 

Hknky Sai'oki) Gansf.voort graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1857. He died in 187L 

Pklec Tai.i.man graduated at Bowdoin in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 15, 1857, and died in 18fi3. 

ChakiksAicusti's Kimhai.i, graduated at Amherst in 1854 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 185(). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 185(), and died 
in INIiil. 

Jkkk.miaii I'rkm II graduated at the Harvard Law School in 185G, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in May of that year. He died in 1868. 

Gkor(;k Ai.iif.ki' Gkkkish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S.55, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 15, 185«. He died in 18(i6. 

William Paisley Field graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 16, 185(5, and died in 1859. 

AicisTis GooDwi.N Greenwood graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 28, 1855, and 
died in 1874. 

Horace Deank Hitchinson graduated at the Harvard Law School in IM.5;^, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1854. He died in 1861. 

RoHERT Wheato.n graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was an at- 
torney at the Suffolk bar in 1851. He died in 1851. 

Walter Herbert Jidson graduated at Brown LTniversity is 1847 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1849. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1850, and 
died in 1863. 

Neiiemiah Brown was lx>rn in Salem, and entered Harvard in the class of 1841. 
Leaving college before graduation, he studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in January, 1842. He has been many years an efficient clerk in the office of the 
secretary of the Commonwealth. 

Frederick LiiCKWooD Washbirn graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Har- 
vard Law SchtK)l in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1847, and 
died in I860. 

RoiiERi Farris Fisk graduated at Yale in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1X46. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 11, 1848, and died in 1863. 

LiiiiER Bi.od(;eit Giernsev gi'aduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, 1846. He died in 1856. • ^ 

RoHERT Hartlev Di Ni.Ai' graduated at Bowdoin in 1842 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 29, 1847, and died in 
the same year. 

John Gaoe Marvin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1844, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar August 30, 1845. He died in 1855. 

Geori.e Farrak graduated at Amherst in 1839 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11. 1844, and died in 1851. 



4s6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAH. 

Fkancis William Worthington graduated at the Han'ard Law School in 1843, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 30, 1 844. He died in 1850. 

James Alkxandkk AKiiorr, son of Thomas S. and Betsey (Lovejoy) Abbott, was 
born in Conway, N. H., in 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He studied 
law in Portland with William Pitt Fessenden, and graduated at the Harvard l-aw 
School in 1843. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1843, and died in 
1859. He married Hannah Kittredge, of Dover, N. H. 

Pkier Oliver graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 7, 1844. He died in 1855. 

Ciiaki.es Incersoli: graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, after graduating 
at Columbia College in 1839. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar February 9, 1843, 
and died in 1875. 

Henry David Ai sun graduated at Harvard in 183',» and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1841. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar in 1843, and died in 1S79. 

Frkderkk Wriciit graduated at Harvard in 1H31 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1, 1834, and died in 1846. 

Charles Amiurger Andrew graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1832, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 5, 1839. He died in 1843. 

CiiAri.es Frank Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875, and is now the 
conveyancer for the city of Boston. 

W. N. Ma.son was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1864, but is now dead. 

Abraham A. Dame was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1818, and is now 
dead. 

Isaac Fletcher Redfiei.d was born in Wethersfield, Vt., April 10, 1804, and grad. 
uated at Dartmouth in 1835. He was admitted to the bar in Vermont, and practiced 
in Derby in that State. He was State attorney for Orleans county from 1832 to 1835' 
and in the latter year he was appointed judge of the Vermont Supreme Court. In 
1852 he was appointed chief justice and resigned in 1860. In 1861 he removed to Bos- 
ton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 16 in that year. He remained in 
Boston until his death. He received the degree of LL.D. from Trinity College in 
1849, and from Dartmouth in 1855. He is the author of "A Practical Treatise on the 
Law of Railways," "The Law of Wills." "A Practical Treatise cm Civil Pleading 
and Practice with Forms," " The Law of Carriers and Bailments," '• Leading Amer- 
ican Railway Cases," and he also edited Story's "Equity Pleadings," and "Conflict 
of Laws," and " Greenleaf on Evidence." He married first Mary Ward, daughter 
of Ichabod Smith, of Stanstearl, Conn., .September 28, 1836, and second, Catherine 
Blanchard. daughter of Luther Clark. May 4. 1842. He died in Charlestown, Mass., 
March 23, 1876. 

Charles Demonu was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 27, 1*^4.'^. and is now 
dead. 

Everett Colby Banfield graduated at Harvard in 18.5(1, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar August 8, 1850. He removed to Washington, and died in 1887. 

Luther C. Redeield graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in June, 1875. He is not now practicing in Boston. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 457 

BisuROD F. Rice was admitted to the Suffolk bar Maixh fS, IHIil, and is thought tcj 
liave moved to New York. 

Ei.iHU C. Bakkr was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1854, and in ISHC was 
president of the State Senate. He removed to South Carolina, and died in Darling- 
ton in that State, December 6, 1887. 

Chaki.ks JoSF.rii Bkooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 180!), and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871. He died in 1889. 

Ai'sriN S. CisiiM.VN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1S.")8, and finally 
settled in New Bedford. 

TiioM.vs Denny graduated at Harvard in 1833, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in October. 1827. He died in 1874. 

Horace Edward Deming gfraduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1876. 

Frank Ralph Delano graduated at Trinity College in 1865 and from the Harvard 
Law School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1868. 

James Warren Marcv, son of Charles and Charlotte (AVarren) Marcy, was born in 
I'lvmouth, Mass., in 1818, and was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in De- 
cember, 1842. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1846. 

JdiiN Rih;i.;ks Mason graduated at Harvard in 180!) and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1H73. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 31, 1873. 

Henry Holmes Mather graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1868. He is still in practice. 

LoLis Kossi TH M.vi HER graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year. 

John George McKean graduated at Harvard in 1831 , and was a member of the 
Suffolk bar in 1835. He died in 1851. 

Irvine Greene McLarren graduated at Brown in 1873 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1874, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. 

Edwin Hale Abbot graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 

Charles Loiis Ackekman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year. 

C. B. K. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1852, and for many years was 
a notary public in active business. 

George Evereit Adams graduated at Harvard in 1H60 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 19 in that year. He en- 
listed as a private in the First Artillery Regiment of Illinois, April 19, 1861, and was 
mustered out in August of the same year, after three months' service. 

Sherman Wolcott Adams graduated at the Harvard Law ,^ili,„>l in Isiil, and was 
a member of the Suffolk bar in that year. 

Thomas Boylston Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1795. He died in 1832. 
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458 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Fkan'cis Edwaki) Ai.i-KKi) graduated at the Harvard I^aw School in 187(i, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875. 

Tai.hiit Jonks Ai.ukkt graduated at Harvard in IHOH and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 20, 1870. 

Thomas Ai,i.e;n graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1806. 

Wii.i.is Biivi) Ai.i.KN graduated at Harvard in 1878 and at the Boston Ihiiversity in 
1881, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1881. 

Charles Ai.mv graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law School in 
187(i. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877, and is still in practice. 

FisiiF.R Ames, son of Judge Seth Ames, graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the 
Harvard Law School in 18(i0. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, ISlil, 
and is now in practice. 

James Barr Ames graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1872. He was instructor in history at Harvard in 1872, and in 1877 was appointed 
Buz^'.ey Professor of Law at the Harvard I^aw School. He w^as admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1873. 

Samuel Ames graduated at the Harvard I^aw School in 1875, and was admitted in 
the Suffolk bar. 

Ri'Ki's Greene Amorv graduated at Harvard in 1778, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1782. He died in 1833. 

Thomas Coffin Amorv, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1841, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar October 28, 1844. He died in 1848. 

George Kirkl.vni) Amorv graduated from the Harvard Law School in 186!), and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 14, 1873. He died in 1886. 

Wn,LL\M Amorv, sen., graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1787. He died in 1792. 

Asa Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1783, and was a member of the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1856. 

James WiNrnRor Andrews, son of James Andrews, graduated at Harvard in 1824, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1828. He died in 1842. 

Sami'EL Andrews graduated at Harvard in 17S6, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1790. He died in 1841. 

Wh.liam Fo.ster ArriioRi' graduated at Harvard in 1818, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1824. He died in 1826. 

RoHERT EAsr Ari iMtor, son of John Trecothick and Mary (Foster) Apthorp, grad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1843, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Oc- 
tober 1, 1844. He died in 1882. He married Eliza Hunt, of Northampton. 

George Edward Ai'SLev graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1808, and was 
an attorney in Boston in 1869. 

H(jvvard Pavson Arnold graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1856. 

Henry Martvn A pklsson graduated from Harvard in 1861. and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 16, 1864. He died in 1887. 



Biographical register. 459 

I'krcy ArsTiN graduated at Harvard m ISTl, -mvX was an attorney at the Suffolk 
bar in 1875. He died in 1877. 

Fredkkilk Fan.ning Aykk graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was an attorney at 
the Suffolk bar in 1878. 

Francis Eaion Bamcock graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in May, 1878. 

I,r..\iKi [. Hoi,i,iNi;swoRrii Bahcock graduated at Harvard in 1873, and w'as admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. 

John Aim'leton Bailkv graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1855. y-He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, 1858. 

JamksMi'RRAY Bakkr graduated at Tufts College in 18(i5, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1807. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30 in that year. 

John Freeman Baker graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18fi3. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 5 in that year. 

Francis Vkrc;niks Bai.ch graduated at Harvard in lS.5i) and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1861. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April !), 1S(!1, and is now in 
practice. 

James Morton Bai.i.aru graduated at Harvard in 183(i, atul was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 25, 1840. He is still in practice. 

Soi.on Bancroei-, son of Emory and IlaiTiet (Batchekler) Bancroft, was born in 
Reading, Mass., July 22, 1839, and graduated at Dartmouth in 18(i4. He was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1866, and is still in practice. 

Chari.es a. Barnaro was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 23, 1805, and is now in 
practice. 

George Marshall Barry graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1872. 

Thomas Edward Barry graduated at the Hai-vard Law School in 1874. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 3 in that year. 

Charles Hknry- Barrows graduated at Harvard in 187(! and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1878. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1883. 

John Barrett graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1816. 

Edward L. Barney, a leading member of the Bristol county bar practicing in New- 
Bedford, was practicing also at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Stephen S. Bartlett was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now in i)rac- 
tice. 

Samuel Batchelder graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1854. 

Hamlet Bates is on the roll of Suffolk county attorneys in 1857, practicing in Chel- 
sea. He was appointed, May 6, 1855, justice of the Chelsea Polioe Court. 

James Edward Bates graduated at Har\'ard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar September 13, 1865. 



4<5o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

SAmuel W. Bates was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 6, 1853, and died some 
years since. He was for some years a teacher in the Boston public schools. 

Wai.dro.n Bails graduated at Harvard in 1879, and is now practicing at the Suf- 
folk bar. 

JosEi'ii NuKKKSciN Ba.\ ii-K .graduated at Harvard in 1S7."). and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June '.i, IMTfi. 

MoKCAN Wii.i.iAM Beach graduated at the Harvard Law School in lS7f<, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 1.") in that year. 

IriiAMAR Wauren Beaki) was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September 1844. 
He was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1856. 

Jciii.s Gkeci; Beckett graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1885. 

Euenezer Hint Beckrikd graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in March 1808. He died in 1869. 

Josiaii G. Bellows graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar February 19, 1867. 

Charles Bemis graduated at Harvard in 1808, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in ISIO. He died in 1874. 

William Frederick Bennett graduated from Harvard in 1868, and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 14, 1871. 

Samuel Arthur Bent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 11 in that year. 

Francis Hermoness Berick graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1861, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1863. 

Edward Detraz Bettens graduated at Harvard in 1873. and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1876. 

Kmokv O. Bicknell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Augu.st, 1869, and is now in 
practice. 

Ai.i'HEUS BioEi.dW graduated at Harvard in ISIO, and was an attorney at the Suf- 
folk bar in 1820. He died in 1863. 

Horatio Bicei.ow graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in January, 1838. He died in 1888. 

Timothy Bicelow graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar February 19, 1849. 

EiiAS Aaron Blackshere graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. 

Gkorc.e Bi.agdkn graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 18,59. He enlisted as second lieutenant of First Massachusetts Cavalry, De- 
cember 26, 1861, was promoted to first lieutenant July 27, 1862, to captain of Second 
Massachusetts Cavalry, January 13, 1863, to major March 1, 1864, and resigned June 
2, 1865. 

William Ci suing Binnev graduated at Harvard in 1843, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1845. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1846. He died in 
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btOGRAPHiCAL REGISTER. 461 

Francis Bi.anchard graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1805. He died in 1813. 

JdiiN H. Bi.ANCiiAKn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now in prac- 
tice. 

Wakrkn KtMiAi.L BLoDGivn graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was a member of 
the Suffolk bar in 1890, as he still is. 

AiiiioNso Warrfn Boardman graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in December, 1853. He is still in practice. 

SiMKo.N Borden graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1852. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar October 18, 1853. 

John Franklin Botume graduated at Har\'ard in 1876, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June 13, 1881. 

Benjamin Boirne graduated at Harvard in 1775, and received the degree of LL. D. 
from Brown University in 1801. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and became 
judge of the United States Circuit Court, and a member of Congress. He died in 

ISdS. 

Ja.mes Bowudin, probably James Bnwdoin Winthrop, who dropped the name of 
Winthrop, was the son of Thomas Lindall Winthrop, and older brother of Robert 
Charles Winthrop, now living in Boston. Thomas Lindall Winthrop married Eliza- 
beth Bowdoin Temple, a granddaughter of Gov. James Bowdoin, and daughter of 
Sir John Temple, British consul-general in the United States. The subject of this 
sketch was born in 1795, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1814. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1817, and died in 1833. 

Rowland W. Bovden was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is still in prac- 
tice. 

William Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel Bowditch, graduated at Harvard 
in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1841. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
October 5, 1841, and is now a leading conveyancer in Boston. 

John Oliver Bowman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 17 in that year. 

George Washington Boyle graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1809. He died in 1834. 

Orrin L. Bosworth, an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1871, is still in practice. 

George Bradbiirv graduated at Harvard in 1789, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1823. 

Daniel Neil Bradford graduated at Harvard in 1815, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 6, 1819. He died in 1821. 

George Hillard Bradeord graduated at Harvard in 1876, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. 

James Monroe Bradford graduated at the Harvard Law Siln".! in 1844, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 25, 1845. 

Ri'ssELL Bradford was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

Grenvii.i.e Daviks Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885 and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 



4^2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AN£> BAR. 

JosKi'ii Bai.i.'h Hraman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(58, and was ad- 
mitted to the SutTolk bar January 5, 1869. 

Andkkw Covi.k Braim.ey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18f>7, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 2fi in that year. 

Michael W. Brick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

George Patrick Bripgs graduated at the Harvard Law School in lS4(i. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14 in that year. 

CuKKOKi) Bkiciiam, SOU of Jud,s;e Lincoln Flagg Brigham, graduated at Harvard 
in 1880, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. 

Joseph Bricham graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1831. 

John Amhocrlain Brimmer graduated at Harvard in 1802. and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 180G. He died in 1807. 

Frankmn Iv. Bkooks was admitted to the Suffolk l)ar in 1888, and is now at the 
bar. 

James Wii.i.son Brooks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.')8 and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 18G0. 

Ale.xander p. Brow.n was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 27, 187(i. and is now 
at the bar. 

Edward RvKKETT Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at 
the bar. 

Edward Pa\sun Brown graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1807, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 24 in that year.' 

George M. Browne was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1841, and is living in 
Boston. He was at one time president of the Eastern Railroad. 

Henry Brown graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1807. He died in 1810. 

John P. Brown was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 10, 18(10, .-uul is now at the 
bar. 

Albert Gallatin Browne graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 8, 185G. He was the private secretary of (Tovernor Andrew 
during the war, and in 1867 was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 
Judicial Court. He reported in thirteen volumes from tile Berkshire September term 
in 1867 to the Suffolk March term in 1872. He edited jointly with John C. Gray, jr., 
tw^o volumes from the Suffolk March term in 1872 to the Suft'olk March term in 1873, 
and again alone, three volumes from the Worcester September term in 1873 to the 
Norfolk January term in 1874. He died in 1891. 

Ale.\.\nder Porier Browne graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1876. He is in active practice in Boston. 

J. Merrill Browne was admitted to the Suft'olk bar June IG, 1871, and is now in 
practice. 

William Alhert Brownlow graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 463 

Henrv H.m.i. BrcK graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 18TT. He was admitted to the SutTolk bar February 17. 1S7!), and is now at 
the bar. 

Walter N. Buffim was admitted to the Siirt'olk bar in 1884. and is now at the bar. 

RiFis Algi sri's Billock graduated at Harvard in 1871, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in December, 1877. He is now at the bar. 

Edward Pmii.lii's Burgess graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1855. 

William BiRNErr graduated at the Harvard I>aw School in 1858, and wa.s admitted 
to the Suffolk bar December 9, 1857. He died before 1880. 

Albert Foster Bikniia.m graduated at the Harvard I^aw School in 18(52, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar August 1 in that year. 

Charles Henry Birns graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar May 5 in that year. 

David Aikiusti's Bi'RR graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1861. 

Hemann Merrick Burr graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1885. 

George D. Burrage was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188(), and is now at the bar. 

William Lathrop Burt graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1853. He died in 1882. 

Henrv Foster Buswell graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 14, 1870. He is now at the bar. 

Franklin Jenness Bctler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 17, 1851. 

George Brown Bitler graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 30 in that year. He died in 1864. 

John E. Bitlek was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875, and is now at 
the bar. 

A. F. Butterworth was admitted to the Suffolk bar June !), 1862, and is now at 
the bar. 

Albert Clark Bizei.i. graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 27, 1868. 

Edwin Lasseter Bynner graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and is 
now practicing at the Suffolk bar. 

Jonathan Ware Bi 11 ekfiei d graduated at the Harvard Ivaw School in 1858, and 
was admitted to the .Suffolk bar before 1864. 

Francis Carnes graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in January, 1809. He died in 1860. 

Harrison Osborne Cassell graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19 in that year. 

Charles Frederic Chamherlavne graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1882. He practices in Boston and Sandwich. 



464 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Francis Dana Chanmnc graduated at Harvard in 1794, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1797. He died in 1810. 

Edward Mveks Clymek graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3 in that year. 

Kdward Twisi.ETON Cahot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice. 

Henry Bromkield Cahot graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice. 

James P. CAMPiiEi.i. was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now 
practicing in Boston. 

WiiJ.iAM Frani:is Canavan graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 11 in that year. 

James Ri'sseli. Garret graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July, 1871. He is now in practice. 

Wii.i.iAM Ward Carkii 11 graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18G9, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 17, 1868. 

John Bernard Carson graduated at the Harvard Law School in IS76, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in Februarj' of that year. 

Leonard T. Carvell was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 21, 1881, and is 
now in practice. 

Albert Wim.iam Casey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S78, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1879. 

Leander J. Cavanagh was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in jirac- 
tice. 

Wii.i.iAM G. CiiADKoi KNE was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 13. 1S7."), and is now 
in practice. 

Lendaii. Pins Cazeaix graduated at Harvard in 1S42, and is a member of the Suf- 
folk bar, though not in practice. 

Horace DwiiaiT CuAi'iN graduated at Harvard in 1S71, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in November, 1875. He is now in practice. 

Horace Rindi.ett Cheney graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S68, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. He is now in practice. 

Chari.es (t. Chick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871, and is now 
in practice. 

James Morse Chase graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1855. 

RuKUS Ciioate, jr., son of Rufus Choate, was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 
1858, and has been dead some years. 

Charles Marshall SrRiN(; Ciiirciiii.l graduated at Harvard in 1845, and at the 
Har\'ard Law School in 1848. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1850. 

J. P. S. Churchill was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now in practice. 

Arthur Blake Clait graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in May, 1879. 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 465 

(iRKKNLEAK Clark graduated at the Harvard I^aw School in 1857, and was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar June 25 in that year. 

Loi'is M. Clark was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lHf<4, and is now in jiractiee. 

(Ikorok L. Clarke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1HH7, and is now in practice. 

Samuel Greeley Clarke jfraduatcd at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted lo the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1853. 

Timothy W. Coakley was admittted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in prac- 
tice. 

George Oliver George Coale graduated at Harvard in 1874, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar January 8, 1878. He is now in practice as a patent lawyer. 

Charles Kane Cobh graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar May 24, 1879. He is now in practice. 

Ika M. Cobe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now in practice. 

James Macmaster Codman, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1884, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now in practice. 

Lewis Larned Coburn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1801. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. 

RiiHERi Couman graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 2, 1848, and is now in practice. 

Robert CoD.\L\N, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. 

John AiiGLSTi's Coffey graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1 1 in that year. 

Abraham B. Coffin was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858, and is now 
at the bar. 

C. P. Coffin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. 

Walter C. Cogswell was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878, and is now at 
the bar. 

Charles Shei'Herd Colburn gjraduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 13 in that year. 

EinvARD Card Conant graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar November 19, 1864. 

Albert F. Converse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1844, and is now at the bar. 

John Coni.an graduated at Harvard iir 1877, and was an attorney at the Suffolk 
bar before 1883. 

Frank Gavlord Cook was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the 
bar. 

William U. Cook was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1864, and is now at 
the bar. 

JiisKiH Ranooi.I'H CooLiiiGE graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 16, 1856. 
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466 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Thomas Biii'iMii Codi.idge graduated at Harvard in ISl!), and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar April 22, 1833. He died in 1850. 

Joii.N Hk.nky CcuM'UNiiAr.EN graduated at Harvard in 18()G, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in May, 1875. 

Declan D. Cor<()Ka.n was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1SS2. and is now at the 
bar. 

Hknrv Ward Beeiiier Cotton graduated at Harvard in 1877, and became a mem- 
ber of the Boston bar. 

Ai.oiNZo Cowan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1SS4, and is now at the bar. 

Rrius Bii.i.iNc.s Cowing graduated at the Harvard Law School in ISfilJ, and admit- 
ted to the bar March 7 in that year. 

David F. Ckane was admitted to the Suffolk bar September iit, 1857, and is now at 
the bar. 

Frederh'K Vj. Ckawei>ri> was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S8.1, and is now at 
the bar. 

Frank L. Cressy was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

Samuel Leonarij Crocker graduated at Brown University in 1856 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1859. He was admitted to the Suft'olk bar March 29, 1859. 

Ariel Ivers Cummings graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 39, 1857. 

Henry V. Cunningham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the 
bar. 

Charles P. Curtis 3d graduated at Harvard and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1887. He is now at the bar. 

Charles W. Cushing was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 187G, and is now at 
the bar. 

JosEi'ii CrsiiMAN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1856. He died in 1875. 

Akthur H. Dakin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. 

TuOker Daland graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in May, 1878. He is now at the bar. 

William Augustus Dame graduated at Harvard in is:ts, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar, and died in 1849. 

Charles Ross Darling graduated at Amherst in lfS74 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1878, and is now at 
the bar. 

Fdwin Davenpori graduated at Harvard in 18-18, and was a nu-iubcr of the Suffolk 
bar before 1854. 

William K. Davidson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1815, and is now at 
the bar. 

Augustus Brigham Da\is graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar. 



BtOGRAPFflCAL REGISTlLR. 467 

Bancroft Giikrakdi Davis graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. 

Frank M. Davis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. 

Jamks Day graduated at Harvard in 1806, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
October, 1810. He died in 1853. 

JcisKiii M. Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar January :), 1840, and after prac- 
ticing for a time in Boston removed to Barnstable, where he was for some years 
judge of probate of Barnstable county. He is now in practice in Brockton. 

Tikjmas Dkan was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1800, and is now at the bar. 

CiioKiiK WiiKAio.N Di-.ANs graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1848, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 24, 1848. 

JosiAH Stf.vkns Dkan, son of Benjamin and Mary A. (French) Dean, was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

A. E. Dknisiin was admitted to the Suffolk bar January \'l, 1875, and is now at the 
bar. 

Ariiiur Dkxter graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in October, 1855. 

E\ KKF.rr K. Dkxikr was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 180'.), and is now at the bar. 

EliwARl) RoiiiuNS De.xter graduated at Harvard in 184.'), and w.is adniiltod to the 
Suffolk bar in August, 1848. 

Wii.i.iA.M AisiiN Dickinson graduated at Amherst in lN.")(iaiul at the Harvard Law 
School in 1854. He was admitted to the Sufff)lk bar in June, 1854. 

(tKorce Walks Dii.i.awav gi-aduated at Harvard in 1805 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April 1808. 

Frank E. Di.mk k was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 1, 1870, and is now at the 
bar. 

Ei'Ks Sargent Dixwei.l graduated at Harvard in 1827, and was admitted to the 
Suft"olk bar in October, 1833. 

Edward Sherman Dodge graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at tlie Harvard Law 
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 3, 1877, and is now 
at the bar. 

Frederic Dodge graduated at Harvard in 186"^. and at the Harvard Law School in 
1H09. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1809, and is now at the bar. 

John H. P. Dodge was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1880, and is now at 
the bar. 

WiiiiAM \V. Dodge was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1874, and is now at 
the l)ar. 

Samlel DocjGEi-r graduated at Harvard in 1775, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
'<ar before 1784. He died in 1817. 

I'^DWARD F. Dole was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now 
at the bar. 

Joseph Donnison graduated at Harvard in 1807. and was an attorney in Boston in 
1811. He died in 1825. 



468 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Wu.i.iAM DoNNisoN, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1805, and was an attorney in Bos- 
ton in ISll. He died in 1823. 

DiDi.KV A. DoKR was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1871, and is now 
at the bar. 

EnKNKZKK Rn( iiiK DoKR graduated at Harvard in 1S18, and was admitted to tlic 
Suffolk bar in October, 1821. He died in 1873. 

Frkdkick C. I)i>wii was admitted to the Suffolk bar m July, 1S!)(). and is now at the 
bar. 

Ai.iii-.KT l)i)ri;i..\s graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S74, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk War in June of that year. 

Ika T. Dukw was admitted to the Suft'olk bar December 11, 1871, and is now at 
the bar. 

LoKKN/.o (iKiswoi.i) Diiiois graduated at Harvard in 187G and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1.S7S. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now at the 
bar. 

\Vn.i.i.\M Frkdkkic Dui'f graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880. 

H.AKKLSoN Di:niiam was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Okmoni) Horace Dutton graduated at Harvard in 18.53, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 185(). He died in 18G8. 

JoN.vriiAjN DwiiuiT graduated at Harvard in 1793, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar before 1807. He died in 1840. 

RuiiARD JosEi'ii DwvER graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was admitted to the 
Middlesex bar in January, 1888. He is now in practice>at the Suffolk bar. 

C. G. Dvi'.K was admitted to the Essex bar in 1879, and is now in practice at the 
Suffolk bar. 

Francis Benson Dver graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(!7, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 9, 1808. He died in 1881. 

Wii.i.iAM Bii.i.ARi) Durant graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the 
Surt'olk bar June 10, 1869. He is now at the bar. 

Francis Lowki.i. Dttton graduated at Harvard in 1831 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1834. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October. 1834, and died in 
1854. 

JosEi'HUS Easiman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 9 in that year. 

LiciEN Eaion graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar December 4 in that year. 

Henderson Josiaii Edwards graduated at Harvard in 1863, and is now practicing 
at the Suffolk bar. 

Arthur Blake Ei.i.is graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1877. He w-as admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879. 

Ciiari.es James Ellis graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 20, 1868. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 469 

EhwAKi) Thomas Ei.uorr graduated at Yale in 1858 and at the Hajvard Law 
School in 1801. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 27. l.S(M). 

Edward Bliss Emerson graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was a<lmitted to the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1829. He died in 1834. 

John Winslow Emerson graduated at the Harvard Law School in |S4!), and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 9 in that year. 

Akiihr Brkwsier Emmons graduated at the Harvard Law School in ISTT, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, 1879.' 

William Francis Engi.ev graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1809, and was 
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1872. He died in 1884. 

William Aiihot Everett graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1851. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1853. 

Glendower Evans graduated at Har\-ard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1882. 

William Fabens graduated at Harvard in 1832, and was admitted to the Essex bar 
liar in 1835. He settled in Marblehead, and there died in 1H83. He was a member 
of the Suffolk bar in 1852. 

John Fairbanks graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in July, 1808. He died in 1814. 

Henry Fales graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was admitted to the .Suffolk bar 
in 1807. He died in 1812. 

William Augistus Fales graduated at Harvard in 1800, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1809. He died in 1824. 

James Francis Faklev graduated at the Harvard Law School in IsfJS, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1867. He is now at the bar. 

Frank A. Farnham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1H90, and is now at the bar. 

Horace Putnam Farnham graduated at Harvard in 1843, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar March 15, 1847. 

John E. Farnham was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. 

Frederic R. Felch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S90, and is now at the bar. 

H. Parker Fellows was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1H72, and is now at 
the bar. 

Ma.\ Fischachek graduated at the Harvard Law .Scliool in IHOH, and was a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar in 1869. He is now at the bar. 

Frederick Perry Fish graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in May, 1878. He is now at the bar. 

George Albert Fisher graduated at Harvard in lHfi5 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 13, 1867, and is now 
at the bar. 

Samuel Fisher graduated at Har\-ard in 1810, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in September, 1813. He died in 1826. 

Edward Fiske graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
April 22. 1855. He died in 1870. 



470 History of the bench and bar. 

Isaac Fiskk graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar be- 
fore 1807. He setflbd in Weston, Mass., and died in 1861. 

John Minot Fiskt. graduated at Harvard in 181."). He was an attorney at the Suf- 
folk bar in 1818. and died in 1841. 

Daniki. FKA.sris FlTZ graduated at Harvard in lS."i!), and was admitted to tin- Suf- 
folk bar September 13, 1862. 

1'. J. Fi.Aii.i:v was admitted to the Suffolk bar January IK, ISid, and is now at the 
bar. 

Wii.i.iAM L. Foi.i.AN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Anijukw Fi>.siKK graduated at Harvard in 183:!, and was admitted to the Sulfolk 
bar in 1837. He died in 1879. 

CiiAKi.Ks Amos Fo.stek graduated at the Harvard Law .School in 18.")3, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 10, 18.5."). 

Jamks Fosti>;k graduated at Harvard in IsOti. arid was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in January, 1815. He died in 1817. 

Kai.iii \V. Fosiek was admitted to the Sulfolk bar in 188.5, and is now at the bar. 

Reimnai.I) Foster was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. 

Naih AMEi. A. Francis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at thr- 
bar. lie lives in Hrookline, where he has been an assessor of the town. 

Naihamei. Fkki-:man graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was a member of the Suf- 
folk bar in 1793. He died in 1800. 

Georiie B. Fkencii was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1876, and is now at 
the bar. 

Lyman P. French was admitted to tlic .Suffolk bar in 1890, and died in Jaiuiarv. 
1892. 

Henry Walker FR(iSi graduated at Harvard in 18,58, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar September 11, 1861. He is now at the bar. 

John Fro'IIIincham graduated at Harvard in 1771. and was a member of the Suf- 
folk bar. He died in 1826. 

NAiiiANiEi. Langdon Frothingham graduated at Harvard in 187.5, and was admit- 
ted to the Suffolk bar in 1880. 

Horace W. Fuller was admitted tf) the Suffolk bar in February, 18.57, and is now 
at the bar. 

George Washington Frank gi-adualcd at the Harvard Law .School in 1876, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. 

John Henry French graduated at Brown in 18.5.5 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 18.57. He died in 1887. 

Charles Kdward Fii.ton graduated at the Harvard Law Schobl in 1860, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in April of that year. He died in 1871. 

RiFUs Greene Amorv Freem.vn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1847, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1849. 

William B. French was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 6, 1873, and is now 
at the bar. 




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John Ci'TTKK Gai;k {jraduated at Harvard in ISfiii, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar September 1, 1858. 

Gehkgk Gordon (Jammans graduated at Harvard in 1875 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1878. 

Fairkanks a. W. Gates was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the 
bar. 

Isaac GArns graduated at Harv;ird in 18tl2, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
April, 1806. He died in 18o2. 

Amorv Thompson Gibbs graduated at Harvard in 1S51, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 24, 1857. 

Georgk Ai.rnoNso GntsoN graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in February, 1877. 

Uavid Gilbert graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
before 1807. He died in 1842. 

Frederick C. Gii. Patrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S89, and is now at the 
bar. 

C. I. GiuuiN(;s was admitted to the Suffolk Ijar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Frank Eliot Glover was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the 
bar. 

Hor.mto N. Glover, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the 
bar. 

George Augustus Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1805 and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is 
now at the bar. 

Mairice Goddard graduated at Harvard in 1804 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1867. He died in 1884. 

Jacob Goldsmith was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 2, 1876, and is now at 
the bar. 

W. W. Gfiocii, son of Daniel Wheelwright Gooch, graduated at Harvard in 1880, 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. 

Frank Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1863, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar June 22, 1865. He is now at the bar. 

Charles Peritvai. Gorelv graduated at Harvard in 18.")7, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 12, 1870. He is now at the bar. 

OziAS Goodwin graduated at Harvard in 1858, and was a<lmiltcd to the Suffolk bar 
< ictober 10, 1862. He died in 1878. 

Wade Hamiton Gardiner was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 12, 1802. 

Richard Goodman graduated at Amherst in 1869 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1871. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1874. 

Dana B. Gove was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 1870, and is now at 
the Suffolk bar. 

Horace D. Gove was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1875, and is now at the 
bar. 



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472 HISTORY OF THF. BENCH AND BAR. 

William Hk.nkv Gove graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law \ 

School in 1S77. He was admitted to tlie Essex bar in 1872, and in 1883 was at the ' 

Suffolk bar. 

John Hknkv Gkav graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in October, 18:J(). He died in 1850. 

Lkvi Gkav graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
October 31, 1854. 

John Cllnlon Gray graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18()(i, and was ad. 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 17 in that year. 

Ri'ssELL Gray graduated at Harvard in 18G9, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in December, 1872. He is now at the bar. 

CiiARLKs AiiGL'.sTL's GREGr)Rv graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar March 18, 1857. 
J Akiiiiiiai.I) Hknkv Grimkf. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was 
admitted to the .Suffolk bar in October, 1875. 

Jonathan Grout graduated at Harvard in 17i><), and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1835. 

Emkrv Gkover was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 18(i!), jnul is now at the 
bar. 

Horace Graves graduated at Harvard in 18fi4 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 28, 1867. 

Benjamin Daniel Greene graduated at Harvard in 1812, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in September, 1815. He died in 1862. 

LiciAN BisUEE Thompson, second son of Cakes and Livonia (Banks) Thompson, 
was born in Hartford, Oxford county. Me., January 29, 1838. He is a direct de- 
scendant from John Thompson, who came to Plymouth, Mass., on or before 1623, 
and married Mary, daughter of Francis Cooke, one of the M ayfloivcr passengers. 
He was educated at Hebron Academy and at Tufts College, where he graduated 
in 1863, taking high rank in his class, though absent a part of the course engaged 
in teaching. He assisted in raising a company in the War of 1861, and in 1864 was 
commissioned for the recruiting service in Georgia and South Carolina, with head 
quarters at Hilton Head. He was at Savannah and Charleston with Sherman's 
army, and assisted General Anderson in raising the old flag at Fort Sumter, April 
14, 1865. On his return north at the close of the war, he studied law for a year in 
the office of his brother, Roscoe H. Thompson, of Canton, Me., and was admitted to 
the Oxford county bar in 1866. He then entered the Harvard Law School, where 
he graduated in 1867, and after a further study in the office of Lothrop & Bishop, of 
Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1868. In 1867 he was appointed 
bankruptcy clerk in the clerk's office of the United States District Court, where he 
remained seven years, and where he had an opportunity which he improved of be- 
coming familiar with the decisions of the United States courts. On the resignation 
in 1869 of Charles M. Ellis, the register in bankruptcy, Mr. Thompson's name was 
favorably presented to Chief Justice Chase for the vacancy by a large number of 
the leading members of the Suffolk bar, but the apiJointnient was given to General 



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K. \V. Palfry, whose military service, and wounds, from which he was still siiffyrinjj, 
entitled him to prior consideration. Mr. Thompson retired from the office in 1874 
and entered on the practice of law, establishing in a short time a large and success- 
ful business, the greater' part of which was connected with the United States 
courts. He was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court in 1881. 
An interesting case, in which Mr. Thompson acted as counsel, \v;is that of Helen J. 
Ward, who in 187!) was charged with the murder of her mother at their rooms in 
Hamilton Place, Boston. Mrs. Ward was shot in the head with a bullet from a pis- 
tol which had some time before been given to the daughter by a clerk at the Parker 
House whom she was engaged to marry. A wound was also inflicted on the temjile 
l)y some implement not discovered by the government, which fractured the skull 
from ear to ear. Mr. Thompson prosecuted the defence with untiring energy and 
skill, and against strong circumstantial evidence secured the discharge of the accused 
on the plea of somnambulism, although no other instance of a like hallucination had 
appeared in the girl's history. A successful defence on such aground was the more 
remarkable because the defence and verdict in the case of Albert J. Tirrell, the only 
other case in Massachusetts in which, in a capital case, such a plea had been suc- 
cessfully made, had provf)ked almost universal condemnation. In 1880, and again 
in 1889. with health impaired by professional work. Mr. Thompson traveled exten- 
sively in Europe, and since his last return has devoted himself chiefly to office prac- 
tice in the department of mercantile law. An independent in politics, he has never 
sought nor held political office. He has never married, but for several years has 
maintained for htmself and his sisters a home in the Dorchester District of Boston. 
TitoM.\s Parker Proctor, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Parker) Proctor, was born 
in Chelmsford. Ma.ss.. June 27, 1831. His mother. Elizabeth Parker, was a native of 
New Boston, N. H., while on his father's side, the Proctor family during seven gen- 
erations had lived on the same homestead in South Chelmsford. His great-grand- 
father was an officer in the War of the Revolution, and his father was an officer in 
the War of 1812. Mr. Proctor attended school in Chelmsford under the instruction 
of Emerson C. Whitney, a good teacher and a valued friend, and after fitting for 
college at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Yale College in 1850. While pursuing 
his college course his old teacher and friend, then living in Middleton, N. Y., m 
charge of the classical department of the State Academy, was .stricken with his last 
sickness, and he left college to look after the comfort of his latter days. On the 
death of Mr. Whitney his position was offered to Mr. Proctor, and its duties were 
performed by him for a single year. In the mean time he kejit up his college studies, 
and in 18,">3 entered the junior class at Harvard, and graduated with a part at com- 
mencement in 1S.')4. In the year of his graduation he entered the law office of Charles 
Tracey in New York city, and was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn on examination 
in the latter part of 1854. In 1855 he entered the Harvard I^aw School, engaged a 
part of the time while there in assisting Professor Parsons in the preparation of notes 
to his law books, and graduated in lK5(i. He was admitted to the Suffolk tjar May 
6, 1856, and soon after became associated with Harvey Jewell, with whom he re- 
mained two years. He then practiced alone until 1862. when he formed a connccti(m 
with William Wirt Warren, which continued until the death of Mr. Warren in 1880. 
From 1880 to 1884 he was the senior member of the law firm of Proctor. Brigham & 
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474 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Tappan, and after anain practicing alone four years became the senior member of 
the firm of Proctor, Tappan &• Warren, which still continues. Mr. Warren is the son 
of his earlier partner. Mr. Proctor has always devoted himself a.ssiduously to his 
professional duties, and with the exception of the office of trial justice at Jamaica 
Plain for one year, has never accepted a public position. He has, however, always 
felt a deep interest in social progress and political reform, and devoted to their cause 
such time and effort as could be spared from his professional pursuits. The practice 
of Mr. Proctor covers a considerable range of legal causes, including cases in bank- 
ruptc\-, admiralty, patents, questions on the construction of wills and statutes, and 
actions relating to real estate. He is a trustee of many estates, some of which are 
large, and has been largely employed as counsel in commercial and corporation 
matters. His preparation of cases is marked by thoroughness, and their management 
in court by ingenuity and skill. His reputation is that of a conscientious lawyer, 
devoted to the cause of his client whose interests he seeks, not necessarily by a trial, 
but by a settlement if possible on fair and equitable terms. He married. May 27, 
lH.i7, Lueena Sarah, daughter of Amos and Mary Spalding, of Billeriea, Mass., who 
died May 1, 1868, leaving three children, George B., Sarah L and Mary Bessie; the 
oldest, George B., dying March 3, 18()9. He married again, April 38, 1870, Sarah 
(Miller) Street, of Boston, who died December 16, 18T9; and a third time, June 7, 
1883, Abby, daughter of Soutlnvorth and Abby ShurtlefF Shaw, of Boston. His 
residence is at Jamaica Plain. 

H.WTEK E. Pkrkv, son of Rev. Baxter and Lydia (Gray) Perry, was born in Lyme, 
Grafton county, N. H., April 26, 1826. He fitted for college at Thetford, Vt., and 
graduated at Middlebury College. He studied law with Ranney & Morse, of Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 19, 18i)o. He married at Hanover, N. H., 
August 26, 18.51, Charlotte S., daughter of John and Nancy (Stickney) Hinigh. Mr. 
Perry is descended on his father's side from a family which settled at an early date 
in Watertown, Mass., and moved to Worcester in 1751. On his mother's side he is 
descended from a family of .Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, forming a part of the immi- 
gration of those people into Massachusetts in 1718. For some years before entering 
the profession of law he was engaged in teaching as principal of the Chester Acad- 
emy in \'ermont. His business is a general one and its pursuit, which he has made 
the main work of his life, has been successful. With the exception of the office of 
trustee of Middlebury College, and a membership at one time of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives, he has permitted no offers of place or power to lure him 
from the paths of professional life. A few collegiate and other public addresses 
which he has been induced to deliver, display a literary taste and culture which bear 
proof that his studies and thought arc not, however, confined within the limits of the 
lield of law. 

D.v.NiEi, Wehstku, son of Kbcnczer and Abigail (Ea,stman) Webster, was born in 
Salisbury, now Franklin, N. H., January 18, 1782, and received his early education 
at Phillips Exeter Academy .ind under (Jie tuition of Rev. Samuel Wood, of Hos- 
cawen, N. H. He graduated at Uarlmouth in 1801, and studied law in the office of 
Thomas W. Thompson, of Salisbury, and in that of Christopher Gore in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1805. He began practice in Boscowen, 
but in 1807 removed to Portsmouth, where he remained mitil Tunc, isu;, when he es- 



JilOGRAPHICAL REGISTEH. 47 S 

tablished himself in Boston. He married in June, 1808, Grace Fletcher, of Hopkin- 
t<in, N. H., who died January 21, 1828. In Ueeember, 182(1, he married Caroline 
i,e Roy, of New York, and died in Marshfield, October 24, 18,")2. 

The above meajjrc sketch of his life is sufficient for this record. A memoir of a man 
of whom so much has been written by other hands would be supertUious here, and such 
a one as the limits of this work would permit would be unsatisfactory. It is the design 
of the writer to speak of him asaprivate citizen, not astatesman, asaneighbor, not a 
lawyer, as a friend irrespective of his position in the nation, as the grandest example of 
human development which the institutions of America have produced. For this pur- 
pose he is pernutted to use the sketch prepared by him for the pages of the Plymouth 
County History. Tlie life of Mr. Webster is yet to be written. Exact justice has 
never yet been awarded him. Those who worshipped him as their idol have pre- 
sented one side r)f his character, forgetful or neglectful of the other, while those who 
have inherited the prejudices of his contemporary opponents have dwelt on his faults 
and overlooked those grand traits in his character, which in the nature of man must 
necessarily be balanced by those which are less commendable and attractive. His 
character was like his native State, showing on its surface the mountain peaks and the 
lower lands of the valley. The mountain cannot exist without the intervale, nor Can 
extraordinary intellectual jiowers be found in man without corresponding frailties to 
preserve the equipoise of a general level. 

In 182."i Mr. Webster was a member of the Nineteenth C(mgress, having taken 
his seat for the first time the year before. He had already won a national rej)u- 
tation. He had then delivered at Plymouth the anniversary oration on the 22d 
of December, 182(1; he had made his great argument in Gibbon against Ogden, 
in which, in accordance with his views, the court decided that the grant by the 
State of New York to the assignees of Robert Fulton of the the right to navigate 
by steam the rivers, harbors and bays of the State was unconstitutional ; and he 
had delivered his memorable oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Hunker 
Hill monument. In the summer of that year, as had been his custom for several 
years, he went with his wdfe and son, Fletcher, to Sandwich, Mass., to enjov a 
season of fishing for trout. Before leaving Boston, in a conversation with Mr. 
Samuel K. Williams, Mr. Williams asked him why he did not go to Marshfield in- 
stead of Sandwich. The description of Marshfield impressed hint favorably, and he 
determined to visit it on his return. After he had taken all the fish he wanted, he 
bade his old friend, Johnny Trout, the fisherman and guide at Scusset, good-bye, and 
he and his wife in an old fashioned chaise, with a trunk lashed to the axle, and his 
son, Fletcher, mounted on a pony, started for home, with the determination to stop 
at Marshfield on the way. Mr. Williams had given Mr. Webster directions to see 
Capt. John Thomas, a respectable and intelligent Marshfield farmer, who would 
doubtless be glad to entertain him, and give him all the information he might need 
about that part of the country. Captain Thomas was then the owner and occupant 
of a comfortable home and a farm of about one hundred and sixty acres. This farm 
was all that was left of his ancestral estate, the remainder, while in possession of his 
father, Nathaniel Ray Thomas, a conspicuous loyalist, having been confiscated when 
he left New England in 1776, and went with the British army, after the evacuation 
of Boston, to Nova Scotia. This portion was saved to his wife as her right in the 



47^ HIS70RV OF THF, liENCH AND BAk. 

estate of her husband. Captain Thomas was the only child who did not accompany 
his father, and consequently the farm came finall)- into his hands. Up to the time 
of the confiscation the estate had remained intact, from the time of the original grant 
by the Plymouth Colony to the ancestor, William Thomas, on the 7th of January, 
1640-41. William Thomas was one of the merchants of London who furni.shed the 
Pilgrims with capital and vessels for their emigration to New England, and were 
partners in the enterprise. He was one of several of the merchants wh<j finally cast 
their fortunes with the Pilgrims, and he came in the Marye and Ann from Yarmouth, 
England, in 1037, and .settled in Marshlield. Adjoining the lands of Mr. Thomas 
were those of Edward Winslow, bounded out to him hy the Colony Court on the 4th 
of December, 1(>;57. These two estates, including about twenty-seven hundred acres, 
had at the time of Mr. Webster's visit nearly passed out of the Thomas and Winslow 
families, except the acres held by Capt. John Thomas, a lineal descendant from the 
ancestor, William Thomas, and to the farm-house standing on these acres, on a fine 
autumn day, Mr. Webster wended his way. After leaving Duxbury Mr. Webster 
took the wrong road, and instead of approaching the farm from the south, he made 
a detour and fortunately approached it from the north. From the various points of 
view on this northerly road, the farm with its sunnj' meadows and placid lake and 
comfortalile dwelling, nestling as if for protection under the spreading branches of 
the since famous elm, showed to the best advantage, and Mrs. Webster, with a woman's 
eye for beauty, was enthusiastic iii her admiration of its attractive charms. As the 
chaise with its hanging trunk, followed by the pony with Fletcher on its back, was 
driven down the avenue, Cai)tain Thomas with his son, Charles Henry, now living in 
Boston, was sitting on the piazza. The hospitable farmer stepped out to meet his 
visitor, whoever he might be, as he alighted from his chaise, and it is not difficult to 
imagine the feelings with which this modest, hard-working, home-loving Marshfield 
man received the outstretched hand of his guest. '• This is Captain Thomas?" said 
Mr. Webster. " Yes," said the farmer. " I am Mr. Webster," continued the visitor. 
"I thought so," said the captain, and this was the introduction to a friendship 
which continued to strengthen until broken by death, aiid which was as full of 
devotion and reverence and love as ever a friendship between man and man could 
boast. It is no feeble answer to the cavils of the critic, to the censures of ex- 
ploring biographers, who scratch and scrape the burnished gold in search of a 
baser metal beneath, to the unjust and unjudicial strictures <m the character of 
Mr. Webster, that he inspired the affection and esteem of an honest, clear-headed, 
intelligent, pure-minded man like Captain Thomas, who for years had measured and 
weighed and sounded the man, the very fibres of whose heart he had touched, and 
whose innermost life had been spread out daily before him. The result of the inter- 
view was an invitation to stay over the night, and for two or three days Mr. Webster 
with his wife and son remained as welcome guests at the farm. During those two or 
three days he became acquainted with Seth Peterson and Porter Wright, the two men 
wlio were afterwards his right and left hand in his ilarshfield life. He shot birds on 
the marshes, he fished for cod in the bay, he was satisfied that at last he had found 
the right place for his vacation, recreation and rest. From that time forth until he 
finally bought the estate, the recurrence of dog days found him annually a g^est at 
the Marshfield farm. The interest which he felt in Captain Thomas and his wife ex- 



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tended to his sons, Charles Henry and Nathaniel Ray. Charles was the elder son 
and his father's helpmate on the farm. Nathaniel Ray, or Ray, as he was always 
called, was the younger son, and still attending school under the care of Rev. George 
Putnam, then a teacher in one of the [jublic schools in Du.xbury. The attractive de- 
Iicirtmentof Ray, whose future course of life was not yet marked out, especially inter- 
ested him, and it was not long before he drew him to himself and directed his career. 
When Mr. Webster was about to start 'for Boston at the close of his visit. Ray hap- 
pened to be holding by the halter a handsome horse belonging to his father which 
attracted Mr. Webster's attention. "Captain Thomas," said he, " I like that halter, 
I would like to buy it." The request was no sooner made than acceded to, and the 
boy was told to take the halter off and place it in the chaise. " Oh, but I want the 
halter with the head in it," said Mr. Webster. And thus the horse «as bought, and 
the purchaser started for Boston with it tied behind the chaise, forming, with Fletcher 
and the pony in the rear, a procession which the statesmen of to-day would hesitate 
to e.xhibit on the highway and in the streets of the city. On his return from a subse- 
quent visit, he said to Ray, "Get into my chaise and go to Boston." The father 
was willing, and the son went with a glad heart, going to Mr. Webster's house in 
Summer street and remaining there during his stay in Boston. On the next day he 
was told to take Mr. Webster's satchel and accompany him to the Su])reme Court, 
where he was to argue an important flowage ease, in which parties in Lowell were 
the plaintiffs and defendants. For the first time in a great city, this country lad was 
launched at once from the quiet shades of a farm, not to the novel sights and sounds 
of the streets of Boston, as many a country lad has been before and smce, but into 
the great arena in which the foremost men of the day, Webster and Mason, were the 
contestants. Through the livelong day, this boy of sixteen, with brown hands and 
tanned face, sat within the bar, listening and wondering if this were the world out- 
side of which he had been born, and for the duties of which the schools whose irk- 
some requirements he had been compelled to meet, were the means of ijreparation. 
From that time Ray Thomas was practically the ward of Mr. Webster, and Mr. Web- 
ster was his guardian. Me was placed at first in the store of Trott & Bumstead, 
wholesale grocers in South Market street, and after the Stephen W'hite murder trial 
in Salem, in which Mr. W'ebster acted as an assistant to the government attorney, 
in the counting-room of Stephen White, the nephew of the murdered man and the 
father of the lady who afterwards became the wife of Mr. Fletcher Webster. But he 
remained in neither of these places long ; Mr. Webster wanted him nearer to himself, 
and in the end he became his confidential secretary, the manager of his western 
lands, atid his other self in everything outside of his professional duties, except his 
affairs at Marshfield, which were mainly conducted under the faithful and assiduous 
care of Mr. Charles Henry Thomas, the elder son of Captain Thomas. The early 
death of Ray Thomas was a sad affliction to Mr. W'ebster, and one from which he 
did not easily rally. Though his business manager left behind him a trunk filled 
with im])ortant papers, an early examination of which was essential to the successful 
issue of enterprises in which Mr. Webster was engaged, six months elapsed before 
he could so far compose himself as to be able to examine its contents, surrounded as 
they were with associations of his loved young friend. This was one of the illustra- 
tions of that carelessness in money affairs of which the thrifty critic complains. But 
it illustrated something more, something as much higher than book-keeping and 



478 HIS'WKY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

thrift, as a tender, generous heart is nobler than one whose grief by the bedside of a 
dying parent is assuaged by the thought of a coming legacy. After the annual visits 
of Mr. Webster to Marshfield for several years. Captain Thomas became somewhat 
embarrassed pecuniarily, and made a proposition to him to buy his farm. Mr. Web- 
ster objected at first on the ground of poverty, but at last consented to buy with the 
express understanding, suggested and demanded by himself, that Captain Thomas 
and his wife should live in the house and occupy the farm, and as long as they lived 
treat both as their own. That higher regard for money, which would have com- 
mended him to the approval of meaner natures, or in other words, a sordid spn-it and 
a harder heart, would have driven a closer bargain than this. He never believed, 
however, that man, more especially such a man as he knew himself to be, 
with transcendent and ever outreaching powers, was made to count gold and 
cut coupons and accumulate money. Judged by such a standard, the Indian 
with his wigwam filled with wampum was deserving of as much respect and 
honor as the millionaire with his trunks packed with what we only in a higher 
state of barbarism are pleased to call wealth. Money to him was the means, 
not the end of life. The goal to be reached was the highest development of man's 
powers, the richest and rankest growth of affections, the supremacy of man over the 
accidental and incidental circumstances which attach themselves to his worldly and 
bodily existence and comfort. This was the s])irit which animated Mr. Webster in 
the arrangement made with Captain Thomas, and during five or six years the cap- 
tain and his w^ife remained occupants of their old homstead, and after that the widow- 
divided her time between the Marshfield farm and the residence of her son, Charles, 
in Duxbury. At this residence Mr. Webster would also occasionally stay during 
short visits to the Old Colony while his own house was undergoing repairs. It was 
situated on a commanding eminence overlooking Plymouth Bay, the Gurnet Light, 
Barnstable Bay, and the north shore as far as Minofs Ledge. The view from the 
chamber which he there occupied he said was the most beautiful he had ever seen, 
and there at half-past three on a summer morning he might have been seen sitting 
in an arm chair by the window, waiting for what he considered the most impressive 
spectacle in life, the break of day. He w-ondered that so many persons in the world 
should neglect the opportunity of witnessing that daily but sublime exhibition. 

The earliest recorded deed of Marshfield land to Mr. Webster was from Peleg 
Thomas Ford of thirty-seven acres, for a consideration of §825, and dated September 7, 
1 8:51 , though the agreement for the purchase of the Thomas farm was made before that 
date. The deed of the latter was for one hundred and sixty and one-half acres for a 
considei;ation of $3,050, and dated April 3:!. lH;i2. This deed included the house and 
outbuildings, and tillage, pasturing, mowing and wood-land and fresh and salt 
meadow'S on both sides of the main road. This deed was followed by others from 
Charles Henry Thomas of two and three-quarters acres and five rods for $130, July 
6. 1832; from the same of one hundred and sixteen and one-quarter acres and thirty 
rods for $2,2(10, April 1(5, 1833; from Benjamin Lewis of four and three-quarters acres 
and twenty rods for $00.40, December 30, 1833 ; from Ebenezer Taylor of one acre and 
nine rods for $42.25, March 3, 1834; from Charles P. Wright of two acres and thirty- 
two rods for S110.(!2, March 3, I8:M; from Asa Hewitt of seven acres and twenty-one 
rods for $3(10, May 17, 1834; from Henry Soule of eighty-five and one-half acres for 
$500, October 20, 1834; from Charles Henry Thomas of three hundred and seventy- 



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three acres for §10,000, August 10, 1836; from Elizabeth Whitman of eleven acres for 
$311), Au^fust 10, 1830; from Charles P. Wright two tlceds of twelve and a quarter 
acres for $0.")2. 31, August 20 and 22, 1830; from Asa Hewitt of eighty-six rods for 
$80.02. August 22, 1830; from Charles Henry Thomas of eight and three-tjuarters 
acres for $300, December 20, 1838; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy acres for $1.^00, 
November 1, 1838; from Charles Henry Thomas of eighty-seven acres for S-t,0(H), 
March 19, 1840; from Eleazer Harlow of seventy-two acres for $2,000. April 1, 1840; 
from Charles Baker of seventeen acres and seventy-six rods for $350. July 8. 1844 ; 
from Ebenezer Taylor of twenty-se\en and three-quarters acres and thirty-two rods 
for $1,084, July 8, 1844; from Elizabeth Whitman of one acre for $40, September 3, 
184."); from Gershom B. Weston of sixty-four acres and tifly-three rods for $1,000, 
April 0, 1851 ; from the Duxbury >[anufacturing Company of factory privilege, dam, 
etc., for $3,0(!(), Ajiril 12, 1851. and from Joseph P. Cushman of fifty-two and a quar- 
ter acres for $1,000, September 30, 1852. All of these purchases covered about twelve 
hundred acres, costing the sum of $34,644.20 as the original outlay. It is estimated 
by those who had an opportunity to know, that above the annual receipts from the 
farm the annual expenditure for at least fifteen years was $3,50(1, making the farm at 
Mr. Webster's death represent a cost, without interest, including the purchase money, 
of $87,144.20. It had been the ambition of Mr. Webster to gather into his hands the 
entire tract of twenty-seven hundred acres granted l)y the Colony Court to William 
Thomas and Edward Winslow, and it is probable that if he had lived a few years 
longer he would have approximately accomplished his object. 

Of the life of Mr. Webster in Marshfield with his family, among his friends and 
neighbors, away from the shallowness and deceptions and insincerities of politicians 
and society members, the world knows little. Whatever he may have been thought 
elsewhere to be. there he was a true, simple, transparent, affectionate, tender-hearted 
man. Xo man ever lived in Marshfield who could say that Mr. Webster ever deceived 
him by word or deed, ever withheld the wisest an<l always gratuitous advice, ever tried 
to get the advantage in trade, ever indulged in or countenanced evil reports, ever a.s- 
sumed or recognized any superiority in himself or inferiority in other.s, ever indulged 
in condescension in the treatment of the most humble, ever failed to treat every man 
in every station of life as an equal. In this latter respect perhaps no man of mark was 
ever more distinguished. There have been great men who were called many-sided, 
who had a different point of contact for all, child's talk for the child, philosophical 
reflections for the learned, forced simplicity for the illiterate, strained effort for the 
scholar, something for every man, but all distinct and separate, having no relation 
to each other, but nothing stamping the individuality of the man. Mr. Webster was 
the same to all, to Lord Ashburton and Seth Peterson, to Henry Clay and John Tay- 
lor, to T<mi Benton and Uncle Branch Pierce, dignified but simple, profound but 
clear, friendly but not familiar, easy but never vulgar, and in the room with all these 
different men together would have presented the same phase to all, as the statue or 
painting is the same under the eye of the scholar or artisan, and is equally under- 
stood and admired by both. His speeches illustrate his character in this respect. No 
child needs a dictionary while reading them. He never descends to a low level of 
language and thought that he may be the better understood. He knows that if the 
iJubject is clear to his own mmd he can present it in the same language to all. It was 
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treated a brother senator or a president, and the senator and president might with 
truth have said that he treated them as if they had been his neighbors. 

His humor and considerateness are. illustrated by the following incident. On one 
occasion, after returning from Wjishington, a man presented to him a bill for jjayment. 
"Why. Mr. N.," said Mr. Webster, "it .seems to me I have paid that bill." Mr. N. 
protested that it had not been paid, and Mr. Webster told him that if he would call on a 
certain day he would settle with him. After he had gone Mr. Wel)sler asked his son 
Fletcher to look over a mass of loose bills and receipts and see if he could find a receipt- 
ed bill. To the surprise of both not only one but two recei])ts were found, and the bill 
had already been paid twice. " We will put those bills there," said Mr. Webster, plac- 
ing them in a pigeon hole \\\ his desk, " and when Mr. N. calls again we will have some 
fun with him." In due time Mr. N. called, just at the dinner hour, and Mr. Webster 
said. " Come, Mr. N., let us go in and have some dinner first and then we will talk 
business." To dinner they went, and a good one it was, and Mr. N. relished it 
keenly. After dinner they went out under the old elm, and Fletcher with them, and 
Mr. Webster soon began. "Mr. N.," said he, "do you keep books?" "No," said 
Mr. N. "1 thought so," said Mr. Webster. " Now I advise you to keep books. If 
you had kept books you would have known that I had this receipted bill," (showing 
him one). Mr. N. was much surprised and considerably mortified to have been 
caught in such a mistake. " It is always a good plan to keep books," repeated Mr. 
Webster, showing him the second receipt. "Now, Mr. N., I will pay this bill 
just once more, but I promise you that I will not pay it the fourth time." Mr. Web- 
ster insisted on his taking the money, knowing him to be an honest man, intimating 
that ])crhaps receipted bills had been presented and left really unpaid, and offering 
him a glass of wine, pleasantly bade him good afternoon. 

Of the avocations of hunting and fishing, no man was more fond, and he was never 
happier than with Messrs. Isaac L. and Thomas Hedge in the Plymouth woods, on a 
deer stand by some lonely road, or on the .shore of one of Plymouth's countless ponds. 
He was not skillful with either rod or gun, but was such an admirer of nature that with 
one or the other in his hand he constructed many of those brilliant passages of oratory 
which wreathe and lend grace to his orations and speeches. Too often for an ac- 
complished sportsman, his reveries permitted the game of the forest to escape him 
unobserved, or the fish of the sea to nibble away his bait until some sentence or 
metaphor was complete in all its grandeur and beauty. On a maple tree standing 
l)y the shore of Hillington Sea, the writer has seen the initials of his name rudely 
cut, the thoughtless work of one of those reveries in which no notice was taken of 
the coming deer until it leaped from the bank and ran knee-deep in water along, the 
jjebbly beach. On this occasion, however, his game was at a disadvantage, remain- 
ing long enough within range for him to raise his gun and secure the single troph\- 
of his hunter's life. On one occasion within the knowledge of the writer of this 
sketch, on a November afternoon, at sunset, after an unsuccessful hunt with the 
Messrs. Hedge and George Churchill and Uncle Branch Pierce, nine miles from 
Plymouth and twenty miles from home, before mounting his wagon he stuck his 
knife into a tree and said, "At this tree, gentlemen, we meet at eight o'clock to- 
morrow morning." After forty miles of travel and a part of a night's sleep, he was 
on the spot at the appointed hour with his companions of the day before. The daj-; 
however, coming on chilly and wet, Mr. Webster, having something of a cold, thought 



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it pruilcnt to give up the Inint anil await at the house of Mr. Pierce the issue of the 
sport. On the return of the jiarty hitc in the forenoon, bearing a noble buck, they 
found him pacing the kitchen of Mrs. Pierce, repeating from memory some of the 
grand old lyric poems of Watts, while the old lady, with her breakfast dishes still 
unwashed, was listening in reverential silence. On another occasion, after his return 
tn Marshlield from an unsuccessful hunt in the Plymouth woods, he told' his son 
I'letcher to sit down and he would tell him about the hunt. " We reached Long 
Pond," said he, "at sunrise, and Uncle Branch was ready for us with his two hounds, 
lie fastened them to a tree and went in search of a track. He soon returned and 
said that he had found a noble fresh track. ' Now, Mr. Webster,' said Uncle Branch, 
• I 'ni going to put you on the best stand in these 'ere woods; " and Long Pond Hill 
was where he put me. ' Now,' said he, ' Mr. Webster, you jest keep your eyes peeled 
and your ears skun and don't you let no deer get past you without a shot. Don't 
you mind whether you hear the dogs or not, for the old fellow may come even when 
the dogs arc out of hearth.' I was put on my stand; it was a still morning, not a 
twig stirred, and I obeyed orders. Soon nine o'clock came, and then ten, and I 
ventured to walk a few steps and back, and soon it was eleven. I saw nothing and 
heard nothing, and twelve o'clock came. I repeated poetry and made speeches, and 
got hungry and ate a cracker, and one o'clock came, and no deer and no Uncle 
Branch. Two o'clock came, and three o'clock, and just then a song-sparrow perched 
on a tree near me and I took off my hat and made a bow and said ' Madam, accept 
my profoundest regards; you are the first living thing I have seen to-day.' Soon 
Uncle Branch came and said the hunt was up, that ' the dogs went out of hearth at 
nine o'clock and hadn't heard 'em smce, by golly;' and here I am, Fletcher, as 
hungry as a cooper's cow." 

Mr. Webster was a man of deep religious feeling. If there was anything with 
which he was more familiar than with the constitution of his country, it was 
the Bible. Few men studied it more carefully or could repeat more of its pas- 
sages with precision. It taught him to believe with all his heart in the existence 
of God and in a future life. He had formulated no creed, and he subscribed to 
Tione formulated by others. During the larger part of his mature life he attended 
the Unitarian church, and the Unitarian belief was undoubtedly more than any 
other in accord with his feelings and sentiments. For Dr. George Putnam and 
Dr. Samuel K. Lothrop. the latter of whom was for many years his pastor, he enter- 
tained the sincerest affection and respect. His second wife was a member of the 
ICpiscopal church, and though in Washington it was his custom to accompany her to 
her place of worship, he did not believe that the doctrine of the trinity could be sus- 
tained by the Scriptures. At home in Marshfield he invariably attended the orthodox 
church once on the Sabbath, and whoever or how many might be his guests, his 
carri.ige was at the door each Sabbath morning to carry himself and such others as 
might wish to accompany him to the neighboring place of worship. In the early 
morning, too, of the Sabbath day, his household, including guests, were summoned 
to his library, and there he spoke to them of the responsibilities and duties of life. 
One of the many portraits of him which have been engraved, represents him thus, 
sitting in profile, with his left hand hidden under his waistcoat, and his face wearing 
a more serious expression tliaii thai of his every-day life. On the 1st of April, 1852, 
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482 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

while on his way to Plymoulh to join the Messrs. Hedge on a fishing excursion to the 
trout brooks in the woods, with Seth Peterson as his companion and driver, on de- 
scending the hill near Smelt Brook, in that part of Kingston called Rocky Nook, the 
linchpin of his carriage broke, and he was thrown to the ground. He was carried 
into the house of Captain Melzar Whitten near by, and in the course of the day was 
removed to his home. The fall proved his death blow. Though he partially re- 
covered, his elasticity and spirit had departed, and gradually failing health brought 
him by successive steps to his death-bed on the ■24th of October, 1852. The la!;t 
scene of his life was impressive and solemn. He had often during his sickness 
spoken of a future existence as a continuation of the present, and he was impressed 
with the possibility that on its threshold the departing s])irit, while within the con- 
fines of earth, might look into the regions of the other world. As death came nearer 
to him, and he watched its approach, in a moment of apparent doubt whether he had 
reached or not the dividing line between time and eternity, and an.xious to learn 
its precise indication, he opened his eyes and said, " I still live — tell me the point." 
Ur. Jeffries, standing by the bed, not understanding the remark, repeated the words 
of the Psalm, " Yea, though 1 walk through the shadow of death 1 will not fear." 
" No, doctor," said Mr. Webster, in a voice still stnmg and clear, "tell me the point; 
tell me the point." These were the last words he uttered. On that beautiful Indian 
summer day he died, and on another as beautiful, his body, dressed in his favorite 
blue and buff, lay in its coffin under the noble elm which had so often sheltered him 
in life, and loving neighbors and distant friends bore him to his final rest. 

Wii.i.iAM Goodwin Russell, son of Thomas and Mary Ann ((Joodwin) Russell, was 
born in Plymouth, Mass. November 18, 1821. His early education was received in 
the public schools of Plymouth, and fitting for college under the tuition of Hon. John 
Angier Shaw, of Bridgewatcr, he graduated at nearly tlie head of his class at Har- 
vard in 1840. After leaving college he taught f(jr a time a young ladies' private school 
in Plymouth, and for a year the academy at Dracut, in which he was the successor 
of (Jeneral B. F. Butler. Entering the law office of his brother-in-law, William 
Whiting, of Boston, he completed his law studies at the Harvard Law School, where 
he graduated in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 25th of July in that 
year. After his admission he became at once associated with Mr. Whiting, and un- 
til the death of Mr. Whiting in 1873, the firm of Whiting & Russell occupied a lead- 
ing position at the Suffolk bar. In 18(i2, when Mr. Whiting was appointed solicitor 
of the War Department, the labors and responsibilities of the oflice were imposed on 
Mr. Russell, and during the three years of Mr. Whiting's service he bore them with 
untiring industry and brilliant success. On the death of Mr. Whiting he had so far 
advanced in his profession as to be one of its recognized leaders. At that time 
Charles Greeley Loring had retired from the bar, in 1857, and died in 1867; George 
Tyler Bigelow had resigned his seat as chief justice on the bench of the.Supreme Ju- 
dicial Court, and retired from the profession by accejiting the position of actuary of 
the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ; (ieorge Stillman Hillard had 
measurably withdrawn from practice by' his occupancy from 186(i to 1870 of the office 
of I'nited States district attorney; the career as a practitiimer of Ebenezer Rock- 
wood Hoar had been repeatedly interrupted by his judicial labors on the bench of the 
Common Pleas Court from 1840 to 18.-,5, 011 tb,- b,ii, li ,,r \W Siii>reme Judicial Court 



BJOGkAPHlCAL REGISTER. 483 

from 1859 to 1809, as attorney-general of the United States in 1869-70, as a member 
iif the Joint Hijjh Commission, which framed the treaty of Washinjfton with (Jreat 
Britain in 1871, and later as a member of Congress. Sidney Bartlett and Benjamin 
Robbins Curtis alone remained, having precedence r)f Mr. Russell in the legal ranks. 
Mr. Curtis died in 1874, and the advancing age of Mr. Bartlett entitled Mr. Russell 
to the claim of leadership, which the death of Mr. Bartlett in 1890 served only to con- 
firm. After the death of Mr. Whiting, Mr. Russell associated with himself George 
Putnam, son of the late Rev. Dr. George Putnam, of Roxbury, and since that time 
the firm of Russell S: Putnam has been as well known as the former one of Whiting 
& Russell. It is worthy of note that the place of Mr. Bartlett, a Plymouth man, at 
the Suffolk bar should have been taken by Mr. Russell, also a native of that ancient 
town. This circumstance is relieved, however, of its singularity by the fact that Mr. 
Russell's father and Mr. Bartlett were first cousins, and that both Mr. Bartlett and 
Mr. Russell inherited from a common ancestor those mental traits, which, developed 
by education, go to make up a thorough lawyer. The writer remembers to have 
heard those of an earlier generation, who knew Samuel Jackson, of Plymouth, the 
grandfather of Mr. Bartlett, and the great-grandfather of Mr. Russell, speak of his cool 
discrmiinating judgment, and his judicial mind, which with less limited educational 
privileges would have given him high intellectual rank. To these traits, mingled 
with others coming down to him from Miles Standish, John Alden, and Richard War- 
ren, whose Pilgrim blood fiows in his veins, there were added those of his sturdy 
Scotch great-grandfather, John Russell, a Greenock merchant, who came to New Eng- 
land about 1745, and settled in Plymouth. When Mr. Russell chose the profession of 
law for his life work, he determined to pursue its paths with faithful steps, and to 
resist even- temptation to leave them for the alluring honors of public life. It is in- 
deed doubtful whether there has been at any time an elective office in the gift of 
the people which he would not have unhesitatingly refused to accept, and even judicial 
preferment, which may be considered the crowning .glory of professional life, he has 
more than once refused, even when associated with the highest position in the gift of 
our State executive. Other positions, more nearly related to the duties of the private 
citizen, he has not felt at liberty to reject. As president of the Bar Association, the 
Social Law Library, and the Union Club ; as overseer of Harvard College, and director 
of the Mount Vernon Bank, and the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company; 
as vice-president of the Pilgrim Society ; and as either executor or trustee of various 
important estates, he has not wandered far a'field from the legitimate legal sphere 
to which he early dedicated himself. But, devoted as Mr. Russell was tcj the law, he 
has not permitted himself to be unobservant of afTairs beyond the horizon of his pro- 
fession. As, in the observation of the writer, when in social life apparently absorbed 
in some special work or game, he has always kept an eye and an ear open for the 
conversation going on about him, so in his larger work and game of law, he has al- 
ways kept himself in touch with the world and familiar with the latest steps of its 
progress, whether in science, theology, ethics, literature or art. Now would it be 
doing justice to him to close even this meagre sketch, without some allusion to his 
lifelong love for the rod and line, and his skill in their use ? Beginning in his early 
boyhood to learn the habits and caprices of the fish, which abound in the sea and 
ponds adjacent to his native town, there are few holidays of the year, including hi^ 
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4S+ HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

tautog or cod, or on one of the many ponds of Plymouth taking bass or trout. Mr. 
Russell married, October 6, 1847, Mary Ellen, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Coffin 
Hedge, of Plymouth, and having his legal residence in Boston, spends his summers 
in Plymouth. His only son, Thomas Russell, a member of the Suffolk bar, and re- 
ferred to elsewhere in this register, is a member from Ward 11 of Boston of the Leg- 
islature of 1893. Mr. Russell received from Harvard the degree of LL. D. in 1878. 

PpyiKK TiiAc:iiKR, son of Stephen and Harriet (Preble) Thacher, was born in Kenne- 
bunk. Me., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 18:^1. He studied 
law with William Pitt Preble and with Fessenden & De Blois in Portland, Me., and 
was admitted to the bar in Portland in April, 1836. He was appointed by Ashur 
Ware judge of the United States District Court for the Maine District, commissioner 
of bankruptcy under the act of 1842, and by Benjamin R. Curtis, judge of the United 
States Circuit Court, commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Maine District, and in 
1867, on the nomination of Chief Justice Chase of the United States Supreme Court, 
he was a])pointed by Judge Kdward Fox, of the District Court of Maine, register in 
bankruptcy for the Fifth Congressional District, which office he held until his resig- 
nation on his removal in 1871 to Newton, Mass., where he has since resided, having 
an ofiice in Boston in connection with his son, under the firm name of Peter & 
Stephen Thacher. In 1876 he was chosen city solicitor of Newton and served until 
1S.S;5. He was an overseer of Bowdoin College for many years, until his resignation 
in 1N!)1. He married, April 26, 1841, Margaret Louisa, daughter of Barrett Potter, 
of Portland. 

Sriu'ii.vN Tii.M.iH'.K, son of the above, was born in Machias, Me., November 14, 1846. 
He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to 
the S;iffolk bar July 7, 1871. He is in business with his father in Boston, and resides 
at Newton. 

J.vMKS Monroe Kkith, son of Bethucl and Mary (Pearson) Keith, was- born in Ran- 
doIi)h, Vt., April 15, 1819. He received his early education at the Randolph and 
Royalston Academies, and graduated at Brown University in 1845. He studied law 
with David A. Simmons, of Roxbury, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3, 
1848. He was a representative from Roxbury in 1851, president of the Roxbury Com- 
mon Council in 1854, and a member of the Boston Common Council in 1868-69. He 
was appointed district attorney for the district composed of Norfolk and Plymouth 
counties in 1855, and in 1856, after that office was made elective, he was chosen for a 
term of three years, but resigned in 1858. He is jjracticing in Boston, associated 
with his son, John W. Keith. He married in 1^49 Adeline Wetherbee, of Boston; in 
1S56 Mary C. Richardson, of Boston ; and in 1863 Louisa J. Dj'er, of Providence. 

John W. Kkith, son of the above, was born in Roxbury, September 5, 1850, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1874. 

Ai.i-..\.\ni)i;k Bi.iss was descended from Thomas Bliss, who was born in Balstone 
parish, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and coming to New England settled with 
his wife Margaret first in Braintree and afterwards in Hartford, Conn. Samuel, son of 
Thomas, born in England in 1624, married, November 10, 1644-5, Mary, daughter of 
John and Sarah (Heath) Leonard, of Springfield, Mass. Ebenezer, son of Samuel, 
born July 29, 1683, married in January, 1707, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Clark 
Gaylord. Jedediah, son of Ebenezer, born Februaiy 7, 1709, married JiUy 2, 1753, 



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Rachel, daughter of Joseph and Mary Sheldon, of Suffield, Conn., and second, August 
1ft, 174S, Meriam, daughter of John and Abigail Hitchcock. Alexander, son of Jede- 
diah, born October 11, 17."):i, married November 18, 17H4, Margaret Warner, of Sjiring- 
field, and in 1790 Abigail Williams, of Roxbury. Alexander, the subject of this 
sketch, son of Alexander and Abigail, was born in Springfield, August 10, 1792, and 
graduated at Yale in 1812. He married, June fi, 1825, Elizabeth, daughter of Will- 
iam and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, of Plymouth, and died at Plymouth, July 15, 1K27. 
His widow married in 1838 George Bancroft, the historian. Mr. Hliss studied law 
with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the Suffolk l)ar July 7, 181(i. He became 
at once a jjartner of Mr. Webster, and during Mr. Webster's prolonged absences in 
Washington managed his business. 

JosKi'ii A. Wu.i.ARi), son of Sidney and Elizabeth Anne Andrews Willard, was 
born in Cambridge, Mass., September 29, 181(!. His father was librarian at Harvard 
from 1800 to 1805, and professor of Hebrew from 1807 to 1831. His grandfather, 
Joseph WilUird, was president of Harvard from December 19, 1781, until his death, 
which occurred September 25, 1804, and a more remote ancestor was Simon Willard, 
of Salem, who was born in the county of Kent, England, and died in Charlestown, 
Mass., while holding court, April 24, 1670. His mother was a daughter of Asa 
.-\ndrews, a lawyer of Ipswich, and a descendant from Anne Dudley, the wife of 
I Jovernor Simon Bradstreet. Mr. Willard was educated at Westford Academy and 
under the private instruction at various times of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry S. 
McKean, Barzillai Frost and James Freeman Clarke. In the autumn of 1830, when 
nearly fitted for college, he went to sea before the mast and followed the sea in 
merchant vessels and men of war until 1838. After leaving the sea he resumed his 
studies with his father, who had then resigned his professorship and been into polit- 
ical life, serving at various times as representative, councillor, senator and mayor of 
Cambridge. In 1840 he entered the office of the clerk of the Common Pleas Court in 
Boston as an assistant, and in 1848 was appointed by Joseph Eveleth, the high sheriff 
of Suffolk county, one of his deputies. In 1855 he was appointed assistant clerk of 
the Superior Court of the county of Suffolk. While performing his duties in the 
clerk's office he pursued the study of law under the instructionrof James A. Abbott 
and Marshall S. Cha,se, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1854. In 1859, 
when the present Superior Court superseded the old Common Pleas Court and the 
Superior Court of the County of SutTolk, he was appointed assistant clerk of the new 
court in Suffolk, and held that position until the death of Jt)seph Willard, the clerk in 
186.5. He was then appointed clerk to hold office until the next election, and by re- 
peated elections has continued in office to the present time, meeting with opposition 
at only two elections. The term for which he was last chosen will expire on the first 
Wednesday of January, 1897, at which date, if he lives, he will have served as clerk 
and assistant clerk more than fifty years. His continuance in office for so long a 
period with the approval of the votes of the people is sufficient evidence of his indus- 
try, intelligence and fidelity in the performance of his duties. He married in 1841, 
Penelope Cochran, daughter of Captain Peter and Penelope (Mitchell) Cochran, and 
great-granddaughter of Mary Faneuil, sister of Peter Fanueil. of Boston. His resi- 
lience is in Boston. 



486 tJISTOKY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

Wii.i-KKi) Bolster, son of Solomon A. and Sarah J. Bolster, was born in Roxhury. 
Mass., September 13, 1867, and graduated at Harvard in 1S88. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. 

Tkisi KAM Dai.ion, son of Michael Dalton, was born in Newburyport, May 28, 
1788, and graduated at Harvard in 1755. He studied law in Salem and settled in 
Newl)ur])ort. He was a representative of that town and speaker of the House of Rep- 
resentatives from 1788 to 1785, a member of the State Senate and a United States 
senator from 1789 to 1791. He removed to Washington, and finally to Boston, where 
he was appointed, in 1815, surveyor of the ports of Boston and Charlestown. He 
married a daughter of Robert Hooper, of Marblehead, and died in Boston, May 80, 
1S17. 

Paikkk K. Gi iMiv was l)orn in I'arkstown, Tippcrary, Ireland, January 15, 1885, 
and came to Portland, Me., in 1842. He was educated in the Portland public schools 
and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, and came to Boston in 1855, 
where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1856. In April, 1861, he en- 
listed as private ; was made captain June 1 1, 1861 ; major October 24, 1801 ; lieutenant- 
colonel July 28, 1862; colonel July 2(), 1868, and in 1864 commanded the Second 
Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps. He was severely wounded May 5, 1864, and 
brevetted l)rigadier-geueral March 18, 1865. He was assistant district attorney for 
Suffolk county from 1866 to 1870, and register of probate and insolvency fnmi is(;i) 
to his death, which occurred in Boston, March 21, 1877. 

Joii.\ E. FiT/.uEKAi.D was born in Dingle, Kerry county, Ireland, November 17, 
1844, and attended the school of the Christian Brothers at Dublin. At the age of 
nineteen he came to America in the steamer Bohemia, which was lost with one 
hundred lives at Cape Elizabeth near Portland. He landed in a boat February 24, 
1864, one of three surviving i)assengers. He taught school in Salem eighteen 
months, and studied law with William D. Xorthend, of that city. In January, 1866, 
he came to Boston and studied in the otHce of George W. Searle, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1868. He was a member of the Common Council from 
1872 to 1875; a representative in 1870-71-78-74; master in chancery from 1873 to 
1878; a member of the School Committee from 1873 to 1876; an alderman in 1877, 
and tire commissioner from 1879 t(j 1886. In 1886 he was appointed collector of in- 
ternal revenue, and in 1887 delivered the Boston Fourth of July oration. 

Cyrus Conn, twin brother of Darius Cobb, the well-known painter, is the son of 
Rev. Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice nale(Waite) Cobb, and was born in Maiden, August 
6, 1884. He was educated at the public schools, one of which was the L^Tnan School 
in East Boston. While his brother adopted the profession of a painter, Cjtus pre- 
pared himself for the law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. He 
had previously devoted himself to art and finally resumed the profession which was 
more congenial to him than law, and is now a sculptor whose works are well known 
and much admired. His colossal head of " The Celtic Bard," his bas-relief of " Prospero 
and Miranda," and his bust of (ieneral Butler, have placed him in the front ranks of 
his profession. His design for the soldier's monument in Cambridge was selected 
from forty or more submitted to the late N. J. Bradlee, the noted architect, as in- 
comparably the best. He married Emma Lillie, while his twin brother, Darius, 
married her sister, Laura M. Lillie. 





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JoMAii Wn-iARii, son of Samuel W'illard, the president of Harvard CoUej^e from 
17(11 to 1707, was born in Boston. May 1. KWl. and j;raduated at Harvard in 1(198. 
He was secretary of Massachusetts from 1717 to his death, which occurred in Boston, 
December (i, 175f). He succeeded Samuel Sewall as judge of probate of Suffolk 
county December 19, 1728, and was followed by Edward Hutchinson. February 12, 
174.")-(>. In 1734 he was a member of the Council. 

TiKiM.vs (Jrk.wks, or Graves, was born in Charleston in 1038, and >{ra<Uiated at 
Harvard in 1650, acting for a time as tutor after graduation. He was a deputy from 
l(i7ti to l(i78, and judge of the Inferior Court when Andros was deposed. He mar- 
ried first. May 16, 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hagborne, of Roxbury, and 
widow of Dr. John Chickering, and second. May 15. 1(J82, Sarah, daughter of John 
Stcdman, of Cambridge, and widow of Dr. John Alcock. He was the father of 
Thomas (Jreaves, judge of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1737. He died in 
1697. 

Simon Greem.f..\f, though perhaps not strictly belonging to the Suffolk bar, was 
so closely associated with it as to deserve a place in this register. He was descended 
from Edward Greenleaf, who settled in Xewbury, Mass., in 1035, and was the son of 
Moses Greenleaf, and his wife, Lydia, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Parsons, of New- 
liuryport. He was born in Newburyport, December 0, 1783, and attended the schools 
of that town, including the noted school taught by Michael Walsh. At the age of 
eighteen years he removed with his father to New Gloucester, Me. , and there entered 
the law office of Ezekiel Whitman, where he remained three years in the study of 
law. He was admitted to the bar in Cumberland county, and began practice in 1806 
in the town of Standish. Remaining there a short time, he moved to the town of 
Gray, where he practiced until 1818, when he removed to Portland. In 1820 he was 
appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine, and his reports 
are contained in nine volumes. In 1832 he resigned as reporter, and in 1833 was 
:il>pointed Royall professor of law at the Harvard Law School, to succeed John Hooker 
.\shmun, who died in that year. After the death of Joseph Story, which occurred 
in 1845, he was appointed his successor as Dane professor of law at the same institu- 
tion, but resigned after two years' service, continuing, however, as professor emer- 
itus until his death, which occurred October 6, 1853. In 1821 he published " A Full 
Collection of Ca.ses Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Ai)plication 
taken from American and English Reports;" and in 1842 a " Treatise on Law of 
ICvidence." At a later date he published an " Examination of the Testimony of the 
l'"our Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Admitted in Courts of Law," and an 
edition of " Cruse's Digest." In 1806 he married Hannah, daughter of Captain Ezra 
Kingman, of East Bridgewater, and had fifteen children, eleven of whom died in 
infancy. He received the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1817, and that of LL.D. 
from Harvard in 1834, from Amherst in 1845, and Alabama College in 1852. 

Bk.nii.v W. W.vrkkn, son of William Wirt Warren, was born in Boston in 1864, 
and was educated at the public schools, including the Boston Latin School, from 
which he graduated in 1885. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He was a representative in 1891 and 
1M92, and one of the leaders among the Democrats of the Legislature. He is asso- 
ciated in business with Thomas P. Proctor and Eugene Tappan, under the firm name 
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488 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Joseph Stokv, as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, holding court 
in Boston, should l)c included in this register, though never a member of the Suf- 
folk bar. He was born in Marblehead, September IS, ITTU, and was the son oi Dr. 
Elisha Story, a native of Boston, and a surgeon in the Revolution. He graduated at 
Harvard in 1798. and received the degree of LL.l). from Brown in IHl.'i, from Har- 
vard in IH21, and from Dartmouth in 1824. He studied law with Samuel Sewall. 
afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and with Samuel Putnam, 
afterwards an associate justice of the same court, and was admitted to the Essex bar 
in July, 1801. He began practice in Salem and was a representative from that town 
in 18(J,5-()(i-07-09-12, serving the last year as speaker of the House. He was a mem- 
ber of Congress in 1808, and on the 18th of November, 1811, he was appointed by 
Madison associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the va- 
cancy caused by the death of William Cushing, of Scituate. In 1820 he was a dele- 
gate to the Constitutional Cimvention, and in 1828 Nathan Dane, who in founding 
the I>;iw School at Cambridge had reserved the right to appoint its professors, ap- 
pointed him Dane professor of law and associated with him John Hooker Ashmun 
as Royall professor of law. In 1829 he removed from Salem to Cambridge, where 
he continued to reside until his death, which occurred at Cambridge, September 10, 
1845. He was as distinguished for his industry as for his legal learning, and it is diffi- 
cult to realize that with the labors of the court and the law school pressing upon 
him, he could have found time and vigor sufficient for his accomplishments in the 
literature of law. A list of his publications may be interesting to the reader. His 
first work was a poem entitled the " Power of Solitude," published in Salem in 1804. 
In 1805, a " Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions with Annotations," issued from 
the press; in 1828, the "Public and General Statutes," passed by Congress from 1789 
to 1827, and in 1836 and 1845 supplements to these dates edited by him; in 1833, 
"Commentaries on the Law of Bailments with Illustrations from the Civil and For- 
eign Law;" in 1833, "Commentaries on the Constitution;" in 1834, "Commentaries 
on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights and 
Remedies, and especially in regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions and 
Judgments;" in 18:i5 and 1830, "Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as admin- 
istered in England and America;" in 1838, "Commentaries on Equity Pleadings 
and the Incidents Thereto, according to the Practice of the Courts of Equity in Eng- 
land and America;" in 1839, "Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of 
Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from the 
Civil and Foreign Law;" in 1843, "Commentaries on the Law of Partnership as a 
Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, with occasional illustrations from 
the Civil and Foreign Law;" in 1843, "Commentaries on the Law of Bills of E.\- 
changc. Foreign and Inland, as Administered in England and America, with occa- 
sional illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Eurr>pe;" 
in 1845, "Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes." His decisions in the 
First Circuit fnmi 1812 to 1815 are in "Gallison's Reports," from 181(5 to 1830, in 
"Mason's Reports;" from 1830 to 1839 iu "Sumner's Reports," and from 1839 to 
1845 in "Story's Reports." Among his other publications were a "Eulogj'on Wash- 
ington," 1800; a "Eulogy on Captain James Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow," 
1813; a "Sketch of Samuel Dexter," 181(); "Charges to Grand Juries in Boston and 
Providence," 1819; "Charge to the Grand Jury at Portland," 1820; "Address before 



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the Surtolk Bar,' 1S-,>1 ; '■ Discourse before the Plii Beta Society," 1820; "Discourse 
before the Essex Historical Society," 1828; "Address at his own Inauguration as Pro- 
fessor," 1829; " Address at the Dedication of Mt. Auburn," 1831; "Address at the 
Funeral Services of John Hooker Ashman," 18;W; " Eulogy on John Marshall," 1835; 
" Lectures on the Science of Law," 1838; "Address before the Harvard Alumni, "• 
1842; and his "Charge to the (irand Jury of Rhode Island on Treason," 1845. Be- 
sides the above, his essays and articles in reviews and magazines were too numerous 
to mention, and he- left at his death three unprinted manuscript volumes entitled 
" Digest of Law Supplementary to Connn's," which are deposited in the Harvard 
College Librarj-. 

Arthur Porter Peterson, son of Daniel Porter and Jerusha M. (Clark) Peterson, 
was born in New Bedford in 18.")8. His father, born in Plymouth, was descended 
from Joseph Peterson, of Duxbury, who settled in that town about l(!(i(t. His mother 
was descended directly from Thomas Clark, who came to Plymouth in the ship Ann 
in 1()23, and indirectly from Rev. John Lothrop, who settled in Scituate in 1634. He 
attended the public schools of New Bedford until he was twelve years of age w-hen he 
went with his father to the Sandwich Islands. After remaining there seven years 
he returned to the United States and entered Ann Arbor College. After leaving col- 
lege he spent a year in Hawaii, and coming to Plymouth, Mass., studied law in the 
office of Arthur Lord in that tow-n. He was admitted to the Plymouth bar November 
14, 1X81, and moving to Boston became a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1884 he 
returned to Hawaii, where his father and two brothers and a sister were living, and 
was not long after appointed attorney-general of the kingdom. After leaving that 
office he devoted himself to the practice of law, and was again appointed attorney- 
general a short time before the recent deposition of the queen, and was in office at 
the time of the revolution. He married, November 31, 1883, Nettie, daughter of 
James and Sarah Jane Mitchell Brown, of WejTtiouth, Mass. 

Ai.KX.VMiER Yoixc, son of Rev. Dr. Alexander Young, was born in Boston May 19, 
1X36, and was educated in the Boston schools. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1862, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, f)ctober 14, of that year. He 
was an associate editor of the Boston Globe for a time soon after the establishment 
of that journal in 1872. At a later time he was connected with the editorial depart- 
ment of the Boston Post. In 1884 he published a " History of the Netherlands." 
which was republished in England in 1886. He died in Boston in 1891. 

Wii.i.i.vM Winter was born in Gloucester, Mass., July 15, 1836, and graduated at 
the Harvard Law School in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 2^, 
1858. He moved to New York where he has won distinction as a journalist and lit- 
erary and dramatic critic. He has been connected with the New York 7 lihunc 
since 1865, and has written and delivered numerous occasional poems. 

Edgar O. Achorn was admitted to the Plymouth bar, June 16, 1884, and has prac- 
ticed in Boston. 

Ekedkrii'k Hint Alien, son of Samuel C. Allen, was born in New Salem, Mass., 

and graduated at the University of Yermont in 1823. After studying for the bar he 

was admitted to the bar, and after a short practice in Athol, settled in Bangor and 

actpiired distinction among the lawyers of Maine. In 1849 he removed to Boston 

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490 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

and was made professor at the Harvard Law School, holding the position one year. 
He was a member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1853, and has been dead many years. 

Co.N'STANTiNK C. EsTV was boHi in Newton, Mass., in 1824, and graduated at Yale 
in 1845. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1847, and has been a 
member of the Suffolk bar. He is now settled in Framingham. 

Thomas B. Fkothin(;iiam, son of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham. was 
born in Boston and a])pears in the roll of Boston attorneys in 1860. He married 
Anna, daughter of Rev. William Parsons Lunt, of Ouincy, and has been dead some 
years. 

Jamks Graii.am was one of the very few educated lawyers in Boston during the 
period of the Massachusetts Colony. He came to Massachusetts from New York and 
was appointed by Andros attorney-genera!, June 20, 1688. He was imprisoned with 
Andros after the news of the accession of William and Mary reached Bostf)n and was 
sent with him to England in February, 168!). Nothing is known of his suljsequent 
career. 

Gkokcjk Wasiihurn Smai.i.kv was born in Franklin, Mass., June 2, 1883, and grad- 
uated at Yale in 1853. He studied law in the office of George F. Hoar, of Worcester, 
and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 
1856. He practiced law in Boston until 1861 when he became connected with tlie 
New York Tribicne as a war correspondent. He was with the L^nion Army at 
Antietam and distinguished himself by the early and brilliant account of that engage- 
ment which was published in the Tiibunc. In 1863 he was made associate editor of 
that journal and in 1866 was its correspondent during the Prussian and Austrian 
War. In 1866 he organized in London a bureau for the Tribune which, owing to 
his efforts, has been maintained with success. During the French and German War, 
in 1870, he again made his mark as the agent of a plan of news-gathering which 
astonished the slower journalistic managers of England. He is now in London super- 
intending the affairs of his bureau and corresponding regularly with the 'Tribune. 

Lvsandkr Si'oonkr was born in Athol. Mass., January li), 1808, and studied law in 
Worcester. Where he was admitted to the bar is imknown to the writer, but his 
name appears on the roll of Suffolk attorneys in 1861. He was chiefly distinguished 
for his successful efforts to have the rates of postage reduced. In 1844 the rate of 
letter postage was graduated by the distance a letter was carried. _ For instance, the 
postage from Boston to New York was twelve and a half cents and from Boston to 
Washington twenty-five cents. Contrary to law he established an independent 
service between Boston and New York at the uniform rate of five cents. He was 
compelled to abandon the business by the prosecutions which the government heajjed 
upon him, but he demonstrated the possibility of supporting the post-office department 
with a lower rate of interest, and in consequence of his efforts a reduction in rates 
began which has been kept up to the present time. He died in Boston May 14, 1887. 

Penn Townsend, son of William Townsend, was born in Boston in 1651, and was 
a judge (m the bench of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Common Pleas from 1702 to 1715 
and chief justice from 1718 to 1727. He was a representative in 1686 and at the time 
of the Revolution in 1688 he was one of the Committee of Safety in whose hands the 
government was temporarily entrusted. He was again a representative from 1689 



Biographical register. 491 

to 1698, .-ind speaker of the House in 1090 and IfiOT. He was also one of the cnni- 
mittee in IfiOO authorized to issue, in behalf of the colony, bills of credit. He died 
August 21, 1727. 

.S.vMiEL Riri.EY TowNSENii graduated at Harvard in 1S29, and the next year became 
the teacher of the High School in Plymouth, where he remained two or three years. 
After leaving Plymouth he engaged some years in business in Boston and finally 
studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, 1850. He afterwards 
practiced law in Taunton, and was for a time treasurer of Bristol county. He has 
been dead a few years. 

Patru K Hknkv Byrnk was born in Lavagh, county of Roscommon, Ireland, Feb- 
ruary .">, 1844, and came to Boston when five years of age. He wa.s educated at the 
New York public schools and at the University of New York. He was first a marble 
worker, and later a traveling salesman of a Boston woolen house. He studied law, 
and was for a time a member of a collection agency in Boston and afterwards in 
New York. He died at Jamaica, L. I., July 81, 1881. 

Ricn.VRi) Oi.NEV, son of Wilson Olney, was born in Oxford, Mass., and graduated at 
Brown University m 18.56. His mother was a sister of Peter Butler, of Boston. He 
studied law with Judge Benjamin F. Thomas, and graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 18.58. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, l.S.'iO, and became asso- 
ciated in business with Judge Thomas, who had that year resigned his seat on the 
bench of the Su]>reme Judicial Court, and whose daughter he married. His business 
was largely cimnected with railroads, and he was counsel for the Boston and Maine 
the Atchison and Topeka, and the Chicago, Burlington and (Jumcy corporations. 
While this volume is in press in March, 1898, he is the recently appointed attorney- 
general of the United States, in the cabinet of President Cleveland. 

Pkter S.ARt;K.\.N r was a Boston man, and one of the committee who assumed the 
reins of government at the deposition of Andres in 1689. He was one of the Council 
under the ]>rovincial charter and chosen annually until 170:!, when his election was 
negatived by Governor Dudley. He was appointed judge of the Suffolk Inferior 
Court of Common Pleas, March 8, 1698, and held office until 1702, when he was re- 
moved by Governor Dudley on account of the active part taken by him in the 
revolution of 1688. He was also one of the seven judges appointed by Governor 
F'hipps in 1092 to try the witches. He married the widow of (iovernor Phipps. 

Cii.vRi.ES Seiigwick, a Berkshire man, was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 2.5, 
1H21, and was many years clerk of the courts in Berkshire county. 

A. H. Skii TON was admitted to the Middlesex bar in laiuiaiv. IXTli. and was a 
member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890. 

Jacoii C. P.vttf.n was admitted to the Middlesex bar iii i Mcil>i.r, !•<■•;, and was a 
member of the Suffolk bar as late as 1890. 

John Fr.vnki.in Si.m.mons, son of Hon. Perez and Adeline (Jones) Simmons, was born 
in Hanover, Mass., June 26, 18.51. He is a lineal descendant from Moses Simminis, 
or Symondson, as he was called, who came to Plymouth in the ship Fortune in 1021, 
and settled at quite an early date in Duxbury. His grandmother, the wife of Eben- 
ezer Simmons, was Sophia, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Richmond, of Little Compton, 
R. I., and a direct descendant from Col. Benjamin Church, who won distinction in 



492 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the early Indian wars. Perez Simmons, the father of John KrankHn Simmons, grad- 
uated at Brown University in 1838, and settled as a lawyer in Frovideiiee. He took 
a leading part in the movement for extension of suffrage in Rhode Island, and was 
one of the leaders in the convention which formed the People's Constitution. The 
constitution was adopted by a majority of the male citizens and freeholders of the 
State, and it fell to him to call to order the first Legislature organized under it, of 
which he was a member from the Fourth Ward of Providence. The Legislature held 
under the old constitution passed an act providing that whoever assumed to act un- 
der the new constitution should be held guilty of trea.son, and he was the first person 
against whom a warrant was issued. To avoid arrest he moved to the State of Maine, 
where he remained until a change of administration in Massachusetts rendered it 
certain that he would not be surrendered to the Rhode Island authorities, when he 
returned to his native town, and continued there to practice law with ability and suc- 
cess until his death. John Franklin Simmons, the subject of this sketch, received his 
early education at the Assanippi Institute and at Phillips Exeter Academy, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 187:1 having the honor of being selected as the class-day orator 
of his class. He studied law with his father and at the Harvard Law School, and 
was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at the February term of the Superior Court 
in 1875. For some years he retained his residence in Hanover, where he served fif- 
teen years as a member of the School Committee. For several years he has been as- 
sociated in business with Harvey H. Pratt, with offices in Abington and Boston, at 
which latter place he has his residence. He was the receiver of the Abington Na- 
tional Bank at the time of its failure, and is now one of its directors as well as presi- 
dent of the South Scituate Savings Bank. Brought up under the Democratic induences 
of his father, he is an active and energetic supporter of Democratic principles, and 
while lending his efficient aid on the platform to the political promotion of others, he 
has never sought office for himself. He devotes himself unremittingly to his profes- 
sion, and both in Suffolk and Plymouth counties the firm of Simmons & Pratt occu- 
pies a prominent position. He married at Hanover, his native town, Januarv 10, 
1877, Fanny Florence Allen. Aside from the labors of his profession he indulges 
himself at leisure hoUrs in literary pursuits, and among the productions of his pen is 
the history of Hanover, contributed to the Plymouth County History. 

Benj.\min Fkankun Bi'ti-kk was the son of John Butler, of Deerfield, New Hamp- 
shire, a captain of dragoons in the War of 1813. After the war the father engaged in 
trade with the West Indies and died of yellow fever in March, 1819, leaving his 
widow with two young children, Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin, with 
scanty means of support. The latter v^-as born in Deerfield, November 5, 1818, and 
was consequently only four months old when his father died. He attended the pub- 
lic schools of his native town until he was ten years of age, when, in 1828, his mother 
removed to Lowell, Mass., then a town in the second year of its municipal life. She 
there maintained herself and family by taking a few boarders, and such was her suc- 
cess in the ra])idly gi-owing community in which she established herself, that she was 
able not only to live comfortably but to furnish her children with a liberal education. 
Benjamin was sent to Phillips E.xeter Academy, and in 1834, at the age of sixteen, 
entered Waterville College in Maine. He graduated in 1838 burdened with a debt in- 
curred to secure his education and in feeble health, and with the view of relieving 





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himself from both ho went willi an uncle on a fishing voyage to the coast of Labra- 
dor, and to use his own language, " Hove a line, ate the Mesh and drank the oil of 
the cod, came back after a four months' cruise in perfect health, and had not another 
■<ick day in twenty years." On his return from (ishing he stu<lied law in Lowell in 
the oHice of William Smith, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1841. On 
his examination for admission by Judge Charles Henry Warren of the Common Pleas 
Court an incident occurred which the writer takes the liberty of describing in the words 
used by him in a sketch of General Butler furnished by him for a history of the bench 
and bar of Middlesex county: " It happened that on the day of the examination a case 
was on trial in which the question of admitting certain evidence had somewhat 
puzzled the judge. The case was Robert Reed against Jenness Hatehelder, which 
was finally earned to the Supreme Court on exceptions, and is reported in the first 
of Metcalf, page 5'2i). It was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note given by 
the defendant when a minor to Reed & Dudley. July 3(!, l.S:{5, and payable to them 
as bearer. The defence, of course, was infancy. But in July, 1S39, while the note 
was in the hands of the* promisees, and after the defendant had come of age, he 
verbally renewed his promise to pay to Henry Reed, one of the firm of Reed & Dud- 
ley, and the note was subse<iuently endorsed to Robert Reed, the plaintiff. The 
])laintifrs offer to put the renewal of the promise in evidence was objected to by the 
defendant's counsel, and on the day of the examination above referred to, Judge 
Warren had sustained the objection. Mr. Butler had been present during the trial, 
and the general question was asked him by the judge, what effect such a renewal of 
promise would have, and what he thought of his ruling. The student replied that he 
thought the ruling wrong and the note good ; that the note was not void, but only 
voidable, and when the verbal jiromise was made the note became at once negotiable. 
The judge was sufficiently impressed with the correctness of the answer that he re- 
versed his ruling the next day. Kxception was taken and the case was carried up. 
Judge Shaw, in the opinion of the Supreme Covirl, overruled the exception and de- 
cided that though the renewal of promise was made verbally to Henry Reed, one of 
the firm of Reed & Dudley, it at once became negotiable, and in the hands of Robert 
Reed, to whom it jiassed, was good." The writer has given this incident as he re- 
ceived it from the lips of General Butler himself several years before the publication 
of " Butler's, Book." 

So much has been written and so much is generally known concerning the vari- 
ous steps by which General Butler rose to eminence in his profession, that it is 
unnecessary to narrate them in this register. Born among the common people, 
all his instincts led him to feel an interest in their welfare and to protect their 
rights. Thus by birth, by education and all the influences surrounding him he 
was an earnest and ci/nsistent Democrat. Coming on the stage when in Massa- 
chusetts especially, the aristocratic element which entered so largely into the com- 
position of the old Whig party, looked upon a Democrat as a vulgar and danger- 
ous member of the body politic, the treatment he received at the hands of his 
political opponents, who could see nothing in an advocacy of the rights of the laborer 
and mechanic but the dishonest trick of the demagogue, was the means of begetting 
much of that .spirit of bitterness which he at times displayed in his acts and speech. 
In IH.W he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in 
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494 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

in the revision of the statutes. In that year the act establishing the Superior Court 
was passed and was (h-afted and efliciently supported by him. In that year also the 
writer was with him in the Senate, and to quote again from the sketch written by him 
and already referred to," had abundant opportunities to observe and measure the vari- 
ous (pialities of his head and heart. Though opposed to him in politics he was not sufh- 
eientiy blind to fail to discern those traits of character which have attracted to him 
the circle of friends whom, like satellites, he has always carried with him in his 
social and political orbit. He disclosed two sides — a sharp bitterness of antagonism 
and the warmest of hearts ; a harshness of deportment at one time, and at another a 
polish of manner and conversation not easily excelled ; now inspiring those about him 
with fear, and again as gentle as a child, as affectionate as a brother, as loving as the 
dearest friend. Mis character seemed to consist of extremes; like the extremes of 
the magnet, one attracted, the other repelled, and no one looked on him with entire 
indifference. So in his treatment of men, while he could be implacable in his enmity, 
he coidd never forget a friend or be faithless to his interests. 

(ieneral Butler became early interested in the military .system of the Commonwealth 
and attaching himself to its service was, in 1860, in command of one of the brigades of 
the State militia. In that year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conven- 
tion held in Charlestim. He had attended every convention of a similar character since 
the nomination of James K. Polk in 1844. The committee on the platform at the 
Charleston convention, of which the general was a member, was divided into three 
parts each of which made a repf)rt. 'I'he majority demanded a slave code for the ter- 
ritories and the protection of the slave trade. One of the minority reports referred all 
([uestions concerning the rights of property in Stales or Territories to the Supreme 
Court and the other, signed by General Butler alone, re-affirmed the Democratic prin- 
ciples laid down at the Deinocratic National Convention at Cincmnati in 1856. The 
report of (Jeneral Butler was adopted, but the convention adjourned to meet in Balti- 
more on the 18th of June without making nominations. At Baltimore the convention 
divided and one section nominated Stephen Arnold Douglas, of Illinois, for president, 
and Herschcll Johnson, of (".eorgia, for vice-iiresident, and the other nominated John 
Cabell Breckenndge, for president and Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for vice-president. 
The Douglas platform said : ■ ' We do not know whether slavery can exist in a Territory 
or not. There is a difference of opinion among us on the subject. The Supreme 
Court must decide and the decision shall be final and binding." The Breckenridge 
platform said : " Slavery lawfully exists in a Territory the moment a slaveholder enters 
it with his slaves. The United States is bound to maintain his right to hold slaves 
there. But when the peojjlc of a Territory frame a State constitution they are to decide 
whether to enter the Union as a slave or free State. If as a slave State they are to 
be admitted without question. If as a free State the slave owner must retire or 
emancipate his slaves." General Butler gave in his adherence to the Breckenridge 
platform, and in that year was made the Breckenridge candidate for governor of 
Massachusetts, receiving only six thousand out of one hundred and seventy thousand 
votes. 

But notwithstandiog his attitude during the campaign of 1860, no man exhib- 

, ited more indignation at the disunion movement which succeeded it, or more 

patriotism in resisting and crushing the rebellion. On the 15th day of April, ]8(il. 

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'I'he brigade called for from Massachusetts, consisting of tlie Tliird, Fourth. Sixth, 
and ICiijhlli Re}i;iments of militia, was placed under the command of (icneral Hutler, 
llie Third and Fourth Regiments goin;^ by water to Fort Monroe and the Sixth and 
ICijjhth by land to Washington. The arrival of General Butler at Annapolis, Mary- 
land, with the Eighth Regmient, his reconstruction of the railroad to Annapolis Junc- 
tion, and his possession of Baltimore need not be described here. The incidents 
connected with his possession of Baltimore are interesting. The War Department 
knew little concerning the condition of that city, and General Scott, in the belief that 
extensive military movements were on foot there among the rebel .sympathizers, was 
planning a descent upon the city with an armed force of great com])lcteness and 
strength. But General Butler, much to his mortification, with his militia regiment 
anticipated him and was quietly encamped (m Federal Hill before General Scott had 
ordered or knew of his movement. To make his descent on the city successful and 
safe it was important that he should first loarn the feeling of the people and ascer- 
tain, if possible, whether any military organization had been formed in the city with 
a hostile purpose. To ascertain this Genei-al Butler resorted to one of those ingenious 
devices which his fruitful brain was always devising in emergencies, and which have 
made his professional life so successful. While at the Relay House he discovered an 
organ-grinder plodding along on his way to Baltimore. He at once bought the organ 
and clothes of the man for fifty dollars and a new suit, with the stipulation that the 
musician should remain a few days in camp. Captain Peter Ilaggerty, a member of 
the Cieneral's staff donned the Italian's clothes and started for Baltimore with the 
organ on his back, with instructions to see everything, hear all the talk in public 
places, and especially to ascertain whether there were any organized forces in the 
cily preparing to move on any e.xpeditiou. Three days passed and no word having 
been heard from the captain, General Butler became fearful that he had been identi- 
fied and captured. At the end of the third day, after the general had retired for the 
night, he was awaked by an organ-grinder outside of his tent, and Captain Ilaggerty 
apjjcarcd with his pockets loaded with coins which he had collected in the streets of 
Baltimore, and with the news that the city was in a harmless condition and that an 
attemj^t at its occupation would be safe. The occupation was made, but was not 
approved by General Scott, who sent him the following dispatch: "Sir, your haz- 
ardous occupation of Baltimore was made without my knowledge, and of course with- 
out mv approbation. It is a God-send that it was without conflict of arms. It is also 
reported that you have sent a detachment to Frederick ; but this is impossible. Not 
a wf)rd have I received from you as to either movement. Let me hear from you." 
He was soon after removed from the Department of Annapolis and. May 16, 18()l, 
made major-general of volunteers in command of the Department of Virginia and 
North Carolina with headquarters at Fort Monroe. Farly in August he was suc- 
ceeded by General Wool in the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and 
placed in command of the volunteer troops outside the fort. Not long after he was 
placed in command of an expedition to reduce the forts at Hatteras inlet, which sailed 
August 22, and was successful. On the Kith of September, 1861, he was sent to 
Ma.ssachusetts, with an order from the War Department "to raise, organize, arm, 
uniform, and eciuip, a volunteer force for the war in the New England States, not 
exceeding .six regiments of the maximum standard of such arms, and in such propor- 
tions and in such manner as he may judge expedient ; and for this purpose his orders 



496 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

and retiuisitions on the quartermaster, ordnance and other staflf departments of the 
army are to be obeyed and answered; provided the cost of such recruitment, arma- 
ment and equipment does not exceed in the aggregate, that of like troops now or 
hereafter raised for the service of the United States." With these troops General 
Butler sailed from Boston I'^ebruary 20, 1863, and took possession of New Orleans 
after the reduction of the forts on the Mississippi River, May 1, lH(i2, by Admiral 
Farragut. He remained in command of the Department of the (rulf until succeeded 
by General Banks on the 14th of December, 1862. On his return to Washington he 
was again ap])ointed to the command of the Dejjartment of Virginia and North Car- 
olina, and during the campaign of 1864 participated in the military operations before 
Petersburg and Richmond. In December, 1864, he commanded an expedition against 
Fort Fisher, and in November, 1865, resigned his commission. From 1866 to 1871 
he was a member of Congress from the Essex District and in 1868 one of the man- 
agers in the impeachment trial of President Johnson. In 1882 he was the successful 
candidate for governor of the Democratic party of Massachusetts, and after one year's 
service was defeated in 1883 by (Jcorge D. Robinson. For many years (ieneral But- 
ler made Boston his professional headquarters and up to his death, which occurred 
in Washington, January 11, 1893, he continued to enjoy a practice which not only 
included every county in Massachusetts but extended into many other States of the 
Union. \\Tien George F. Farley died his bitter enemy, John P. Robinson, rubbed his 
hands with glee in the belief that hell was kindling a hotter fire than usual for the 
reception of its guest. While there were many who heard the announcement of Gen- 
eral Butler's death with a feeling akin to that of Mr. Robinson, it is not too much to 
say that no public man has ever died in Massachusetts with such troops of friends to 
lament his loss and so many blessings of the poor and needy who had shared the ben- 
efactions of a warm and generous heart. 

Nathan Morsk is the son of Nathan and .Sally (Gilman) Morse, and was born in 
Moultonborough, N. H., July 24, 1824. He attended the public schools of 
his native town when not employed on his father's farm. In 18:57 his father was ap- 
pointed postmaster of Moultonborough under the administration of President Van 
Buren, and in 1842 the son was made assistant postmaster. In 1843 he came to Bos- 
ton and studied medicine for a time, but not findmg the prospect of a medical career 
an agreeable one, decided to adopt the profession of law. In 1845 he entered the 
Harvard Law School and graduated from that institution in 1846. While pursuing 
his law studies his means were limited and the writer, who knew him at that period, 
can bear testimony to the perseverance and energy dis])layed by him in securing an 
education which has enabled him to not only establish himself safely in his profession 
but to take high rank also at the bar. He earned his own living by means reflecting 
the highest credit on his courage and self-reliance, and on the 14th of October 1S47, 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Practicing for a time alone, in 1852 he formed a 
partnership with Ambrose A. Ranney, a native of Vermont, who had been admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 1848, under the title of Ranney & Morse. The firm was 
not long in establishing itself on a prosperous footing, and for more than thirty years 
few law partnerships in Boston have been better known or stood higher in the con- 
fidence of the community. Mr. Morse was a member of the Bost(m Common Coun- 
cil in 1863, but with that exception he has resisted the allurements of political life 
and devoted himself with unremitting zeal to the welfare of those who have con- 





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lUlud their interests to his care. He married in Boston, November 18, 1851, Sarah, 
(laughter of Daniel Deshon. 

I'^iii'.NK/.KK MosKi.EY, son of Ebenezer and Martha (Strong) Moseley, was born in 
Windham, Conn., November 21, 1781, and graduated at Vale in 1802. He studied 
law with Judge Chauneey, of New Haven, Judge Clark, of Windham, and Judge 
HiiK'kley, of Northampton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 180."> he settled 
in Xewburyport and had at various times as students in his oftiee, John Pierpont, 
afterwards distinguished as a Unitarian clergyman, and Caleb Cushing. In 1813-14 
he was colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and from 1816 to 1820, and from 18:}4 to 18:J0, 
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1821-22 he was 
a member of the State Senate, and in 1832 a presidential elector. He married, June 
IT, ISll, Mary Ann, daughter of Edward Oxnard, and died at Newburyport, August 
28. 18.")4. 

Pkkf.z Morion, son of Joseph and Amiah (Bullock) Morton, was lK>rn about IT.^l, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1771. He was an attorney of Suffolk county in 1779 
and a barrister in 1786. He was appointed attorney-general of Massachusetts Sep- 
tember 7, 1810, and held office until May 24, 1832, when James T. Austin was ap- 
pointed. He died in 1837. 

S.VMi'Ei. Nii.es graduated at Harvard in 1731. In 177.") commissi<ms were issued to 
new judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county by the majority 
of the Council in the name of " the Government and People of Massachusetts Bay in 
New England." These judges were Samuel Dexter, John Hill, Samuel Niles, and 
Samuel Pemberton. He died in 1804. 

RiciiAKi) S. Si'oi'ioRD was the son of Dr. Richard S. Spniiord, 01 .\ewliuryporl, and 
was born in that town July 30, 1833. He was descended from Ji)hn Si)otTord, who 
settled in Rowley, Mass., as early as 1043. His father w;us born in (Georgetown, 
.Ma.ss., May 24, 1787, and was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, and after study- 
ing medicine with his father and in Philadelphia, graduated at the Harvard Medical 
School in 1810. He began to practice medicine in Rf)wley. but soon removed to New- 
buryport, where he became distinguished in his ])rofession, and where he died uni- 
versally lamented January- 19, 1872. His wife was Mrs. Frances Maria Lord, a native 
of Plymouth, England, a daughter of John Mills, a Scotch poet and a descendant of 
Christopher Kilby, who wa; the agent in England of Massachusetts Colony, and for 
whom, on account of his gift to Boston at the time of the great fire, Kilby street was 
named. Mrs. Spofford's mother was a daughter of James Mothershead Enington, 
and was after she became an oqihan the adopted daughter of Mrs. Susannah Raw- 
^on, the author of "Charlotte Temple." Mrs. Spofford's first husband, George Lord, 
A-as a brother of the wife of Rev. John Pierpont, the well-known clergyman and poet. 
Richard S. Spofford, the subject of this sketch, was educated by his father and at 
Dummer Academy, and studied law with Caleb Cushing in Newburyport and at 
Washington while Mr. Cushing was attorney-general under the administration of 
President Pierce. He acted also as secretary of Mr. Cushing in Washington, and 
while serving in that capacity was sent by the government, though only twenty-three 
years of age, on a special mission to Mexico, After Mr. Cushing left the cabinet in 
18.57, Mr. Spofford continued his law studies for a time, and was admitted to theSuf- 
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498 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

folk bur September 17, 1857. He began practice in Boston, and had his legal head- 
quarters there until his death. In 18ri8-59-()0 he was a representative in the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature from Newburyport, and the writer, who was in the Senate dur- 
ing the first two years of his service, remembers well the impression he made on the 
House by his striking figure, his clear eye, his handsome face, and his clear and m- 
cisivc oratory. It is given to few men to win confidence and aflfection as he never 
failed to do among those with whom he came in contact. For a time he was the 
chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and was serving in that capacity at the 
time of the nomination of General Butler for governor of Massachusetts in 1882, 
when the general was chosen over his competitor, Robert Roberts Bishop. In 1884 
he was a candidate of the Democratic party for Congress, and for a considerable time 
was the attorney of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad. In the 
controversy relating to the fisheries during the first administration of President Cleve- 
land he made himself familiar with all its confiicting questions, and acted with great 
efTiciency as counsel for parties claiming rights within the asserted jurisdiction of 
the United States. He married, December 19, 1866, Harriet E., daughter of Joseph 
Kewmarch, and Sarah (Bridges) Prescott, a native of Calais, Me. , where she was born 
April ;^, 1835. Mrs. Spofford was taken by her parents to Newburyport in her girl- 
hood, and she received her education at the Putnam School in that town, and at the 
Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N. H. At about the age of sixteen years she began to 
write short stories, and in 1859 contributed to the ^Ulanlic Monthly a story of 
Parisian life entitled " In aCellai-," w-hich established her reputation. She has since 
written •' The Amber Gods," "Azarian," " New England Legends," " Marquis of 
Carabas," "Art Decoration applied to Furniture." "Sir Rohan's Ghost," "The 
Servant Girl Question," "The Thief in the Night," " Hester Stanley at St. Marks," 
a book of " Poems" and " Ballads about Authors." Mr. Spofford made his residence 
at Deer Island on the Merrimac River, and died August 11, 1888. 

IIknkv Fowl.]'. DuKA.NT was the son of William Smith, a lawyer of Hanover, N. IL, 
and was born in that town February 20, 1822. His name was changed from Henry 
Welles Smith t(j tlic name at the head of this sketch by an act of the Massachusetts 
Legislature November 25, 1851. He was educated at the public schools and at Har- 
vard College, where he graduated in 1841. The writer, who graduated the year after, 
remembers him as not siiecially studious, but possessing refined and somewhat lu.x- 
urious ta.stes, which interfered somewhat with his i)ursuit of the regular studies of 
the college. He was recognized, however, as a young man of ability, capable with 
diligence of reaching the highest rank. After leaving college he studied law with 
his father in Lowell, who had removed there with his family when Henry was an 
infant, and in the office of Benjamin F. Butler, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar in March, 1843. After his admission he was associated with his father in busi- 
ness in Lowell until 1847. During the five years of his practice at the Middlesex bar 
he underwent such an initiation into the profession as no other county could furnish. 
With such men as Butler, Abbott, Farley, Robinson, Somerby, Train, Wentworth, 
and Richardson in the arena, it may be easily imagined that shrewdness, energy, re- 
source, strong nerves and mental muscle were needed to ward off and return the 
hard blows which these trained gladiators were accustomed to inflict. With the les- 
sons learned at the Middlesex bar he removed to Boston in 1847, where he was as- 
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success. His nuiniiKonienl of cases in court was artistic. So well taken were the 
preliminary steps, so deeply laid was the foundation, so complete and comprehensive 
was tlie preparation f)f evidence, and so adroitly was it brought out, and so carefully 
studied and imderstood were the characters of jurors with their whims and fancies 
and prejudices, that he won verdict after verdict in the face of the ablest opponents, 
and i)laccd himself by general consent at the head of the jury lawyers at the Suflfolk bar. 
While in full practice he became associated with John II. Cheever in the formation of 
the Xew York Belting and Packing Company, and also in the purchase of iron mines in 
the northern part of the State of New York, both of which enterprises largely enhanced 
the fortune, the foundations of which his professional labors had laid. In 18(i3 his 
only son died, and the affliction into which he was thrown so subdued and chastened 
him that he abandoned the law at the very full tide of his career, and devoted him- 
self to the service of the church, not only as a layman interested in its support, but 
often as a preacher, calling others to enter the path he had resolved to tread as a fol- 
lower of his Lord and Master. Becoming a zealous philanthropist he believed that 
he could expend his wealth in no better cause than that of founding a college for the 
superior education of women. Wellesley College at Wellesley, Ma.ss., was the final 
result of his plans and charities, an institution built and etpupped at an expense of 
one million dollars, and opened in September, 187.'). He did not wait for death, when 
his fortune would be no longer of use to him, to bestow this blessing on the women 
of the Commonwealth, but he saw the fruit of his labor ripen while living, and the 
college which he had created auspiciously launched on its beneficent career. Mr. 
Durant married Ma}' 23, 18.54, at Brooklyn, N. Y., Pauline Adeline, daughter of Col. 
John Fowle, of Alexandria, Va., and died at Wellesley, Octobers, 1881. Mr. Durant 
left by his will an annuity of $50,000 for the maintenance of the college, and Mrs. 
Durant, since his death, has entered heartily into her husband's work as the friend 
and benefactor of his noble enterprise. 

Charles F. Dunh.am was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. 

WiLi.i.VM EvERErr, son of Edward and Charlotte Gray (Brooks) Everett, was born 
in Watertown, Mass., October 10, 1839, and graduated at Harvard in 1859 and at 
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1863. He gfraduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1865 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1867. He was tutor and 
assistant professorof Latin at Harvard from 1870 to 1877, and in 1878 became master 
of Adams Academy at Ouinc)-, Mass., and still occu]>ies that position. Having a 
license to preach from the Boston Minister.s' Association, he occasionally occupies the 
pulpit of Unitarian churches, and is one of the most learned men in the denomi- 
nation. Few men in Massachusetts are as thoroughly educated and few are so well 
equipped for extemporaneous speech on subjects relating to either scientific, literary, 
political or scientific questions. It is doubtful whether any inquiry on these questions 
would not draw from him an immediate and satisfactory response. For some years 
he has been interested in political movements and during the last three presidential 
campaigns he has advocated civil service and tariff reforms and the election of (Jrover 
Cleveland as their best exponent. In 1890 and 1892, though living in yuincy, he was 
the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh Congressional District against 
Henry Cabot Lodge, and now in April. 1893, has been chosen to fill the vacancy 
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500 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

senator. He is the author of •' On the Cam." "Changing Base," "Double I'lay." 
" Hesione, or Europe Unchained," and " School .Sermons." 

Mi.Noi' TiKKEi.i., jr., was admitted to the Kssex bar in 1863, and was a member of 
the Suffolk bar in 186G. 

John II. Snr.rr.vKi), son of John Shcppard, an English merchant, and Sarah (Collier) 
Sheppard, was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, March 17, 1780. 
When four years of age he came with his jjarents to America, and after remaining 
for a time in Philadelphia, his parents removed to Hallowell, Me. He received his 
early education at the, Hallowell Academy under the instruction of Samuel Moody. 
He entered Harvard in 1804, but left college in his junior )-ear and studied law with 
Samuel .Sumner Wilde, afterwards judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 
who was then in practice in Hallowell. He was admittetl to the Maine bar in August, 
1810, and began practice in Wiscasset. In 1817 he was appointed register of probate 
of Tvincoln county while Jeremiah Bailey was serving as judge of probate, and re- 
mained in office until April 1, 1834. In 1842 he removed to Boston, where he was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar, and opened an othce. In ]8(il he was chosen librarian 
of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and held that office until his 
death, which occurred June 2."), 1873. He received the degree of Master of Arts from 
Bowdom College in 1820, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of that college 
from 1831 to 1S.")2. He married first. May 13, 181!), Helen, daughter of Abiel Wood, 
and second, November 13, 1840, Mrs. O. B. Foster, daughter of Ezra Willmarth, of 
Georgetown, Mass. 

J.AMi.s B. Roi:n came to Boston from Maryhuul and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
Ajiril 17, 1843. He was for a number of years clerk of the United States District 
Court in Boston. He has been dead some years. 

Mki.vin O. Aoams is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born 
in Ashb\irnham, Mass., November 7, I8."iO. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and A])pleton Academy in New Ipswich, N. H., and graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Ma,ss. , 
for a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In 
1H74 he came to Boston and attended lectures at the Boston University Law .School, 
from which institution he graduated in 187."). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
187.'), and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district attorney, 
continuing in that position until lS8(i. The familiarity he acquired while in that 
oOice with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with 
offences against criminal laws gave him a position at the bar which it would have 
been difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation jis a criminal lawyer thus at- 
tained IS undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defence of Miss 
Borden, of Fall River, indicted ft)r the murder of her father and step-mother, who is 
now awaiting her trial. After resigning his position as assistant district attorney he 
became a.ssociated in business with Augustus Russ, and continued with him until the 
death" of Mr. Russ in the summer of 1802. He is a Republican in polities, and in 
1890 was a member of the staff of Governor Brockett, with the rank of colonel. He 
is now in active practice, following the paths of his jirofession with a fidelity and zeal 
which give promise of a brilliant career. He married Mary Colony at Fitchburg in 
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(lEORCE Bliss was born in Springfield, Mass., November 16, 1793, and graduated 
at Yale in 1813. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar and began practice in Monson, 
where he remained seven years. He then returned to his native town and became 
associated in business with Jonathan Dwight, jr. He was a representiitive from 
Springfield in lH2.S-29-3() and in 1853, when he was chosen speaker. In 1835 he was 
a member of the Senate, and on the death of the president of the Senate. Benjamin 
T. Peckman, he was chosen to fill his place. He w;is one of the organizers of the 
railroad from Worcester to Albany, called the Western Railroad, and the writer 
thinks he was its first president. His resemblance to Dr. George Parkman, who was 
killed by Professor John W. Webster, was so striking that a very resiiectable and 
truthful gentleman by the name of Clary or Cleary, an officer in the Boston Custom 
House, swore on the witness stand with great positiveness that he saw the doctor at 
a time and place wholly inconsistent with the theory of the prosecution. It was 
proved that Mr. Bliss was in Boston on the day mentioned by the witness, and at the 
time referred to was in that part of the city where Dr. Parkman was supposed by the 
witness to have been seen. He died at Springfield, April 19. 1873. 

JiisKi'ii A. Harris was admitted to the Middlesex bar in July, 1878, and was a 
member of the Suffolk bar in 1890. 

TiiKoDORE C. Huro was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 18()(l, and in 
1X1)7 was a member of the Suffolk bar. In 1871 he was chosen clerk of the courts for 
Middlesex county, and was rechosen in 1870-1881-1880 and 1892. 

J. C. KiMU.M.i. was admitted to the Middlesex bar in March, 18.57, and in 187(1 was 
a member of the Suffolk bar. 

William S. Knox was admitted to the Essex l)ar in 1800 and in 1883 was a member 
of the Suffolk bar. 

Samiki. Livkrmokk was born about 1780, and graduated at Harvard in 1804. He 
wxs admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1807, and subsequently renif>ved to New Orleans, 
where he won a high reputation in his profession. He was the author of "A Treatise 
on the Law of Principal and Agent and of Sales l)y Auction," published in Boston 
in 1811, and of " Dissertations on the Questions which arise from the Contrariety of 
the Positive Laws of Different States and Nations," published in New Orleans in 
1828. He died in New Orleans in 1833. 

Daviii Pkrkins was the son of Jacob Perkins, of Bridgewater, and was born in that 
town. His father was a member of the firm of Lazell, Perkins & Company for many 
yeai^s, the proprietr)rs and managers of the Bridgewater Iron Works. He studied law 
and was a member of the Suffolk bar in 18.")3. In 18."i.*( he was appointed by Gover- 
nor Gardner register of insolvency. He married a daughter of Hon. John A. Shaw, 
and has been dead many years. 

HoKATio N. Perkins was admitted to the Essex bar in September, 1832, and was 
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1852. 

Samif.l Pemhi-.rion graduated at Harvard in 1742. In 1775 commissions were 
i.ssued to new judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk county by the 
majority of the Council in the name of "the Government and People of Massachu- 
setts Bay in New England." Mr. Pemlierton w'as one of these judges. He died in 
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502 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Samiiki. Dkxtkk, son of Rev. Sannicl Dcxtur. of Dcdham, Mass., was born in that 
town in 172(i, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the Council 
before the Revolution and for a number of years was a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives. During the Revolution he was one of the Supreme K.xccutive Council of 
the State, and in 177") was one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Suf- 
folk county appointed by a majority of the Council in the name of "the Government 
and People of Massachusetts Bay in New England." He bequeathed $."),000 to Har- 
vard College for the encouragement of biblical criticism, and died in Mendon, Mass., 
in 1810. 

John II[i,i, was one of the judges of the Suffolk Inferior Court of Comnifin Pleas 
appointed by a majority of the Council in 1775 in the name of the "(Jovcrnment and 
People of Massachusetts Hay in New England." 

Thomas Gii.i,, who was the court reporter of the Boston Post many years and died 
twenty years or more ago, was called Counsellor Gill, but he was never admitted to 
bar and never practiced in the courts. 

Thomas Rowan, who flourished about the same time as the above mentioned 
Thomas Gill, was supposed by many to be an attorney. He was an Irishman by 
birth or extraction, and studied law for a time but was never admitted to the bar. 
He was largely engaged in the business of naturalization, and his frequent presence 
in tile courts led to the inference that he was a member of the bar. 

John Ai'crsTiis was a frequenter of the Municipal and Police Courts but was not a 
member of the bar. He was born in 1785 and was a shoemaker by trade, but for 
more than twenty years he devoted himself to the reclamation of offenders, and in 
cases calling for his sympathy he offered himself as bondsman for the good behavior 
of the criminal, thus securing his release and almost invariably his reformation. He 
died in Boston, June 21, 1859. 

Georok Fox Ticker, son of Charles Russell and Dorcas Fry Tucker, was born in 
New Bedford, Mass., January 19, 1852. He received his early education at the 
Friends' Academy in New Bedford and the Friends' School in Providence, R. I., and 
graduated at Brown University in 1873. He studied law in New Bedford in the ofHce 
of George Marston and William W. Crapo, and was admitted to the Bristol county 
bar in New Bedford in 1876 after a further study in the Boston University Law 
School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1875. He practiced in 
New Bedford until 1882, when he removed his office to Boston, where he became 
associated with his former instructor, George Marston, who was then the attorney- 
general of the Commonwealth. In 1884 he published a volume entitled " A Manual 
of Wills," designed to mdicate the best method of drawing a will so as to avoid the 
complications and embarrassments which so often lead to litigaticm. It is a book of 
Massachusetts law, and is regarded as an authority on the suliject of which it treats. 
Not long after the issue of the Manual, he published a monograph on the " Monroe 
Doctrine," which presents in a vivid way the origin and development of that treasured 
American principle. This volume was favorably received and is now an accepted 
authority. In 1888 he published " A Manual of Business Corporations," a work 
similar in method and purpose to the " Manual of Wills." In 1889 he brought out 
jointly with John M. Gould, of the Suffolk bar, " Notes on the United States Revised 



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Statutes," ono of the most comprehensive of all law publications. This work, the 
result of years of research and investigation, has hail a circulation almost unprec- 
edented in legal literature. Mr. Tucker is also the author of a novel entitled " A 
Quaker Home," in which are presented the customs and religious views of the fol- 
lowers of Fox. The scene is laid in New Bedford, and many of its descriptions and 
situations are taken from real life. Mr. Tucker has always enjoyed a good practice, 
and of late years has devoted himself especially to matters pertaining to equity. He 
was a member of the School Committee of New Bedford in ISS 1 , and a representative 
of that city in the Legislatures of 1890-91-92, retiring from politics during the latter 
year to accept the position which he now holds of reporter of the decisions of the 
Supreme Judicial Court. His office is in Boston, but he still resides in New Bedford. 
Frank Dewey Allen, the oldest child of Charles Francis and Olive Dewey Allen, 
was born in Worcester, Mass., August 16, 1850. He received his early education at 
the public schools and graduated at Yale University in 1873. He was a member 
while in college of the various class societies, including the famous "Scroll and 
Key," and pulled an oar in his class crew. After graduation he studied law for about 
a vear in the office of Peter C. Bacon in Worcester and then entered the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in the sum- 
mer of 1875. After three years' further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dick- 
inson in Boston, the last year as the managing clerk of the firm, he was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar January 8, 1878. The next day after his admission he was married 
to Lucy, youngest daughter of Trevctt M. and Eliza M. Rhodes, of Lynn, Mass., 
and became a resident of that city. He was a representative from Lynn in the Leg- 
islatures of 1881 and 1882, serving on the committee on Banks and Banking, the 
Judiciary Conmiittee and the committee to investigate the charges against Joseph 
^^ Day. judge of probate of Barnstable county. In 188(i-87-HS he was a member of 
the Executive Council, representing the Fifth Councillor District and serving one 
year with Governor Robinson and two years with Governor Ames. During two 
years of his councillor service he was clerk of the Committee on Pardons, and was a 
member of the Council which, under an act of the Legislature, sold the Hoosac Tun- 
nel to the Fitchburg Railroad. In 1885-S6-87 he was a member of the Republican 
State Committee from the First Essex Senatorial District, and as an ardent Repub- 
lican worker his voice has been heard on the platform from Berkshire to the Cape. 
Mr. Allen organized and is president of the Massachusetts Temperance Home, and 
is a director in the Lynn Gas and Electric Company. He is also a membe;- of the 
tlie Baptist Social Union of Boston, and in 1892 was president of the Yale Alumni 
of BosUm and vicinity. On the 2d of April, 1890, he was commissioned by President 
Harrison United States attorney for the District of Ma,ssachusetts. One of his 
earliest cases was a perjury case in the matter of a pension claim with General But- 
ler for the defence, and he succeeded in convicting the defendant, and having her 
sentenced after a long and closely contested trial. The new Customs Administra- 
tion Act. the Anti-Trust Statute, and various other new matters of congressional 
legislation have received judicial interpretation during his official term in causes 
which he h;is personally conducted. Perhaps the most successful work done by him 
as prosecuting attorney has been his prosecution of the Maverick National Bank 
officials, which he entered upon single-handed, investigating and selecting the facts 
alleged as violations of the law and drafting himself either in whole or in part the 



504 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

iiidictmeiUs in the various cases. In this cause, which was the most important as 
all'ecting the business interests of the country, wliich had arisen in the circuit for a 
cjuarter of a century, he had well-nigh insurmountable obstacles to overcome, meet- 
ing discouragement at every step, but in the end secured a verdict. In connection 
with the verdict secured against Mr. Potter, the president of the bank, the Hoston 
T lanscripl <.t\\i\: "United States District Attorney Allen is receiving the congrat- 
ulations of his friends over the verdict in the Potter case. He has certainly shown 
pluck and perseverance in spite of much discouragement from both the bench and the 
public. It has been so often said that his ease could never get to a jury, or if it did, 
that there would never be a conviction, that the verdict is certainly a professional 
vindication to be prized by any lawyer in his position." The Boston Courier ■f.aXCt.: 
" The verdict in the Potter case seems to have surprised everybody except District 
Attorney Allen, who from the outset insisted that not only was Mr. Potter gifilty, 
but that a jury, if it got the chance, would say so. lie has had much to contend 
against, and is to be congratulated upon the plucky fight he has made against such 
depressing odds. It is a professional triumph of which he may well feel proud." 
The Saturday Evening Gazette, speaking of the verdict, said "The result of the 
Potter trial has given general satisfaction. . . The prosecuting counsel conducted 
his case with brilliant ability and withal in a spirit of fairness that was as admirable 
as it was dignified." The Hoston Herald f,s\A: "A certain fact had to be estab- 
lished, and apparently the prosecution succeeded in doing this. . . We believe the 
mercantile community as a. whole will welcome the verdict as a just one." The Hos- 
ton I'ost and the Hoston Journal spoke in highly complimentary terms of the dis- 
trict attorney, speaking of the extremely difficult and technical nature of the case, its 
importance to the community, :iiid the moral effect of the verdict. Mr. Allen has 
been indefatigable in his attention to llie duties of his position, and at the close of the 
term of Attorney-Oeneral Miller he was highly complimented by that official for the 
faithful di.scharge of his labors, justifying the splendid support wliich he had from the 
bench and bar for the olfice, which he had so conscientiously and honorably filled. 
Mr. Allen is still the United States attorney for the Massachusetts District. 

Samuki. Tomtson was a native of Maine, where he was admitted to the bar and 
practiced law until 1860, when he came to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June of that year. He not long after became a note and money broker, and 
so continued until his death, which occurred at his residence in Hrookline, April 12, 
is<):(. , 

Is.\.\<' Story, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Seplenibcr. 1S41. and is now 
the justice of the Somerville Police Court. 

Geokck Wii.i I am TrxniKV was born in Salisbury, now Amesbury, Mass., Novem- 
ber S, 1,S22. His ancestors were of the rigid Puritan type, to which so much of the 
grit and power of American life is due. He was the son of Daniel and Sally Wood- 
man Tu.xbury, and his mother, who was a native of Candia, N. H., was a cousin of 
Daniel Webster. He was one of a family of thirteen children, his father having mar- 
ried three times. The children were brought up on a large farm and were early ac- 
customed to hard work. The subject of this sketch was sent when quite young to 
the academy at Strafford, N. H., and from there to Phillips Kxeter Academy. He 
applied himself assiduously to his studies, and in spare hours acting as instructor in 



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order that he might lighten the burden which his proposed college career would im- 
pose on the slender means of his father. In 1841 he entered Dartmouth College, 
where he stood high as a scholar and where his perseverance, uprightness, and gen-, 
crally high character endeared him to both his teachers and his class. He graduated 
in 1845 with the honor of being selected as the class orator, and left college with the 
determination of achieving success in his future life. He first accepted a position to 
teach in the academy at Ipswich, Mass., where he remained a single year, leaving it 
for the purpose of devoting himself to the study and practice of law. He entered the 
office of Hubbard & Watts in Boston, and on the 16th of December, 1S48, he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar. His success at the bar was soon secured. The persever- 
ance and ability demonstrated by him in winning a verdict against one of the large 
capitalists of Boston, much to his surprise, brought that gentlemen to him as a client 
and made him also the means of further success. From that time Mr. Tuxbury had 
the management of all his large legal affairs, and at his death was made trustee of 
his estate. On the iiOth of June, 18.53, he married Harriet Matilda, daughter of Will- 
iam Beals, one of the firm of Beals & Green, the late proprietors and publishers of 
the Boston Post. He was a member of the Boston City Council in 1857 and 1858, 
and a member of the Boston School Board in 1853-1856 and 1857, and from 1860 to 
1865, inclusive. It was largely through his influence that Francis Gardner remained 
for .so long a time headmaster of the Boston Latin School. At about the age of 
thirty-five the health of Mr. Tuxbury began to decline, and he became afflicted with 
a nervous deafness which materially interfered with his practice in the courts. He 
was thus obliged toabandon the trial of causes and confine himself to office business. 
He was largely engaged in insolvency cases and in the settlement of estates. Among 
the cases with which he was at various times connected was the noted Burrell case 
against the city of Boston, which was finally settled after a litigation extending over 
a period of nearly a quarter of a century. For four years he was the counsel of Gen- 
eral Burrell, and his argument before the City Committee on Claims first inspired a 
serious consideration of the claim of his client, which had up to that time been 
esteemed unfounded and frivolous. He had charge of a number of trusts, and en- 
gaged in negotiations for real estate for corporations and syndicates, which proved 
eminently profitable both to his principals and himself. Thwarted as he was by his 
deafness m his professional ambition, he was not prevented by it from attaining large 
pecuniary reward from his labors, and from his increasing means his warm heart and 
liberal hand were ever ready in their sympathy for those less successful in life, and 
in the bestowment of generous and friendly aid He died in Boston, April 12, 1885, 
leaving behind him a widow and two daughters. 

D.XMEL XiiEniiAM, son of James and Lydia (Breed) Needham. was born in Salem, 
May 24, 1822, and was educated at the Friends' Boarding Schf>oI in Providence. In 
1842, at the age of twenty, he removed to Groton, where he bought a farm and de- 
veloped that taste for agriculture which has distinguished him through life. He 
studied law with David Roberts, of Salem, and Bradford Russell, of Groton, and was 
admitted to the bar at Lowell in 1H48. Well grf)undcd as he was in the law, and 
possessing as he did all the qualilications for a brilliant professional career, he was 
irresistibly led into those more congenial paths, where his name and ser\Mces have 
been so intimately associated with the agricultural interests of our State and nation. 
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So6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Tlio prominence wliieh he lias attained in his chosen field makes it proper that as a 
member of the bar lie should have more than a passing notice in this record. While 
in the practice of law at Grolon, he was at one time retained to defend a foreigner 
indicted for a criminal assault upon a girl near Grotoii Junction. The trial was at 
Lowell in the Fall term of 1854, at a time when the " Know- Nothings " were working 
themselves into power as a Native American party against both the Democrats and 
Whigs. Colonel Xeedham secured General B. F. Butler to assist in the defense, and 
somewhat against tlie advice of the general, adopted as a line of defense the theory 
that all tile leading government witnesses were members of the new party, and had 
entered into a conspiracy to deprive the defendant of his liberty and rights. This 
line of defense was fmally acceded to, however, by the general, and by order of court 
the witnesses were examined separately. Several of the government witnesses were 
ollicers in high position in the Know-Nothing party, and when interrogated with re- 
gard to their membership, positively denied over and over again that they had con- 
nection with such an organization. A persistent cross-examination broke down the 
first witness and secured a full account of the ceremony and obligations attending 
initiation. Other witnesses, at first, made the same persistent denial of membership, 
but when their attention was called to the ritulastic work of the order as revealed by 
the first witness, made full acknowledgment, and justified their denial by the state- 
ment that there was no such party as the " Know-Nothing." The disclosures made 
at this trial of the secrets of the order were published in all the leading papers of the 
country, and in defiance of the positive evidence of the girl, a disagreement of the 
jury was secured, the testimony of the other leading witnesses having been thrown 
out on the ground of perjury, and the indictment was finally nol prosscd. At the 
lime of the trial Colonel Nccdham was the Democratic candidate for Congress against 
Chauncey L. Knapp, Know-Nolhing, and Tappan Weutworth, Whig. Mr. Knapp, 
like the majority of the candidates of the new party in Massachusetts, was chosen. 
Another interesting case in which Colonel Needham appeared for the defendant, and 
J. W. P. Abbott and General Butler for the plaintiff, was tried at Lowell, on a prom- 
issory note, which had been given to a wheelwright, who was building a wagon for 
a party, and was afraid that the wagon might be attached and sold on execution be- 
fore completion and delivery. The verbal condition of the note made in the jires- 
ence of the witness, whose name apjjeared thereon, was that the note should not be 
paid until the completion and delivery of the wagon. The completion did not include 
painting. Subsequent to a forma! delivery, the wagon was taken by the builder, at 
the recpiest of the owner, to be painted, and while painting was attached as the 
property of the builder, under a writ issued at Colonel Needham's office. The real 
owner, who was the maker of the note, made no appearance in defense, and the 
wagon was sold as the property of the builder. The note was subsequently sold to 
a party who had no knowledge of the transaction, and who brought a suit to recover 
the amount of the note. The witness to the note was called by General Butler at the 
trial to testify to the signature, and there the plaintilFs case rested. On cross-ex- 
amination the verbal condition was brought out and stated by the witness. The 
plaintiff's council knowing no more of the case allowed it to go to the jury, with the 
understanding that the painting was a part of the completion, and that as there was 
no completion, there was no promise to pay the note. A verdict was rendered ( ■ 
the defendant without the jury leaving their seats. Colonel Needham, as a lawyi r 




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enjoyed more than the average share of success. In 1855 he established himself on 
a farm at Hartford, \'t., where for nine years he was engaged in breeding and rais- 
ing sheep. The intelligence and zeal which he there applied to this branch of agri- 
culture did much to invigorate the wool industry, which had suffered from the neg- 
ligence and ignorance which had previously characterized it. Nor did he confine 
himself to his acres in his efforts to elevate the farming interest. He was two years 
a representative from Hartford, and two years senator from the county of Windsor, 
and in both House and Senate he had opportunities, which he did not fail to improve, 
to promote the agricultural interests of the State. He was five years secretary of the 
Vermont State Agricultural Society, and represented the State at the international 
exhibition at Hamburg, Germany, in 18(i3. At that exhibition, as a result of his own 
efforts in shcej) culture, he secured for Vermont sheep two first and two second prizes, 
which, it is said, changed the market for stock bred merino sheep from Germany to 
Vermont. During his residence in Hartford he was also a member of the extra ses- 
sion of the Senate, when the Legislature was called together to raise money and 
soldiers for the war. In 1864 he returned to Grotoii, and in that year was chosen 
secretary of the New England Agricultural Society, which he had aided largelv to 
organize. In 1801 he succeeded George B. Loring as president of this societv. In 
1889 he was appointed by the society to visit Mexico, and aid in establishing more 
intimate trade relations with the United States, and in carrying out this purpose he 
improved the opportunities offered for a study of the condition and outlook of the 
Mexican republic. On his return to Massachusetts from Vermont in 1804, while re- 
siding in Groton, he associated himself in the practice of law in Boston with Judge 
David Roberts and Edmund Burke, under the firm name of Burke, Needham & 
Roberts. He was elected to the >Ia.ssachusetts House of Representatives from the 
Thirty-first Middlesex District in 1867, and to the Senate from the Seventh Middlesex 
District in 1808-09, and was chosen by the Legislature a trustee of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, a position which he still holds. He was commissioned by Presi- 
dent Grant national bank examiner in 1870, and held the office fifteen years, having 
supervisifin of all the non-clearing house banks in Massachusetts, numbering at the 
clo.se of his term, including some banks in New Hampshire, nearly two hundred. In 
this position, by his intelligence, sagacity and prudence, he did much to win for these 
institutions the confidence of the people. On his resignation of this office he resumed 
the practice of law in Boston, and enjoys the confidence of a large and increasing 
clientage. The literary productions of Colonel Needham have been chiefly confined 
to public addresses upon various subjects, some thirty or more of which have had a 
wide newspaper circulation and been issued in pamphlet form. His address u])on 
the national banks, delivered before the National Banking Association at Saratoga, 
was regarded as the best text bf)ok which had ever been issued upon the history and 
working of the national bank system. Many others of his addresses have been pub- 
lished in book form and have commanded attention. He married, July 17, 184'2, at 
Groton, Caroline Augusta, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Bancroft) Hall, of 
Boston, who died January 30, 1878. He again married, October 6, 1880, Ellen M., 
daughter of George D. and Mary J. (Kilburn) Brigham, of Groton. His oldest son, 
William C. II. Needham, born in 1846, after graduating at the Norwich University, 
studied medicine at the Harvard Medical Schoil and at the Jefferson Mclical College 
in Philadelphia, settled in Gallipolis, O., and while enjoying a large practice was ap- 



5o8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

pointed the city physician. In ISSl he was chosen State senator, and died while in 
commission at Colnmbus, January 11, 18H2. A daughter, Eflie M. F., the second of 
the two children of the lirst wife, born in 1S."(1, married Harris C. Hartwell, a lawyer 
of Fitchlnirg, and president of the State Senate, who died in 1890. The children of 
the second wife are Marion B. , Elice E.. and Haniel Needham. 

Liiki:n/.ii S. F.\iKii.\NKs, son of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) Fairbanks, was born in 
Pep])eren, Mass., March Hi, 182.5, and belongs to one of the oldest and most respected 
families in the State. He is a descendant in the eighth generation from Jonathan 
Fairbanks, who came from York.shire, England, about the year 1683, and in l(i:?fi set- 
tled in Dedham, Mass. The house which Jonathan Fairbanks built in Dedham is 
still standing, and is one of the oldest houses in New England. John Fairbanks, 
the fifth in descent from Jonathan and great-grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was born in that house. Joel Fairbanks, the father of Lorenzo, was born in 
Dedham in 1707, and married Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Tufts, of Roxbury, N. 
II., in 1822. Soon after his marriage he moved to Pepperell. In May, 1825. he re- 
moved to Xew Boston, N. H., and made that place his permanent residence. Here 
Lorenzo had a happy home, and though his father was in the enjoyment of moderate 
prosperity, he nevertheless learned what it was to toil, to face difficulties and light 
his own way in the world. I'-ortunately his lot was cast among a people always dis- 
tinguished for their high standard of morality, their religious zeal, and their devotion 
to the interests of education. His father was a man of sterling character, honest 
and industrious, liberal in his religious views, unostentatious but level-headed and 
conservative in action. His mother was a wf)man of intellectual mold, of great en- 
ergy and executive ability, and strongly puritanical in her ideas. His father, who 
carried on the business of a cabinet-maker combined with the manufacture of doors, 
Ijlinds, window sashes, clock cases, etc., could well afford to surround himself and 
family with the c-omforts of life, but a higher education for his children than that 
which the common schools could furnish was not within his means. Only one among 
them, the subject of this sketch, aspired to the honors and advantages of a liberal 
education. He had at an early age, as a pupil in the district school, attracted atten- 
tion as a scholar, and was stimiUated to push on to higher attainments. No less than 
six of his schoolmates were destined for college, and his ambiti<m naturally led in the 
same direction. But he knew that if he imdertook to obtain a collegiate education 
he would have to pay his own expenses. Not in despair, but in hope, he for a time 
abandoned his books, and, entering a store as clerk, spent three years acquiring 
means for beginning a course of study, more in the way of experience than of money, 
for he had only a small salary. The practical lessons he received were the basis of 
his future success, and have always been valuable to him in the business of life. 

He finally began pi'eparation for college at Hancock Academy, then went to Town- 
send, Vt., and afterward to Black River Academy, T^udlow, Vt., where he completed 
the course of study requisite for admission to the freshman college class. By earnest 
elTort and indefatigable study at home without the aid of a teacher, he mastered the 
curriculum of the freshman year, and entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth in 
the autumn of 1849, passing his examination without conditions and graduating in 
1852 with high rank. During his college course he enjoyed the highest honors of his 
class. He was chosen a member of the Alpha Deltji Phi Society, and was elected as 
its president. He was also elected president of the Social Friends, a public literary 



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society, and at graduation was admitted to the Phi Heta Kaiipa Soeiety. At com- 
mencement he was selected to dehver the closing oration, corresponding to the usual 
valedictory address, although, according to the system then in vogue, there was, 
strictly speaking, no valedictory- 
Mr. Tairbanks studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the bar there in 
the fall of 1S,")3. He began practice in New \'ork, and during the first two years he 
was retained in several imijortant cases, among them the celebrated Chemical Bank 
forgery Ciuses, and the so-called Martha Washington false pretence case, which arose 
out of the burning of the steamer Mixrllia W'ashiiii^loii on the Mississippi River. In 
the latterca.se certain persons had been indicted and tried and acquitted as conspira- 
tors to burn the steamer, and were indicted afterwards in New York for obtaining 
money by false pretences of several insurance com]>anies on pretended shipments of 
merchandise on the steamer, it being alleged that no goods were in fact shipped and 
that the steamer was burned to obtain the insurance. Mr. Fairbanks was counsel for 
eleven of the twelve defendants, and succeeded in having the indictments quashed. 
In the forgery ca.ses he was junior counsel, and the legal proceedings they involved 
were almost a complete epitome of criminal practice. After practicing in New York 
three or four years, Mr. Fairbanks decided to go west, but the (inancial condition of 
the country rendered the time inopportune, and he went to Philadelphia to take 
charge of a commercial school, which, contrary to representations made to him, 
proved to be in debt and in a languishing condition. With his accustomed zeal and 
energy he aiiplied himself so successfully to his work that in si.K months the school 
was relieved from debt, and at the end of three years, during which he had been 
much of the time a partner in the enterprise, it was established on a prosperous and 
]iermanent foundaticm. At the expiration of the partnership he established a com- 
mercial school of his own, and for a period of five years had with one e.xception the" 
largest school of the kind in the country. During this period he publi.shed an elab- 
orate treatise on book-keeping, which, after the lapse of a quarter of a century, is 
still on the market and is regarded as the highest authority. He also published a 
work on commercial arithmetic embodying new and important features, which had 
for a time a large sale. In 18T4 Mr. Fairbanks came to Boston and resumed the prac- 
tice of law. In 1877 he published a work on the Marriage and Uivorce Laws of Mas- 
sachusetts, which proved so acceptable to the i>rofession that a second edition was is- 
sued in 1881. 

His practice ha.s been general, not confined to any specialty. He is regarded as a 
careful practitioner and a .safe counsellor. He aims to promote settlements of dis- 
putes between parties rather than to encourage costly and useless litigation. In 
causes that he has tried he has been eminently successful. He has marked literary 
ta.stes, with a decided fondness for scientific subjects. He has <levoted much time, 
aside from the practice of his profession, to the study of electrical science, and is the 
inventor f>f several telephones and of other electrical appliances, for the manufacture 
and sale of which he some years ago organized a company. But the decision of the 
United States Supreme Court that the Bell Patent covered the " art of telephony," 
caused the suspension of the operations of this company, to await the expiration of 
the fundamental patents. They are soon to be resumed. He married in New York, 
in 1850, Sarah Elizabeth Skeltim, and lives in Boston. 



£10 HISIORY OF THE BE.\Cff AND BAR. 

H.\u\ KY HiNii'.R Pkait, son of Henry Jones and Maria J. (Hunter) Pratt, was born 
in Philadelphia, February 24, 18fi0. He was educated in the public schools of Abing- 
ton, Mass., and in IHTi) was the editor and publisher of the Alnn^lon News. After 
studying law in the office of Keith & Simmons in Abington and at the Harvard Law 
School, he was admitted to the Plymouth county bar at Plymouth in June, 18S3. 
While a student he was the candidate in 1881 of the Democratic party for register of 
deeds of Plymouth county. On his admission to the bar he became a.ssociated in 
business with John F. Simmons, under the firm name of Simmons & Pratt, with of- 
fices in Abinglon and Boston. In 18S(ihe was the Democratic candidate for the State 
Senate, but was defeated by llie customary large Republican majority of his district. 
In 1887 he was the editor of the lirocktoii Ad7ia>tce and in 1888 and 1889 was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives, serving on the Judiciarj' Committee. In the ini- 
])ortant debates of the House he took a prominent part, and his alertness in seizing 
on the salient points of questions under discussion, and his skill and readiness of 
speech in [■)rcsenting them, always commanded attention and respect. In 1887 he 
was the assistant of Hose;i Kingman, the district attorney for the Southeastern Dis- 
trict, and in 188!) was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the of- 
fice of attorney, which had been vacated by the resignation of Mr. Kmgman, who 
had been appointed a member of the Metropolitan Sewage Commission. In 18i)0 he 
was chosen district attorney and served until the present year, administering the 
duties of his office with the entire aiJjjroval of the bench and bar and his general con- 
stituency. The course of Mr. Pratt thus far has been marked by an energy so per- 
sistent, by legal acquirements so sound, and l)y an ambition to advance hmiself in 
his profession so earnest and yet laudable, that it is safe to predict for him a success- 
ful and honorable career. His residence is in Abington. 

CiiAKi.Ks JoiiNsf)N NovKs, son of Johuson and Sally (Brickett) Noyes, was born in 
Haverhill, Mass., August 7, 1841. His earliest American ancestor was Rev. James 
Noyes, who settled in Newbury, Mass., m Hili.j. His grandfather, Parker Noyes, was 
born in Haverhill, September 25, 1777, and married JIary FiHeld, a native of Hop- 
kinton, N. II. His father, Johnson Noyes, was born in Canaan, N. II., January 23, 
l>i08, and moved to Haverhill, where he was married, October 10, 18i!;{, and continued 
to dri business as a trader and manufacturer until his death. Of his four children the 
subject of this sketch is the only one now living. Of him, the only son, these few 
lines are written. He attended the ])ublic schools of Haverhill, and graduated at the 
Haverhill Academy in 18(i(>. In that year he entered Antioch College at Yellow 
Springs, O., where he remained until his junior year, when he entered Union College 
at Schenectady, and graduated in 18G4. While in college he began the study of law 
in the office of Judge Johnson in Schenectady, and after leaving college entered the 
oflice of John E. Risley, jr., in Providence, R. I., and was admitted to the Massachu- 
setts bar in Cambridge in 1804. He began practice in both Boston and Haverhill, 
but soon devoted himself exclusively to his ofSce in Haverhill, abandoning that in 
Boston. In 18(>"> he was chosen representative from Haverhill, and served during 
the session of 18()G as a member of the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on 
the License Law. He was then twenty-five years of age. He had, however, at an 
early age entered the field of jiolitics. During the presidential campaign of 1864 he 
was ]>resident of the Lincoln Club of Haverhill, and on the as.iassinalion of the presi- 
dent in the sprmg of the following year, he was selected to deliver the memorial ora- 



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tion before the Haverhill city authorities. In November. ISIKi, he wasehoseii a mem- 
ber of the State Senate from the Third Essex District in a triangular contest, in 
which George S. Merrill, of Lawrence, and Moses F. Stevens, of Andover, were his 
com])etitors. In 1872 he removed to Boston, and has since that time made the Suf- 
folk bar the arena for his professional labors. He was not permitted, however, to 
desert the political field. In lHT(i he was chosen a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives from the Fourteenth Suffolk District, and rechosen in lS77-l.S7H-],S7i)-lSHl) 
and 1881. During the last three sessions he was the speaker of the House, and the 
writer, who had frequent opportunities of watching the performance of his duties, was 
impressed by the ease, dignity, and parliamentary skill exhibited by him in the ehan-. 
In 188fi and 1887 he was again chosen' representative, and in the session of 1,SM7 and 
18.SS he was again chosen speaker of the House. The writer believes that since the 
adoption of the constitution only three speakers have occupied the chair as long as 
Mr. Noyes. ICdward H. Robbins was speaker from 17!)'.i to 1802; Timothy Bigelow 
in 180.5-l,sOS-1809-18in, and from 1812 to 1820; and William B. Calhoun from 1828 to 
1834. Mr. Noyes was some years since appointed special justice of the Municipal 
Court for the South Boston District, and still holds that office. He is an active mem- 
ber of the Masonic Fraternity, connected with the Adelphi Lodge and one of its past 
m;u;ters; the St. Matthew's Royal Arch Chapter; the St. OmerCimimandery Knights 
Templar, and one of its past commanders; the Lafayette Lodge of Perfectitm ; the 
(iiles F. Vates Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; the Mount Olivet Chapter RoseCroi.x; 
and the Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of the Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, having passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge and the encampment, is past 
grand and past chief patriarch, and has served on the Grand Board of the Grand 
Kncamijment. He has been also a member of the National Lancers, and of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He married in ]S(il in Providence, R. I., 
Emily, daughter of Col. Jacob C. Wells, a merchant in Cincinnati, ()., and has his 
residence in South Boston. 

Thomas J. Gak<;an, son of Patrick and Rose Gargan, who came from Ireland to 
Boston in 182.5, was born in Boston, October 27, 1841, and was educated at the Bos- 
ton public schools and under the instruction of Rev. Peter Krose. He studied law 
at the Boston University I^aw School, from which he gra-Uiatc<l in 187:!, and after a 
further study in the office of Henry W. Paine in Boston, he was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in May, 187.5. Before entering on the study of law he was employed for a 
time as a clerk in the dry goods house of Wilkinson, .Stetson & Companv, but his 
business career was interrupted by the war. In 1863 he was commissioned .second 
lieutenant in Company C, Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and served until his 
discharge at the termination of his term of service. After his admission to the bar 
he began practice in Boston and has won a high position in the ranks of the Suffolk 
bar. In 1888-1870 and 1870 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives, and in 1872 a delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention in 
Baltimore. In 187:i and 1.S74 he was president of the Charitable Irish .Society, and 
in 187.5 a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the city of Boston. In 
1877 and 1878 he was chairman of the Board of License Commissioners, and in 18,80 
and 1881 he was a menil)er of the Boston Board of Poli,ce. In ISS.") he delivered the 
annual oration before the Boston city authorities on the Fourth of July, and in 1880 



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the oration at Ihc (.ontcniiial celebration of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax, 
Nova Scotia. Mr. (lari^an is always prominent in every movement to elevate and 
refine tile race from which he sprang and upon whose moral and intellectual educa- 
tion .so much of the maintenance in their purity and strength of our Republican insti- 
tutions depends. Though bearing Irish blood in his veins, the free air of New 
England has impregnated it with a true American spirit, and no descendant of Pil- 
grim or Puritan can boast of a loftier or more devoted patriotism. He is a brilliant 
and forcible speaker and as a manager of cases in court, skillful, sagacious and full 
of resource. Among the im])ortant cases in which he has been engaged may be 
mentioned the suit against Archbishop Williams, in the Lawrence Church cases, so 
called, involving the question of title to the Roman Catholic Church property in Mas- 
sachusetts. He married in Boston in September, 1868, Catherine L., daughter of 
Lawrence and Catherine McGrath, and lives in Boston. 

\Vn.i.i.\M Edw.akd LoxMi.i. I)ii.i..\wav, son of William Stoughton and Ann Maria 
/Brown) Dillaway, was born in Boston, February 17, 18.53. He was educated at the 
Boston public schools and under the care of a private tutor. He graduated at the 
Harvard Law School in ISTl with the degree of LI>.B., and after further stud)- in 
the ollice of Ranney &• Morse m Boston, he was admitted to the bar Februar\- IT, 
187;!. After his admission to the bar he was associated for a time with Ranney &■ 
Morse, and afterwards with Charles T. (Jallagher, with whom he remained until 
1877. Since tliat date he has been engaged chiefly in corporatiim practice. He was 
counsel in matters relating to the Pacific National Bank, in the reorganization and 
consolidation of Boston (Jas Companies, and for the West End Railway in all their 
legislative matters. He is a director in several corporations, both financial and com 
mercial, and to their interests he is now largely devoted. In 1888 he was selected to 
deliver the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities of Boston, but aside 
from this his literary work has been chielly confined to contributions to the press. 
He is ;i man of culture, possessing tastes which his travels abroad have enabled him 
to gratify and which his line collection of books and works of art are the means of 
further instructing and elevating. He married, June 16, 1874, Gertrude St. Clair 
Eaton, and lives in Boston, 

Raymond R. (Sh.man, son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilco.x) Oilman, was born in 
Shclburne Falls, Mass.. July 28, 18.')9. He was educated at the public schools and at 
tlic Shclburne Falls Academy. He studied law and graduated at the Bo.ston Uni- 
versity Law School, and after further study in the office of Samuel F. Field at Shel- 
biirnc Falls, and of Frederick David Ely, of Boston, now one of the justices of the 
Municipal Court of the city of Boston, he was admitted to the Norfolk county bar at 
Dedham, September 28. 1880, at the age of twenty-one years. He began practice at 
Shclburne Falls, but soon removed his ofiice to Boston, where he has advanced rajjidly 
in reputation and business. He is an active member of the Association of Odd Fel- 
lows and is a member of the (Jrand Lodge of Massachusetts. At Melrose, where he 
has his home, he is a member of the Athletic and Melrose clubs and interested and 
zealous in every movement to promote the social, moral, educational and religious 
welfare of the community in which he has cast his lot. He married, June 16. 1882, 
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Josi-rn O. Bi RDErr, son of Joseph and Sally (Mansfield) Burdetl, was burn in South 
Reading, now Waketield, Mass., October :iO, 1S4H. He received his early educa- 
tion in the public schools of his native town, and graduated from Tufts College in 
1871 the second in rank in his class. While in college he was ab.sent from his class a 
part of the time earning as a teacher the means to defray the expenses of his educa- 
tion. Among the schools in which he taught were a public school in Hingham, a 
public and a private school in Har\-ard, and an evening public school in Charlestown. 
He studied law in Cambridge with John \V. Hammond, now a justice on the bench 
of the Superior Court, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Middle- 
sex bar at Cambridge, April 19, 1873. While a student at law he held for two years 
the ijosition of discharging clerk in the employ of Warren & Ct)nipany, of the War- 
ren line of English steamers, and in that jwsition learned many lessons in business meth- 
ods which have been of service to him in his profession. After practicing a year in 
the office of Mr. Hammond he moved to Hingham, Mass., which place he has since 
that time made his residence. He at once participated with interest and zeal in every 
movement looking to the welfare of his adopted town. The public sch(X)ls especially 
attracted his attentitm, and from almost the earliest days of his citizenship there he 
has been a member of the School Board, and for the larger part of the time its 
chairman. During the earlier part of his legal career after his removal to Hingham, 
his business at the courts of Plymouth county occupied much of his time, but finally 
his Boston practice, beginning in 1874, had so largely increased as to leave little time 
for professional work outside of his Boston office. In 1884 and 1885 he represented 
in the Legislature the Representative District composed of the towns of Hingham 
and Hull, serving the first year as chairman of the Committee on Public Service and 
the second year retaining that position and being also a member of the Judiciary 
Committee. The civil service law now in operation was reported by him and suc- 
1 Lssfully advocated against serious and determined opposition. In 188G he was 
liosen a member of the Republican State Committee, and during the three years of 
his service as a private in the ranks of that committee displayed so much executive 
ability as to be selected in 1889 as chairman. His ser\-ice as chairman continued 
three years and was only terminated by the exigencies of his professional business 
which made it imperative that he should devote himself exclusively to the interests of 
his clients and his own advancement in the paths of law. As a business man out- 
side of his profession, he has the management of large interests in his hands, and 
among other business connections he is a director of the Rockland Hotel Company 
and of the Weymouth Light and Power Company. In 1874 he married Ella, daugh- 
ter of John K. and Joan J. Corthell, of Hingham. 

JosKiii Barlow Fki.t Osgood, son of William and Elizabeth Curtis (Felt) Osgood, 
was bom in Salem, July 1, 1823. He received his early education at the English 
High and Latin Schools at Salem, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 2.'), 1849, and began a practice in Salem, which has 
continued with marked success until the present time. In the first year of his pro- 
fessional career he was a member of the Salem Common Council, and thus early 
entered the field of politics, in which he was a conspicuous and zealous worker for 
many years. He served in the Council until IS"i3, and during the years IM50-1W1 
and 1 M.">2 was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 
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1859 and 1860 ht- was a member of the Senate, and the writer, who was with him at 
the Senate Board in the former of these years, can bear witness to his intelhgent 
compreliension of questions under discussion, to his judicial consideration of their 
merits, and his fearless independence in acting on them. Though a new member, 
no old one had more influence among his fellows. In 1864 he was chosen on the Re- 
publican ticket mayor of Salem, and served through the year 1865 as the successor of 
Stephed Goodhue Wheatland, who had served in 18G3 and 1864. In July, 1874, he 
was appointed justice of the First District Court of Esse.x county with a jurisdiction 
including Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Hamilton, Middleton, Topsfield and Wenhain, 
and continued in office until his resignation in January, 1888. His performance of 
official duties was marked by good sense, wise judgment, impartiality, firmness, and 
a serious consciousness of the responsibility resting on the judge of a court which has 
the closest relations with the every-day and continual peace and well-being of a 
community. Mis resumption of .general practice has been attended by a continuance 
of the confidence of his fellow citizens in the honesty and wisdom of his counsel and 
by the esteem of his comrades at the bar. He married, November 23, 1853, Mary 
Jane Creamer, who died September 16, 1865. 

Gkokck Oris SiiAiTi'cK. Son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was born in 
Andover, Mass., May 3, 1829. He is a descendant of a true Puritan stock; his earliest 
American ancestor, William Shattuck, having settled at Watertown at an early date 
and died there in 1673. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and 
his great-grandfather Bailey was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. He received 
his early education at Phillips Andover Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1851. 
He studied law in Boston in the office of Charles (Jreeley Loring and at the Harvard 
Law School, where he graduated with a degree of LI>. B. in 1854. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar February 1, 1855, and began practice at once in Boston, associated 
with Joseph Randolph Coolidge. In 1S56 he became associated with Peleg Whitman 
Chandler and remained in partnership with him until 1870, when he formed a part- 
nership with William A. Munroe under the firm name of Shattuck & Munroe. At a 
later date Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., was admitted to the firm and continued a 
member until his appointment to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1883. 
Mr. Shattuck, after a career of faithful labor in the professional field, occupies a 
position in the front rank of the Suffolk bar. He has been connected with many 
cases aflecting the rights and interests of corporations, among which have been the 
Sudbury River water cases and the Sayles bleaching case in Rhode Island. He was 
also counsel in the well known Andover heresy cases for the trustees of the Andover 
C(jrporation and for some of the pew-holders in the suit involving the preservation <if 
the ( )I<1 South Meeting-house in Boston. No lawyer is more thorough or trustworthy 
in the preparation of causes for the courts, and no verdict is ever lost by him for 
want of diligence and skill in trials before the court or jury. Outside of the field oi 
law, as well as within its limits, he possesses the entire confidence of the community, 
and while the highest judicial honors in the executive gift are always within his 
reach, there are no positions of trust in the business or political field which he would 
seek in vain if he yielded to those allurements which are so potent in their infiuence 
on those less wedded to the profession to which he has given his head and heart. It 
is not often that his name is found connected with enterprises not germane to the 



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labor of his life. In 1802 he was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and 
he is now serving at least his second term of six years as a member of the Hoard of 
Overseers of Harvard College. lie married, in 1H.")7, Emily, daughter of Charles and 
Susan (Sprague) Copeland, o£ Ro.Kburj-, Mass., and has his residence in Boston. 

Cii.vKi.Ks TvKVi WoonituRV, son of Judge Levi Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth. 
New Hampshire, May 3"', 1820. His father, a native of Francestown, New Hamp- 
shire, had, after his graduation from Dartmouth College in 18(H), practiced law in his 
native town and had, only a year before the birth of the subject of this sketch, be- 
come a resident of Portsmouth. He is descended from John Woodbury, whf) was one 
of the (jioneer settlers of Cape Ann in l{i34, and imbued with that antiquarian spirit 
which such an ancestry would be likely to inspire. In 1831 his father was made sec- 
retary of the navy by President Jackson, and as an incumbent of that ottice and of 
that of the secretary of the treasury, to which he was appointed in 18:54, he remained 
in Washington until the close of the administration of Martin Van Buren in 1841. In 
the schools, therefore, of Washington Charles Levi Woodbury received his early 
education, and in that city he breathed that jjolitical atmosphere which made him 
what he has always been, an earnest and devoted advocate and exiJonent of the prin- 
ciples of Democracy. He studied law in Washington and was there admitted to the 
bar. Establishing himself in practice for a time in Alabama, he soon came to B{>ston 
where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, March (i, 184(i. In 184.'), the year before 
his settlement in Boston, his father, having declined the appointment of minister to 
Ivngland, was apjiointed a justice of the United States Supreme Court as the suc- 
cessor of Judge .Story, who died in September of that year. With the father on the 
bench of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, the son was naturally drawn into practice 
at their bar. The comprehensive nature of the questions arising in arguments and 
trials before these tribunals made the study of cmstitutional and international law 
essential to success, and in these branches of his profession he has been for many 
years recognized as a thorough and able expounder. In the earlier days of his prac- 
tice in the United States Courts he edited, jointly with George Minot, " Reports of 
Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First 
Circuit," containing the decisions of his father from 1847 to 18,")2. In 1853 he was 
offered by President Pierce the mission to Bolivia, which he declined. In 1857 he 
was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and in the same 
year was appointed, by President Buchanan, United States district attorney for 
Massachusetts. In 1870 and 1871 he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives, having, since his appointment as district attorney in 1857, 
made Boston his permanent place of residence. He has there continued to live and 
practice up to the present time, acting not only as counsel in important causes in the 
courts, but discussing, also, with thoroughness and ability, public questions as they 
arise in the Held of social and political life. The <|uesti<m of the tisheries, which re- 
cently occupied sf> much of the attention of our government in its relations with Can- 
ada, was one with which he was more familiar, perhajis, than any other of our pub- 
lie men, and in all its bearings and intricate details was a recognized authority. He 
is a Democrat of the old school, a little suspicious, perhaps, of the dogmas which 
have been grafted on the old stalk ; a thorough believer in those fundamental prin- 
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Si6 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

imbued with the conviction that on these principles, and on these alone, depend the 
permanence and safety of our institutions. Mr. Woodbury is unmarried and resides 
in Boston. 

Cii.vKi.ics Jackson Paink, son of Charles Gushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, 
was born in Boston, August 2(i, 18:i8. He is the great-grandson of Robert Treat 
Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was fitted for college at 
the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 1853. He studied law in Bos- 
ton witli Rufus Cltoate, and was admitted to the SufTolk bar September 15, 18.5(i. 
•The war l)roke out in the early years of his practice and on the 1st of October, 18G1, 
he was commissioned captain in the Twenty-second Regiment of Volunteers. In 
January, 18(i2, he was made major in the Thirty-third Massaciiusetts Regiment, 
colonel of the Second Louisiana Volunteers in September, 18(i2, colonel of the First 
I'nited States Volunteers, brigadier-general of United States Volunteers in July, 
lS(i4, brevet major-general, January 15, 1805, and he was mustered out of service 
January 15, 18()(i. During his term of service he commanded a brigade at the siege 
of Port Hudson, took jjart in the battle of Drury's Blufi'. led a division of colored 
troops in the attack on Newmarket, Va. , and participated in the capture of Fort 
Fisher. He subsequently served under Ccneral Slicrman in North Carolina, and after 
the surrender of Lee, commanded the district of Newbern. After his retirement from 
the service he was enabled by his abundant means to indulge in other occupations 
more congenial to his tastes than the law. His love of the water and of the pleasure 
to be derived from its unbounded resources, implanted in him in early life, he was 
now placed in a position to gratify, and to-day, as a yachtsman, he probably stands 
unexcelled, at least on this side of the ocean. As one of the association of gentle- 
men who built tlie Puritan, in 1885, as the owner of the Mayflower, in 1880, and of 
tlie Volunteer, in 1887, each of which defeated its English antagonist, he leaped at 
a stride to tlie head of American boatmen, and won a reputation which the New 
York Yacht Club, of which he is a member, recognized by the presentation to him 
of a silver cup commemorating his trijile successful defence of the American cup 
against foreign competitors. He married, in 18fiT, Julia, daughter of John Brvant. 
of Boston, and has his residence m Weston, Mass. 

John Ei.hkiik;k HrnsoN, son of John and Elizabeth C. (Hilliard) Hudson, was l)orn 
in Lynn, Mass., August 3, 1839. He was educated at the public schools in his youth, 
and graduated at Harvard in 18(52. After his graduation he was employed until 18(i5 
as a tutor in the college, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in that year. 
After further study in Boston in the office of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer he was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 25, 18()fi. In February, 1870, he took the place 
of Mr. Shattuck in the firm, and. in 1874 became a member of the firm of Chandler, 
Ware & Hudson. In 1878 the firm was dissolved, and in 1879 he edited jointly with 
George Fred Williams the tenth volume of the L^nited States Digest. In 1880 he br 
came general counsel of the American Bell Telephone Company and abandoned his 
general practice. In 1885 he was made general manager of the company, and in 
1887 vice-president. In 1889 he was chosen president of the company, and he is at 
present a]sf> president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The mag- 
nitude of the interests of llie American Hell Telejihone Company, over which he pre- 
sides, may be judged by the fact that during the year 1892 the cotnputed number of ex- 



UrOGRAPHlCAL REGISTER. 517 

clianj^c connections was six millions. The American Telephone anil Telejjiaph Com- 
pany, over which he also presides, has achieved during the last year a memorable 
triumph. Until October, 1803, the limit of the successful transmission of speech had 
not exceeded five hundred miles. A special experimental circuit, consisting of two 
number eight hard-drawn copper wires, was constructed, the wire weighing 4:15 
pounds to the mile, and the circuit containing 820,500 pounds of copper. The success 
was so satisfactory that a new line from New York to Chicago was opened to the pub- 
lic on the 18th of October of last year, and a line to Boston on the 7th of February of 
this year, when (lovernnr Russell opened the line by conversation with gentlemen in 
the Chicago office over wires about twelve hundred miles in length. It is stated in 
the last report of the directors that it is now possible from the room of the company 
in Boston to talk north an<l east to Augusta, north to Concord, N. H., and to Buffalo, 
N. Y., west to Chicago, and south to Washington, over a territory which includes 
more than half of the population of the United States, of whom it may be said that 
they are within speaking distance of each other. Tt is needless to suggest that the 
highest legal ability and most thorough business methods must be possessed by the 
president of these two companies in order to manage their concerns in a manner to 
secure and maintain the confidence of the stockholders. Mr. Hudson married, August 
21, ISTl, Eunice ^V., daughter of ^Vells and Elizabeth (Pickering) Ilealey. of Hamil- 
ton Falls, N. II., and has his residence in Marlboro", Mass. 

Bknj.\.min I)i:.\n, son of Benjamin and Alice Dean, was born in Clitheroe, Lan- 
cashire, England, August 14, 1.S24. He came with his parents to Lowell, Mass., at 
five years of age. and received his early education at the public schools in that town. 
In 1840 he entered Dartmouth College, where he remained one vcar, ami soon after 
began the study of law in the office of Thomas Hopkinson, afterwards one of the jus- 
tices of the Common Pleas Court. He also attended the Harvard Law Sch(M)l, and 
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1845. He practiced law in Lowell un- 
til 1852, when he moved to Boston and became associated in business with Henry W. 
Fuller in a partnership, which continued until Mr. Fuller's death. He has always 
occupied a prominent position, not only at the bar, but in the business walks of life. 
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 18f!5-180ri-1872 and 187H, was a 
member of the State Senate in 18(i2-18(j;( and 18()i), and was a member of the Forty- 
fifth Congress. The high esteem in which he was held as a legislator was attested 
b}- his selection in 18(i0 for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, and a 
membership of the Committee on the Library, and of the Joint Standing Committee 
on the License Law. He has also been chairman of the Boston Board of Park Com- 
missioners, and a director of the Public Institulitms of the city. During his term of 
service as park commissioner from 1886 \A 1889 he was enthusiastic in the adoption 
of such measures as should develop and complete that system of parks which, when 
completed, will reflect everlasting credit both on the city of Boston and on the agents 
and factors selected to oversee and carry it out. It can be truly said that two of the 
most memf)rable enterprises which Boston has ever undertaken, those of the Boston 
Library and of the park system, have been in the hands of n)en who have consulted 
only the highest standards of culture and taste, while feeling the ]>ressurc of unedu- 
cated criticism, and in whose acts there has been no taint of jobbery and corruption. 
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5i8 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

ins; llio offices of deinily for the State of Massachusetts, of the Supreme Council, of 
the Ancient Accei)ted Scottish Rite, for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the 
United States. He was grand commander of the States of Massacliusetts and Rhode 
Ishmd from 1S71 to 1878, and jjrand master of the Grand Encampment of the Knijjhts 
Templar of the United States from 1880 to 1888, and is past grand warden of the 
(irand Lodge of Massachusetts. For several years Mr. Dean has been a sufferer from 
rheumatism, which has compelled him to abandon his general practice, and to with- 
draw himself almost completely from those recreations, which as a yachtsman he was 
wont for many years to enjoy. He was for a time the commodore of the Boston 
Yacht Club, and from his house at South Boston, near to the sea, he is privileged ti> 
at least breathe the atmosphere of those pleasures in which he once so enthusiastic- 
ally participated. He married in Lowell in 1848 Mary Anne, daughter of Josiah B. 
French, of that city. A son, Josiah Stevens Dean, is a member of the Suffolk bar, 
and is referred to elsewhere in this register. 

Edwin Gkovf.k graduated at Harvard in 18.")T, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
May 27, IS.-ii). He died in 18(i4. 

Wii.i.i.vM F. Gkii'1-i.n was a member of the Suffolk bar in 187(1, and is now at the bar. 

Abk.\ii.\m (i.aki.a.mi R.\M).m.i. H.m.k graduated at the Harvard I^aw School in 1871, 
and was admitted to the bar September 28 in that year, 

Wii.i.iAM P. Hai.k was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4, 1891, and is now at 
the bar. 

Wii.i.iAM SiicKM-.v Ham. graduated at Harvard in 18()il and at the Harvard Law 
School ill 1871. He was admitted to the SulVolk bar September 18, 1871, and is now 
at the bar. 

John J. Hai.stki) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

El i;knk J. Haih.kv was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 187r>, and is now at the 
bar. 

Pi'.N.NiNcroN Halstki) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the 
bar. 

Chaki.ks WiNsi.ow Hai.i. graduated at the Harvard Law School in ISfi.'i, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1806. 

Howard Malcolm Hamiilin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(i2, and wa< 
admitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year. 

Alk.xandkk Jamks Hamilton graduated at Harvard in 182(1, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar October 20, 1829. 

CiiARi.Ks H. Hanson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Emok Hkrhkki Harding graduated at Harvard in 1876 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1878. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at the 
bar. 

CiiAULKs Half, son of Nathan Hale, graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 21, 1874. He was speaker of the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives in 1859. He died in 1882. 

Alfred S. Hall was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1875, and is now at 
the bar. 




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Rdhkki PiNCKNEY HakI-dw graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S(S8, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 11 in that year. 

SiFi'iiF.N \V. Makmcin was admitted to the Suffolk bar April (i, IHIil), and is now at 
the bar. 

Uksms a. HAKkiNinDN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the 
bar. 

G. N. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18i)(). and is now at the bar. 

Sa.miiki. T. Harris was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Alfred Stedman Hariwki.i. graduated at Harvard in IS.'jS and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1867. He was an attorney in Boston in 1868. He was at one time a 
judge of the Su])renie Court at the Hawaiian Islands. 

Benjamin Martin Hartshorn graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863 and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 17, 1863. He died in 1867. 

SiiAi-i'iKK Hartwf.1.1. graduated at Harvard in 1844 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1846. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1849. 

A. L. Harwooi) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891. and is now at the bar. 

Setii Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1782, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1831. 

Ariiiir G. H.VTcii was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. 

Ai.iiERT Newton Hatiiewav graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1860, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. 

Amos L. Hatiiewav was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and isn()w at the bar. 

Fkanki.in Haven, jr., grciduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in September, 1860. He has been assistant L^nited States treasurer at Bos. 
ton and actuary of the New England Trust Company in Boston, and is now president 
of the Merchants' National Bank in Boston. 

Samiei. Haven graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1847. 

Ciiari.es SrKAc-.i e Haviien graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.')6, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar November \Tt in that year. 

Geoki-.e Russeli. Hastings graduated at Harvard in 1848 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 2, 1851. lie died in 
1888. 

Aaron Havhen graduated at Harvard in 1834 and at the Harvard Law Scliool in 
1838. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1838, and died in 1864. 

Francis L. Haves was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 14, 1868, and is now 
at the bar. 

Geoki-.e E. Hayes was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at 
the bar. 

Wii.i.iAM A. Haves 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at tlie 
bar. 

Charles Henry Haynes graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1851, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 15, 1853. He died in 1856. 



520 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Hf.nky Williamson Haynes graduated at Harvard in IfS.'il, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar September 26. 1856. 

GiLiEoN F. Havnks was admitted to the Suffolk bar in IS9I), and is now at the bar. 

CiiAKLKS M. Hkmknway was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the 
bar. 

JoiLN Wiirrr. IIavward graduated at Harvard in 18(i.'), and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1808. He died in 18:!2. 

CiiAKLKs E. Hkywood was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the 
bar. 

\ViLLL\M KiiWAKii Hkaly graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was 
admitted to the Suff'olk bar October 9, 1867. 

Clakkml Hkmikick was admitted to the Suff'olk bar in 1882, and is now at the 
bar. 

I*'. B. Ili-.MKNUAY was admitted to the Sufff)lk bar in 189(1, and is now at the liar. 

John Hi:Ki!i;ur was admitted to tlie Suffolk bar November 4, 1891, and is now at 
the liar. 

Jamks Alimn Hkkvkv graduated at Harvard in 1849, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 15, 1859. 

KowiN Nkwlll Hill graduated at llarvanl in 1872, and was admitted to the Sui 
folk bar April 25, 1876. He is now at the bar. 

EoiiAK S. Hill was a member of the Suffolk bar in 18911. and is now at the bar. 

J(jiiN Hii.i.is graduated at Harvard in 1868, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar 
in September, 1871. He is now at the Suffolk bar. 

Thomas Hii.i.is has been since 1890 a member of the Suffolk bar. 

1m)Waki) Hiiu-.iNsoN graduated at Harvard in 1874. and was an attorney at the Sui 
folk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. 

Auiiii u IIii.DULrii graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1873, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June. 1874. 

(;. Akiiiiu Hii.iiiN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and is now at the bar. 

Isaac Tiikodokk Hoagl'E graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 3, 1870. He died in 
1885. 

CiiAKi.Ks Ci'siiiNc. Hoims graduated at Harvard in 1855, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar May 2:!, 1857. 

Maki.and C. Hoiiiis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. 

TiioKNDiKE IJki.am) HoiiGLs graduated at Harvard in 18.57, and was at the Boston 
bar in 1866. 

Damki. Jli'ikkson HoLiiRooK graduated at Urown University in 1863 and at tlu 
Harvard Law School in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 37, 1867. 

AkricMAs RooEKS HoLDEN gi-aduatedat Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12. 1869. He died in 1884. 

Josin A Bknnkti' Hoi. den graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1871, and was 
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He is now at the bar. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 521 

Aiijj A HdLLis graduated at the Harvard Law .SlIidoI in IHIil, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar September 11, 1862. 

J. (i. Hoi.r was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, IHliO, and is now at the 
Suffolk bar. 

AKriiiK \V. HooiKK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1K82, and is now at the 
bar. 

John Myers Holl.\nd graduated at the Harvard I>aw School in 1S67, antl was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 15, ISOT. 

Lk.v.ndkr Hoi.krook graduated at Harvard in IHT'J, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in June, 1875. 

Einv,\Ki> J.\CKSoN Holmes graduated at Harvard in 18(>7 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar (Ictober 4, 1870. He died in 
1884. 

Jahhz Sii..\s Hoi.mf.s graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in May, 1867. He died in 1884. 

SrwAi.i. W. HoDi'KR was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1880, and is now 
at the bar. 

Kreijkku S. Hopkins was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Hknrv Parkkr Hoim'IN graduated at Harvard in 18.59 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 16, 1865. 

J. H. Horwooi) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the l)ar. 

Krkdrrick L. Houghio.n was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18S4, and is now at 
the bar. 

Frank A. Hoiston graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the SulTolk 
bar in 1883. 

E. O. Howard was adjnitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867, and is now- at the bar. 

Gkorge E. Howe was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. 

John Dennett Howe g^raduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.59, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 12, 18G0. He died in 1874. 

Wii.i.iAM Edwaru Howe graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1853, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 18.54. He died in 1875. 

Henry Howland graduated at Harvard in 1869, and after attending the University 
of Heidelberg, Germany, graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1878. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1879. He died in 1887. 

Li ( us L. HiuBARO graduated at Harvard in 1.872, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in May, 1875. 

Chari.es Henry Hidson graduated at Harvard in 1.846 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1848. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1848, and has 
been at the Suffolk bar since 1868. 

Samiei. H. HiusoN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

James Hughes graduated at Harvard in 1780, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1783. He died in 1799. 
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52 2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Ei'CKM-: HiMi'iiKKv was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S90, and is now at the Vuir. 

Thomas Hcnt was admitted to tlie Suffolk bar in 1S90, and is now at the bar. 

Wii.i.iAM Gniiis Hi'.NT graduated at Harvard in 1810 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
l)ar in September, 18i:i He died in 18;i3. 

CiiAKi.Ks Hknkv Htri) graduated at Harvard in is."):!, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar May 28, 1836. He died in 1.S77. 

Francis Wii.i.iam Hikd graduated at Harvard in 1852, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar Oetober 2, 1855. He is now at the bar. 

A. H. HiTciiiN.so.N was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

I'. II. Ill ]c iiiNsoN was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4, 18(i7, and is now at the 
bar. 

CiiAKi.KS Wiiuim; HiNiiNGToN graduated at Harvard in 18.54, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1850. He died in 1888. 

Ji-.ssK C. Ivv graduated at Harvard in 1874 and at the Harvard Law School in 187(i. 
He was admitted to tlie Middlesex bar in Oetober, 1877, and is now at the Suffolk 
bar. 

OiiAniAji Jackson, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in tsiil, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar November i:j, 1860. He died in 1878. 

Franc.'is Wavi.ani) Jacoiis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18f)l, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar November 15. 1862. 

(Ir.oRCE Edward jAcoiis graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 17, 1879. He is now at the bar. 

David Fi.iasJamks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.52, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar Oetober 28, 1858. 

Gkokgk Amioir Jamks graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1863, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 1, in that year. He is now at the bar. 

WoR 1 iiKN T. Jamks was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar 

John Jamison was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. 

I'-DK.N SiiorwKi.i. J.v.u'F.s graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1842. 

Samcki. Jknnison graduated at Harvard in 1839, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in November, 1840. He is now at the bar. 

C. A. Jr.wKi.i. was admitted to the Suffolk l]ar in 1891 and is now at the bar. 

Wii.i.iA.M K. Jkwki.i. was admitted to tlie Plymouth county bar in 1800, and is now 
at the Suffolk bar. 

Benjamin Ni.wiiAi.i. Johnson graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to 
the Essex bar in 1880. He is at the Suffolk bar. 

L. H. II. Johnson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar, 

Francis A. Jonks was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. 

Wii.i.i.v.M Jonks graduated at Harvard in 1793 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1813. 



BlOGRAPHtCAL kEGISTkR. 523 

Asa Johnson gra(hiale(l at Ihirvard in 17s7 and was adniiUed to llie Suffolk l)ai- 
lie died in l.H2(). 

Okky Johnson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858 and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July of that year. 

Ai.nioN Kiarii Pakkis Joy graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1 Sis and was 
at the Suffolk bar as early as 1852. He died in ISS!). 

CiiAUN'CEY P. JuDD was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

John a. Keefk was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1878, and is now at the bar. 

Arthi'R Monkok KtrrH graduated at Harvard in 1874 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 187(i. 

IsKAF.i. Kkhii gr.idn.ited at Harvard in 1771 and was at the Suffolk bar in 177!). 
lie died in I81<». 

Wii.i.iAM V. Kki.i.kn was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 21), 187(), and is 
now at the bar. He was appointed irf 1887 reporter of the decisions of the Supreme 
Court and reported from June, 1887, to November, 1891. 

Loirs W. Kki.i.ev was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Ciiari.es G. Keyes was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 21, 18.58, and is now at the 
bar. 

Stephen I". Keves was admitted to the Suffolk bar IJecember 5, 1H(I4, and is now 
at the bar. 

John F. Kii.ToN was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2:i. lM(i2, and is now at the 
bar. 

John KiuiiER graduated at Harvard in 1708, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1797. 
He died in 1810. 

David Pi:i,sieer Kimbai.i, graduated at Harvard in 185(i, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 8, 1857. 

Ei.HRiDGE Gerry Kimhali. graduated at Harvarri in 1S77, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 1880. 

George A. Kino was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Benjamin Barnes Kingsbury graduated at Bowdoin in 1857 and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1862. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 9, 1802. 

JosiAH Bi rnham Kinsman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18."i4. and was 
a member of the Suffolk bar in 1859. 

Krancis W. KiTiKKiiGE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in IHilO, and is now at the 
bar. 

Frederic T. Kniotit was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 
Isaiah Knowi.es graduated at Harvard in 18.54, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar May 27, 1859. He died in 1878. 

Thomas Oaks Knowi.ton graduated at the Harvard T-aw School in 1S71. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in March. 1872. 

Naihaniei. Phii'Pen Knam- graduated at Harvard in |.'<2(), and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar March 8, 1S32. He died in 1854. 



$24 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 

Mamii.ion Ki UN was admillud to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1S!)I, and is now at 
the bar. 

Josni'ii H.AKrwKi.i. Laihi gj-aduated at Dartmouth in ISO? and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1871. lie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, IHTl. 

Aniiorr W. Lamson was admitted to the SuiTolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

lCiiwAui> Landkn jjraduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School in 
18:i!). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Februarv 12. 18:i9, and was a judge in 
Washington Territory. 

Chkisi'oimiku Coi.iMnus Langdhi.i, graduated at Harvard in 18i)l and at the Har- 
vard Law School in bS,')^ He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 11, 1875. 

CnAKi.r.s WKsroN Lakrahkk graduated at Bowdoin in 1844 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 15, 1847. 

(iKoKCK P. Lawkknck was admitted to the Middlesex bar in February, 18.59, and is 
now at the SutTolk bar. 

Cakdm-.k WiiiTNKV Lawrknce graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar February 7, 1866. He died in 1869. 

RoiiKKi' W. Lidiir was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 18S5, and is now 
at the bar. 

EuwARi) Lkwis LeBrktom graduated at Harvard in 1824, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 13, 1833. He died in 1849. 

Lewis Cass Ledvard graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1875. 

Fi.i.ioi C'Aiior Lek graduated at Harvard in 1S7(>. and was admitted to the Suffolk 
h.ir in iss:!. 

John Rowe Lee graduated at the Harvard Law Scluxil in is(i(i, and was admitted 
to the SutTolk bar Decemlier 19, 1865. 

RoiiEKi Li A 1 was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now at the bar. 

Dami'I \V \i ii.i Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1S03. and was an attorney in Bos- 
ton ill isi;;. He died in 1815. 

James Oris Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1S07, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar October 9, 1810. He died in 1818. 

Roland Crocker Lincoln graduated at Harvard in 1865 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lanuarv, 1871, and is now at 
the bar. 

George Coeein Little graduated at Harvard in 18.56, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar May 7, 1862. 

Joseph J. Li i i i.e was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Jackson Locke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1H91, and is now at the bar. 

JosiAH Lewis Lomhard graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1864, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 16 in that year. 

Ei.iiH' G. LooMis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1878, and is now at the 
bar. 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTEk. jiS 

Jamfs Hkown Loud jjr.idualoil at Amherst in IS")."! and at the Harvard Law Schodl 
in ISdO. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July Ki, IHfil). and is now at the bar. 

F. II. L(iKi) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18(10, and is now at tlie bar. 

Ai.iiKN Porter Lorinc graduated at Harvard in 1S6!), and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 18, 1872. 

John L.vihkoi' graduated at Harvard in 17S<», and was admitted to the S\ilVrilk bar 
in 17113. He died in 1820. 

FK.\NcisCAii(rr LowKM, graduated at Harvard in I7ii:!, and was admitlod to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1797. He died in 1817. 

Francis CAHor LowKi.i. 2d graduated at Harvard in 1870, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar. 

John LowKi.i. 3d, s<m r)f Judge John Lowell, graduated at Harvard in 1877, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880. He is now at the bar. 

Ci.iN iiiN Wii.i.iAM LicAs graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in February, 1881. 

Anson M. Lyman was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18i)0, and is now at the bar. 

Ci.AKKN( K H. Loi I) was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

CiiAKi.Ks Waii.kv Lovktt, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law Sehool in 1S(!7. and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar Deeember 9, 1807. 

Aiiiiorr Lawrencr Lowki.i. graduated at Harvard in 1877. and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 1880. He is now at the bar. 

Edward Jackson Lowell 2d graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in June. 1872. 

David Brainkkd Lvman graduated at Yale in 1804. and at the Harvard Law Sehool 
in 1800. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 8, 1800. 

David Hinckley Lyman graduated at Harvard in 1839. and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar May 9, 1842. He died in 1870. 

A. Sklw\n Lvnde was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

A. V. Lyndk was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1847, and is now at the 
Suffolk bar. 

F. (J. M.-\comker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Ivx-SiM.NEK Manskili.d graduated at Harvard in 1808 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10. 1872, and is now at 
the bar. 

Georce F. Manson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. and is now at the bar. 

Elmer E. Marshall was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. 

Alexander Martin graduated at the University of Michigan in 18.">.5, and at the 
Harvard Law Sehool in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1857. 

John F. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is nt)w at the bar. 

William P. Martin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. and is now at the bar. 

John Marshall Marsi-ers graduated at Harvard in 1847 and at the Harvard Law 
School in ls."iO. in which vcar he was at the Suffolk bar. 



526 IirSTORV OF THR BENCH AND BAk. 

CvKi's C. M.wiiKRRY was atlmillfd to the Suffolk 1)ar in 1882, and is now at the bar. 

L.M KKNs M.WNAKii was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

John \V. MiAnakm-.v was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. and is now at the 
bar. 

Dami-.i. Mi Ii.kov graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1842, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar January T in that year. Died at an unknown date. 

Wii.i.iAM M. McTsNKs was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888, and is now at the bar. 

Fkkdkku- MclNriKK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

Gkcikoi-. Maukison Met; rkw graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in 
1870, and at the Harvard T^aw School in 1873. He was an attorney at the Suffolk 
bar in 1.S7:!. 

Hknkv F. MiKkkvku graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S71, and is an 
attorney at the Suffolk bar. 

CiiAKi.r.s C. Mki. I.K.N was admitted to the Suft'olk liar in IM'io and is now at the bar. 

Gkokok Fkf.dkkk: M( Lei.lan graduated at Harvard in 18."(."), and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar April 20, 1857. 

Samui'.i. Wai.tkk McDaniei. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S7S, and was 
a SulVolk attorney in 1885. He is now at the bar. 

CiiAKi.Ks Amos Mkrrii.i. graduated at the Connecticut Wesleyan University in 18(il 
and at the Harvard Law School in 18(i!). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar [an- 
uary 9, 1809. 

JoH.s Miner. r.v was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884 and is now at the bar. 

Gi;"Ki;i-. Hi..\RV Mii.lkk graduated at Harvard in 1807, and was admitted to the 
Suff'olk bar January 22, 1870. 

RoiiKKi .Ski)i;wu:k Minoi', son of William Minot 2d, graduated at Harvard in 1877. 
and was admitted to the Suff'olk bar in 1882. He is now at the bar. 

Francis Hk.nkin Mii.dram .graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was an attornev in 
Boston in 1H70. He died in 1S75. 

Ke'iiu AIM I'l.iNr Mii.i.KR graduated at Harvard in 1828 and was at one lime a mem- 
ber of tile Suffolk bar. He died in 1875. 

Wii.i.iAM PKi'i'KRiii.i. Mo.NiwcrK graduated at Harvard in 1809, and was admitted to 
the .Suffolk bar in December, 1871. 

RrssKi.i. Wduii.r.v Montagi k graduated at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1874. 

Gkori;k TiiKoDoRK MooDv graduated at the Harvard Law School In 18.58, and was 
admitted tfi the Suffolk bar December 17, 1859. 

Br.vKRi.v K. MooRr. was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

Ei'GF.NK H. MooRK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

Ai.onzo D. Moran was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 4. 1891, and is now at 
the bar. 

John B. Moran was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1.S90, and is now at the bar. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 527 

Frank >[oki>.>.n was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2:!, ISUS, and is now at the 
bar. 

(iKoRi-.i-: iMnRKii.i. was at the Suffolk bar in ISOO, and is now. 

RouKRT Morris was admitted to the Suffolk bar February '-2, IMIT. and has been 
dead some years. He is believed, by the writer, to have been the first eolored attor- 
ney at the Suffolk bar. 

Robert Morris, jr., son of the above, was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 
s, 1,ST4. 

Wii.Li.vM GoiivERNEiR MoRRis jp-aduatcd at the Harvard Law Sehool in 1855, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1854. He died in 1H84. 

T. J. Morrison was admitted to the Suffolk bar in IJecembcr, 1S77, and is now at 
the bar. 

Cn.VRi.Ks R. Morse was admitted to tlie Suffolk bar in February, 1875, and is now 
,il the bar. 

HoR.\CE E. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, isos, and is now at the 
bar. 

Xath.vx Morse 2d was admitted to the bar in June, 1S75, and is now at the bar. 

Wii.i.iA^r A. Morse was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lS(i(>, and is now at the bar. 

Barron C. Moilton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 29, 1S57, and is now 
,it the bar. 

Danif.i. SxriTH Moi r.roN graduated at the Harvard Law Sehool in 1858, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 25, 1859. 

George W. Moii.TON was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1891, and is now. 

E. V. MiNRoE was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. 
Francis J. Mi nrok was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 27, 18G0, and is now at 

the bar. 

N. Si .MNKR MvRicK was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

F. C. Nash was in 1890, and is now at the Suffolk bar. 

Frank Piiii.ii' Nash graduated at Harvard in lS.5(i and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1859. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 18(il. 

Howard D. N.\sii has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890. 

Rui'i s Wii.i.iAM Nason graduated at Harvard in 187:5, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1875. 

Hknrv Oilman Nichols graduated at Harvard in 1M77, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1881. He is now at the bar. 

F. S. Nickerson was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 1874, and is now at 
the bar. 

S. W. NicKKRsoN has been at the Suffolk bar since 1890. 

Samiel Newell graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar April 13 in that year. 

RoiiERT Ralston Newell graduated at Harvard in 1805 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1868. He was a member of the Suffolk bar in 1870. He died in 1883. 



528 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Sfc;KENo D\vii;in Nukkkscin graduated at Yale in 1S45 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1H47. He was admitted to the Sutfolk bar in January, 1)S4H. 

Grkknvii.i.k Mowi.am) NoRiKoss graduated at Harvard in 1S75 and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1877. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now 
at the bar. 

Otis Nokcross graduated at Harvard in 1S7(I and at tlio Harvard Law School in 
1873, and was admitted to the bar in September, 187:j. He married, January 20, 
1881, Susannah Ruggles, daughter of Henry Plympton, of Boston. He resides in 
Boston. 

Fkkdkkkk L. Norton was admitted to the Suffolk bar January •'>, 18(i;i, and is now 
at the bar. 

Gi',oki;k ().\k was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 187!), and is now at the 
bar. 

Naielvmi-.i. Kk.mhi.ic Grf.enwood Oi.ivkr graduated at Harvard in Isili), and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 14, 1816. He died in 18;«. 

Petkk Bi Ti.r.R Oi.Ni'.v, son of Wils<m Olney, of Oxford, Mass., graduated at Har- 
vard in 18(i4 and at the Harvard Law School in 18()(i. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar March (i, 18(i(i, and is now practicing law in New York. 

'riiKoDoKK. Moody OsiioK.NF. graduated at Harvard in I.S7I, and is a member of the 
Suffolk bar. 

George Edmind Oris graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(;!), and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 11, 1808. 

JosEi'ii RrssEi.i. Otis graduated at Harvard in 182ri, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in October, 1828. He died in 18G4. 

CiiARi.Es HiNiER Owen graduated at Yale in I8(i() and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1863. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1862. 

Mai'Rice O'Connei.i. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1854, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1882. 

Andrew (Oliver graduated at Harvard in 1842, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 18, 1845. He is now an Episcopal clergyman in New ^'ork. 

Wii.i.iAM HiNiER ORcin graduated at Harvard in 186!) and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1873. He was ailmitted to the Middlesex bar in January, 1874, and in 1885 
was at the Suffolk bar. 

RoscoE Palmer Owen graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 8, 1864. He is now at the bar. 

Wii.i.iAM RoitERi'.soN Pace graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1866. 

Chaki.es CisiiiNC, Paine graduated at Harvard in 1827, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in October, 1830. He died in 1874. 

Elijah Paine graduated at Harvard in 1781, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He was a judge of the United States District Court in \'ermont and a member of 
Congress from that State. He died in 1843. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 529 

CiiAKi;i'.s Ai.iiKKi I'arkkk j;ra<Uialcfl at Harvard in 181!(, and was admittud lo Uic 
Suffolk bar January 14, 1827. He was clerk of the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk 
county, and died in 1877. 

D.vNiKi. Pakkek graduated at Harvard in 1771, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1700. 

Geokgk W. Pakkkk has been a member of the Suffolk bar since 18!)0. 

Nathanif.i. AU.SI1.N Pakks graduated at Harvard in 183S), and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December l(i, 18.58. He died in 187.5. 

GoRHAM Parks graduated at Harvard in 18.54, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 

Myron Curtis Parsons graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18r)3, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 18r)4. 

Georck Herbert P.vrTERSON graduated at the Harvard haw School in 18(j:>, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 3, 18(14. 

William M. Pav.son was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, IS.sl, and is 
now at the bar. 

Oliver Peabodv graduated at Harvard in 177:^, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1831. 

Will lAM E. Peabodv was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. and is now at the 
bar. 

Thomas H. Pearse was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1887, and is now 
at the bar. 

Ai'iu'sTi's Thormuke Perkins, son of Thomas II. Perkins, was born in Boston and 
graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School in 185:1. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July IS), 1854, and died in 1891. 

Edward CranCh Perkins gi-aduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 1, 1873. He is now at the bar. 

Joseph Perkins graduated at Harvard in 1794, and wa,s admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1803. 

Charles Predekick Paine graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was 
an attorney at the Suffolk bar in that year. 

Wii.i.iA.M Wake Peck graduated at the Vermont University in 1.S41 and at the 
Harvard Law School in 1844. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 9, 
1845. 

Frank K. Pendleton graduated at Harvard in 187(1 and at the If arvard Law School 
in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 187.5. 

Ciiaki.es Carroll Perkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and wa.s 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1863. 

J. Perrins, jr., was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. 

Francis A. I^krkv was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 13. ISIM, and is now at the 
bar. 

EowARD (JoiLD Pk I ERS graduated at Harvard in 1874. and was admitted to the 
Suifolk bar July 8, 1879. He went to San Francisco and practiced for a time, return- 
ing to Boston in 1886. 
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530 HISTORY OF THE BENCl{ AND BAR. 

Sanford Bakm'm Pi-.kky graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1845, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk Ijar April 22 in that year. He died in 1884. 

Joii.N PiiKi.rs graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He died in 1882. 

CiiAKi.Ks AriM.i-.KiN I'liii.i.ii's graduated at Harvard in isljii, and wa.s an altnrney at 
the Suffolk bar in 18()7. He died in 187«i. 

Wii.i.AKi) QriNcv Piiii.i.ii's gi-aduated at Harvard in 185") and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863. 

Hknkv GodiiakI) PicKEKi.No graduated at Harvard m 1869 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1871. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Se])tenil)er 17, 1872, and i-^ rmw 
at the bar. 

Jamks F. Pukkkinc; was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, isoii, and is now 
at the bar. 

Gboki;k WiNsi.ow Pikkck griiduated at Harvard m 1864, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June 3. 1868. 

John Mokison Pinkerton graduated at Yale in 1841 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1815. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3, 1846. He died in 
1881. 

(jiioKCK Frkukku K PlPKR graduated at Harvard in 1867, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1869. He is now at the bar. 

JciriN.soN Tu'iTi.K Pi.ATT graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S65, He re- 
ceived an honorary degree from Yale and was a professor of law in that university. 
He died in 1890. 

Ski)(;wic K L. Pi.i'MMKK graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1811, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1845. 

Wii 1 i.\M Pi.iMr.K graduated at Harvard in 1845 and at the Harvard Law SchcMi! in 
ists. Ik- was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1848. 

Ci.iMoKii H. Plummkk was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. and is now at the 
bar. 

GiioKcr. EnwAKi) Pond graduated at Harvard in 1858 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1860. He was admitted to tlie Suffolk bar January 7, 1862. 

Ai.uKR'r Poor graduated at Harvard in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1882. He is now at the bar. 

Gkori;k H. PciiiR was admitted to the Kssex bar in 1S64. and is now at the Suffolk 
bar. 

JipsiAii P( I uri-;R graduated at Harvard in 18,52 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 1855. 

RouKKT Hanna Pollock graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 12 in that year. He died in 1888. 

JoNAriiAN Edwards Portkr graduated at Harvard in 1786, and wivs admitted to 
the Suffolk bar. He died in 1821. 

Thomas W. Portkk was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 10, ls75, and is now at 
the bar. 



tiroQRAPHlCAL REGISTER. Sjt 

CiiAKi.Ks H. Pk M 1 was adiiiittuil to the SiiflolU bur in Kubiiiarv, 1S7T. and is now 
at the bar. 

Ei>WAKi> B. Pkaii- was a<bniitto(l In Ibu SnITolk bar January 20, ISill, and is now 
at the bar. 

E. Granvm.i.k Pkai I was a member of llie SulTnlk bar in lS(i7, and is now at llie 
bar. 

WiM.iAM Pnr Pkkiu.k jjfraduated at Harvard in 1S7.">, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in October, ISTS. 

John Pkenitss was admitted to the SulTnlk bar in 1SM7, and is now at the bar. 

Samikl PRKScorr graduated at Harvard in 17!)!), and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar Januar)- fi. 1804. He died in IHi:!. 

Frank W. Proctor was admitted to the SulTolk bar in June, 18S2, and is now at 
the bar. 

Gkokck Hknrv Prks 1 1 in graduated at Harvard in lS4(i, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in December, 1.S4W. He died in ISfiH. 

Edward L. Rand was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lSsr>. and is now at the bar. 

F. F. Raymond was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Deeember. 1S7."), and is now at 
the bar. 

Chester A. Rekd was admitted to the Suffolk bar in INSl, and is now at the bar. 

Elias Sii'i'i.E Reed giaduated at the Delaware University in l.S.'>7 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 18"i8. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar December !t, 1857. 

Edward Franklin Raymond graduated at Harvard in ISf)!, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1854. He died in 18.")5. 

David Dodge Rani.ett graduated at Harvard in 1857 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 18fi0. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January- 28, 18«o. 

JosEi'ii WiiEEi.EK Reed graduated at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1869. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 23. 1869. 

Warren Aucusti's Reed graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in February, 1879. 

Merrick Rice graduated at Harvanl in 1785. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
I le died in 1819. 

Francis Gardiner Riciiaki>s graduated at Harvard in is.");{, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 5, 18.57. He died in 1884. 

Charles F. Rich.xrdson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in l.'<4li, and is now at the 
bar. 
' Henry A. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. and is now at the 
bar. 

James Richardson graduated at Harvard in 1797, and was admitted to the SutTolk 
t)ar. He died in 1858. 

James Prentiss Richardson graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 12 in that year. 

John S. Richardson was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 2:i. 1885. and is now 
at the bar. 



S32 HISIORV OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Li'TiiKK Ri<;iiAKi>siiN jjracUiated at Harvard in 1T9H. and was admitted to the Siif- 
fi>lk bar in !«(•■>. He died in 1811. 

WiiiiAM K. Rii HAKnsoN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ISST, and is now at the 
l)ar. 

\yii.],i.\M M. Rnii \Kiiso.\ was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lM«t?. and is now at the 
bar. 

William Quincv Ridiilk graduated at Harvard in IHoS and at the Harvard Law 
Sehool in ISfjS. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, IS.-)S. 

Danikl Krskim-; Ku makhson graduated at the Harvard Law School in isTll, and 
was at the Suffolk bar in 1871. 

'^'llo^L\s Francis Riciiarhso.n graduated at Brown in 1852 and at the Harvard Law 
Sehool in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk liar September 17, 1855. 

Harrison Ritchik, S(m of Harrison Ritchie, graduated at Harvard in 1845, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 2(i, 1848. 

Wii.iiAM Roirii RoiiKsoN graduated at Harvard in 18G4 and at the Harvard Law 
School in lS(i8. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1873. 

Eknksi \V. Rohkrts was admitte<l to the Suffolk bar in June, 1881, and is now at 
the bar. 

John L. S. Rohkris was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 27, 1875, and is now 
at the bar. 

Georck MdsiiKK RoiiiNsoN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 184(5, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1847. 

EufvNk/.kr RockwooI) graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar. He died in I81.">. 

Frank R. RoiiKRs was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884, and is now at the bar. 

Hknkv MiNRoK RocKKs graduated at Harvard in 18()2 and at the Harvard Law 
School in ISfiT. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 2:i, 18()8, and is now at the 
bar. 

William S. Rockrs was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1882, and is now 
at the bar. 

Harry 1>. Rui i.ins was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lS8il. and is now at the bar. 

Frkukkh- I-'mil Romi!AI-er graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18,58, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 15, 1857. 

Marcls RosKNTiiAi. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1S71, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, in that year. 

Conrad J. Rikter was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar., 

Preston B. Riinvan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. 

John Rowe gradu.-ited at Harvard in 1783, and was at the Suffolk bar m 178!). He 
died in 1842. 

Jkiikrson Steuakt Risk was admitted to the Suffolk bar Decembers, 1891, and 
is now at the bar. 

JosiAH Ri TIER graduated at Harvard in 1833, and was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar in lune 1M42. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1863 and died in 1876. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 533 

NaiiiamkiMuktun S\n-<iRr> graduated at Harvard in 186!) and at tlic Harvard 
Law School in 1S7'3. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October II, 1H72. 

Gkokge a. SAi.rxrAKsii was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1HS7, and is now at the 
bar. 

Calvin Proctor Sampson graduated at Harvard in 1S74, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar July 5, 187(). He is now at the bar. 

M Lendslev Sanborn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the 
bar. 

Wii.r.iAM Savier graduated at the Harvard Law School \\\ 1h:57, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in July, of that year. He died in 187;i. 

Henry Sarc.ent graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar August 7, 1851. 

Wii.i.i AM A. SAR<;ENn was admitted to the SutTolk bar in' 1882, and is now at the bar. 

Artemas Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 17U8, and was at the. Suffolk bar in 
1803. He died in 1815. 

George Auoustus Sawyer graduated at Harvard in 1877, and was adniittud to the 
Suffolk bar October 5, 1880. He is now at the bar. 

Isaac F. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is nf)w at the bar. 

Jahez a. Sawyer was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 10, 1853, and is now at 
the bar. 

Laureston L. ScAiEE was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26. 1872, and is now at 
the bar. 

Li'ciis Manlii'S Sargeni' graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 24, 1870. 

Frederic Baker Sears gi-aduated at Brown in 1863 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1865. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 17, 1865. He died in 1871. 

Horace Nki.so.n Seavek graduated at Columbia College m 1872, and at the Har- 
vard Law School in 1874, in which year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 

Arihir Georije SErniwicK graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1H66. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 17, 1867. 

RcssELi, A. Sears was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1891, and is now at 
the bar. 

Arthir J. Selkrjiige was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S87, and is now at the 
bar. 

J. George Seltzer was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 7, 1861, and is now at 
the bar. 

JosKi'H C. Sharkey was admitted to the Suffolk bar in lH.s<j, and is now at the bar. 

Charles E. Shai-itck was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the 
bar. 

Roi.AM> Crocker Shaw graduated at Harvard in 1856, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1860. He died in 1888. 

George Shekeielii graduated at the Harvard Law School m 1876. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 2(i, 1876. He died in 1884. 



534 HISTORY or THR BEACH AXD BAk. 

Hknry Neutiin Siiki.don graduated at Harvard in 1803, and was admitted to the 
SufFi)lk bar in Ai)ril, 1800. He is now at the bar. 

Edwaki) lyowKi.i. Siii-.KMAN {"graduated at Harvard in IS.M, and was admitted to 
the Essex bar in Is.")!!. He was at tlie Suffolk bar in 1800. 

RoiiKKi' K. SiMKs was admitted to the Suffolk Ijar in 1889. and is now at the bar. 

CiiAKi.KS L. Simmons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1880, and is now at the bar. 

Ai.iiKKi' Thomas Sinclair j;raduated at Harvard in 1.S04, aiul w.is admitted to tin- 
Suffolk bar January 3, 1800. He is nf)w at the bar. 

Hi.Kiii'.ui Si.KKfKK sjraduated at Harvard in 1801, and was admitted to the SulTolk 
bar l'\-bniary 21, 180.'-). He died in 1874. 

EuwiN Smmm jjraduated at Harvard in 1811, and was admitted to the SulTolk bar 
in Seiitember, l.sl (. He dieil in 1S7.">. 

(!koki;k Ai.kxandi-k Smi i ii }.jraduated at the Harvard Law Sehool in l.'^ti. ,ind was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July !) in that year. He died in 1859. 

Hknkv a. Smiim was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Aujjusl, 1872, and is now at 
the bar. 

Henry I'aknam .Smiiii graduated at the Harvanl Law Sehool in 18.")0. and was ad- 
mitted to the SulTolk bar Mareh IS, 1853. He died in 1874. 

HoKAcK E. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 17. 1847. and after prae- 
ticinn ill Boston moved to New York State. 

JosEfii Emkrson .Smith graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in July, 1807. He died in 1837. 

Manassi'.s Smiih, brother of the above, graduated at Harvard in 1800, and was at 
the Suffolk bar in 1819. He died in 1833. 

Phinkas Kean Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1800. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 20, IS.W. He is now at the bar. 

WiMiAM Smiiii graduated at Harvard in 18(17, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1810. He died in 1811. 

Uz/.iKi. Pitnam SMirii graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858. and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1858. 

Yi'Sii.anti Ai.exa.nder Smith graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1849, and 
was admitted to the SulTolk bar in July of that year. 

George A. Smv ihe was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in December, 1873, and is now 
at the bar. 

Elmer A. Snow was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. and is now at the bar. 

Frederick E. Snow was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1880, and is now at the 
bar. 

GEfjRCE Wales Soren graduated at Harvard in 1854 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar April IX, 1858. 

Walter W. Soren was admitted to the Suffolk l)ar m 1887, and is now at the bar. 

Charles B. Southard was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1871, an<l is 
now at the bar. 





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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 535 

Chakles F. Si'Ear was admitled to the Suffolk bar in ISMS, aiui is now at the bar. 
HiNKY W. Si'RAUi K was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188a, and is now at the b»r. 
William Stackih)LE graduated at Harvard in I7',)S, and was at the Suffolk bar in 
1804. He died in 1822. 

.Mij.vrLLK Slacv jjia'^i'ated at Harvard in 18()T and at the Harvard Law School In 
lS(i!». He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1871, and is now at the bar, 

William Jasi^kr Si am.kv graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(j(), and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July of that year. He died in 1881. 

George Her.mon Stearns graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was admitted to the 
Essex bar in lS8lt. He is now at the Suffolk bar. 

William H. Sieak.ns was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 2(i, 188.">, and is now 
at the bar. 

William Sikd.m.v.n graduated at Harvard in 1784, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
t)ar. He died in 18:51. 

Charles Steeke was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June. 187(>, and is now at the 
bar. 

Einvi.N F. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S8;J, and is now at the bar. 
Hknrv Ja.mes Stevens graduated at Harvard in 18.")7, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar September 4, 18(i0. He is now at the bar. 

James Mi'NROE Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.58, and was 
.ulmitted to the Suffolk bar April 21 in that year. 

Milan Fillmore Si e\ens graduated at Harvard in 187(i, and was admitted to the 
.Suffolk bar in October, 1878. He is now at the bar. 

Will 1 AM B. Stevens was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 18(i7, and is now at the 
bar. 

Ends Siku AKi graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
May 0, 182(5. He died in 1847. 

John .Sikknev graduated at Harvard iu 1804, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in July. 1808. He died in 1833. 

L. L. Stimi'son was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at the bar. 

Howard Siockiiin was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1870, and is 
now at the bar. 

Pim.ii' SiDNEV SioNE graduated at Harvard in 1872, and wa.s admitted to the Suf- 
lolk bar in July, 187.J. 

Richard Stone was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 1!), 1800, and is now at 
the bar. 

Aiuius'irs Storv graduated at Harvard in \^-\-l ami was ailmiirid in ih,. Suffolk 
bar in Octolx>r, 18:i0. He died in 1882. 

James Jacks^in Siorrow graduated at Harvard in ix-ii, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar February 18, 1800. He is now at the bar. 

James Jackson Siorrow, jr., graduated at Harvard in l^s,"), and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar. 



536 HISTORY OF THE BEi\CH AND BAR. 

Cfiaki.ks Kdwin Straiiiin graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 186S. He was admitted to the SufTolk bar October 18, 186!), and is now at 
the bar. 

FKEaiKKif Wasiiixgtiin Stokv {graduated at Harvard in 1873, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 1, 1875. 

Jacob SroKV graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841!, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar January 4, 1847. 

Ro<;kk F. Stukcis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at the bar. 

Thomas LKCGKn'Sri'RTEVANr graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 1, 1866. '* 

Low AKi) Sri. 1. IVAN was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 10. 186."), and is now at 
the bar. 

William Sii.i.ivan graduated al Harvard in 1.ST8, and was admiltcd to the Suffolk 
bar in 1883. He is now at the btir. 

Wii.i.iAM II. Si i.i.ivAN was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18!)l), and is now at the 
bar. 

James Bakkv Sli.liv.vn was a<lmitled to the .Suffolk bar in lS6(i, and is now at the 
bar. 

Jkremiaii Hknuv Sri.i.iVAN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1872, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2, 1873. 

Mei.vh.i.e Howard Swei r graduated at Harvard in ]87;i, and was admitte<i to the 
Suffolk bar in October. 1874. 

James Si'Mnek graduated at the Harvard Law Scliool in I.S61, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in March, 18(i2. 

William Svm.mes graduated at Harvard in ITsil, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1807. 

Thomas H. Taliiot graduated at Bowdoiu in 1X46, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
l)ar January KS, 1872, and is now at the bar. 

Ed.mino II. Taliiot was admitted the Suffolk bar in 18.S,s, and is now at the bar. 

Ari Hi'K Tavi.dr was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886, and is now at the bar. 

JoH.N Taylor graduated at Harvard in 1786, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar.' 
He died in 1843. 

John Doe Taylor grarUiated al Harvard in ls4i) and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1853. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar .April 2(1, 18.53. 

Frederic K II. Tl.mile was a<lmitled to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now at the bar. 

CnAR(.Es TiioRNiiiKE graduated at Harvard in 18,54 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk l)ar April 28, 1857, and is now at the bar. 

John Larkin Thorndike graduated at Harvard in 1866 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1868. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June f<. l.sOS, and is now at the 
bar. 

James SrEiARi Thorniukk graduated at Harvard in 184.S and al the Harvard Law 
School in 18.50. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 25, 1852, and died in 
Paris, France, April 20, 1893. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 537 

Wi.i 1 i.\M SiARKKV TiK o.Mii j;ra(luali;il at Harvard in IMOl. and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar. He died in 1831. 

\V. H. J. TiKK.\.\N was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 2(1, 1891. and i,s now at 
the Ixir. 

J.\MKs Kii'iiAKii Tuiir graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 14 in that year. 

JosHiii \V.\RRKN Towi.E graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was admitted to tlie 
Suffolk bar July 18, 1853. 

Triman Bknja.mi.n Towne graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 10, 1871. X 

Wii.i.i.v.M H. TowNK was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 24, I8«4, and is now at 

the bar. / 

y 

CiKoRiiK Henrv Trut graduated at Harvard in 1807, and wa-s admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar September 24, 1809. He died in 1880. 

IciiABOD Tucker graduated at Harvard in 1791. and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1840. 

JosiAH P. Ti'CKEK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and is now at the bar. 

Cai.vi.n H. Ti 1 ti.e was admitted to the Esse.x bar in 1880, and is now at the Suffolk 
bar. 

Frank J. Tirn.E was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885^ and is now at the bar. 

John Leii;hi<)N Tittle graduated at Harvard in 1790, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar. He died in 1813. 

fiEORGE Washingto.m Tvi.er graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1857 and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 26 in that year. 

Theodore Hii.gard Tvndai.e graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1808 and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 4 in that year. He is now at the bar. 

RovAi.L Tvi.EK 2d graduated at Harvard in 1834, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 27, 1837. 

Wh.i.iam PinNE.\s Ui'HAM graduated at Harvard in 1850, and was admitted to the 
Essex bar in 1859. He is now at the Suffolk bar. 

John W. Vaughn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1890, and is now at the bar. 

DiiMiNKji E F. Verdenai. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1802, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. 

John Martin Verdenai. graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 22 in that year. 

Solomon Vose graduated at Harvard in 1787, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
lie died in 1809. 

John Wade graduated at Amherst in 1830 and at the Harvard Law School in 18;H. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1833, and died in 1851. 

George Gorham Wai.hacii graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. 

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53S HISTORY OF THE BEACH AND BAR. 

Akihik Dacckit McCi.eli.an, son of Jolin and Anna I. (Daggett) McClellan, was 
born in Sutton, Mass., May 21. IS.")*). He is descended from James McClellan, who 
came to New ICnglaiul with a company of Scotch Irish and settled in Worcester 
about 1718. Samuel, a brother of James, was the ancestor of General George B. 
McClellan. He was educated at the Worcester Academy and at Brown University, 
where he graduated in IHT:!. While holding good rank in liis class he was especially 
distinguished during his college course as. an athlete. He was one of the freshmen 
crew of 1870 which won the race on Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, over the 
competing crews of Harvard, Yale and Amherst. His physical development was 
considered so nearly perfect that in boating circles he gained and bore for many 
years the name of the " little giant." In October, 1873, he entered the law office of 
Bacon & Aldrich in Worcester, the firm consisting of Peter C. Bacon and P. Emery 
Aldrich, the latter of whom was in the same year appointed to the bench of the 
Superior Court, and was succeeded in the firm by W. S. B. Hopkins, who had at that 
time attained distinction as an advocate. While a student Mr. McClellan reported 
the Court proceedings for the Worcester Gazette, and his labors as a reporter, which 
were highly commended, served to educate him in the methods and practice of 
his profession and furnish to him valuable aid in his preparation for a legal career. 
In October, 1874, he removed to Boston and entered the law office of Charles H. 
Drew and Albert Mason, the former of whom is the justice of the Police Court of 
Brookline, and the latter the chief justice of the Superior Court. He finished his law 
studies with a year's course in the Boston University Law School, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in June, 187.'). After his admission he began practice in the oftice 
of Drew & Mason, but soon after formed a partnership with Charles C. Barton and 
George S. Forbush, under the title of Barton, McClellan & Forbush. Two years 
later Mr. Forbush left the firm and its name became Barton & McClellan and so con- 
tinued for five years. In the autumn of 1886 he originated the idea of having the 
short lists of all the courts in the county published daily and circulated each afternoon 
among subscribers at the bar. He began the publication of the Daily La7i> Hulle- 
tin soon after, containing the short lists for the next day, giving the names of the 
parties to suits, of the counsel on both sides, a brief report of the trials of the day, 
the finding of the court or the verdict of the jury, as the case might be. At a later 
day the scoi)C of the Butletiii was enlarged by adding the trials of the United States 
Courts and the courts of Middlesex county, and by adding chattel and real estate 
mortgages, rescripts, etc. This La7u Bulletin was the first of its kind, but its plan 
was soon after adopted in many places in other States. Mr. McClellan became in- 
terested at the same time in the jjublication of the Ranker and Tradesman, a 
weekly issue containing full information concerning transfers and mortgages of real 
and personal estate in all the counties of the State, but an enlarging law practice in- 
duced him to relinciui.sh his interest in both that and the Bulletin to parties who 
have continued their ])ublication. In his general ])racticc, which has been large and 
satisfactorily lucrative, he has achieved merited distinction, being especially success, 
ful in the organization of corporations and the direction of their legal and financial 
affairs. For five years he was secretary of the Boston Art Club, and was one of the 
active founders of the University Club. He is a director in the Traders' National 
Bank and other corporations, but does not permit the obligations which they impose 



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..n him to secUice liini from a profL'Ssioii which he continues to practice with interest 
and ?.eal. He man'ied, October 11, 1HS2, in New York city, Mary A. Hartwell, 
willow of Charles A. Hartwell and daujjhter of 'I'imothy Townsend, and has his resi- 
dence at the Hotel Vendome in Boston. 

(loiiiRKv Morse, son of Jacob and Charlotte Morse, was born in Wachenheim, 
Bavaria, May H), lS4(i. At the age of eight years he came to America with his 
mother, and received his early education in the Boston |5ublic schools. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 
1H72. His law studies were completed in the office of Brooks & Ball in Boston, and 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 32, 1873. While preparing himself for his 
profession he taught, during .some of the winter months, English literature and 
arithmetic in the Boston Evening High School. He was admitted to practice in the 
United States Circuit Court October 2, 1874, and in the United States Supreme 
Court at Washington February 3, 1879. He was a member of the Boston School 
Committee in IHTfi^77-78, and of the Boston Ctmimon Council in 1882-83, serving in 
the latter year as president of the Board. In 1882-83-H4 he was assistant counsel of 
the United States in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and on the 11th 
of March, 1885, he was appointed a member of the Board of Commisioners for the 
erection of the new court-house for the city of Boston and the county of Suffolk. In 
1887 he was chosen a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Dental College, 
and is now, in connection with his other ]>rofcssional work, acting as attorney of the 
American Surety Company of New York. Mr. Morse is a brother of the late Leo- 
pold Morse, and possesses many of those traits which won for that gentleman the 
confidence and respect of the community. He is engaged in an active and growing 
general practice which he conducts with an energfy and fidelity deserving the success 
which he has achieved. 

W.VLTER Adams, son of C. S. Adams, graduated at Harvard in 1870. and studied 
law with his father in Framingham, and in the office of Henry W. Paine and Robert 
I). Smith in Boston, and is practicing in Boston. He married. May 25, 1885, at West 
Ri\-er, Md., Constance, daughter of Rev. Thomas Weld Winchester. He resides in 
Framingham. 

John Hannan Coi.e graduated at Harvard in 1870 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1872, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1873, and to the bar in 
New York in October, 1874. In January, 1877. he became a member of the firm of 
Gray & Davenport in New York, and in 187!) was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. In 1880 he withdrew from the firm of tJray & Daven- 
port and has since practiced alone in New York. He married, September 2(i. 1877, 
Lucy May Smith, of New York, who died January 24, 1882. He married second. 
June 11, 1885, in Oxford. England. Josephine Mcllvaine Hewson. He resides in 
New York. 

Louis Thomas Gushing g^raduated at Harvard in 1870, and after graduation was 
engaged in farming in Madison, Wis. He then removed to Cohasset, Mass., and 
studied law in the Boston University, graduating in 1875, and being admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June of that year. He married, February 14, 1S71. Mary Rebecca 
Johnson, of Cohasset. where he resides and practices law. 



546 niSrORY OF 7//A nEXCII AND BAR. 

Andhf.w Otis Evans, son of Hosea Ballou and Harriet (French) Evans, was born 
in Boston, May 26, 1847. He received his early education at the Boston publii' 
schools and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School, and at the Boston University, and in the office of Brooks & Ball of Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1878. He died in Boston in September, 
1S7!). 

Jiisiirii Hk.m.v, son of Joliii I'lummer and Mar)- Stickney (Barker) Healy, 
vva.s born in Boston, Auj^ust 6, 1849. He graduated at Harvard in 1870, and 
after studying law in the office of his father in Boston and at the Harvard 
Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 16, 1873. In 1878 he delivered 
the Boston Fourth of July oration. He was secretary and treasurer of the Boston 
Latin School Association, vice-president of the Young Men's Benevolent Society, and 
a member of various social, legal and antiquarian associations. He married, .Sep- 
tember 26, 1877, in Brooklinc, Mass., Alice Hale Bird, and died in Boston, April 18, 
1880. 

B.\nso.\ S.\\ii.i.\N L.Mii) graduated at Harvard in 1870, and taught school in Worces- 
ter two years after graduation. He studied law in the office of Lathrop, Abbot &• 
Jones, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar March 27, 1875. He married, November 16, 1878, Ella Cora Brooks, of Milton. 

Cii.\KLES H. Swan graduated at Harvard in 1870, and after studying law in the 
office of Harris & Tucker, of Boston, was admitted to the bar in June, 1872. He 
married, November 6, 1S84, Caroline Metcalf Nazro, of Dorchester, where he has his 
residence. 

Wii.i.iAM Warren Vaugman graduated at Harvard in 1870. and after studying law 
at the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1874. .He 
married, October 16, 1882, Ellen Twisleton, daughter of the late Dr. Samuel Park- 
man, and resides in Boston. 

Melville M. Weston graduated at Harvard in 1870, and studied law in the office 
of Robert D. Smith, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted 
to the bar in December, 1873, and practices in Boston. 

(lEoRCE Jones, alias George the CouNr Johannes, was the scm of George Jones, a 
Boston constable, and was born in that city. In early life he acted on the stage of 
the old Tremont and other theatres. About the year 1840, when he was perhaps 
thirty or thirty-five years of age, he went to England, and there in some of the lesser 
theatres played the leading parts in the plays of Shakespeare. His performances 
amused the people and brought down on him the satire and humor of London 
Piim/i. He returned to Boston not many years before the war and made himself 
conspicuous by his libel suits against parties who dared to express doubts of his title 
and pretensions. He claimed that the rank of coimt had been regularly conferred on 
him in ICngland, and he wore the badges of his rank. For several years he was the 
terror of the newspapers and the courts, and besides m.anaging the many suits in 
which he was the plaintiff, he acted in others as a special attorney, never having been 
admitted to the bar. In a suit brought against William L. Burt for a libel contained 
in an address to the jury in a case in which the count was the plaintiff, the libel con. 
sisling of the declaration that he was insane, he described himself in the declaration 




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to the writ as "a puMic aiitln ir of historical and other works, public lecturer and pub- 
lic oratorical illustrator of the Sacred Scriptures and the works of Shaksi)eare, and 
special attorney," etc. Another suit was brought by him against Francis H. Under- 
wood for writing in Wic Bos/on A//asa.nA />V<r that " there flourishes a jo/'^/Avj/// 
count with his decorations given by the Grand iJuke Pumpernickel, or brought from 
some similar august potentate." This suit caused Mr. Underwood much trouble, and 
his determination to discover the origin of the assumed title of count, and to put an 
end to the pretensions of the man who claimed the right to bear it, cost him some 
money, but was effectual. Aflidavits were secured in England showing that Mr. 
Sartoris, the son-in-law of Adelaide Kemble, the sister of Fanny Kemble, to make 
sport of Mr. Jones, invited him to a dinner or supper in London, and in the course of 
the evening told him in a serious way that he ought to have a title, and as he himself 
was descended from an ancient count whose right to confer the rank on others inured 
to his descendants that he would bestow the title on him. Making him kneel on the 
floor, he said: •' Rise George the Count Johannes, Knight of the Golden Spur." But 
as Mr. Sartoris was really descended from a count it was necessary to show that he 
had no power to confer the title, and an affidavit was obtained from the Chancellor 
of Austria showing that the last and only grant of the title with a descending power 
of transfer was made in l-t9."i, and that the family possessing it had lapsed. It was 
also shown by experts, among whom was the late Edmund Quincy, that the title f)f 
Knight of the Golden Spur was alone given by the Pope to such as had performed 
some special service to the Romish Church. Some hints coneeniing the various libel 
and slander suits in which the count was engaged may be found in Johannes vs. 
Bennett. Tith of Allen, and Johannes vs. Burt vs. Underwood vs. Mudge vs. Nickerson 
and vs. Pangborn, (ith of Allen. The count finally became so troublesome with his 
suits that he was indicted for barratry- and convicted, and a sentence to the House f>f 
Correction was withheld only on the condition that he would leave the State. He 
went to New York and is said to have died there since 1H.S0. 

JoN.\TH.\N Af.vso.N, son of Jonathan, was bom in Boston, August 20, 17.52, and grad- 
uated at Princeton in 17T4. He studied law with John Adams, and was admitted to 
the Suff^olk bar in 1777. He was a representative several years, a member of the 
Executive Council, and in 18<l() was elected United States senator as the successor of 
Benjamin Goodhue, of Salem, who had resigned. He served as senator until 1H0:{ 
and as member of Congress from llecember, 1H17, to May, 18211. He died in Boston, 
November 1, 1831. He married Susanna Powell. 

Jeremiah Mason was born in Lebanon, Conn., April 27, 17flS, and graduated at 
Yale in 17H8. He was the son of Jeremiah Mason, a cohmcl in the Revolution. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1781, and began practice in Westmoreland, N. H. Jn 
1794 he removed to \Valpole, and in 1707 to Portsmouth, where he rapidly gained an 
extensive business. In 1802 he was ap)>ointed attorney-general of New Hampshire, 
and served in the United States Senate as a Federalist from isi;t to his resignation 
in 1817. In 1832 he removed to Boston where, as in New Hampshire, he shared with 
Mr. Webster the leadership of the bar. In 1K40 he retired from general practice, 
though continuing until his death the consulting business of his office. He was a 
man whose brain and mind and body corres|x>nded. All were ma.ssivc and strong, 
and while Mr. Webster declared that much of his own skill as a jurist was due to 



S42 tilSTORV OF THF bench AND BAR. 

lessons learned from Mr. Mason in his contests with him at the bar, there was many 
a common man who had cowered before his physical presence. It is said that once 
riding down throught the iip])er and narrow part of Water street in Boston in the 
chaise in which he always rode, and crouching down as was his liabit so that his real 
height was not disclosed, he' met a team coming up. It was of course necessary that 
either Mr. Mason or the driver of the team should back out of the way. Mr. Mason 
ordered the driver to back in a somewhat peremptory manner which the driver re- 
sented, returning the compliment by telling the old man to back himself. After 
some words of a not very friendly character Mr. Mason getting a little angry began 
to straighten up, much to the dismay of the driver, who at last exclaimed. For God"s 
sake, mister, don't uncoil any more, I'll get out of the way. It is unnecessarv to go 
into details concerning the characteristics of Mr. Ma.son as a lawyer or concerning 
the prominent incidents in his career. They may be found in his memoirs, and in 
the various biographical dictionaries. He died in Boston, October 14, 1848. 

JoNATii.\N Ad.\ms was a barrister in 1768, living in Braintree, then a part of Suf- 
folk county. He was not a graduate of Harvard, and the writer has been unable to 
learn anything of his history. 

Jon Ai.Mv was jud^e of the Common Pleas Court of Bristol county, serving in that 
capacity from 1740 to 1747, and belonged in Tiverton. He is entitled to a place in 
this register in consequence of his appointment in 17:i7 to act as a special justice in 
Suffolk county in the case of Aaron Knapp. 

Edmund Andros was born in London, December (i, l(>:i7. In Hi? I lie was appoint- 
ed governor of the province of New York by the Duke of Y<jrk, and continued in 
service till 1681. In 1686 he was appointed by James the second governor of New 
England, and arrived in Boston, December 21, in that year. On the accession of 
William and Mary he was deposed and imprisoned, and sent to England. In 1692 
he returned to America as governor of Virginia, and remained until 1698. From 
1704 to 170(i he was governor of the Island of Jersey, and died in London, February 
24, 1714. The judicial powers exercised by him in New England, and described in 
the introductory chapter of this volume, entitle him to a place in this register. 

Gkorgk Franklin Daniortii was born in Boston, July H, 1819, and graduated at 
Union College in 1840. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Roches- 
ter, N. Y. In 1879 he took a seat on the bench of the Court of Ap])eals, and is be- 
lieved to be still in service. 

ADDiNiiioN Davkm'ort. jr., son of Judge Addington Davenjiort, was ajipointed 
attorney-general in 1728 and 1732, but Washburn says that it is doubtful whether he 
was permitted to perform tlie duties of the office. He practiced law in Boston some 
years, but in 17:{2 went to England and took orders for the church. He was born in 
Boston, May 16, 1701, and graduated at Harvard in 1719. Having been ordained in 
England he returned to Massachusetts, and was appointed the first rector of St. 
Andrew's church in Scituate. In 1737 he became rector of King's chapel in Boston, 
and in 1740 was transferred to Trinity church, of which he was rector until his death 
September 8, 1746. 

David Lislk, of whom the writer knows little, was solicitor-general of the Com- 
missioners of the Customs in Boston from 1769 to his death in February, 1775. 



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John Mhnzies came from England to Boston in 1715, and brought with him a com- 
mission as judge of admiralty, having been in Scotland a member of (he Faculty of 
Advocates. He at first settled in Roxbury, but remf)ved to Leicester, where he lived 
many years. He was a representative from Leicester, and expelled for writing 
letters to the Lords Commissioners in England, complaining of the interference by 
the Provincial Courts with his jurisdiction. He died in Hoston, September 20, 1728, 
at the age of seventy-eight years. 

Hkkhkkt Pf.i.h.\m was born in Lincoln county, England, in KiOl, and graduated at 
Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1610. He was the son of Herbert Pelham of Michelham 
Priory, who was admitted to Gray's Inn in 15S8, and grandson of Edward Pelham 
of Hastings, in Sussex, a member of Parliament in inJlT. Edward, the last named, 
was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1563, was called to the bar in 1579, knighted and 
made lord baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and died in 1600. Herbert came to 
Massachusetts in lOHS. having been educated in the law. He was the first treasurer 
of Harvard College, and returned to England in 1649, where he died in 1673. His 
daughter, Penelope, married Josiah Winslow, son of Governor Edward Winslow, of 
the Plymouth colony, who was himself governor of that colony from 1673 to 1680. 

William Edw.^^rd Payne, son of William and Lucy (Lobell) Payne, was born in 
New York, April 8, 1804, while his parents were returning to Boston from a visit in 
Washington. He was one of twins, and his twin brother was named I'^dward Will- 
iam. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and at Harvard, where he 
graduated in 1824. He studied law at the law school in Northampton, and in the 
office of Lemuel Shaw and Sidney Bartletl, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
1827. Being in poor health, he never practiced law to any extent. In 1h;{4 he went 
to Europe, where he remained until his death, which occurred at Paris, France, July 
5, 1838. He was unmarried. 

Thomas W. Thompson was born in Boston, March 15, 1766, and graduated at Har- 
vard in 1786. He studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He practiced 
law in Salisbury. N. H., from 1700 to 1810. when he removed to Concord, N. H. He 
was speaker of the New Hampshire Hou.se of Representatives in 1813-14, member of 
Congress from 1805 to 1807, ind State treasurer in 1800, and United States senator 
from 1814 to 1817. He died at Concord, October 1, 1821. 

Charles Wesley Ti'TTLE was born in Maine, November 1, 1820. and .is one of the 
corps of observers at the Astronomical Observatory in Cambridge distinguished him- 
self by the discovery of a telescopic comet in 1853. which bears his name. In 18.54 
he was attached to the I'nited States expedition for determining the ciifference of 
longitude between Cambridge, Ma.ss. , and Greenwich in ICngland. Having taxed 
his eyes too severely by astronomical w^>rk, he abandoned his scientific pursuits, 
and after attending the Harvard Law School was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 
1856. He died July 18, 1881, At the time of his death he was engaged in writing 
memoirs of Caleb Cushing and Captain John Mason. 

Wn.LL\.M Heath was born in Roxbury, March 2, 1737, on the estate on which his 
ancestor settled in 1636. He was bred a farmer, but had a strong taste for military 
affairs. He was the commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company 
in 1770, and colonel of the Suffolk Regiment in 1774. He was a representative iu 



544 HISTOKY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

17(il, a delegate to the Provincial Congresses of 1774 and 1775, and a member of the 
Committee of Correspondence and Safety. He was appointed brigadier-general of 
the militia December 8, 1774, major-general June 20, 1775, brigadier-general of the 
Continental Army June 23, 1775, and major-general August 9, 1776. He was stationed 
at Ro.xbury during the siege of Boston, and after the evacuation of that city went to 
New York and took command of the posts at the Highlands. In 1777 he commanded 
the Eastern Department, had charge of the prisoners taken at Saratoga, and finally 
had command on the Hudson until the close of the war. He was a delegate to the 
Federal Constitutional Convention in 1788; State senator from 1780 to 1792, and in 
180(i was chosen lieutenant-governor, but declined. Oh the 2d of July, 179:5, after 
the incorijoration of Norfolk county, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common 
Fleas, and also judge of probate of the new county, and died January 24, 1814. 

TiioM.\s Gkkkni.kak was born in Boston, May 15. 1767, and graduated at Harvard 
in 1784. He was a reiiresenlative from Ouincy from 1808 to 1820; a member of the 
E.\ecutive Council from 1820 to 1822, and in 1800 was appointed judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas for Norfolk county. He died January 5, 1854. 

John W. Amks, son of Fisher Ames, was born in Dedham, October 22, 1793, and 
graduated at Harvard in 1813. He studied law with Theron Metealf, and after ad- 
mission to tlie l)ar 0])ened an office in Boston. After a short time he removed to 
Dedham, from which town he was a representative in the General Court in 1822, and 
where he was president of the Dedham Bank from 1829 until his death, which 
occurred October 31, 1833. 

Wii.iU'R H. Powers, son of Elias and Emeline (White) Powers, was born in Croy- 
den, N. H., January 2, 1849. He inherited from a vigorous ancestry strength of 
character and tenacity of will which have served him well in the development of his 
professional career. Since the day when a Le Poer figured as one of the bravest 
generals in the battle of Hastings, the family name in its various forms of spelling 
has represented an honest and brave and patriotic race. Early in life he attended 
the village school, often travelin.g three miles on foot to more distant schools when 
nearer ones were closed, and later he attended a school of higher grade at Olcan, 
N. Y., and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. But he was not content with 
the instruction received at these institutions. Naturally of an inquiring mind, he 
had been in the habit of listening to the conversation of his elders, and thus his 
ambition was kindled to learn something more of the world than he could acquire 
within the narrow field of his country life. In 1871 he entered Dartmouth College 
and graduated in 1875, having taken during the collegiate course several prizes for 
rhetoric, oratory and general scholarship. During the winter months he had taught 
school, and during the summer vacations been employed on his father's farm or in a 
neighboring furniture establishment, and thus he not only learned lessons of industry 
and thrift, but earned something towards the payment of his college bills. After 
leaving college he attended the Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1878, 
and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar at Concord in August of that year. In 
November, 1878, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar at Fitchburg, and began 
practice in Boston January 22, 1879. Upon coming to B6ston he made Canton his 
place of residence for a year, and removed to Hyde Park in 1881, where he has con- 
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he has closely identitied himself, and in 1890, 1891 and 1893 was its representative in 
the General Court. In the House of Representatives he was recognized by the Re- 
publicans as their most judicious and efficient leader, and to his efforts was due the 
passage of the Congressional apportionment bill, which was considered as more just 
and more free from partisan manipulation than any apportionment for many years. 
He was also chairman of the Committee on Railroads and in 1892 was ap|)ointed 
chairman of the important committee to revise the judicial system of the Common- 
wealth. He was also the author of the " Powers Tiux Bill," the object of which was 
to make a more equitable division of that portion of the State tax now paid to cities 
and towns, and at the same time to foster the public schcjol system and aid needy 
municipalities. He married in Boston, May 1, 1880, Emily Owen, and continues to 
live in Hyde Park. 

David Haven Mason, son of John and Mary (Haven) Ma-son, was born in Sullivan, 
N. H., March 17, 1818, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841. After studying 
law he was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1843. In 184H he took up his resi- 
dence in Newton and there remained until his death. With the sterling traits which 
were his characteristics, he was not long in securing the confidence of the business 
community and establishing himself firmly in the profes-sion. In the town of his 
adoption he became a respected and trustworthy citizen, and he was ever active and 
efficient in promoting the welfare of the town and its people. His interest in the 
schools of Newton was especially strong, and to his efforts more than to those of 
others was due the erection of a new High School building against serious and deter- 
mined opposition. The people of Newton have recognized his services in behalf of 
the schools by giving his name to one of the schools in Newton Centre. In 18.57 he 
delivered an oration in New London, Conn., on the Fourth of July and in 1859 in 
Newton on the same occasion. On the 14th of July, 18(i4, he delivered the oration at 
the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Lancaster, N. H. In 1800 he was 
appointed by the governor a member of the State Board of Educatif)n and served 
several years, during which he was especially conspicuous in the establishment of 
the State Normal School in Framingham. In 1803, 1800 and 1807 he was a repre- 
sentative from Newton, and more than once declined nominations to the State Senate 
and to Congress. A seat on the bench also was offered to him, but he preferred the 
active business as well as the larger emoluments of his ])rofession. During his legis- 
lative career and before committees of the Legislature he advocated many imi>ortant 
measures, among which may be mentioned the consolidation of the Western and 
Boston Worcester Railroads, the equalization of bounties to soldiers, the Fort IIilI 
enterprise, and the abolition of the Mill Dam toll-gate. During the administration 
of President Grant, George S. Hillard resigned the office of United States district 
attorney for Massachusetts, and on the 32d of December, 1870, Mr. Mason was ap- 
pointed his successor, and held that office until his death. He married, June 10, 1845, 
Sarah Wilson, daughter of John Hazen and Ro.xanna White Wilson, of Rutland, Mass., 
and died at Newton, May 20, 1873, leaving one daughter and three sons, members 
of the Suffolk bar, and referred to elsewhere in this register. 

James R. Mi kihv, son of James and Catherine Murphy, was born in Boston, July 
20, 1853. He was educated at Boston College, and at the University of Georgetown, 
District of Columbia, from which he graduated in 1872 After leaving college he 
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546 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

was emyloyed three years as professor of Latin in Loyola College, Baltimore, and in 
Selon Hall, New Jersey. He then studied law in the office of Josiah G. Abbott, in 
Boston, and at the Boston University Law School from which he graduated with the 
degree of LL.B. in 1870, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 18 in that 
year. Since his admission he has always practiced alone, relying on his own un- 
aided efforts for tlie professional success which he has achieved. Among the im- 
portant cases in which he has been counsel may be mentioned the Frye murder case, 
the Florence Street murder case, and .several contract cases involving large sums of 
considerable amount. As a lioman Catholic he has been active and influential in 
the organization of Yf)ung Men's Catholic Associations, and is a member of the 
Catholic Union, the Order of United Workmen and the Royal Arcanum. He is in 
the ])rime of mental and bodily vigor, still advancing in his profession with a sure 
promise of continued success. He married in Baltimore, Md., Mary, daughter of 
George Baker Randall, November 21, 1881, and has his residence in the Roxbury 
District of Boston. 

(Jkok I ■.!•■. pAKrKiiioK Sanger, son of Rev. Ralph and Charlotte Kingman Sanger, 
was born in Dover, Mass., November 37, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1840. 
His rank in college was high, and the studious habits while in college were main- 
tained through life. He fitted for college partly under the instruction of his father, 
and partly at the academy in Bridgcwater, the native place of his mother. During 
his preparation he taught school in Dover dm-ing the winter of 18;i4, at the age of fif- 
teen, and in Sharon during the winter of \%'AV>. After leaving college he taught a 
private school in Portsmouth, N. H., nearly two years, after which he entered the 
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1844. 
In 184y, while attending the law school, he was appointed tutor in Latin, having 
held the position of proctor .since August, 1842. In 184(i his connection with the col- 
lege terminated, and he was admitted to the Sufi'olk bar on the 9th of February in 
that year. After his admi.ssion he was associated in business for a short time with 
Stephen H. Phillips, and afterwards with Charles G. Davis, and in 1849 was ap- 
pointed assistant of George Lunt, United States district attorney for the District of 
Massachusetts. In January, 18.53, he was appointed on the staff of Governor Clif- 
ford, and on the ISOth of September of that year was appointed Commonwealth attor- 
ney to succeed John C. Park, who had resigned. In 18.')4 he was aiipointed judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas, and was succeeded as Commonwealth or district attorney 
by George W. Cooley. He remained on the licnch until the abolition of the Common 
Pleas Court in 1859, and in 1801 was reappointed district attorney in the place of 
Josei)h H. Bradley, who had been appointed to succeed Mr. Cooley, but declined. 
He held the ottice of di.strict attorney until 1800. when he declined further service, 
and resumed practice. In 1807 he removed his residence from Bf)Ston to Cambridge, 
and continued it there until his death. In 1873 he was appointed United States at- 
torney for the District of Massachusetts by President Grant, and was reappointed 
twice, once by President Hayes and once by President Arthur. In Charlestown, 
where he resided in the earlier part of his career, he was a member of the School 
Board two years, and captain of the Charlestown City Guards. In 1853 he com- 
manded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1870 was a member of 
the Boston Common Council. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 



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1873, and was for several years the president of the Jcihn Hancock Mutual Life In- 
surance Company of Boston. Aside from his ofKcial labors, and those more in- 
timately connected with his profession, he devoted much time to the literature of the 
law. He was editor of the Aiiuricitii Almanac and Rcpmitory of Useful Knmol- 
eiii;e from 1848 to I860, was twice editor of the I.a'.u Reporter, and the editor of the 
Staliilex at I.ari^e of the United States from 18r)5 to 1873. In ISCO he was ap- 
pointed, with Judge William A. Richardson, by the Massachusetts Leffislature. to 
publish the General .Statutes in 18(10 and an annual supplement to the same, a work 
which continued until the revision of the statutes in 1881. He married, September 
14, 1846, Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of Wm. Whipple and Eleanor (Sherburne) 
Thompson, of Portsmouth, N. H., and died at Swampscott, Mass., July 3, 1890. 

Bknj.vmin RmsBiNs CiRiis, jr., son of Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, was born in 
Boston in June, WnS. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. 
H., and graduated at Harvard in 1H75. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, 
and in Boston in the office of Albert Mason, and was admitted to the bar at Plymouth 
in June, 1878. In 1881 he was a lecturer in the Boston University Law SchtnO, and 
in April, 1886, was appointed one of the judges of the Municijial Court of the city of 
Boston. Before entering on his legal career he spent a year in travel, during which 
he went round the world, and visited with an obser^nng eye its various nations and 
and peo])le. The result of his observations he published after his return in a work, 
which was interesting and remunerative. He married, in 1877, Mary (! , d.aughter 
of Professor Horsford of Cambridge, and died in Boston, January 2i>, 1891. 

Thomas Willi.\m Ci..\rke, son of Calvin W. and Ann K. (Townsend) Clarke, was 
born in Boston, December 1, 1834. His mother was a daughter of Dr. David Towns- 
end, chief surgeon of the Northern Army at Saratoga, and director-general of hos- 
pitals in the Revolution. The ancestors of his father were early settlers in Marble- 
head, and two members of the family, Thomas and Benjamin, moved to Boston about 
the year 1740. One of these was a silversmith and the other a cop|>ersniith. A 
brother, John, who remained in Marblehead, was the father of Lieut. John Clarke, 
of Glover's Regiment, who with two cousins figured conspicuously in the retreat fnmi 
Long Island and at the crossing of the Delaware. Thomas Clarke, the father of 
Calvin and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived in Roxbury, and was at- 
tached to the commissary department during the siege of Boston. The .systematic 
co-operation of the civil strength of the Province in the work of fortifying Dorchester 
Heights was due to the thoroughness with which the commissariat officers of Massa- 
chusetts had under Mr. Devens, the commissary-general, ascertamed and organized 
the resources of the Province under the town officers, for the purpose of sustaining 
the siege. For many years Thomas Clarke was town clerk and town collector of 
Roxbury and the first representative from that town under the State constitution. 
Calvin W. Clarke, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a respected Boston 
merchant and a member of the well-known iron house of Samuel May & Company. 
He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1850 and 1851, an alderman in 
1852, and a representative in 1851 and 1852. He was a director of the Traders' 
Bank, the Manufacturers' Insurance Company, and several manufacturing corpora- 
tions, and after his retirement from business for many years was an assistant a.s.sessor 
of the city of Boston. Thomas William Clarke, the subject of this sketch, fitted for 



54^^ HISTORY OF T)JF. nRNCtt AND ^AR. 

college at the Chauncy Hall School and with [jrivate tutors, and jjraduated at Har- 
vard in 1855. In the autumn of that year he entered as a student in the law office of 
Henry M. & Horatio G. Parker in Boston, and at a later date entered the Harvard 
Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.I5. in 18,")8. While a 
student at the law school he was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1857, and 
also studied comparative anatomy in the Lawrence Scientific School in Cambridge. In 
1856 he received the Howdoin prize for resident graduates for an essay on " the 
])olitical and economical effects of the laws regulating succession to property of per- 
sons deceased." While in the office of the Messrs. Parker he was engaged from time 
to time in the service of the commission to revise the statutes of the Commonwealth 
and occasionally as a writer on the staff of the Alias ami Daily Hee. of Boston. 
Always nominally a Republican, he was an advocate of the election of B. F. Butler 
for governor of Massachusetts in opposition to Robert R. Bishop in 1882, and George 
1). Robinson in 18n:i, and for i^resident of the United States in 1884, and was himself, 
in 1884. the candidate of the People's Party for the attorney-generalship of the State. 
After leaving the law school he began practice in Boston, and was commissioner of 
insolvency in 185i(-18()() and 1861. After the election of 1860, believing that the elec- 
tion of President Lincoln would result in war, he set himself diligently at work pre- 
paring himself for any exigency that might arise. When the crisis was reached and 
the Massachusetts militia was called for he, with Captain Tyler, who had been in the 
Mexican War, at once began to raise troops. The result of his efforts was that he- 
was commissioned captain of the Wightman Riffes, a coni])any enlisted for three 
years' service. Captain Tyler was commissioned captain of another company, and 
these companies, together with one from Lynn, one from East Boston, one from 
Plymouth, one from Sandwich, one from Lowell, and one from East Bridgewater — 
eight in all — were mustered into the ser\nce on the 14th, 21st, and 22d of May, 1861, 
for three years, and were temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth Mas.sachu- 
setts Three Months regiments, stationed at Fort Monroe. On the expiration of the 
term of .service of these regiments in July the above eight companies were organized 
into a battalion, and in the following winter were reinforceed and made the Twenty- 
ninth Massachusetts Regiment. After service at Fort .Monroe and Newport News 
and Norfolk, Captain Clarke with his regiment joined McClellan on the Peninsula in 
1862, and was attached to the Irish Brigade. After the Seven Days fight he was sent 
an invalid to Washington and served as quartermaster in Alexandria until the spring 
of 1563. He. then rejoined his regiment, then a part of the Ninth Corps, in Kentucky, 
and accompanying it to Vicksburg and Jackson went to East Tennessee in the fall 
of 1863. There his regiment was engaged in the affairs of Blue Spring and Camp- 
bell's Station and in the siege of Knoxville. In January, 1864, the men of the regi- 
ment were re-enlisted as veterans, and Captain Clarke acted for a time as head- 
quarters commissary of the forces in the field. Coming home with his regiment on 
a veterans' furlough he was engaged in recruiting until he returned to the front and 
joined, in May, 1864, the Fifth Corps, at a later date rejoining General Burnside and 
becoming part of the Second Brigade and First Division. Col. Ebenezer W. Pierce 
of the regiment became brigade commander and Capt. Clarke adjutant-general of 
the brigade. In May, 1865, he became adjutant-general of the First Division, and 
so continued until he was placed in command of his regiment in July, 1865. CoUmel 
Pierce had resigned in the latter part of 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel Barnes had been 



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uiiistcrcd out, and ^lajor Chipman having been killed, and senior Capt. \V. 1). 
Chamberlain havinj; been apjiointed commissary, a commission of colonel was issued 
to Captain Clarke, but not bcinjj able to be mustered in on account of the reduced 
size of his reijiment, he continued as adjutant-general of the brigade. While holding 
this position he won distinction in the successful repulse of the Confederate (icncral 
(iordon in his assault of March 25 on his brigade. After the fall of Petersburg the 
regiment was stationed for a time along the Southside Railroad, and after the death 
of President Lincoln was ordered to Washington, where it remained until it was 
finally discharged, August 9, ISfi.l. After his discharge from the service Captain 
Clarke resumed the practice of law in Bostcm, devoting himself principally to patent, 
copyright and trademark cases. He was one of the projectors of the Highland 
Street Railway and for many years its counsel. He has been also interested in 
electric railway projects and has frequently appeared before Legislative committees 
in their behalf. By great research and ingenious argument he has located in this 
country at Anna])oIis and Fort Monroe the two oldest guns known in the world, 
Chinese breech-loaders, and jniblished a sketch of his argument in the proceedings 
of the Naval Institute for June, lSi)8. He married in 1S(!W, Kliza A., daughter of 
Joseph P. Raymond, of Somerville. 

Gkoki-.e WiiiTK is a descendant of Thomas While, of Weymouth, who was born in 
1.599 and settled in that town as early as 163(i. Nathaniel White, the sixth in descent 
from Thomas, was born in Weymouth, and married Mehitabel, daughter of Theophihis 
Curtis, of Stoughton, and was the father of Gcf)rge White, the subject f)f this sketch. 
The son George was born in yuincy, Mass., November 9. 1S31, and fitted f.ir college 
under the instruction of William M. Cornell and at Phillips Kxeter Academy. He 
graduated at Yale in IS-LS, and from the Harvard Law School in lS5fl, and after 
further study in Boston in the office of Robert Rantoul, was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar ()ctotx;r 20, 1H51. He became at onee associated with Mr. Rantoul as a partner, 
and continued in that relation to him until Mr. Kantoul's death. (In the occurrence 
of that event, he formed a business connection with Asa French, which continued 
until 1858. In that year the offices of judge of probate and judge of insolvency in 
the various counties were mingled, and he was appointed to the ofliee of judge of 
probate and insolvency for NorfcOk county, and has continued in office to the present 
time, performing his duties in a manner commanding the confidence and respect of 
those with whom his office has brought him in near and almost confidential relations. 
He is now a resident of Wellesley, with a law office in Boston, where aside from his 
judicial duties he is engaged in general practice, but more cs])ecially as trustee in the 
management of estates. While living in Quincy he took an active interest in it.s 
scluK)ls, the church to which he was attached, and in every movement looking to the 
intellectual and moral welfare of the town. For two years or more he wa.s associate 
editor and editor of the Quiiuy Patriot, and in its columns did much to direct and 
elevate the thought of the community. In 18,53 he was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention from Ouincy, and in 18,57 presided at the Young Men's Con- 
vention at Worcester which nominated Nathaniel P. Banks for governor of Ma.ssa- 
chusetts. He married Frances Mary Edwena, daughter of Fdward and Clarissa 
(Slack) Noyes, of Boston, and his children are George Rantoul White, Mary Haw- 
thorne White and Edward Nf)ves White. 



§S6 HiSTORV OF THE £ENCH AND BAR. 

Ei.HRiDr.K CJf.kky Duni.EY, son of Moses and Nancy (Glidden) Dudley, was born ill 
Raymond, N. H., August 13, 1811, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1S:W. 
He studied law with Charles Frederick fiove, of Nashua, N. 11., and was admitted 
to the Suffolk b.-u- August 1, 1842. He married first Christina D. , daughter of Isaac 
Duncan, of Stoddard, N. H., October 0, lH4(i; second, Sarah, daughter of Ste]>hen 
Child; and third, Martha R., daughter of Stei)hon Child, November 19, IS.'i?. He 
died in ISdT. 

M.\KK FisiiKR DuNCKi.F.K, SOU of Samucl and l^sther French (Fisher) Duncklee, was 
born in Creenfield, N. H., December 9, 1H24, and graduated at Dartmouth College 
in 1S47. He studied law with John H. Norris at Newport, Me., and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar March 9, IH.'iO. He married Mary, daughter of Greenwood Cushing 
Child, of Augusta, Me.. October 4, 1800. 

'riii:o[iiiKK ,S. I),\MK,, son of Theodore and Lucy (Stebbins) Dame, was born in Or- 
ford, N. H., May 38, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1848. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar December :il, 1851, and is now at the bar. He married Mary 
Elizabeth Palmer, September 19, 18,"iS. 

Hknkv W. Kinsman, son of Dr. Aaron Kinsman, was born in Portland, Me., March 
(i, I8();i. and graduated at Dartmouth College in 182'^. He studied law in Boston 
with Daniel Webster and was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 4, 1826. He began 
practice in Boston as a partner of Mr. Webster, and was a representative from Bos- 
ton in 18:?3, 1834 and 183.1. He moved to Newbur\^)ort in 1836, and was a repre- 
sentative from that town in 1839, 1849 and 18.54. He was also a senator one year, 
and collector of the port of Newburyport from 1841 to 1845 and from 1849 to 18.53. 
He married first Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Willis, of Boston, October 1, 1828, 
and second, Martha Frothingham, daughter of Joseph Moody Titcomb, of Newbury- 
port, October 5, 1858. He died at Newburyport, December 4, 1839. 

Fkkiii.kkk Wiiii.\m CuovrE, .son of Hcrvey and Hepzibah (Quarles) Choate, was 
born in Beverly, Mass., June 7, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. 
He studied law in Yarmouth, Mass., with John Reed, and in Boston with Rufus 
Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 30, 1839, and always practiced 
in Boston. He was a State senator in 1866. He married Eliza M., daughter of 
Colonel John Breck, of Northampton, April 20, 1842. 

David Morgan, son of Ashby and Lucy (Burton) Mor.gan, was born in Wilton. 
N. H., October 14, 1810, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1835. After teaching school 
at Jamaica Plain near Boston, he studied law with Augustus Peabody, of Boston, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After some years lie removed to Minneapolis, 
and was ajipomted postmaster there in 18(>1. He married Mary Ann Lincoln Pierce, 
of Boston, August 19, 1841, and died in 1H72. 

Nathan Thompson Dow, son of Dr. Jabez and Hannah (Waitt) Dow, was born in 
Dover, N. H., December 37, 1807, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1828. After 
leaving college he taught school at Haverhill, N. H., (me year, and then studied law 
with Daniel Miltimore Christie, of Dover, and Richard Fletcher, of Boston, and after 
admission to the Suffolk bar, began practice in Grafton, Mass., in 1834. He after- 
wards removed to Worcester, and thence in 1839 to Boston, where he remained until 
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John Thumtsun Dame, son of John ami Abijjail (Thompson) Dame, was born in 
Orford, N. H., October 21, ISKi, and jifraciiiated at l)artmr)uth Collejje m IK4(I. He 
stiKlied law at Orford and at Boston and at the Harvard Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the SulVolk bar May 29, lH4:i. He began practice in Marlboro', moved to 
Clinton, and finally to Boston. He married in June, 1815. 

Pai'l Porter Tonn, son of Ebenezer and Betsey (Kimball) Todd, was born in 
Atkinson, N. H., February Hi, 1S19, and graduated at Dartmouth CollcRe in 1H42. 
He studied law with William R. Thompson and Torrey &■ Wood, of Fitchburg, Mass., 
and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He began practice in Klackslone, Mass., but 
afterwards removed to Boston. He married Harriet, daughter of Welcome Karnum, 
of Blackstone, September 10, 1857. 

Ciiari.es Bisiioi' Goodrich, son of Josiah and Lucy (Bishop) (ioodrich, was born in 
Lebanon, N. H., March 36, 1804. ' He was descended from William (.Joodrieh, who 
was born near Bury St. Kdmund's, Suffolk. England, and came to America with his 
brother John about the year Ui40. William, the ancestor, married Sarah, daughter 
of Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin, of Hartford, and was a deputy from Weathers- 
field. Conn., in lti«2. The subject of this sketch graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1822, and received a degree of LL. 1). from his alma mater in 1872. He studied law 
with Levi Woodbm-y in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the New IIam|)shire 
bar. He began practice in Lebanon. N. H., and exhibited al the very threshold of 
his career an ability and self-reliance which enabled him to meet without fear the 
champions of the New Hampshire bar. Mr. Jeremiah Mason, against whom he was 
acting a.s counsel in a trial at Portsmouth, was so much struck by these qualities iu 
the young lawyer that he became his adviser and friend, and at a later day, after the 
removal of both to Boston, his partner in the law. He came to Boston in 1837 and 
continued in active practice there until his death. With all his ability, his career 
was not a successful one. His honest bluntness and want of tact were annoying to 
clients, his addresses to the jury, thorough and lucid as they were, failed to ccm- 
vince. and his arguments to the court, sound, instructive and logical, wanted the 
winsome tone which often carries conviction even with judges on the bench. It 
has been said of him that his only luxuries were a cigar and a law book. Few 
attractions in social life could draw him away from these. The writer, who has 
been familiar with the Suffolk bar since 1848. is inclined to jilace him at the head 
of the second rank of its members, with perhaps a doubt whether he should not 
be placed within the limits of the first. He married Harriet Newell, daughter of 
Chester Shattuck. of Portsmouth. N. H.. March 11. 1827, and died in Boston, June 
17. 1878. 

Webster Kei.i.ev. son of Israel W. and Rhoda (Fletcher) Kelly, was born in Salis- 
bury, N. H., January 1, 1804, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825. He 
studied law with Joseph Bell in Haverhill, N. H., and practiced some years in Frank- 
fort, Me. He finally removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 
VS. 1«51. He married Lucilla S.. daughter of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort, at Boston. 
August 29. 1842. and died at Henniker. N. H.. July 5. 1855. 

Ci.AREMK Frek.ma.s Ei.ijKKOcjE, SOU of James F. and Susan Eldredge, was born in 
Dennis Port on Cape Cod. November 14. 1862. He was educated at the public schools 
of his native town and at the Commercial College iu Providence. R. 1. He studied 



552 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

law in Boston in the office of John M. Way, and was athnitted to the Suffolk bar in 
January, 1885. Without the advantages of a collegiate education, he has sur- 
mounted obstacles which would have discouraged a less determined man and estab- 
lished liimsef firmly in his profession. He married Lucie H., daughter of James K. 
and Bethiah S. Nickerson, and lives in the Dorchester District of Boston. He is en- 
gaged in general practice, and though an earnest Republican, is unwilling to accept 
any office of honor or emolument which may tend to lead him away from the paths 
of the law. 

(Skokck Nr.iiKMiAii Eastman, son of Neheniiah and Anstriss(Barker) Eastman, was 
born in Farnnngton, N. H., January 20, 1830, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 
18;iy. He studied law with his father and with Levi Woodbury, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in July, 1842. He married Ellen Francis, daughter of Benjamin R. 
Oilman, of (Jifford, N. H., December SO, 1851. 

Josr.i'ii Hii.UKKTii Rkaui.kv, son of Enoch and Abigail (Hildreth) Bradley, was 
born in Haverhill, Mass., March 5, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1844. He studied law with David Cummins in Salem, and Frances Alfred Fabens 
in Boston, and in the Law School at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 5, 1840. He always practiced in Boston until his death, being largely engaged 
in criminal cases in which he was especially successful, and won a high reputation as 
a criminal lawyer. In February, 18()l, he was appointed district attorney for the 
county of Suffolk, to succeed (Jeorge W. Cooley, but declined. He was interested in 
military affairs, and held commissions as major and lieutenant-colonel in the volunteer 
militia. He married Lydia Anna, daughter of Thomas Howler, of Lynn, August ;il, 
1850, and died in Boston in 1882. 

Gakwnkk Greenk Huubaro, son of Judge Samuel and Mary Ann (Greene) Hub- 
bard, was born in Boston, August 35, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1841. He studied law with Hubbard & Watts and with Benjamin R. Curtis in Bos- 
ton, attd was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 4, 184;i. He has been largely 
interested in the various forms of electrical discovery and invention, and engaged in 
the litigation in their interest. He married (icrtrude Mercer, daughter of Robert 
Henry McCurdy, of New York, October 21, 1846. 

Frank Ciikstf.k Goodrkti, .son of Charles Bishop and Harriet Newell (Shattuck) 
Goodrich, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and graduated at the Harvard Law School. 
Not long after commencing jiractice with his father in Boston the war came <m and 
he was the first man in Boston to enlist. He was killed at the battle of (Jettysburg. 

Bknjamin Franklin Ham was probably born in Farmington, N. H., about 1822. In 
lfS40 he moved to Natick, Mass., and engaged in making shoes. Having a literary 
taste he entered the law office of John W. Bacon, of Natick, as a student, and was 
admitted to the Middlesex bar. He became associated in business with Mr. Bacon, 
under the firm name of Ham & Bacon. He was town clerk of Natick several years, 
representative, and later clerk of the courts of Middlesex county. He was ])racticing 
at the Suffolk bar in 1859, and later. Ill health interposed with the pursuit of his 
profession and he moved to Medford, where he lived some years, and where he died. 
May 4, 18<j;i. 

Albion A. Adams was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. 

Frkderick a. Ari'LELON was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. 




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C. S. Bancroft was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1869. 

Fkhdkkick L. Banks was admitted to the Suffi>lk bar Novemljer 4. l«!tl. 

(). Ekvinc Betton was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 0, 1840. 

F. W. Bi'CKiNGiiAM was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 3. 1845. 

J. Wake BiirrERKiELi) was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 18(i4. 

JosiAH A. Challis wa.s an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 184'J. 

Geokge W. Ciiambeki.ain was admitted to the Suffolk bar December is. is7i. 

Edwaru M. Cheney was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 18(i2. 

Fkeukkick Cochrane was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 13, LSOIK 

William H. Cobb was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Edwin R. Couur.n was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 18.81. 

William Coleman was born in Boston, February 14, ITfit!. He studied law, was 
.idmitted to the bar, and moved to Greenfield. He moved from Greenfield to New 
York about 1794, and was for a time a law partner of Aaron Burr. He was after- 
wards the reporter of the New York Supreme Court. In 1801 he became the editor 
of the Evening; Post, a Federal pai)er in New York, and continued its editor twenty 
years. He died in New York; July IIJ. 1829. 

AisiiN J. CooLlDGE was admitted to the Suffolk bar Januar>' 11, 1852. 

Owen Glenuour Peahohv, son of Augustus and Miranda (Goddard) Peabody, was 
born in Boston, April 23, 1822, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1842. He studied 
law with his father in Boston, and at the Harvard Law School, from which he grad- 
uated in 1844. and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 1845. He died in 
Roxbury. December 27, 1802. 

jEOEniAK K. Havward was born in Thetford, Vl., August 14. 1835, and graduated 
at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law with Jessie E. Keith, of Abington, and 
Charles (Videon Davis, of Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in Plymouth, 
Oetolxsr 2<i, 18fi2. He practiced in Plymouth until 18(>3. when he removed to Bt)Ston, 
where he practiced until 1865. when he moved to New York, where he is still in 
practice. He was master of Plymouth Lodge of Free Mas(ms while in Plymouth, 
grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge for the State of Massachusetts while in Bosl<m, 
and is a member of the Union League and other clubs in New York. 

Lyman Mason, son of Daniel and Betsey (Spalding) Mason, was Ixirn in Cavendish. 
N. H., April 2, 1815, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He .studied law with G. 
.\'. Cumming, of Zanesvillc, ()., and with Richard Flotcher, of Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1844, and is still in practice in Bostim. He 
married Mary Lucretia. daughter of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey, of Cincinnati, ()., 
May 25, 1853. 

Isaac Ames, son of Ezra and Joanna (Eames) Ames, was iHjrn at Haverhill. Mass., 
July 17, 1819, and graduated at I>artmouth in 1839. He studied law with Charles 
Minot and Albert Kittridge. of Haverhill, and was admitted to the Essex bar in 
l.s.Ki. He taught school in Medford, Ma.ss., from 1841 tf> 1844. and in or before 1852 
was practicing in Boston. He was appointed commissioner of insolvency for Suf- 
folk county in 1855. and in 18.56, when a Court of Insolvency was established by law 
in each county, he was appointed June 16 in that year judge of insolvency. In 18.5,8, 
when the office of iudge of [irobate and insolvency was created, he w:us ap|Kiinted 
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554 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

to that office May 11 in that year, and remained in office until his death in 1877. He 
married Mrs. Mary Carlton Phelps, daughter of Hazen Morse, and widow of Har- 
rison Gray Otis Phelps of Haverhill, June 17, 1851. 

HoKAiio Si'K.\<;iiE EusTis, son of General Abraham Eustis, was born at Fort 
Adams, Newport, R. I., December 25, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in 1830. He 
studied law, and it is believed became, like his father, a member of the Suffolk bar. 
He finally settled in Natchez, Miss., and continued there in the practice of law until 
his death, which occurred on his plantation September 4, 1858. He was a grand- 
nephew of Governor William Eustis, of Massachusetts. He was first cousin of 
George Eustis, the father of James Biddle Eustis, ai)pointcd by President Cleve- 
land minister to France. 

Wii.i.iAM WiLLARD SwA.N graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar December 18, 1867. He is now at the bar largely engaged in 
business connected with patents. 

William W. Swan was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 187!). 

Samvel Cooi'KR was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 23, 1863. 

John W. James was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 2, 1822. — '^ 

II. L. JuDsoN was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1875. 

Willis Alhert Kinusiurv graduated at Harvard in 187!?, and was admitted to the 
bar in Middlesex county in 1881. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1882. 

Be.njamin HicimoRN graduated at Harvard in 1768. He was an attorney at the 
Suffolk bar in 1779. and barrister in 1786. He died in 1817. 

JoNAiiiAN Hei.i iiEK 2d, son of Governor Jonathan Belcher, was born in Boston, 
July 28, 1710, and graduated at Harvard in 1728. He studied law at the Temple in 
London and practiced for a time in England with success. He was one of the first 
settlers of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was senior councillor in 1760, and lieutenant-govern- 
or after the death of (iovernor Lawrence. 

Percy K. WAi.iiRini.K was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1880, and is now at 
the bar. 

Henkv W. Walker was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March, 1856, and is now 
at the bar. 

Edgar Ai.rnoNso Wallace graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1Sti7, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 4 in that year. 

William Phillils Wali.ev graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, ISfiG. 

Aaron Edward Warner graduated at Amherst in lS(il an<l at the Harvard Law 
School in 1864. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1864. 

Henry E. Warner was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. and is now at the 
bar. 

Herman Jackson Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1852. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5, 1853. 

Owen Warland graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was at the Suffolk bar in 1811. 
He died in 1816. 

Lucius Henry Warren graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1862. and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in August of that year. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 555 

Webstkr Franklin Wakhf.n graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1800, and 
was admitted to iho Suffolk bar May 30, 1807. He is now at the bar. 

C. Everett Wasiikurn was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, ISHO, and is now 
at the bar. 

William Tucker Washburn graduated at Harvard in lHfi2, and wa.s admitted to 
the Suffolk bar March 10, ISOr). 

Andrew Oliver W.\terii(>usk graduated at Harvanl in isio, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar May 10, 1814. He died in 1832. 

Richard Waterman graduated at the Harvard Law ^cil"lli in 1mi1(>, and was ad- ^ 
mitted to the Sufft>lk bar April 25, 18GH. 

David Thcimi'.son W.\tson graduated at the Washington Pennsylvania College in 
1804 and at the Harvard Law School in ISO!!. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
June 0, 1860. 

Henry S. Webster was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1877, and is 
now at the Suffolk bar. 

Sidney Websier graduated at Yale in 1848 and at the Harvard I^aw Schinil in 
1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 25, 1851. 

Samuel Farrell Webb graduated at the Harvard Law School in 180!), and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 20, 1809. 

Francis C. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 3, 1872, and is now at 
the bar. 

John Hunt Welch graduated at Harvard in 1835 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1850. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 30, 1851. He died in 1852. 

William E. Welch was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1879, and is now at 
the bar. 

Thomas Wetmore graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar October 21, 1817. He died in 1800. 

Jesse Franklin Wheeler graduated at Harvard in 1808, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar August 19, 1871. He is now at the bar. 

(rEcikr.i-. R. Win i-LiicK was admitted tfi the Suffolk bar in IS.s.'), and is now at the 
bar. 

Benja.min WiiEAiLAND graduated at Harvard in isili, .md was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar March 2, 1825. He died in 1854. 

Daniel Wheaton graduated at Harvard in 1791, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. He died in 1841. 

Andrew Cunningham Wheelwrkjht graduated at Harvard in 1847, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1853. 

Edward Wheei.wrioht graduated at Har\'ard in 1844, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar April 17, 1849. 

Moses P. White was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and is now 
at the bar. 

Naa.man Loud White graduated at Har\'ard in 1835, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar September 27, 1838. 



5S6 HISTORY OF THE ^ENCtf AND BAR. 

Wji.i.iAM H. White was admitted to the SufTolk bar in 1SS*4, and is now at the 
bar. 

Zkciiakiam Gakunkr Wrii iman graduated at Harvard in IMiT. and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in October, 1810. He died in 1840. 

Kkedkkh K S. WmiwKLL was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887, and is now at 
the bnr. 

Martin Whiting graduated at Harvard in 1814, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar May 5, 1818. He died in 1823. 

Edward A. Wii.kie was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1881, and is now 
at the bar. 

JosKrii Wii.i.ARD graduated at Harvard in 185.") and at the Harvard Law School 
iji 1858. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 29, 1863. 

Paul Wii.i.ard graduated at Harvard in 1845, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar August 17. 1848. He died in 1808. 

David W Wh.iiams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1877, and is now 
at the bar. 

Hknrv M. Williams was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. and is now at thu 
bar. 

Thomas Hall Willlams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 184:!, .ind was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 1, 1845. 

Daniel Wehstkr Wilder graduated at Harvard ni ISoli, and was admitted to thv 
Suffolk bar in November, 1857. 

Francis Henrv Wii.lia.ms graduated at Harvard in 1820, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 13, 1824. He died in 1840. 

W. T. Wili.ey, son of Tolman Willey, was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 
28, 1873, and is now at the bar. 

Charles Frederick Williams graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1809, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, 18()9. He is now at the bar. 

William Cross Williamson graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard 
Law School in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 22, 185(i, and is 
now at the bar. 

Alexander E. Willson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1875, and 
' is now at the bar. 

Aritiur p. Wilson, son of Joseph H. Wilson, of Boston, was .admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in June, 1871, and is now at the bar. 

John Thomas Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law SchcK>l in 1808, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 18()7. He is now at the bar. 

Thomas Stanley Wilson graduated at the Harvard Law School in l.'<(i7, .-xnd was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. 

Ahel Theodore Winn graduated at Harvard in 1859, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in September, 1863. 

James Ancrum Winsi.ow graduated at H.'uv.ird in 1.859. anrl was .admitn^d to iIk 
Suffolk bar in September, 1861. 





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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 557 

Hhnkv Thomas Wini; graduated at Harvard in 18(i4 and at the Harvard Law 
SclKiol in lH(i7. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 2, lH(i7. 

RoiiKR-r CiiAKi.Ks WiNiiiRoi', jr., son of Robert Charles Winlhroii.frradualed at Har- 
vard in 18r)4, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Delober, 1S57. He is living in 
Boston. 

Thomas Linhai.i. WisTiiKor graduated at Harvard in 1S(I7, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in February, 1811, and died in 1812. 

Hi;nkv WooiiRi II- graduated at the Harvard Law School in 185:!, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar March 24, \m:\. 

(Jkorge Henkv Woods graduated at Brown in 18.'):! and at the Harvard Law 
Sehoo] in 1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 18.5."). He died in 1884. 

WiNsi-ow Warkkn Wrumi I graduated at Harvard in 182(>, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in April, 1830. He died in 1835. 

Jamks Joseph Wricht graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(!1. and was ad - 
mitted to the Suffolk bar May 22, 18(J2. 

SMrrn Wricht graduated at Harvard in 1855 and at the Harvard Law School in 
18.58. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 18.58. 

James Hoi.de.n Youni; graduated at Harvard in 1872 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 187(i. 

C. C. Andrews was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 18.51), and was at 
the Suffolk l)arin 18.54. 

SiD.NEV C. Banoroi-t was admitted to the Rssi>c h.n in 18.52, and w.i-- ii tin- Suf- 
folk bar in 1870. 

Si'El'iiEN Bean was admitted to the Middlesex bar iii .March, 1844, and wa.s at the 
Suffolk bar. 

W. Lock Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1.S.50, .and was at the 
Suffolk bar in 1852. 

Ai.l'HEi's R. Brown was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1839, and 
was at the Suffolk bar in ISfifi. 

GeoR(;e F. Ciioate was admitted to the Essex bar in 1848, and was at the Suffolk 
bar in 18r)(i. 

Charles B. Fei.cii was admitted to the Middlesex bar in December, IS(>!i, ,ii,,l nv^,., 
at the Suffolk bar in 1871. 

JfiSEi'ii St. Lawrence was an attorney of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and 
came to Boston about 1737. In that year he was admitted an attorney in the Supe- 
rior Court and opened an office in " Wing's Lane, near the Town Dock in Boston." 

JosEi'ii Proctor, son of either Peter or Josiah Proctor, wa.sborn in Littleton, Mass., 
February 11, 1766, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1701. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar and practiced in Athol, where he died August 6, 1.S22. He marne/I Mary 
Humphrey, daughter of Jonathan Orcutt, of Athol. January 15, 1811. 

Ai'GUSTUS Olcoti Brewster, son of (Jen. Amos Avery and Susan (Houdinot) 
Brewster, \va.s born in Hanover, N, H., May 17, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1843. He read law with Ira Perley, of Concord, N. H., and William Henry Dun- 



S58 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

can, of Hamivcr, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. He began practice in 
Hanover, N. II., but removed to New York in 1830, and to Boston in 1854, where he 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar, October 16 in that year. He was appointed assist- 
ant district attorney for Suffolk coimty in 1856, and served until 18C2. He married 
Georgiana Augusta, daughter of Major George B. Bibby, of the United States Army, 
of Paterson, N. J., at Parsippany, N. J., in August, 1846. He now holds a govern- 
ment office in New Jersey. 

RussEi.i. Jarvis, son of Samuel Gardner and Prudence (Davis) Jarvis, was born in 
Boston in 1701. His early life was spent in Claremont, N. H., to which place his 
parents removed when he was an infant, and he graduated at Dartmouth in 1810. 
He studied law at the law school in Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the SulTolk 
bar in 183;i. He practiced in Boston until 1838, when he removed to New York and 
devoted himself to journalism. He married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Cordis, of 
Boston, in November, 1824, and his whole family, consisting of his wife and two 
children, were lost by the burning of the steamboat Lexington in Long Island 
Sound, January 13, 1840. He died in New York, April 17, 1853. 

Benjamin Fkanklin Haves, son of Frederick and Sarah (Hurd) Hayes, was born 
in Berwick, Me., July 3, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He studied law 
with Wells & Eastman, of Somersworth, N. H., and at the Harvard Law School, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 18, 1861. He soon after settled in Medford, 
and was for a time associated with Elihu C. Baker. Though having his office in 
Boston, where he is engaged in extensive practice, he has thoroughly identified him- 
self with his adopted town, and is ever active in promoting its interests and welfare. 
In 1862 he was appointed trial justice, and served in that capacity till 1873. From 
1864 to 1867 he was assistant United States a.ssess<>r under Phineas J. Stone, of 
Charlestown. In 1868 he was a member of the Medford School Board, and in 1870 
was chosen chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners after the introduction of 
water into the town, in the promotion of which he had taken an active part. He was 
a representative from 1872 to 1875, State senator in 1877 and 1878, and after acting 
thirty years as attorney for Medford as a town was, on its incorporation as a city, 
chosen its first city solicitor, January 24, 1893. He married, November 7, 1843, Mary 
Hall, daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy (Hall) Harlow, of Medford. 

Augustus Peabudy, at first named Asa, was the .sou of John and Mary (Peiiey) 
Peabody, and was born in Andover, Mass., May 17, 1779. He graduated at Dart- 
mouth in 1803, and read law with Timothy Bigclow, of Medford. He began prac- 
tice in Boston in 1810. He was a representative and held other offices of honor and 
trust. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1809. He married 
Miranda, daughter of Thatcher Goddard, of Boston, October 26, 1815, and died in 
Roxbury, Mass., Octobers, 1851.. 

Henuv Ddane, son of John and Mary (Eldridge) Doane, was born in Orleans, 
Mass., January 22, 1834, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1857. lie studied law at 
the Harvard Law School and with Hutchins & Wheeler, of Boston, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in December, 1858. He practiced in Boston until 1862, when he 
was commissioned a captain in the Forty-third Massachusetts Regiment, and went 
to the war. At the close of his term of service he resumed practice in Boston, and 
died there September 2, 1865. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 559 

Fkanki.in Wkustek, son of David antl Betsey (Kimball) Weljster, was born in 
Haverhill. Mass., June 27, 1824, anil graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He studied 
law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 21, 1854. 
He settled m Chicago, and while consul at Bavaria died at Munich, May 4, 1805. 

J.\.MES BoWDoi.N Ali.kn, SOU of Samuel Clesson and Elizabeth (Ilalsey) Allen, was 
born in Northtield, Mass., July 5, 1824, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1847, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar July 23, 1849. He practiced in East Boston, where he died December 
23, 1853. 

Samuel Avkk Bkadi.ev, son of John and Hannah (Ayer) Bradley, was born in Con- 
cord, N. H., November 22, 1774, and graduated at Dartmouth in 179!(. He studied 
law with Judge Samuel Green, of Concord, and John Heard, of Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1805. He began practice in Fryeburg in 1805, was regis- 
ter of probate for Oxford county from 1805 to 1810, was representative from 1813 to 
1818, and in 1825 removed to Portland. He returned to Fryeburg in July, 1841, and 
there died, unmarried, September 23, 1844. 

Samuel M'Gregor Burnside, son of Thomas and Susannah (M'Gregor) Burnside 
was born in Northumberland, N. H., July 18, 1783, and graduated at Dartmouth in 
1S05. He was the principal of a Female Academy in Andover, Mass., from 1805 to 
1807, and read law with Artemas Ward, of Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in March, 1810, and began practice in Westboro', Mass. He soon after moved to 
Worcester, where he died July 25, 1850. He married Sophia D. , daughter of Dwight 
Foster, of Brookfield, Mass., November 8, 1816. He received the degree of Master 
of Arts from Harvard in 1817. 

Redfiei.d Pkoctok, son of Jabez and Betsey (Parker) Proctor, was born in Proc- 
torsville, Vt., June 1, 1831, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1851. He read law in 
Proctorsville and at the Law School in Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated in 
1800, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March. 1801. He began practice in 
Boston in February, 18G1, associated with Judge Isaac Fletcher Redfield, but soon 
entered the service, becoming an officer of high rank and merit among Vermont vol- 
unteers. He was secretary of war under the recent administration of President 
Harrison, and is now United States senator from Vermont. He married Sarah Jane, 
daughter of Salmon Dutton, of Cavendish, Vt., May 26, 1858. 

Asa CoiTKELL was born in Freehold, N. J., in Novemljcr, 1825. He studied law 
with Judge Vredenburg, of Freehold, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 
1846. He practiced in Red Bank, N. J., until 1853, when he moved to Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 11 in that year. In 1863, while still pursuing 
the practice of law in Boston, he moved his residence to Lexington, Mass., where he 
died in July, 1889. He was deeply interested in the prfisperity of his adopted town 
and t<Mik a leading and active part in the introduction of water and in the establish- 
ment of street lighting there. He married, in 1850, Maria Louisa, only daughter of 
Jesse and Catherine A. Hanford, of Red Bank. 

Daniel W. PEAiiouy, son of John Tarbell and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody, 
was bom in Gilead, Me., March 11, 18:?6, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1859. He 
studied law with Robert Ingalls Burbank, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar Novemlier 26, 1802. After practicing for a time in Boston, he removed to 
Nashville, Tenn, 



s6o HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Samuki. Hii.iiAKii Foi.soM. son of Samuel and Anna (Lovering) Folsom, was born 
in Ilopkinton, N. H., February 23, 182(), and jjraduatcd at Dartmouth in 1851. He 
studied law with iJean Hi IJinsmoor. of Lowell, and afterwards in Boston. He began 
practiee in East Cambridge, but as early as 1881 was at the Suffolk bar. He married 
Catherine Abbott, daughter of Neheniiah Porter Cram, of Hani])ton Falls, N. H.. 
October 18, 18r,7. 

Nai'iian Jamks Ci.ifhiki>, son of Judge Nathan and Hannah ^Ayer) Clifford, was 
born in Newfield, Me., January 12, 1832, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1854. He 
studied law with his father, and was admitted to the Maine bar. He was for a time 
clerk of United States customs in New York, and afterwards removed to Boston and 
became clerk of the United States District Court. He married Sarah A. Oilman, of 
New Y.jrk, Ai)ril 2, 1801. 

B. H. CuKKiKK was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 5, 1853. and is now at the 
bar. 

John A. Day was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 30, 1861. 

Joii.N W. Davis was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 8, 1848, and settled on Cape 
Cod. 

CiiAKi.iis Fkanki.in DiNHAK graduated at Harvard in 1851, and was an attorney at 
the Suffolk bar in 1859. He was at one time the editor of the Boston Daily Adver- 
tisir, and has been many years professor of political economy at Harvard. 

A. W. Kdckri.v was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1876. 

H. A. Foi.soM was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 6, 1874. 

D. .S. Gii.cHKi.si, a brother of Judge John James Gilchrist, of New Hampshire, was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar December 8, 1846, and practiced some years in Boston. 

A. J. (iiiAY was admitted to the Middlesex bar in June, 1840, and was an attorney 
at the Suffolk bar in 1849. 

Wii.i lAM H. Wii.soN was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 1868. 

MKi.vii.i.ii E. l.NOAi.i.s has within a generation practiced at the Suffolk bar, chieflv 
in the United States Courts. 

Joii.N Knai'I' was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1848. 

Wii.i.iAM LoMAX, jr.. was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 3, 1863. 

IIknry D. Lord wjus admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1851. 

Josivi'ii Lyman was practicing at the Suffolk bar about 1800. 

John Ma.son was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. 

Gr.oKC.K Otis was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1826. 

Benjamin Parsons was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1798. 

Wii.i.iAM Pitt Denton, son of William and Sarah (Foster) Denton, was born in 
Boston, November 21, 1823, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1844. He studied law 
at the Harvard law school and in the offices of John H. Clifford in New Bedford and 
W. K. P. Washburn in Boston, and began practice in Boston in 1847. He married 
in New Bedford, February 24, 1848, Elizabeth Howell, daughter of George Randall, 
and died in Boston, April 12, 1855. 

El. AM PoR iKR was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 7, 1865. 

Isaac G. Rkkd was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 27, 1869. 

CiiAKLKs W. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 1, 1851. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 561 

Asa Si'Aui.iuNG was admitlcil t(i tht; Millilli-s.x li.ii- m Auril l-^li; anil was an at 
torney at the Suffolk bar in 18-49. 

W. G. Si'RAGi'E was an attorney at the biilkilk bar in INiiii. 

AsAiiEL Stearns was born in Lunenburg. Mass., June 17, 1774. anil gra<hiateil at 
Harvard in 1797. He was atlmitted to the Suffolk bar about IMOO, and soon settled 
iu Chelmsford, Mass. , where he practiced many years. He was a member of Con- 
gress from 1815 to 1817, and in the latter year was appointed profes.sor of law at 
Harvard, continuing in office until 1829. He received the degree of LL.I). from 
Harvard in 1825. While living in Chelmsford he was for several years county attor- 
ney for Middlesex. In 1824 he published a volume on "Real Actions," and was 
subsetpiently one of the commissioners for revising the statutes of Mjussachusetts. 
He died in Cambridge February 5, \KVA. 

Henry Brewster Stanton was born in Griswold, Conn., in 1810, and studied law 
at Lane Seminarj'. Ohio. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 5, 1842, and 
after practicing in Boston removed in 1845 to Seneca Falls, N. Y. He published in 
1849 a volume entitled " Reforms and Reformers." He married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Judge Daniel Cady. of Johnstown, N. Y., in 1840. While he was an anti-slavery 
orator his wife became an active advocate of women's rights, and as early as 1848 
called a convention at Seneca Falls, which made the first public demand for woman's 
suffrage. 

Pf.rER Thacher was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1807. 

James Si'I.i.ivan 2d was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Common I'leas Co\irt 
in July, 1820, and in the Supreme Court January 1, 1829. 

Richard N. Pierce was a native of Bristol county, and was admitted t<i the Suffolk 
bar in September, 1839. He was a representative at one time, and -;i rv.-il in 1I1.. 
war. It is believed by the writer that he died soon after the war. 

George P. Montague was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1888. 

Elijah Hi nt Mills was born in Chesterfield. Mass., IJeceniber 1. I77(i. and gradu- 
ated at Williams in 1797. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1H(I7. and 
settled in Northampton. He was at one time district attorney for Mamp.shire county, 
State senator in 1811, member of Congress from 1815 to 1819, and United States 
senator from December 1. 1820. to March 3. 1827. He received the degree of LL.D. 
from Williams College in 1824. 

John Mills was appointed United States district attorney by President Van Buren 
in 1837, and for a time had an office in Boston. 

John G. Locke was an attorney at the Suffolk bar in 1858. 

E. W. McCi.i'RE was an attorney at the Suffolk l)ar in 1883. 

Seiiei's C. Maine was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 3, 1845, and wius ap- 
pointed a justice of the Boston Police Court N<>venil)er 3, I8,5m. The writer thinks 
that he remained on the bench until tli^- . ,,ini u-.k abolished. May 29, IMtUi H.' Iims 
been dead some years. 

Gkori-.e W. McConneix was an attorney at Uii. Suffolk bar in 1881. 
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562 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

AnKAHAM W. Fi i.LEK was admitted to practice in the Common Pleas Court in 
SiitTolk county in May, 1S12, and in the Supreme Court in 1814. He died in Cam- 
bridge. 

TiiKoDoKE U. TiiALHEK was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October. 1832. 

Rdhekt McNeil Morse, son of Robert and Sarah Maria (Clark) Morse, was born 
in Boston, August 11, 1837, and graduated at Harvard in 1857. His rank in college 
was good in a cla.ss which included among its members many who have won high 
positions in the various occupations of life. Among these were Franklin Haven, jr., 
Solomon Lincoln, John D. Long, John C. Ropes, Robert I). Smith, Arthur J. C. 
Sowdon, Joseph Lewis Stackpole, James J. Storrow, Charles F. Walcott and Samuel 
Wells. Of those of his class who entered the walks of law none have attained a 
higher position in the profession or met with greater success. He studied law at the 
Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 18(i(). His 
practice long since attained a size which demanded the most assiduous labor and the 
exertion of all his powers. In the courts of the State and of the United States his 
presence is a familiar one and the suits in which he has acted as counsel have included 
some of the most important which in recent years have engaged the attention of the 
Suffolk county courts. The Armstrong will case in which he was associated with 
William G. Russell, and the Codnian will ca.se in which he was leading counsel, both 
involving large amounts, furnish abundant evidence of the general estimate of his 
standing and ability. In the early days of his career he was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Senate in 1866 and 1867, and there introduced and advocated a bill for the 
repeal of the usury laws, which through his efforts in the Senate, and those of 
Richard H. Dana in the House, became a law. In 1880 he was a member of the 
House of Representatives. With these excepti<ms he has resisted the attractions of 
public life, which can only be followed by the neglect of professional duties, and 
often, too, by the enslavement of the mind under the influence of party dictates and 
a blind obedience to jjarty clamor. Engrossed as he is in the labors of his profession, 
he nevertheless finds time to study important public questions, and in his political 
action he follows no party longer than its platform and principles commend them- 
selves to his judgment and conscience. He married Anna E. Gorhani, of Boston, 
November 11, 1863, and has a winter residence in Boston .-inrl .i suninur rt-sidi-nce at 
Falmouth. 

Gu.siAvus AixiLi'iius SoMERiiV, Son of Samuel and Hannah (George) .Somerby. was 
born in Newbury, Mass., November 2, 1821. He was descended from Anlhonj' 
Somerby, who was clerk of the courts in Essex county in the days of the Massjichu- 
setts Colony. He attended school in Wayland, in which town he read law in the 
office of Edward Mellcn, who was appointed in 1847 one of the judges of the Common 
Pleas Court and chief justice in 18,54, and who remained on the bench until the Court 
was abolished in 1859. After his admission to the bar he practiced in Wayland until 
18.')2. when he removed to Waltham and associated himself with Josiah Rutter for 
the practice of law in that town. In 1858 he removed to Boston and remained in 
jiractice there until his death, which occurred at South Framingham, Mass.. July 34, 
1875). His early [jractice was at the Middlesex bar, where he came in contact with 
a class of lawyers, peculiar at that time to that county, at whose hands treatment of 
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offensive unci defensive warfare m\ist be learned l)y any new aspirant for suecess in 
the arena of law. Mr. Soiiierby was not slow to learn. The independence and cour- 
age and heroism which he exhibited in the trial of causes in the courts were charac- 
teristics which he owed in a large degree to his repeated conflicts with the gladiators 
of the Middlesex bar. He won his greatest triumphs, so far as the writer knows, in 
the criminal rather than the civil side of the courts, and his success in winninj; 
Ihoni was due oftentimes tu the adoption and support of plans which a man of more 
timid nature would have hesitated to form and failed in lirmness and nerve to carry 
out. One of the earliest criminal cases in which he was engaged after his remijval 
to Boston was that of Deacon Andrews, of Kingston, indicted for the murder of Cor- 
nelius Holmes of that town. He was engaged as leading counsel for the defendant, 
and Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth, was associated with him as his junior. A later 
case in which he defended and secured the acquittal of Leavitt Alley, charged with 
murder, and tried in Boston in 1873, will ever stand as a memorial of his shrewdness 
and courage. As has been stated by another in describing the trial: " His defence 
was a hint, so shrewdly given, that it rather originated the suggestion in the minds 
of the jurymen themselves than passed his own lips, that the son of Mr. Alley was 
the real criminal. The prisoner's witnesses and the cross-examination of the wit- 
nesses for the government were so handled as to necessarily convey, through unseen 
and unexpected channels, this hint to the jury, and the refusal to put the s<jn on the 
stand, though it was well known that he was conversant with many of the incidents 
of the affair, served to carry this hint home with a force that was sure to have an 
effect." The length of this trial, with the labor and excitement attending it, inflicted 
a permanent injury on the strength and health of Mr. Somcrby. He never recoveretl 
his capacity for work, and his vigor of nerve and brain was never again what it was 
before. He continued, however, to practice his profession until his death, and no 
one perhaps but himself realized the extent of the prostration which that trial in 
which he enlisted all his energies had induced. He married Abby Olivia, daughter 
of Charles Backus and Rebecca (Sanger) Clark, at Framingham, Mass., February 17, 
185:i. 

Peleg SrRAGUE, son of Seth and Deborah (Sampson) Sprague, was born in Duxbury. 
Mass., April 28, 1793. He was descended from William Sprague, who came to Salem 
from England m 1(129. It is said that the father and mother of Mr. Sprague lived 
together under one roof sixty-four years. They had fifteen children, of wliom Peleg 
was the ninth. The father, Seth Sprague, was justice of the peace and (juorum 
forty years, a member of the Massachusetts Legi.slature twenly-.seven years, and 
twice a presidential elector. In his old age, when most men become conservative 
and are content with existing conditions in social and political life, he entered with 
zeal into the anti-slavery cause at a time when that cause was unpopular in our com- 
munities. Mr. Sprague graduated at Harvard in 1812 in a class containing many 
members who afterwards distinguished themselves in the various walks of life. Among 
those who became physicians there were (leorge Harllett Doane. John Honians. 
Oeorge W. Heard, Amos Nourse. Abel Lawrence Peirson, Kdwar<l H. Robbins. 
Daniel Shute. and Kzekiel Thaxter. Among the clergymen were Jonathan Mayhew 
Wainwright and Henry Ware. Among the lawyers were Franklin Dexter, James 
Hciiiv fiiincan, Charles Grcely I.oriiur and Willi.iin Turell Andrews Among ihem 



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none became more iHstinguishctl than Mr. Sprague. Four of them received from 
Harvard the degree of LL. D., Mr. Dexter in 1857, Mr. Duncan in 18G1, Mr. Loring 
in lyriO, and Mr. Sprague in 1847. After leaving college he studied at the law school 
in Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards in the offices of Levi Lincoln in Worcester, and 
Samuel Hubbard in Boston, and was admitted to the Plymouth county bar in Au- 
gust, 1815. After his admission to the bar he removed to Augusta, in what was then 
the district of Maine but a part of Massachusetts, and there established himself in the 
business of his professitm. At the end of two years he removed to Hallowell. After 
the State of Maine was organized in 1820, he was sent a representative from Hallow- 
well to the first Legislature, and was again a member of the Legislature of the next 
year, 1821. In 1825 he was chosen a member of Congress and served until 1820. In 
the latter year he was sent to the United States Senate from Maine and served one 
term of six years. In 1835 he removed to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. After six years' practice in Boston, during which he maintained the high repu- 
tation which he had won in Maine, he was appointed by President Harrison in 1841 
to the seat on the bench of the United States Court which had been vacated by the 
resignation of John Davis. His duties in that capacity during the latter part of his 
service were rendered especially arduous by the novel cases in American jurispru 
deuce arising during the War of the Rebellion. He performed them with distin- 
guished ability, though at the time suffermg from an affection of the eyes which 
incapacitated him for the work of taking notes and made even the light of the court- 
room a serious annoyance. Exercise indispensable to his continued health he was 
precluded from taking in the sun-light, and the writer remembers to have often seen 
him ]);icing the floor of the Doric Hall of the State House, wholly unobservant of 
everything about him and evidently solving some question of law or constructing 
some charge to the jury for the next day's session of his court. During the progress 
of the Civil War a distinguished practitioner in his court expressed in conversation a 
doubt whether the offence of treason could be committed in Massachusetts where no 
war existed. He replied " Bring me a man who, here in Massachusetts, has by any 
act, however slight or however remote from the field of war, given intentional aid to 
the rebels in arms, as by communicating to them information or advice, and I will 
show that 1 can try him and have him hanged." The affection of his eyes became 
finally so serious that he resigned his seat on the bench in 1805, and the last years of 
his life were spent in a darkened room. He died at his home in Boston, (October 
HO, 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. A volume of his speeches and addresses was 
published in 1858, and a volume of his decisions from 1841 to 1861 was published in 
18(;i. He married in Albany, in August, 1818, Sarah, daughter of Moses and Sarah 
Doming, who was born February 17, 1794. 

Hakvev JnwEi.i., son of Pliny and Emily (Alexander) Jewell, was born in Win- 
chester, N. H., June 20, 1820. His brother, Marshall Jewell, was governor of 
Connecticut in 18(i!), 1871 and 1872; minister to Russia in 1873, and postmaster-gen- 
eral in 1874. Pliny Jewell, the father of Harvey Jewell, was a tanner by trade, as 
his father and grandfather had been before him, and the son, the subject of this 
sketch, learned the ancestral trade. He afterwards, however, entered Dartmouth 
College, and graduated in 1844. After leaving college he taught in one of the public 
schools of Boston, while pursuing his law studies in the office of Lyman Mason, of 




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that city. He was admitted Id the Suffolk bar August U, W\~. While in practice 
he was at various times associated in business with William Gaston, Walbridge A. 
Field, now chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and E. O. Shepard. Possess- 
ing a critical mind, he devoted himself specially to the work of drafting contracts, 
charters of mcorporation, and other instruments reiiuiring the closest attention to 
details and the avoidance of weak and indefensible points. He gave much attention 
also to maritime law, and his advice in this branch «if his profession possessed to a 
large degree the authority of law. Though a lover of the law and obedient to its 
behests, he felt the attractions of political life and yielded to tlieni, probably to hts 
disadvantage, looking only to professional success. In early life a Whig, and later 
a Republican, he was a member of the Boston City Council in 1851 and 1853 and in 
1801. and from 1867 to 1871 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives. During the last four years he was speaker of the House, and performed 
his duties easily, intelligently, impartially, and with the enthusiastic approval of the 
different bodies over which he presided. Indeed so popular had he become as speaker 
that in the State Republican Convention of 1871 he was a prominent candidate for 
governor. In that convention Benjamin F. Butler, then a Republican, was an aspi- 
rant for the nomination, and the two other candidates were Mr. Jewell and William 
B. Washburn. The contest was an earnest one, and Mr. Jewell withdrew liis name 
and gave his support to Mr. Washburn, who finally received the nomination. In 
1875 he was appointed by President Grant judge of the Court of Commissioners of 
Alabama Claims, and held that office two years, during which he resided in Wash- 
ington. In 1877 he resumed the practice of law in Boston and remained there until 
his death, which occurred in that city December 8, 1881. He received a degree of 
LL. D. from Dartmouth in 187,'>. He married Susan A., daughter of Richard Brad- 
ley, of Concord, N. H., December 2«, 184!». 

Albert E. Pillsburv, son of Josiah Webster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury, 
was born in Milford, N. H., August 19, 1849. His father graduated at Dartmouth in 
1840, and on account of feeble health abandf)ned his intention of studying a profes- 
sion and devoted himself to the occujjation of a farmer. The early life, therefore, of 
the subject of this sketch was passed on his father's farm, in the cultivation of which 
he aided his father whenever his studies at school would permit. After jiassing 
through the lower grade schools of Milford he attended the High School in that town, 
and subsequently fitted for college at the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich. N. H., 
and at the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He entered Harvard College in 
1867, at the age of eighteen, but early in his sophomore year left college and went to 
Sterling, 111., the residence of his uncle, Hon. James Dinsmoor, a lawyer of high 
standing in that town and a member of the distinguished family in New Hampshire 
bearing that name, two members of which have been governors of that State. While 
in Sterling he taught school a year and studied law with his uncle, and was admitted 
to the Illinois bar in 1869. In 1870 he came to Boston and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in June of that year. His eminent abilities soon secured for him a foothold 
at the bar, and from that time to the present his growth h.-is been constant and his 
reputation has been more and more firmly established. For several years in the 
early part of his professional career he was vice-president and jiresident of the Mer- 
cantile Library Association of Boston, and to his meml)ei-ship ■■' '•'•'' l"i'l>- "oli it^ 



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parliamentary and controversional lessons may perhaps be due his marked success as 
a presiding officer and a participant in legislative and political debate. In 1876, 1877 
and 1878 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 
Ward 17 of Boston, and in 1884. 1885 and 1886 a member of the Senate from tin 
Sixth Suffolk District. During his last two years at the Senate Board he was presi 
dent, having been chosen both years by a unanimous vote. In both House and 
Senate he served on the judiciary committee, and with his clear head and logical 
mind proved himself to be the man now and then found in our legislative bodies who 
unties the knot and tangle of debate, and clearing the atmosphere of discussion of 
the fog which is so apt to invest it, simplifies the question before the house and en- 
ables its bewildered members to come to a just understanding of its merits. In 1887 
Mr. Pillsbury was offered by Governor Ames the position of judge advocate-general, 
but he declined it, and in 1888 he was offered by the same governor a seat on the bench 
of the Superior Court. This he also declined, as well as the appointment of corpo- 
ration counsel of the city of Boston, offered to him by Mayor Hart of Boston in 1889. 
In the fall of 1890 he was nominated as the Republican candidate for attorney-gen- 
eral, and chosen in that and the two following years. He is now, in April, 189:i. 
serving his third year in that ofiice, and it is not too much to say that since ISoH. 
when John Henry Clifford left the office, not one of its eight incumbents has per- 
formed its duties with more brilliant ability or marked success. Certainly since the 
trial of John W. Webster, in which Attorney-General Clifford, assisted by his able 
and indefatigable junior, George Bemis, so distinguished himself as to cause Samuel 
Warren, of the the English bar, to say "that his reply for the prosecution cannot 
be excelled in close and cimelusive reasoning conveyed in language equally elegant 
and forcible," no greater professional triumph has buen won by a prosecuting officer 
of the Commonwealth than that in the recent trial of Trefethen in Middlesex county, 
in which Mr. I'lllsbury by a masterly construction of a chain of evidence secured a 
conviction in spite of the efforts of the ablest counsel for the defense, and in opposi- 
tion to a very general public opinion. Mr. Pillsbury delivered the annu.il oration 
before the city authorities of Boston on the Fourth of July, 1890, and is an occasiona' 
and welcome contributor to newspapers and magazines. He married Louise F. 
(Johnson) Wheeler, daughter of Edward C. and Delia M. fSmilli) lolinsoii, at New- 
bury, Vt., July 9, 1889. 

RoiiEKi' Tki-:a r Paine, son of Thomas and Eunice ^'1 leati Fame, was liorn in Boston, 
March 11, 1731, and received his early education under Master Lowell in that city. He 
graduated at Harvard in 1749, and received a degree of LL.D. from his alma mater in 
1805. His father was at one time pastor of a church in Weymouth and afterwards a 
merchant in Boston. His mother was Eunice, daughter of Samuel Treat, and giand- 
daughter of Samuel Willard, president of Harvard from 1701 to 1707. The subject 
of this sketch after leaving college taught school for a time and afterwards made 
three voyages to North Carolina as master and one to Greenland for whales. He 
studied for the ministry, and in 1755 served for- a time as chaplain in the French 
War. He afterwards studied law with Judge Willard at Lancaster, and with Ben- 
jamin Pratt in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 17.59. He established 
himself in Boston in 1761 and went to Tauntcm, and in 1769 was a representative 
from that town. In 1770 he conducted the prosecution of Captain Preston for the 
Boston massacre in the absence of the attorney-general, in 177 1-5 was a delegate to 



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the Provincial Congress, and a member of ' the Contitieiital CongTess from 1774 to 
177S III 1777 he was again a representative anil speaker of the House. He was ap- 
pointed attorney-general during the Revolution to succeed Jonathan Sewell, the last 
attorney-general under the provincial charter, and held olhce until the appointment 
of James Sullivan, February 12, 1790. In 1776 he was appointed a judge of the Su- 
perior Court, but declined, and in 1779 was a member of the State Constitutional 
Convention. About 1780 he removed to Boston and bought and occupied the resi- 
dence of Governor Shirley on the corner of Milk and Federal streets, and in 1790 was 
appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, which office he held until his resig- 
nation in 1804. He was an able lawyer and judge, and as a signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence his name has been made immortal. He married in 1770, Sally, 
daughter of Thomas Cobb and sister of General David Cobb, of Taunton, and died 
in Boston, May 11, 1814. 

RoiiERT Treat Paine, jr., son of the preceding, was born in Taunton, Mass., 
December 9, 1773, and graduated at Harvard in 1793. His original name "Thomas" 
was changed by an act of the Legislature in 1801. After leaving college he engaged 
in mercantile pursuits which he soon abandoned for the jiaths of literature. In 1794 
he established a paper called the Fe<{cral Orrery, in which apjieared articles and 
verses sensational and i)ersonal in their character, and the next year jjublished a 
poem entitled " Invention of Letters," which was much admired. He also published 
" The Ruling Passion " and the celebrated song " Adams and Liberty." About 1800 
he studied law with Theophilus Parsons and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1802. 
He retired from the profession in 1809, and died in Boston, November 13, 1811. 

RiusERT TKEAr Paine 3d, son of the preceding, was born in Boston, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1822, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the Commim Pleas 
Court October 19, 1825, and in the Supreme Judicial Court June 17, 1828. He aban- 
doned the practice of law and became distinguished as an astronomer and in other 
brandies of science. He was a member of the American Academy and of the Amer- 
ican Philosophical Society. He died in 1885. 

Robert Treat Paine 4th, son of Charles Gushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) 
Paine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835, and is the great-grandson of Roljert 
Treat Paine, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He fitted for college at 
the Boston Latin School and graduated at Harvard in 1855. After leaving college 
he spenla year at the Harvard Law Sch(H)l and two years in Euroijcan travel. On his 
return he studied law with Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker in Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1859 He continued in practice in Boston until 
1870, when he retired from business, the possessor of sufficient wealth to enable him 
to gratify his wishes in the promotion of benevolent enterprises. From 1872 to 1870 
he was an efficient member of the committee charged with the care of the erection of 
Trinity Church, and to the judgment of this committee in the selection of an archi- 
tect and the adoption of his plans the merit is due of making an honorable and 
worthy contributum to the architecture of Boston. In 1878 he aided in the establish- 
ment of the Associated Charities of Boston, an institution which, with others of a 
similar character, hits done so much to alleviate poverty and suffering. In 1879 he 
organized the Wells Memorial Institute, which embraces a loan association, a co- 
operative bank and a building as.sociation. In 1801 he organized a Workingmen's 



568 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Loan Association, and is still active in the promotion of every enterprise looking to 
the welfare and prosperity of the poor. He has built more than two hundred small 
houses for workingmen and sold them at moderate prices and on easy credits. In 
1887 he endowed a fellowship of $10,000 at Harvard College for " the study of the 
ethical problems of society, the effectsof legislation, governmental administration and 
private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind," and in 1890 he 
established a trust of about $200,000 called the Robert Treat "Paine Association. H(, 
is not waiting to give away at his death what he can no longer use, but indulges 
himself in a pleasure than which there can be no greater of bestowing his wealth 
winle living and witnessing the ripened fruit of his benevolence. Mr. Paine was a 
re[>resentative from the town of Waltham in 1884, and has been a candidate for Con- 
gress in the Fifth Uistrict. He is now president of the American Peace Society. He 
married Lydia Williams, daughter of George Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman, in 
Boston, April 24, 1863. and lives in Boston. 

RoHERi Tkeat Paink 5th, son of the preceding, graduated at Harvard in 1882, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He married Ruth, daughter of Dr. 
Walter Channing Cabot, of Boston. 

Franklin Dk.xtkk, son of Samuel and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., November 5, 1793, and graduated at Harvard in 1812, receiving 
the degree of LL.D. frofti his alma mater in 1857. He studied law with Samuel Hub- 
bard, afterwards one of the judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, and was admitted 
to' practice in the Common Pleas Court in Suffolk county in September, 1815, and in 
the Supreme Judicial Court in December, 1818. He soon became eminent at the bar 
and was associated at various times as partner with Charles Greely Loring. William 
Prescott. William H. Gardiner, and George W. Phillips. In 1819, the year after his 
admission to the bar of the Supreme Court, he was selected to deliver the annual 
oration before the authorities of the town of Boston on the Fourth of July. That Ik 
should have been chosen at the age of twenty-six to perform that service sufficiently 
attests the ability and promise with which he began his professional career. In 1825 
he was a representative from Boston, and again in 1836 and 1840, serving in 1836 on 
the Select Committee of the Legislature on the revision of the statutes. In 1825 he 
was a member of the Common Council of Boston, and in 1835 a State senator. He 
was also at one time the commander of the New England Guards. In 1830 he was 
engaged in the defence of the Knapps, who were indicted for the murder of Joseph 
White, of Salem, and though opposed by Mr. Webster, who was employed to assist 
the [jrosecuting officer, the contest was found to be by no means an unequal one, and 
his reputation for ability and learning, already a brilliant one, was more firmly estab- 
lished. In 1840, or about that time, he defended Mrs. Kenney, indicted for the 
murder of her husband by poison. The trial took place at Boston and it was 
the good fortune of the writer, then a student at Harvard, to be present more 
or less during its progress. James T. Austin was attorney-general and con- 
ducted the case for the government, and the battle was one between giants at the 
law. The writer then saw Mr. Dexter for the first time, and he remembers well the 
Grecian head covered with curls of hair almost black, the sharp cut features and 
brilliant intellectual eye, which made him in appearance his ideal of an orator and 
man. In form and presence he belonged to the class of which Rufus Choate and 






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Daniel Dougherty were also conspicuiius tyijcs, and of the three, if C'hoate jiossesscfl 
more of the fire and fluency of eloquence, and Dougherty more of classical imagery, 
to Mr. Dexter must be accorded the merit of a grace and elegance which marked him 
as a gentleman and a scholar. In l,S.tl he was appointed United States a.ttorney for 
Massachusetts and held the office until ISin. In 1849 he was reappointe<l by Presi- 
dent Taylor. Mr. Dexter in the latter part of his career did not devote himself ex- 
clusively to his profession. To literature and art he gave nmch of his time and 
thought, and in either department if he had failed in the law he would have distin- 
guished himself. He married Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Judge William 
Prescott, of Boston, September 25, 181!1, roi'l di.,! ,it Beverly, Mass., where Iiis 
latter years were spent, August 14, 1857. 

James Frederic Joy. .son of James and Sarah il'ickering) Joy. was born in Dur- 
ham, N. H,, December 2, IMIO, and graduated at Dartmouth in WXA. He wiis a tutor 
at Dartmouth in 18:}4 and 18;i5, and graduated at the Harvard Law School with the 
degree of LL.B. in 1830. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar August 27. 183<i. and 
settled in Detroit. 

Joseph Hartwei.l Laihi, son of Caleb and Mary Ann (Watson) Ladd, was born in 
Calcutta, August 14, 1845. and graduated at Dartmouth in 1807. He graduated at 
Harvard Law School in 1871, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of 
that year. 

Charles H. Mann, son of Eben and Mary (Albee) Mann, was born in Boston, 
August 11. 1840, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1807. He graduated at the Harvard 
Law School in 1809, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January of that year. 
He died in 1878. 

Abel Merrill, son of Abel and Sarah (Henry) Merrill, was born in Stow. \'t.. April 
2, 1811. and graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He .studied law with Joseph Bell at 
Haverhill, N. H., in 1839 and 1840. and graduated at the Harvard Law ScIumjI in 
1843. He practiced a few years at Hartwell, Vt., but was a member of the Suffolk 
bar in 1849. He left the profession and went to Plainfield. 

Thomas Leonard Livermore was born in fialena. 111.. February 7. 1844, and was 
educated at the public schools in Milford. N. H.. the Api)leton Academy at Mount 
Vernon, N. H.. and at the Lombard University at (ialesburg. 111. He studied law 
with Bainbridge Wadleigh in Milford. N. H^. and was admitted to the New Hamp- 
shire bar. In 180.8 he moved to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 7 
in that year. Previous to entering on the study of the law he enlisted as a private in 
the First Regiment of New Hampshire volunteers in the spring of 1801, and 
served three months. In September. 1801. he enlisted as first sergeant in the Fifth 
New Hampshire Regiment for three years, and while connected with that reginieiil 
wa.s promoted through all the grades to brevet colonel. In the spring of 180."> he was 
commissioned colonel of the Eighteenth New Hampshire Regiment, and w;is mustered 
out in July of that year. He practiced in Boston from 1808 to 1879. associated the 
latter part of the time with Frederick P. Fish. In 1871) he moved to Man. : 
H.. where he was engaged until 1885 as the manager of the Ainn-ikeag .M. 
ing Company. He then returned to Boston and resumed tl nf law. >.>.iuiii 

uiiivr in practice until 1890. when he was made vice-presideiu • met and Ileila 



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Mininj( Company, with an office in Boston, where he is now active in the perform- 
ance of the duties of that office. From 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the Metro- 
politan Park Commission. He married, June 1, 1869, in Milford, N. H., Sarah E., 
adopted daughter of George and Rheny C. Daniel. 

Oki.aniki H. PorrER illustrates so well by his career the possibility for a New 
England youth, without wealth and with limited school privileges, to overcome by 
persevering effort the obstacles in his way and rise to the highest stations of life, that 
he deserves a special notice in this register. He is descended from John Potter, one 
of the original colonists, who settled at Xew Haven in l(i89, and was one of the 
signers of the New Haven Covenant. Samuel Potter, the father of Mr. Potter, was 
born in Hamden. New Haven county. Conn., and reared in Northford in that State, 
and married in Charlemont, Mass., Sophia, daughter of Samuel Rice, and great- 
granddaughter of Moses Rice, grantee and first settler of that town, who was killed 
by the Indians in 1755, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Edmimd 
Rice, who came from Barkhamstead in England and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 
IG3S. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Potter carries in his veins the blood of the hard- 
working and enterprising colonists of New England, and that it has reached him in 
a current unimpaire<l and untainted by any sluggish tributaries from families enerv- 
ated by lives of luxury and indolence. In 1819 Sanniel Potter removed to Charle- 
mont, Mass., his entire possessions, aside from a small amoimt of ready money, 
consisting of two o.k teams and their contents, which he accompanied to his new 
home. Settling down ujjon a hillside farm, not yet wholly cleared, looking down 
upon the valley of Deerfield. he built a house and reared a family of ten children, 
eight of whom lived to mature years. The same hardships to which his ancestors 
had been ex])osed were here experienced, and the same indomitable spirit which they 
[jossessed was exhibited by him in overcoming them. Year by year the forest was 
felled and new acres were added to the cultivated land, and year by year the Hocks 
and herds increased, the products of the farm became more abundant, and the com- 
forts of the home were constantly contributed to. Upon Orlando, the subject of this 
sketch, the third child and second son, born in Charlemont, March 10. 1823, his full 
share of the care and labors of the farm necessarily rested. One hundred miles 
from Boston, the only market for his jiroducts, and with only a wagon road for trans' 
porlation. the father, in his repeated journeys to the city, and during his ab- 
sence upon public business, left the older sons with the burden of the farm on their 
hands, and thus the native strength of the boys was enhanced by the spirit of self- 
reliance which these duties inculcated, and prepared them in the best possible school 
for the working out of their own careers in life. From the age of ten to that of six- 
luen. during the absence of the oldest son at school and college, the home responsi- 
l)ililies during the absence of the father fell on Orlando alone. Having reached the 
latter age. he determined if possible to obtain a college education, and with that view 
during the next two years, while working on the farm in the spring and summer, 
accunnilatcd something towards future support by teaching sch(«>l during the autumn 
ami winter. In 1841 he entered Williams College, but in his sophomore year, on 
account of failing health, he left college, and after a trip to sea he secured a position 
as leacher in Dennis, on Cape Cod, where he remained in various occupations aside 
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of thai year, conceiving llie wish to study law and enter the Harvard Law School, 
he enfjajfed to teach a class of yoiinjj ladies each afternoon, (iml in order to occiii>y 
his whole time, hired a piece of ground, to the cultivation of which he dovotcil the 
earlier hours of the day. In the latter part of the summer he closeil his class am! 
marketed his products, a part of which, consistinjj of fifty bushels <if potatoes, he was 
obliged to ship to I'rovincetown and pediUe personally from house to house. With im- 
proved health and recruited funds he entered the Harvard Law School in Se|)teniber. 
1845, and at that institution and in the ofKce of Charles Gran<Hson Thomas, of Bos- 
ton, he continued the study of law until February 12. 1848, when he was admitted in 
Boston to the Suffolk bar. While pursuing his law studies he enabled himself to 
continue them by teaching school two terms of three months each in Ucnnis and in 
his own native town, the academy in which he fitted for coUe.ge. While studying in 
the office of Mr. Thomas, he was often permitted to try cases in the lower courts, 
and thus familiarized himself with the first and humblest steps in a i)rofessional 
career. He lived in a small room m Sewall Place, where he boarded himself, and 
was enabled by the exercise of economy and prudence to open an office in that city 
free from debt and with a future career dependent wholly on his ability and efforts. 
He not only began practice in Boston, but opened an office in South Reading, where 
he established his residence and devoted his evenings to business. The sagacity and 
determination shown by him in the collection of a large debt from a debtor <in Cape 
Cod for a prominent business firm in Boston, led to a clientage which during the first 
year of his practice yielded him an income of S^.OOO. To the collection of this debt 
he ,gave his personal attention, and nr>t contenting himself with sending a writ to an 
officer and awaiting an almost sure defeat, visited the place of business of the debtor, 
took in the situation, resisted the pretended ownership by another of the prtijierty he 
sought to attach, and secured before leaving for home the payment of the entire 
debt. He continued to practice in both- Boston and South Reading until May. IsriS. 
during which time he had aided his two sisters and younger brother in obtaining an 
education, and had laid up about ten thousand dollars. While living in South Read- 
ing he boarded with Benjamin B. Wiley, and in October. 1850. he married his 
daughter. Martha G. Wiley, to whose wisdom, prudence and earnest devotion he 
attributes his sub.se<iuent success as much as to his own efforts. In 1^52 he was re- 
tained by two young men to defend a suit against them for the contract price of a 
new sewing machine which they had invented. He was led to investi.gate their 
machine, and exhibited so much ready mechanical intelliv:' '" •■ ''^ iii~ ..n. ■■■,.-!•, .n< 
that they requested him to become associated with them, 

its development and manufacture. The proposition was .11.1 lj , . 

embarked all his savings in a manufactory, while he continueil pt" 

fession. In 1S58 the rapidly increasing demands of this ent. 'val 

to New York, while he associated himself with Solomon J. 1 . .>■ oi 

his law business in Boston. The sewing machine enterprise w;i^ .s.M,n iiieorporaled 
as a stock company with Mr. Hotter as its presulent, and until lH7tl, whr n h. rrtiml 
from active business, except S4» far as the management of his own lari;- 
concerned, he was constantly enga.ged in the . .inlr.. i "f tin .[iT.,11., . 
and directed personally both its extended 

legal conflicts required in protecting against m.i m.;. .im h .h. 

busmess was'secured. The causes in court were oftei ic<ls, and 



572 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

in not lino of them was permanent defeat suffered. In tlie investment of his increas- 
in.i; income Mr. Potter has always had faith in the enhancing value of real estate in 
the city of New York. In 18S6 he completed the structure in Park Row which bears his 
name, and in ISS!) the large building adjacent to Grace Church in Broadway. In 
1S02 he completed the great structure at the corner of Astor Place and Lafayette 
Place fronting over four hundred feet upon the street. In 1869 he bought a farm 
on the Hudson near Sing Sing, containing, with subseqjient additions, about seven 
hundred acres, and here with his flocks and herds he spends his summers, and a 
portion of one day in each week of the winter. Notwithstanding the multiplicity of 
business cares which have crowded the life of Mr. Potter, he has been a close observer 
and student of public affairs. Previous to 18(i(l a Whig, in that year a supporter of 
Lincoln, he has since that time been an active advocate of the policy of the Demo- 
cratic party in opposition to the drift of the Republican party into the advocacy and 
sujiporl of a paternal, centralized government. In the early jiart of the war, realizing 
the promise of a prolonged contest and the necessity of abundant means for its 
prosecution, as well as anxious to break up the old system of banking, under which 
the currency issued by the State banks passed at a discount beyond the borders of 
tlic State where it was issued, he conceived and urged the government to adojit a 
plan which was practically followed at a later period in the organization of the 
National Banking |Systera. Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of the treasury, is en- 
titled to only so much of the credit generally accorded to him as attaches to his ready 
acceptance of the substance of Mr. Potter's plan, while to Mr. Potter should be given 
the honor of conceiving and formulating our national banking sy.stem. On the 14th 
of August, 1801, he addressed a letter to Mr. Chase, proposing as follows: "To 
allow banks and bankers duly authorized in the loyal States to secure their bills by 
depositing with a superintendent appointed by the government United States stocks 
at their par value . . . thus making the stocks of the United States a basis of 
banking on which alone a national circulation can be secured . . . and that in 
case the same shall fail tf> be redeemed by the bank or banker issuing the currency, 
then f)n due demand and protest such superintendent shall sell . . . and apply to 
the redemption of said currency the stocks held to secure the same. . . . This 
money might properly be desi,gnated United States currency. . . . The objects 
which will be secured by this plan are. First, the bills thus secured will have in 
whatever State issued a national circulati(m and be worth the same in all parts of the 
country. . . ■ Siuotii/, the fact that in this way banks and bankers could obtain 
a national circulation for their bills would make United States stocks eagerly sought 
after by them and their price would be a/ways maintained itt or aboz'e par though 
they bore only a Jow rate of interest. Four per cents, could never fall below par 
after the system is fairly understood and at luork. The adoption of this 

plan could not fail to put an end to all financial troubles during the war. and be an 
increasing benefit and blessing ever after. While it would supply all the means 
required for the war, it would instantly enable the older and newer portions of the 
country to increa.se their trade with each other by supplying to such newer portions 
an abundant and perfectly safe currency. " Only such parts of the letter of Mr. 
Potter are here (pioted as are necessary to show that the National Banking Act 
jiassed February an, 1,S(!3, followed without material modification the plan suggested 






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by him Aujfust 14, ISCl. Mr. I'oltcr was nominated as the Democratic candidate 
for Congress in the Tenth Congressional District of New York in 1S7H and defeated. 
At the special election in 1881, upon the resignation of Levi P. Morton, he was ten- 
dered the nomination as representative in the Eleventh Congressional District, but 
declined. Hon. R. P. Flower was then nominated and chosen, but upon the decli- 
nation of Mr. Flower to receive a renomination in 1883, Mr. Potter accepted the 
nomination and was chosen. In 1884 he declined a renominati(m. In ISK15 
he was warmly recommended as an independent candidate for mayor, but de- 
clined and aided in the election of the Democratic candidate, Abram S. Hewitt. 
Mr. Potter's wife died in Februar)< 1879, and he has since married Mary Kate, 
daughter of Dr. Jared Linsly, of New York. His son, Frederick Potter, is a member 
of the New York bar, and assists his father in the care of his property. Mr. Potter 
has never sought public office or titles. He has been president of the New York 
State Agricultural Society during the two years closing January 18, 1893. by unani- 
mous election, and declined a unanimous nomination for another term. He 
received the degree of LL.D. from Williams College m 18S9. He remains in his 
ripe maturity the same working man he has been from youth, and exacts from his 
assistants no closer attention to business or longer hours than from himself. The 
writer knew Mr. Potter at the beginning of his career in Boston, struggling to get a 
foothold on the first rung of the professional ladder, and in 1H8H saw him for the first 
time afterwards occupying an oHice in the eleventh story of " Potter Building." 
ow'ned by himself, and one of the architectural ornaments of a city in whose welfare 
he feels a deep interest and pride. Having thus seen him at the outset and crisis of 
his career, he has felt a natural desire to trace thus roughly his passage from one to 
the other. 

Samuel Wki.i.s was born in Durham. N. II.. August If). IHOl. His ancestors were 
early settlers in that State. In 1844 he removed to Portland. Me., and was appointed 
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court. He was governor of Maine in 18,56 and 1H57, 
and after leaving the executive chair removed to Boston, where he was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar. He associated himself with his son and continued in practice in 
Boston until his death, July 15, 1868. He married Louisa Ann Appleton, a descend- 
ant of the Appleton family of Ipswich. Mass. 

Sami.'IlL Wells, son of the above, was born in Hallowell, Me., September 9, 1830. 
He was fitted for college in Portland, Me., and graduated at Harvard in 1857. He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 18, 1858, and practiced in Boston in part- 
nership with his father until the death of the latter in 1H68. In 1871 he formed a 
business connection with Edward Bangs which soon became a partnership under the 
name of Bangs & Wells, which has continued to the present time with the recent ad- 
dition of the eldest son of each of the original members. In the early parT of his 
professional career he was a general practitioner, but afterwards confined himself to 
the law relating to corporations and trusts, to the management of which he has given 
much of his time. He is president of the State Street Exchange, second vice-presi- 
dent and counsel of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the 
trustees of the Boston Real Estate Trust, an<l a director in several cor|K>rations. Me 
has been grand master of Masons in Massachusetts and an oflicer in several scientific 
and charitable societies. He is president of the Exchange Club and a memljer of 



574 HISIOKY OF THE BENCH AND ^BAR. 

various other clubs and associations. He married, June 11, 18()3, Catherine Boott, 
daughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett, D.D. , of Boston. 

JosKiii Thomas, son of William and Mercy (Logan) (Bridgham) Thomas, was Ijorn 
in Plymouth, Mass., in 17.'),'), and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was an ofhcer 
in the Revolution and after the war rctirod lo Plvmouth wlnic lu- inntinucrl un- 
married, until his death about 1830. 

John Wai.sii graduated at Harvard in isu, and was an au.irney at theSiillolk bar 
in 1823. He died in 1845. 

JosKrm.s EAsrMAN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 9 in tliat year. 

Jamks I-'kkscott, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1788, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar. He died in 1829. 

LiciKN Gai.k, son of Stephen Gale, was born in Meredith, N. H., May 25, 1818, 
and studied law with Stephen Carr Lyford, of Meredith, and was admitted lo the 
Suffolk bar July 23, 184(i. He practiced some years in Boston, and afterwards in New 
York and Chicago, finally returning to~New Hampshire and practicing in Laconia, 
where he died in 1878. He married, February 1, 1853, Elizabeth, daughter of Ale.^c- 
ander Scammell Chadbourne, of Farmingdale, Me. He graduated at Dartmouth 
in 1844. 

Thomas McCkatk Bauson, son of John and Sarah Babson, was born in Wiscassct, 
Me., May 28, 1847. He was educated in the public schools, in the Highland Military 
School at Worcester, and in the Chaimcy Hall School at Boston. On leaving school 
he was occupied for a time in the store of Danforth, Scudder & Company, of Boston, 
but having formed a plan to study law entered as a student the office of Ingalls & 
Smith, of Wiscasset. He continued his studies at the Harvard Law School, where 
he graduated in 1868 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
October 14, 1808, and began practice m Boston associated with Edwin A. Alger, with 
whom he remained about six months. In the spring of 1871 he went to St. Louis, 
where he remained until November, 1872, when he resumed practice in Boston. From 
1873 to 1879 he was a teacher in the Evening High School, only leaving that position 
when his professional engagements demanded the use of all his available time. He 
was a representative from Ward 10 of Boston in 1876, and in April, 1879, was 
appointed fourth assistant city solicitor during the administration of that office by 
John P. Healy. In 1881 he was appointed second assistant, and in 1885 first assist- 
ant under Edward P. Nettleton. In 1888 he was appointed city solicitor by Mayor 
O'Brien in the last w^eek of his administration, but was not confirmed. In May, 1891 , 
while acting as first assistant city solicitor he was appointed by Mayor Matthews cor- 
poration counsel, and still holds that position. The duties of that office are constant 
and responsible ones, and their performance by Mr. Babson has been eminently 
satisfactory. Since he entered the office he has made a compilation of ordinances 
and statutes affecting the city of Boston. Jie married in Boston, June 30, 1891, 
Helen, daughter of Joseph L. Stevens, of Gloucester. 

JoKi. Prentiss Bishoi-, the son of a farmer, was born in a small log house in the 
woods in Volney, N. Y., March 10, 1814. His father moved while he was an infant 
to Paris, N. Y., where in his boyhood he worked on his father's farm and attended 



BIOGRAPHfCAL REGISTER. 575 

school three or four months in the year. At the age of sixteen lie laiiKlit sclioo! and 
sought in various ways to obtain means sufficient for a professional education. At 
the age of twenty-one, bafflerl by fufble health and insulhcicnt |)ccuniary require- 
ments, he was ready to abandon the career which he had fondly lii>ped to pursue. On 
the l!)th of July. 1h:5.">, he published in the Literary Eiii/>orium of New Haven st>me 
lines ilescriptive of the blasting of his hopes in which the following words are found: 

" Though thus I bid adieu to Luarning, where 
She sits in public places, or hows or waves 
Her plumes from off her star-clavl height to meet 
The gaze of millions, still I may invite 
Sometimes her presence in a humble garb. 
To cheer me in my lone obscure retreat." 

Hut fate was more generous to him than he hoped. He drifted in some way to Bos- 
ton and entered as a student in a law office there in 1H42, and in fourteen months was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar April 0, W\A. After pursuing a general ]>ractice several 
years he so far devoted himself to the preparation of works in various branches of law 
that he abandoned practice and followed the hand of fate which had led him thus far 
in his career. He published in 1856 "Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and 
iJivorce;" in 1858, " Criminal Law;" in 18G3, "Thoughts for the Times ;" in 1864, 
"Secession and Slavery;" in 1866, "Commentaries on Criminal I'rocedure;" and in 
18f>8. " First Book of the Law." Thus the infant born in the log cabin in the Vol- 
ney woods, and the young man giving up in despair all hope of a career, became at 
last one of the most distinguished and successful workers in the literature of law. 
He is now living in Cambridge and at the age of seventy-nine engaged in preparing 
works for the press. 

Prentiss CuMMiNc.s, son of Whitney and Mary Hart (F'rentiss) Cummings, was bom 
in Sumner. Me., September 10, 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 18(M. After 
leaving college he held the po.sition of Latin tutor at Harvard from 1866 to 1870, at 
the same time studying law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated 
in l.S6!l with the degree of LL.B. He continued his .studies in Boston in the office 
of Nicholas St. John Green, at that time instructor in the Harvard Law School and 
also lecturer on ]jhiloso])hy and political economy in the college, and was admitted to 
the Middlesex bar at Cambridgein 1871. He established himself in Boston and soon 
gathered about himself a numerous and confiding clientage. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Boston City Council from Ward 10 three years, a menil)er of the Massa- 
chusetts Hou.se of Representatives two years, and assi.stant United States attorney 
seven years. He was the president of the Cambridge Street Railroad during the 
three years Ix-fore it was consolidated with the Wesl-Knd Railroad, and the lost four 
years has been the counsel of the latter road. The many obstacles to be overcfime 
in the organization and maintenance of this company, the legislation requiretl for its 
proper development, and the many suits in which so large a corporation has been 
engaged, have demanded of him his most faithful and unremitting efforts. No man 
is better fitted for the position, and he .shares largely with Mr. Whitney, its presi- 
dent, the honor and credit of rendering their road an important stepping stone to 
what it is hoped may scMin be realized — a permanent solution of the ve.xed question of 
rapid transit for Boston ami its suburbs. The chapter on Street Railways in one of 
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576 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Mr. Ciimminjjs in the establishment of these indispensable means of transit in ami 
about the metrojiolis. He married, February 25, 18S0, Annie D. Snow at Buckfield, 
Me., and has his residence in Brookline. 

Isaac McCi.ei.i.an, jr., was born in Portland in 1810 and graduated at Bowdoin 
College in 182G. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1830, and practiced 
law in Boston for a time. He afterwards retired to Greenport, L. I., and engajjed 
in ajjriculture. In the year of his admission to the bar he published a collection of 
poems, and at various times afterwards published other collections. 

MoKroN Bakkows graduated at Harvard in 1S80 and studied law in the office of 
Harrison, Hines & Miller, of Indianapolis, Ind., and at the Boston University Law 
School, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1883. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1883, and is now practicing law in St. Paul. 

Frank Oi.ivkr Cari'Enter graduated at Harvard in 1880, and after leaving college 
took charge of the Attawaugan Grammar School in Killingly, Conn. In April, 1881, 
he was appointed sub-master of the High School in Lexington, Slass. , and soon after 
master. He finally studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 
1887. He married Flora Edith, daughter of Reuben H. and Lvdia V. Wiltse. of 
Corunna, Mich., at Bostcm, April 2, 1889. 

Chaunckv Smith, son of Ithamar and Ruth (Barnard) Smith, was born in Waits- 
field, Vt. , January 11, 1819. He was educated at the public schools in Waitsiield, at 
the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in Gouverneur, N. Y. , at the University of 
Burlington, Vt., and in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1, 
1849, and is engaged in practice in Boston relating chiefly to telephone and other 
patent cases. He married Caroline E. Marshall, at Cambridge, December 10, 1850, 
and has his residence in Cambridge. 

Hr.NRV Walton Swift, son of William C. N. and Eliza N. (Perry) Swift, was born 
in New Bedford, Mass., December 17, 1849. He fitted for college at Phillips E.xeter 
Academy and graduated at Harvard in 1871. He studied law in New Bedford in the 
office of William W. Crapo and George Marston, and at the Harvard Law School, 
from which he graduated witl^ the degree of LL. B. in 1874. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar June 20, 1874, and established himself in Boston, associated with Russell 
(Jray. He became largely connected with corporation business and has acted in 
Boston for the Atchison, Topcka & Santa F6 Railroad. Like his father, a prominent 
Democrat in Bristol county, he has been active in the ranks of the Democracy, and 
has recently served as chairman of the finance coipmittee of the Democratic Stall 
Committee. In 1882 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Represenl 
atives from Boston, and previous to that time, in 1879 and 1880, he was a member of 
the Boston Common Council from Ward 9. He was one of the compilers of the 
Massachusetts Digest published in 1881. In January, 1892, John E. Sanford, of 
Taunton, chairman of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissicmers, was appointeil 
chairman of the Railroad Commissioners, and Mr. Swift was appointed to take Mr 
Sanford's place, and the legal knowledge, good sense and capacity for wo^-k which 
he has shown during a year's performance of the duties of the office, have proved 
that his api)ointment was not misplaced. His residence is in Boston. 

AViLi.iAM Saint Acnan Stkakns, son of Richard Sprague and Theresa (Saint Agnan) 
Stearns, was born in Salem, Mass., September 27, 1822. He received his early edu- 




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cation at the Salem Latin SttiDol and the Dummer Academy, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1841. He studied law in Worcester in the office of Emory Washburn, 
and in Andovcr in the office of Nathan Hazen, and was a<lmitted to the Kssex county 
bar at Ipswich in 1846. He first opened an office in Princeton. III., where he spent 
two years, and then returned to Massachusetts and practiced in South Reading one 
year. He then practiced in Maiden and finally in Charlestown, where he continued 
with an office a part of the time in Boston until the annexation of Charlestown to 
Bo.ston in January, 1874. For a number of years he was associated in business with 
John Ouincy Adams Griffin. In 1868, two years after the death of Mr. Griffin, he 
formed a partnership with John Haskell Butler, which continued until January, 181)2. 
Mr. Butler had been a student in his office. Buring the last three years of the cor- 
porate existence of Charlestown he was its city solicitor, and performed the duties of 
that office not only with the approval of the city government but with that also of 
the community at large. AVhile Mr. Butler has entered to a certain extent the field 
of politics, Mr. Stearns has resisted the allurements of public life and devoted himself 
to h.s professional work and to the successful develo[iment of real estate in Charles- 
town and Somerville and Salem, which under his prudent management has largely 
enhanced in value. In January, 1892, he abandoned practice altogether, and since 
that time has been devoted to his private affairs. He married H. Emily Whitman 
in Maiden May 10, 1849, and has his residence in Salem in the house built by his 
great-grandfather, John Sprague, in 17.50. 

John Lowell, son of John Amory and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Lowell, was born in 
Boston October 18, 1824. Perhaps no family in Massachusetts has for so many gen- 
erations and in so many of its branches been more distinguisheil. Going no farther 
back than John Lowell, who was born in Newburyport in 1743. and became chief 
justice of the United States Court of the first circuit, including Maine, New Hamp- 
shire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we find in the next generation his son John, 
a lawyer and writer of repute, born in Newburyport m 17G9, a founder of the " Bos- 
ton Atheneum," " The Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Boston," and 
of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company; another son, Francis Cabtit 
Lowell, born in Newburypo];t in 177,'5, from whom the city of Lowell received its 
name; and still another son, Charles, born in Boston in 1782, who was for many 
years the distingui-shed pastor of the West Church in Boston. In the third generation 
we have John Lowell, called the Philanthropist, a son of Francis Cabot Lowell, born 
in Boston in 1799, who bequeathed S2.")0,0()() for the maintenance in that city of the 
"Lowell Institute;" James Russell Lowell, son of Rev. Charles Lowell, the poet 
statesman and scholar, and John Amory Lowell, son of John Lowell mentioned 
above as a founder of several institutions, and the father of the subject of this sketch. 
In the fourth and present generation we have Charles Rus.sell Lowell and James 
Jackson Lowell, brothers, and grandsons of Rev. Charles Lowell, both of whom dis- 
tinguished themselves in the Civil War, the former of whom, with the rank of 
brigadier-general, was killed at the battle of Cedar Creek; and the latter, as first 
lieutenant, was killed at the battle of Glendale ; and John Lowell, sf>n of John Amory 
Lowell, and the subject of this sketch. Thus John Lowell, of whom these words 
are written, is descended through both his father and mother from Judge John 
Lowell, whoso long and -^o w.irthilv i'i;iLcd the bench of the district and Circuit 
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578 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Courts of the United States. lie was fitted for collej^e in a private school under the 
instruction of Daniel Greenleaf Ingraham. a Harvard graduate of 1809, and gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 1843 in a class many of whose members have become distinguished 
in the various jvalks of life. Among these may be mentioned John William Bacon, 
a late judge of the Superior Court, Charles Anderson Dana, editor of the Neiu York 
Sun, Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Rev. Thomas Hill, late president of Har- 
vard College, Charles Callaghan Perkins, distinguished in the department of art, 
William Adams Richardson, at one time secretary of the United States treasury and 
now chief justice of the Court of Claims, Eben Carleton Sprague, the eminent 
lawyer of ButTalo, and Eben Francis Stone, of Newburyport, late member of Con- 
gress. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 
1845 with the degree of LL.B., and after further study in Boston in the office of 
Charles G. Loring, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1846. He was for 
some years associated in business with William Sohier, a Harvard graduate of 184(1, 
and became so eminent at the bar that on the resignation of Peleg Sprague of his 
scat on the bench of the United States District Court, he was appointed on the 11th 
of March, 186.'), by President Lincoln as his successor. At the time of his appoint- 
ment the District Courts were held by the district judges, and the Circuit Courts by 
the justices of the United States Supreme Court. The law provided that the "chief 
justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be allotted among the 
circuits by an order of the court, and a new allotment shall be made whenever it 
becomes necessary or convenient by reason of the alteration of any circuit or of the 
new appointment of a chief justice or associate justice or otherwise." On the 10th of 
April, 1869, it was provided by law that "for each circuit there shall be appointed a 
circuit judge, who shall have the same power and jurisdiction therein as the justice 
of the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit. . . . The Circuit Courts shall be 
held by the associate justice, or by the circuit judge of the circuit, or by the district 
judge of the district sitting alone, or by any two of said judges sitting together." It 
was further provided that the associate justice of the Supreme Court shall attend at 
least one term of the Circuit Court in each district of the circuit to which he is allotteil 
in two years. After the passage of this law, George Foster Shepley, of Portland, 
was appointed circuit judge, and held that position until his death, July 20, 1878. 
On the 18th of December following. Judge Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the 
First Circuit which includes Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island. He continued on the bench until May 1, 1884, when, after nineteen years' 
service on the bench oi United States courts, he resigned and resumed practice in 
Bo.ston. Were it not probable that judicial traits, like all other mental characteristics, 
are inherited, it would seem more singular that Judge Lowell should have held for 
thirteen years the same position as district judge which his great-grandfather John 
Lowell held under an appointment from Washington three-quarters of a century 
before. It is still more singular that he should have been promoted to the position 
of judge of the Court of the First Circuit while the same ancestor was raised imder 
the law of 1801, repealed in 1803, by appointment from President Adams from a 
judge of the District Court to chief justice of the court of the same circuit. Judge 
Lowell, since his retirement from the bench, has found no want of occupation, and 
bis legal learning, supplemented by judicial training and the honest workings of an 
accurate and logical mind, has brought to him as auditor, referee or trustee, the 



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adjudication and management of questions and trusts involving large and important 
interests. lie married, May 19, 1853, Lucy B., daughter of Ceorge B. ICmerson, of 
Boston. Two volumes of the decisions of Judge Lowell from 1S72 to 1877 have l)ccn 
published, and on all questions relating to the subject of bankruptcy he is the highest 
authority. He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1871 and from Williams 
College in 1870. 

Harvky Newton Siiepard, son of William and Eliza Shepard. was born in Bos- 
ton, July 8, 1850. He received his early education at the public schools of Boston, 
including the Eliot School and at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham. He grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1871, and after attending lectures at the Harvard Law School 
completed his law studies in the office of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, of Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. Beginning practice in the office of 
the above firm he established himself independently in business in 187.'), and soon 
secured a foothold in the ranks of his profession. In the earliest days of his career 
he became active in politics, and in 1874 and 187.5 was a member of the Republican 
City Committee of Boston, a member of the Republican State Committee in 1870-70 
and 1877, and president of the Young Men's Republican State Committee 1879 and 
1880. In later years he has allied himself with those who, having become dissatisfied 
with the course of the Republican party, have advocated and supported those meas- 
ures of public policy of which Grover Cleveland has been the most conspicuous 
exponent. He was a member of the Boston Common Council in 1878-1880 and 1881, 
and in 1880 was president of the Board. In 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives; in 1878 and 1879 he was a trustee of the 
Boston Public Library, and in 1884 he delivered the annual oration on the Fourtlj of 
July before the city authorities of Boston. From 1883 to 1887 he was assistant attor- 
ney-general of the Commonwealth, and in 1892 was the chairman of the E.\ecutive 
Committee of the Tariff Reform League. In the ranks of the latter organization he 
has been especially active, and his speeches in advocacy of its mea,snres have been 
able and instructive. In the Masonic fraternity he has been conspicuous. In 1S81 
and 1882 he was worshipful master of St. John's Lodge, in 1882 and 1883 high priest 
of St. John's Chapter, in 1887 and 1888 thrice illustrious master of East Boston Coun- 
cil, in 1883-1884 and 188-5 district deputy grand master of the First Masonic District, 
and from 1885 to 1889 commissioner of trials of the Grand Lodge. He has been a 
member and officer of other associations too numerous to mention. He married in 
Everett, November 23, 1873, Fannie May Woodman, and resides in Boston. 

Solomon Alonzo Bolster, son of Gideon and Charlotte (Hall) Bolster, was born 
in Paris, Oxford county. Me., December 10, 1835. He was educated in the public 
schools and at the Oxford Normal Institute in Paris. He studied law in the office of 
William W. Bolster in Dixfield, Me., and continued his studies at the Harvard Law 
School, where he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1859. He was admitted to 
the Maine bar in Paris and later to the Missouri bar in Palmyra. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar April 24, 1862. On the 29th of September, 1802. he was muslereil 
into the United States service for nine months, and on the 15th of November he w;i.s 
commissioned second lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regiment of Maine Volun- 
teers. In his devotion to his profession he has been constant and faithful. No 
popular political excitement has drawn his footsteps from the chosen path of his pro- 



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fession, no allurements of public office, so potent with many, have distracted his 
mind, but with a single eye to the career he had marked out for himself, and obedient 
to its behests, he has gained position and honor in the legal ranks. On the 23d of 
April, 1885, he was appointed justice of the Municipal Court for the Roxjiury Dis- 
trict of the city of Boston to succeed Henry W. Fuller, who was the successor of P. 
S. Wheelock, for many years a judge on the bench of that court. In the Massachu- 
setts Militia he was appointed Jtme 39, 18fi7, judge advocate with the rank of captain 
in the First Brigade, assistant inspector-general with the rank of major March 32, 
1870, and assistant adjutant-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel August 15, 
1876. At the ex])iration of his war service he established himself in Roxbury, where 
he still resides and has his office. He married in Cambridge, October 3, 1864, Sarah 
J. (lardner. 

William Adams Richard.son, son of Daniel and Mary (Adams) Richardson, was 
Ijorn in Tyngsborough, Mass., November 3, 1821, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. 
He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1846 with the degree of LL.B. , and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 8 in that year. He established himself in Lowell, 
whore he was associated as partner with his brother, Daniel S. Richardson. In 1849 
and 1853 and 1854 he was a member of the Lowell Common Council, and during the 
last two years he was president of the Board. In 1846 he was appointed judge advo- 
cate of the Second Division of the Massachusetts Militia with the rank of major, and 
in 1850 he was a member of the staff of Governor George Nixon Briggs. In 1855 he 
was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of iMassachusetts, who 
reported the revision which finally became the General Statutes of 1860. In Decem- 
ber, 1859, he was apjiointed with George Partridge Sanger to superintend the publi- 
cation of the General Statutes and prepare an index. In 1856 he was appointed 
judge of probate of Middlesex county, and held that office until the creation by law 
of the office of judge of probate and insolvency in 1858, when he was appointed to 
that office. In 1863 he was chosen an overseer of Harvard College, and in 1869 was 
rcchosen. In 1867 he was appointed with Judge Sanger to edit the annual supple- 
ment of the ''General Statutes," and performed that service until the issue of the 
" Public Statutes" in 1883. In March, 1869, he was appointed assistant secretary of 
the Treasury, and on the retirement of George S. Boutwell, the secretary, in 1873, he 
was appointed to succeed him. In June, 1874, he was appointed one of the judges 
of the Court of Claims at Washington, and in January, 1885. was made chief justice. 
In June, 1880, he was appointed by Congress to edit and publish a supplement to the 
Revised Statutes of the United States with notes and references, which was published 
in 1881. In 1880 he was appointed a professor of law in the Georgetown University 
and he has received a degree of LL.D. from Columbian University in 1873, George- 
town in 1881, Harvard in 1882, and Dartmouth in 1SS6 He m.-uvied Octobi-r 29 
1849, Anna M. Marston, of Machiasport, Me. 

Charles S. Bradley, son of Charles Bradley, a Boston merchant, was chief justice 
of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterwards practiced in Boston. He was 
at the Suffolk bar in 1877. 

William Minot, son of William and Louisa (Davis) Minot, was born in Boston 
April 7. 1817, and graduated at Harvard in 1836. He graduated at the Harvard Law 
School in 1840 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 6, 1841. He established 





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himself in Boston in association with James rfenjamin, a Harvard graduate of ISSO, 
as his partner. The firm engaged in a general practice until the death of Mr. Hen- 
jamin in 1853. Not long after that time his father, a Ilan-ard graduate of IS02, who 
had been for many years engaged as administrator and trustee of large and exceed- 
ingly valuable estates, began to gradually rclin(|uish the cares and responsibilities of 
business, and these were chiefly assumed by the son. It is probable that no man in 
Massachusetts had the management of a larger amount of trust funds than the elder 
Mr. Minot, and it is certain that m no other hands were these considered more safely 
deposited or more conscientiously and wisely invested. The management of these 
trusts is of course incompatible with a continued practice of law in the courts, and 
since his father's death he has been little known in the trial of causes. It is easy to 
understand the temperament and general characteristics of a man qualified for the 
position he holds. He possesses the retiring disposition of his father, his conservative 
views, his judicial mind, his sensitive conscience, his love of justice, integrity and 
honor. He has inherited all those traits which made his father an honest and wise 
counsellor and friend. He married Katharine Maria, daughter of Charles and Eliza- 
beth Sedgwick, of Lenox, Mass., and has two sons. Ruber! S .nul WiUiam Minot, jr., 
associated with him in business. 

William J. Pi r.nam, son of Rev. John K. an<i Sarah (llartcrj I'urnam, was lx)rn in 
Centre county, Penn., April 11, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and at 
Aaronsburg Academy. He read law and was admitted to the bar in Pennsvlvania 
m 1801, when he entered the service. After the war he settled in Florida, in which 
State he was senator and secretary of state. He became judge of the court of Jack- 
son county, assessor of internal revenue, and member of Congress, serving in the 
Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Fortj'-fifth Congresses. In 1884 he removed to Boston 
where he now lives. He married, Octob-- '" !>^ri, Leadora Finlay.son, of M.irianna, 
Fla. 

Geokcf. Fostkk SiiF.i'i.EV, son of Ether Shcplcy, was born in Saco, Me., Januarv 1, 
1819, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1837. He read law at the Harwird Law School 
and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1840. He established himself in Bangor, 
where he remained until 1844, when he removed to Portland. From 1853 to l.'^lil he 
was United States district attorney for Maine, and in 1860 was a delegate at large to 
the National Democratic Convention at Charleston. In the early part of the war 
he was commissioned colonel of the Twelfth Maine Regiment. He was made mili- 
tary commandant of New Orleans after its capture and acting mayor until in July, 
1802, he was ajjpointed military governor of Louisiana. In the same month he was 
made brigadier-general of volunteers. At a later time he was placed in command of 
the military district of Eastern Virginia, and for a short time commanded the 
Twenty-fifth Army Corps. He was also appointed military governor of Richmond 
after its capture, and resigned his commission July 1, 1805. In 18(J!) he was appointed 
circuit judge of the First Circuit, which office he held until his death, July 20, 1878. 
His circuit included Ma.ssachusc"': ni.t i'...- in.. .-....^,.1, ii,-,i 1,.. i,..i.i ■.>urt in Bo.ston 
he is included in this register. 

Raymond R. Git.man, son of Anibicsc and ICuiulc (Wilco.s) (iilman. was born in 
Shelburne Falls, Mass., July 25, 1850. He was educated in the |niblic schiwils and at 
the academy at Shelburne Falls. He studied law at the Boston University Law 



sSz HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

School ami in the offices of F. Field, of Shelburne Falls, and Frederick D. Ely, of 
Dedham, now one of the judges of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, and 
was admitted to the Norfolk bar September 28, 1880. He established himself in 
business in his native town, but finally removed to Boston, where he is now in active 
practice at the Suffolk bar. Since he opened an office in Boston he has advanced 
with sure yet rapid steps in his profession, and while so many young lawyers, after 
admission to the Suffolk bar, have been compelled to seek other business more profit- 
able than the law or to migrate to other fields where there seemed to be a promise 
for a more prosperous career, the larger opportunities of Boston have enabled him 
to develop and use the talents and capacity for work which he possesses and to suc- 
ceed where so many others have failed. He is an active member of the association 
of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In the town 
of Melrose, where he has his residence, he takes an interest iu every movement cal- 
culated to advance the welfare of the community with which he has identified himself. 
He married, June Ki, 1882. Kate A. Tuttle. 

RuKUS CiioATE, son of David and Miriam (Foster) Choate, was descended from John 
Choate, who was made a freeman in Massachusetts in 1GG7. He was born in the 
town of Esse.x, Mass., October 1, 1799. He began the study of Latin in 1809 with Dr. 
Thomas Sewell and continued his studies with Rev. Thomas Holt, William Cogswell 
and Rev. Robert Crowell. Even earlier than that, when he was about six years of 
age, it is said that he could repeat from memory a large part of, " Pilgrim's Progress," 
and before he was ten had exhausted the resources of the library in his native town. 
After a short period of study at Hampton Academy, where he fitted for college, he 
entered Dartmouth College in ISl.') and graduated in 1819. He received the degree 
of LL. D. from Yale in 1844, from Dartmouth and Harvard in 1845, and from Am- 
herst in 1848. After leaving college he occupied the position of tutor at Dartmouth 
one year, and then for a short time attended lectures at the Harvard Law School. 
In 1821 he entered the office of Wdliam Wirt, then attorney-general of the United 
States, at Washington, and returned to Massachusetts in 1822, where he finished his 
law studies in Ipswich and Salem. He was admitted to the Essex bar at Salem at 
the September term of the Court of Common Pleas in 1823, and established himself 
in Danvers in 1824. In 1828 he removed to Salem, ^^'hile living in Danvers he was 
a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1825, and a State sen- 
ator in 1827. From 1831 to 18;)4 he was a member of Congress from the Essex dis- 
trict, resigning in the latter year and removing to Boston. His brilliant career as a 
lawyer may be said to have begun on his entrance to the broader field which the 
Suffolk bar opened to him. In 1841 he succeeded Daniel Webster in the United 
States Senate when that gentleman resigned his seat to become secretarj' of state 
under President Harrison. In 1845 Mr. Webster was again chosen senator and Mr. 
Choate resumed the practice of his profession in Boston. In 1850 he visited Europe, 
traveling in England, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany. In 1849 the 
office of attorney-general of the Commonwealth, which had been abolished in 184:!. 
was re-established and John H. Clifford was ajjpointed to fill it. In 1853, on the. 
accession of Mr. Clifford to the executive chair, Mr. Choate was appointed his suc- 
cessor as attorney-general, and held the office until his resignation in 1854, and the 
reappointment of Mr. Clifford in that year. In 1S.">2 he w.i-; a delegate to the Whig 



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National Couveution al Bultirnore, ami aih-ocated the nomination of Mr. Webster for 
the presidency, and in 185a was a member of the Massachusetts convention for the 
revision of the constitution. In 1856 he supported Mr. Buchanan in tile presidential 
campaign of that year. In 1858, in consequence of ill health, he abandoned profes- 
sional labor, and in 1859, accompanied by his son, sailed for Europe, hoping to re- 
gain hcidlh and strength. On the arrival of the steamer in Halifax, then a stopping 
place, he was too feeble to proceed and landing, died in that city July 13, 1859. He 
married, March 29, 18i5, Helen, daughter of Mills Olcutt, of Hanover, N. H., a sis- 
ter of the wife of Joseph Bell referred to elsewhere in this register. It is not easy to 
measure and state with accuracy the characteristics of Mr. Choate in the various posi- 
tions which he was called upon to fill. As a statesman and politician he should not 
be accorded the highest place. As the former he was so far removed from his true 
element, and was so unfamiliar with the atmosphere surrounding him, that he 
breathed it timidly and with caution, and failed to exhibit that fearless independeuce 
so essential to success in the legislative arena. While in the Senate, when Mr. Web- 
ster reniamed in the Cabinet of President Tyler, after others of the Harrison Cabinet 
deserted him, against the protests and denunciations of Henrj' Clay and other leading 
Whig statesmen who looked on the president as a traitor to his party, Mr. Choate 
assumed the attitude of a defender of the secretary, and on one occasion sought in a 
speech to palliate, if not justify, the acts of Mr. Tyler. "And do you, too, pretend to 
be a mouthpiece of the administration," said Mr. Clay pointing his finger at the Mass- 
achusetts senator, but not a word was heard from Mr. Choate in response to an in- 
sult which a man of smaller calibre, but more courage, would have indignantly 
resented and rebuked. As a politician he was as much out of his element as in the 
role of a legislator. He was too much absorbed in the sjjecia! vocaticin to which he 
had consecrated his powers to give much time to the study of political questions, and he 
thus naturally followed the tide on which he saw his friends and a.ssociates were drift- 
ing, and with his great good nature rendered them generously such aid as they sought 
from him. In the dominion of law, however, to which he gave his heart and soul 
and strength, he was supreme. As has been said of him by the writer of this sketch 
in another place, " though an orator of the highest rank, his greatest forensic efforts 
were before a jury, and no gladiatorial show ever exceeded in interest the continuous 
exhibition of logic, entwined with wreaths of eUjquence, in which he indulged before 
a rcluctiUit jury until one after another of the panel yielded to him his judgment, 
and was ready, as he triumphantly said, to give him his verdict." There wasa fasci- 
nation about him which.no juryman with the usual qualities of human nature could 
resist, and the writer who has many times seen and heard him in the trial of causes, 
fails to remember an instance where his sympathies were not enlisted on the side 
represented by XlV. Choate. But his success at the bar was not due alone to his 
oratory. No man understood human nature better, or wa.s more keen in discover- 
ing the points which would influence the human mind. The writer remembers a trial 
at which he was present, of a shii>niSstcr charged with wrecking his vessel on the 
the coa-st of St. Domingo for the purpose of obtaining a large and fraudulent insur- 
ance. The underwriters of Boston, who had, as they believed, been repeatedly de- 
frauded in a similar manner, determined to make a stand on this case, and, if possi- 
ble, secure a conviction. The case had been tried once with Robert Rantoul the 
prosecuting district attorney, and the jury had disagreed. Before the second trial 



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George Lant had been made district attorney, under the Taylor administration, and 
he had sent to St. Domingo George D. Guild, a member of the Boston bar, to secure 
further evidence for the government. At the second trial, most of which came under 
the observation of the writer, when the testimony on both sides had been submitted, 
the court took a short recess before the addresses to the jury. During the recess Mr. 
Choate, while passing through the entry of the Court House, overheard the colored 
cook of the vessel say to some of his shipmates that the captain cried when he aban- 
doned his vessel and took his boat to go ashore. After the recess Mr. Choate rose in 
a solemn manner, and saying to the court that during the recess a very important 
piece of testimony had come to his knowlege, asked permission to introduce it. The 
court overruled the objections of the district attorney, and permitted the introduc- 
tion of the evidence. The cook was called to the stand, and in reply to the cjuestion 
of Mr. Choate as to the behavior of the captain on his leaving his vessel, replied that 
he cried like a child. This was enough for Mr. Choate, and in his address he so de- 
scribed the scene of the wreck and the pathetic deportment of the captain in leaving 
his dear Sally Ann, whose loss, if he were guilty, he would have rather rejoiced 
at than mourned, that his client was acquitted. The oratory of Mr. Choate has been 
graphically described by Hon. John J. Ingalls, who happened to be in court in 
Salem while Mr. Choate was conducting a suit for damages against a railroad cor- 
poration, brought by a clergyman who was run down by a train while driving over a 
track at a street crossing. "Mr. Choate's purpose, when he rose to address the jurj-, 
seemed to be to dispel, by bald and colloquial simplicity, the imputation made by 
General Butler, the opposing counsel, that he was a magician and juggler charming 
juries with his legerdemain and incantations. When this jiurpose was accomplished 
he gradually and by imperceptible gyrations wheeled to higher flights, till at last he 
seemed almost to vanish in the empyrean of articulate splendor. No dervish in his 
most ecstatic fervor ever bent and whirled, and rose ancT fell on such genuflections 
and contortions. Sweat trickled from the black jungle of his disordered hajr along 
the ravines and furrows of his haggard face. He advanced and retreated, rising 
upon his toes and coming down upon his heels with a dislocating jerk that made 
the windows rattle, pausing occasionally to inhale through his dilating nostrils tem- 
pestuously, and then emitting a shrieking epigram or apostrophe that thrilled the 
blood like a wild cry at midnight in a solitary place. With great artistic skill he de- 
picted the tranquil village; the clergyman on his errand of mercy in the freshness of 
a summer morning along the shaded street ; the unsuspected approach of the train 
around the concealing curve; the fatal instant, when, too late to advance or retreat, 
the monster sprang upon him with 'the thunderous terror of its insupportable foot- 
steps.'" Mr. Ingalls further says, "how such a blazing meteor broke into the sedate 
orbit of New England life is one of the mysteries of psychologj'. No such phenom- 
enon has occurred in Massachusetts before or since. He wore the aspect of an 
Arab, and had the oriental imagination of a wanderer of the desert, but to these 
were added the sagacious shrewdness and pertinacity of a Yankee." With all his 
marvelous, and often pathetic eloquence, he w-as not devoid of humor, and in this 
he often indulged, more pow^erful in argument than invective, but while his audience 
laughed, his face always remained the same, serious and serene. Governor Andrew 
once told the writer of the return of Mr. Choate to his office one day after a trial in 
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lit" Ihc i)])i>i>sinij counsel, an eminent nienitier of the SiilVulk bar. As lie threw his 
satehel du the standing' desk, at which he often stood and worked, he exchiiined, 

••There, I don't care if I never see Mr. aj?ain," addinjj after a pause, "not that 

1 should object to seeing him in a procession." This unwortliy sketch of Mr. Choate 
would he less worthy still, if no mention were made of his modest and unassuming 
deportment, his .sweet and gentle nature, his unvarying courtesy to old and young, 
to those of high and low degree, his readiness at all times to aid with the wisest and 
most conscientious counsel the young asi>irant for work and fame in tile profession 
in which he was master. With these qualities, he died not only venerated iis a great 
lawyer, but beloved also as a man. 

Asa French, son of Jonathan and Siirah Brackett (Hayward) French, was born in 
Braintree, Mass., October 21, 1829. In that town his ancestors have lived from the 
time of its earliest settlement. He received Iiis early education in the public schools 
of Braintree and at Leicester Academy, and graduated at Yale College in 1851. He 
studied law at the Albany Law School an<l at the Harvard Law School, graduating 
from the latter institution in 1853 with the degree of LL.B. He was admitted to the 
New York bar in 1853, and after further study in Boston in the oflices of David A. 
Simmons and Harvey Jewell was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 26, 18.54. He has 
since his admission continued to live in Braintree, anti though practicing in Boston 
has been identified with the Norfolk county bar. In IWIifi he was a member of the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1870 was appointed by Governor 
Claflin district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, consisting of 
the counties of Norfolk and Plymouth, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna- 
tion of Edward Lillie Pierce. He held the office by successive elections until 1882, 
when he resigned. He had at this time shown so conspicuously his ability at the 
bar, and the judicial character of his mind, that in the latter year Governor Long 
offered him a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, which he declined. Previous 
to that time he had held for a number of years a position on the Board of Commis- 
sioners on Inland Fisheries and continued to hold it several years later. Under the 
act of Congress passed June 5, 1882, re-establishing the Court of Commissioners on 
the Alabama Claims, he was appointed one of the judges, and in 1883 was selected 
by President Arthur as one of the visitors at West Point for that year. In 1870 Gen- 
eral Sylvanus Thayer, of Braintree, endowed a free public library in that town and 
at his death bequeathed to trustees two hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the 
establishment in the town of an institution free to all the citizens of the old town for 
the education of their children. The library, known as the Thayer Public Library, 
and the institution, known as the Thayer Academy, have become important factors 
in promoting the welfare of the town. Mr. French is the president of the Ixiards of 
trustees of both institutions. He is now actively engaged in practice in Boston, and 
in the enjoyment of the confidence of a large and desirable clientage. He married in 
October, 1858, Sophia B., daughter of Simeon Palmer, of Boston. 

John Whlls, son of Noah Wells, was born in Rowe, Ma.ss., February 17, 181il. His 
father was a man of note in Franklin county, having been a State senator in 1812 and 
a representative at an earlier date. He graduated at Williams College in 1838, and 
after graduating taught school for a time in Newport, R. I. He .studied law in 
Greenlield in the office of Wells & Davis and at the Harvard Law Scho.. I and was 



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atimitted to the Franklin county bar in 1841. He established himself in Chicopee 
and in 18ri8 was appointed judge of probate and insolvency, the first judge under the 
law combining the two offices. In 1864 he resigned in consequence of the pressure 
on his time of his general practice. He was a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives from Chicopee in 1.S1'J-1S.51-1S.07 and 18(i.i. In 18C() he was ap- 
pointed a judge of the Su])reme Judicial Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 
death of Charles Augustus Dewey, and held his seat until his death. He delivered 
an address before the alumni of Williams College in 1869, and was president of the 
Alumni Association during the last two years of his life. He married, May IT), 
18.50, Sophia Dwight, of Boston, and died at the house of George Wheatland in Salem, 
November 28, 187.5. TYie Law Review said of him: "His reputation was steadily 
growing until he had made himself one of the best judges in the country and left a 
reputation seldom equalled and more seldom sur])assed by any in the list of his dis- 
tinguished predecessors." 

John, Quincv Adams Gkiikin was born in Londonderry, N. H., July 8, 1826, and 
was educated at the Lawrence Academy in Groton. He studied law in that town 
with George Frederick Farley and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 
1849. In 1855 he was living in Maiden, in 1859 in Charlestown, and afterwards in 
Medford. He practiced in Charlestown and Boston and was a number of years in 
])artnership with William St. Agnan Stearns, who is referred to in another part of 
this Register. He was a representative about I860, and the writer has a distinct 
recollection of his deep sonorous voice, his deliberate manner, his incisive and logical 
speech, and the attention he always commanded when he rose to address the House. 
There was no abler man of his age at either the Middlesex or Suffolk bar, and in the 
trial of causes the difficulties and dilemmas which arise in court to the discomfiture 
of the counsel, only served to sharpen his intellect and to bring out that reserved 
force which in the end secured a victory at the very verge of failure and defeat. He 
died at Medford, May 3S, 1866, at the age of forty years. He married Sarah, daugh- 
ter of James Wood, of Concord, Mass. 

FuF.DKRUK Ellsworth Hurd, son of George A. and Laura A. (Chapman) Hurd, 
was born in Wolfboro", N. H., February 25, 1861. Colonel Ellsworth, commander of 
the Ellsworth Zouaves, was killed in Alexandria at the beginning of the war, 
and the interest excited by that event induced his parents to adopt his name 
for their child. He was educated at the public schools of Wolfboro'- and at the 
Boston Latin School. He studied law at the Boston University Law School and in 
the offices of John H. Hardy, now one of the justices of the Municipal Court of the 
citj- of Boston, and of Samuel J. Elder, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Octo- 
ber, 1884. Since his admission up to the present time he has been an assistant dis- 
trict attorney of Suffolk county under Oliver Stevens, who has many years occu]>ied 
the position of attorney. Mr. Hurd has devoted himself most assiduously to the study 
of criminal law and has already won an enviable reputation for skill in the construc- 
tion and drawing of indictments. It is intimated that some recent indictments in 
cases where a failure to convict was very generally expected were largely the work 
of his hands. He is now in a position where he is laying a sure foundation for 
criminal practice which cannot fail to give him a prominent position at the bar. He 
is unmarried and has his residence in Boston. 



Biographical register. 587 

Eiiu IN C. Gii.MAN, son of Saimit'l and Jcannelle (Rae) Oilman, was born in Bos- 
ton, August 29, 1851, and was educated in the public schools. He studied law in 
Boston in the offices of Moses Williams and Clement K. Fay, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar June 10, 18T3. He established himself in business in Boston, where 
he engaged in general practice until 188.5. A clear head, great i)erseverance and 
untiring industry, added to his legal attainments, soon secured for him a fiKithold 
in his jirofession. Like many other lawyers of ability whose services have been 
sought as permanent advisers of companies f)r corporations where business is based 
on patented improvements and inventions, he was selected in 188-5 as the attorney 
of the Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company, and since that time he has 
devoted himself to the management of the legal business of that corporation. He 
married Anna B. Hunt of Salem. 

Kow.ARD Bangs, son of Isaac Bangs, was Ixirn in Boston, July 10. 18'i.5. His 
mother was Alicia, daughter of John and Sarah (Province) Lc Cain, of Annapolis 
Royal, in Nova Scotia. He is a descendant of Edward Bangs, who came to Plj-m- 
outh in the ship Ann in 1623, and married Lydia, daughter o{ Robert and Margaret 
Hicks, who came to Plymouth in the same ship. Robert Hicks was a leather dresser 
in London and may have been a brother of Sir Baptist Hicks, a mercer of London, 
who was knighted in London in KiOo, and afterwards became \'iscount Camden. The 
house which he built and occupied in Plymouth was taken down in 1820. Hissec-ond 
wife, Rebecca, was the mother of Mrs. Bangs. lidward Bangs, the subject of this 
sketch, graduated at Harvard in 1846, and among his ckussmates were Francis J. 
Child, Boylston professor at Harvard, William Sohier Ue.xter, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Pro- 
fessor William T. Harris, George Frisbie Hoar, United States senator. Professor 
George NL Lane, and Professor Charles Eliot Norton. He studied law at the Har- 
vard Law School, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1840, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 7, 18.50. He was a representative from 
Watertown m 186.5, and is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is 
associated in business with Samuel Wells son of ex-Governor Samuel Wells, of 
Maine, and both he and Mr. Wells have a son in the firm. He married, September 
25, 18.50, Anne Outran! (Hinckley), daughter of David Hodgkinson, of Boston, and 
great-great-great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley, of the Plymouth 
Colony. 

Ja.mes Bradlkv Thavkr, son of Abijah A\'yman and Su.san (Bradley) Thayer, was 
born in Haverhill. Ma.ss., January 15, 1881. He graduated at Harvard in 18.52, and 
at the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1856. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar December 3, 1850, and established himself in Boston. He was a 
master in chancery for SutTolk county from 1864 tr) 1874, and in 1873 was apix)inted 
Royall ])rofcssor of law at the Harvard Law School to succeed Nathaniel Holmes. 
In 1.S83 he was appointed Weld professor of law, and still holds that position. He 
married. April 24, 1861, Sophia Bradford, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Sarah Brad- 
ford Ripley, of Concord, Ma.ss., and Has his residence in Cambridge. 

George He.nrv Woodman, son of Dr. George S. and Jane (Grirlley) WiKwlman, was 
lx)rn in Amherst, Mass., December 25, 1851, and was educated at the public schfKils 
and under private instriiction. He studied law in Northampton in the office 'if 
Charles Delano, and in Greenfield and in New York. He was admitted to the 



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JirsrOKY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 



Franklin county bar in Greon(icl(l in 1870, to the New York bar in 1S7T, and is now- 
practicing in Boston. 

Jamks Wai.kkr Austin, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin, was born in 
Charlestown, Mass., January W, 1829. Ilis fatlier, a Harvard graduate of 1798. was 
a member of the Suffolk bar and the author of " Peter Rugg, the Missing Man," aijd 
other New England tales, and also of •' Letters from I^ondon." Colonel Thomas II. 
Higginson, in one of his essay.s, calls him "The Precursor of Hawthorne." A vol- 
ume containing his writings, under the title of " The Literary Papers of William 
Austin, with a Biographical Sketch by his son, James Walker Austin," was published 
by Little ik Brown, of Boston, in 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early 
cdiication at the Training Field School in Charlestown, and at Chauncy Hall School 
in Boston, imder the instruction of Gideon F. Thayer and Thomas Cashing. He 
graduated at Harvard in 1849 in the class with Martin Brimmer, Charles F. Choate, 
Charles R. Codman, Horace IJavis, Abbott Lawrence, Lemuel Shaw, and m;iny 
others who have become conspicuous in the various walks of life. He graduated at 
the Harvard Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1851, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 22 in that year. In February, ISol, he .sailed for California, and 
in August visited the Hawaiian Islands, where by the advice of Chief Justice William 
ly. Lee and the late General James F. B. Marshall, he was admitted to tlie Hawaiian 
bar in September, 18.')1, and in 18.52 was appointed district attorney for the Second 
Judicial District, holding that position several years. He was twice chosen a mem- 
ber of the Hawaiian Parliament and was for a time the speaker of that body. By a 
special act of the Legislature he was appointed one of the commissioners for the 
codification of the laws and the civil and penal codes of the Hawaiian Islands, and 
the results of the labors of the commission were published in 18.59 and 1869. They 
were modeled largely after the Massachusetts statutes. He was for several years 
the guardian of Luualilo, who afterwards became king, and in 1808 was appointed 
justice of the Supreme Court, holding that oflice with Klisha H. Allen, the late 
Hawaiian minister at Washington. In 1872 he returned to Boston for the education 
of his children, after a residence of twenty-one years in the Hawaiian Islands, and is 
now in practice at the Suffolk bar. He married, July 18, 1857, Ariana F., daughter 
of John S. Sleeper, late mayor of Roxbury, and has had live children, four sons born 
in Honolulu, and one daughter born in Boston. One of the sons, Walter Austin, 
graduated at Harvard in 1887 ;ind is now a member i>f the Suffolk bar. 

Wii.i.rAM Lk Baron Pi tnam, son of Israel and Sarah Emery Frost Putnam, was 
born in Bath, Me., May 20, 18;?."). He received his early education at the Bath High 
School, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 18.5.5. He studied law in Bath in the 
ollice of Bronson & Sewall and was admitted to the bar at the December term in 1837 
of the Su])rcme Judicial Court in Sagadahoc county. After the law was jiassed by 
Congress increasing the number of circuit judges, he was appointed judge of the 
First Circuit, including Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu.setts and Rhode Island, 
March 17, 1892. As a judge of a court holding its sessions in Boston, he is entitled 
to a place in this register. He married, May 29, 1802, Octavia Bowman, daughter 
of Nathaniel arul Sarah Dearborn (Roberts) Robinson, at Augusta, -Mo. 

JosKni Bi'.NNKrr, son of William and Charlotte (Bennett) Bennett, was born in 
Bridgeton, Me., May 26, 184(1. He is descended from George Bennett, of Boston, who 



Biographical HEGisrEH. 589 

is mentioned in the book of pussessions. lie received liis early education at tlie imljlie 
schools, and having fitted for college at the Bridgeton Academy and at the Boston 
Latin School, entered Bowdoin College in 1800. He left college in his junior year, 
but subsequently received his degree out of course. In lS(i3 he came to Boston and 
studied law in the office of Asa Cottrell, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 
(i, 18()(i. After his admission to the bar he established himself in practice in Boston, 
and was for several years associated with Mr. Cottrell in business. In l.S(iS he was 
admitted to practice in the Circuit Court of the United States, and in IHHl wxs ad- 
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Having taken up his 
residence in Brighton, then included within Middlesex county, he was in IKTO ap- 
pointed trial justice for that county, and after the annexation of Bpighton to Bostr>n 
and the establishment of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District in \HTA, he 
was appointed special justice of that court. In 1S79 he was chosen a member of the 
House of Representatives for Ward 25, and resigned his office of special justice. 
While a member of the House he served on the Committee on Constitutional Amend- 
ments, and drafted and introduced the bill since known as the bill to prevent the 
double taxation of mortgaged property. Notwithstanding the serious opjiosition to 
the bill, instigated by the a.sscssors throughout the Commonwealth, he succeeded in 
carrying it through the House, to meet its defeat in the Senate. In 1S,S1 and 1S1S2 he 
was a member of the Senate, and as chairman of the Committee on Taxation re- 
ported the .same bill, and its final pas.sage by both hou.ses was largely due to his 
earnest efforts. While in the Senate, in the above years, he served also as chairman 
of the Committee on the Election Laws, chairman of the Committee on Redistricting 
the Commonwealth into Congressional Districts, and as a memlK'r of the Judiciary 
Committee. In 18i)l he was again a member of the Senate, and served as chairman 
of the Committee on Railroads, chairman of the Committee on Redistricting the 
State, and as chairman of the Committee <m Reform in the Registration of Land 
Titles. After his service in the Mouse of Representatives in 187!) he was reappointed 
special justice of the Municipal Court for the Brighton District, the jxisition he had 
resigned when chosen representative, and held that office until his resignation in 
1881. The service of Mr. Bennett upon two joint committees on redistricting the 
State, presents probably the only instance in which one man has twice been chairman 
of this committee. In Brighton, both before and since its annexation to Boston, he 
has been an active and influential citizen, seeking at all times the welfare of the 
community in which his lot has been cast. He was a member of the School Board of 
the town before its annexation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the I^ublic 
Library now merged with the Public Library of Boston. He married. May 2ft, |S(l(i. 
Klizabeth R. Lefavor, of Boston, an<I has three children, one of whom, Joseph I. 
Bennett, is a member of the .Suffolk bar. 

John Henry Coi.bv, son of John Freeman and Ruthy (Cloiitman) Colby, was born 
in Randolph, Ma.ss., June 13, I8fi2. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in IS.")."!, 
was appointed, after leaving college in IS."i!t, princijjal of the Latin School in Ran- 
dolph, but afterwards became a prominent member of the Suffolk bar, and died in 
Hillsboro', N. H., June 7, 1890. The subject of this sketch received his early edu- 
cation in the Boston public .schools, and graduateilat Dartmouth in I.**-*!."). He studied 
law at the Boston rniv."<ii> l ,>, s. )i,„,l i'i,,ii. vvlii, li li.. ,t:.,1i.^.i.-,1 In Issii .inil in 



S90 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

the office of his father in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1889. 
He established himself in Boston in partnership with his father, and continued with 
him until the latter's death. He is a trustee of the North End Savings Bank. He 
is in go<id practice and has already secured that confidence on the part of the business 
community which is so essential to a successful professional career. He married in 
Boston, October 8, 1891, Annie Evarts Cornelius. 

S.vNi'OKii H.MUdsoN Uuiii.KY, SOU of IlarHson and Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley, was 
born in China, Me., January 14, 1842. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Dud- 
ley, governor of Massachusetts colony in 1684, 1640. 1645 and lfir)0. His parents 
moved to Fairhaven, Mass., in 18.")7, and afterwards to New Bedford. He graduated 
at Harvard in 1867 and at the Harvard Law .School with the degree of LL. B. in 1871 . 
His study of law was begun in New Bedford in the office of Thomas D. Eliot and 
Thomas M. Stetson. After leaving the Law School he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar July 21, 1871. While i)ursuing his studies In New Bedford he taught the New 
Bedford High School until he entered the Law School in 1870. After his admission 
to the bar he established himself in Boston and has continued in practice at the Suf- 
f(jlk bar up to the present time. Having taken up his residence in Cambridge in 1870 
he has continued a citizen of that city and has been in many ways identified with its 
interests. He has been a member of the city government, isone of the original mem- 
bers of the Cambridge Club, and as a member of the Universalist church at North Cam- 
bridge has been an active participant in the various movements and enterprises of 
that organization. He is and has been also the president of the Universalist Club, the 
representative organization of the Universalist denomination in the Commonwealth, 
and vice-president of the Universalist Sunday-school Union. He married. April 2, 
1860, Laura Nye, daughter of John M. Howland, of Fairhaven. 

Gkokgk W. Wii.r,i.\MS, colored, was born in Ohio about 1838, and was in the United 
States service during the war. In later years he resided in Washington, D. C, in 
Plymouth, Mass. , and Boston, a large part of the time engaged in the preparation 
for the press of two works afterwards published, "The History of Negro Troops in 
the War of the Rebellion " and " The History of the Negro Race in America." He 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ins:!, and died in England in 1890 or 1891. 

JmiN M. Way was born in Rochester, Vt., May 29, 1829. He was the son of poor 
parents and when a boy went to New York to seek employment, arriving there with 
thirty-seven cents in his pocket. He obtained a position as a hotel clerk, but his em- 
ployer failed and he came to Boston as poor as he went to New York. He studied 
law and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar. He established himself in Ro.\bury 
and has always since made that place his residence. His office h;is been many years 
in Boston and in that city he has been engaged in enterprises which gave 
him a large fortune. He was a member of the Common Council of Roxbury before 
the annexation of that city to Boston, and has been twice an unsuccessful candidate 
of the Democratic party for senator. He had extensive land interests in Chicago, 
Kansas City and Boston, and also at Pigeon Cove near (iloucester, where he had his 
summer home. He was junior counsel with G. A. .Somerby in the famous Alley 
murder trial in which the defendant was ac<iuittcd. He married in 184.S. .Sarah L. 
Read, who was the mother of two childreu, John M. Way, jr., and Clarence Way. In 
1860 he married second, Fanny Damon Thomas, of Wayland, Mass., who has been the 





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mother of two children, William T. Way and Kdith Way, now the wife of .\Ir. Lhen- 
oweth, who is connected with the AVtc J oik Kcioidtr. He died in the Roxlniry 
District, of Boston, May 2fi, I«y3. 

James Audt.kv Maxwki.i., son of Joseph Edward Maxwell, a prominent cotton plant- 
er of Georjfia, was born in Sunbury, Ca., and Rradualed at I'rankliii Collejje. He 
spent a year in travel and then studied law in the otlice of Jose|)h Liunpkin, chief 
justice of lieorjjia. He then went to West I'oint Academy, where he Kra<luated in the 
school of engineering and entered the profession as an engineer immediately before 
the war. lie served through the war in the Confederate ;irmy first as second lieuten- 
ant and later as major commanding the Ma.xwell Battalion of Light Artillery. After 
the war he resumed the profession of engineering and was successively chief engineer 
of the Bambridge and Th<«ma.sville Railroad, the South Oeorgia and Florida and the 
Brunswick and Vicksburg Railroad. Later as contractor he built the Albany an<l Blake- 
ly Railroad. He came to Boston in IS7:! and was admitted to the Suffolk bar I'ebru- 
ary i:i, 1875. He married Kathleen Cameron, of Ridgewood, N. J., and is now prac- 
ticing in Boston. 

S.\.\n i;i. Dextkk was descended from Richard Dexter, who was admitted a towns- 
man in Boston March 12, 1K4I-2, and afterwards settled in Maiden. John Dexter, 
son of Richard, like his father, cultivated the Lane farm in Maiden, and died Decem- 
ber 8, 107", at the age of thirty-eight years. John Dexter, son of the aliove John, al- 
so a farmer, married Winnifred Sprague, of Maiden, (October 22, 1700, and died No- 
vember 14, 1722. Samuel Dexter, son of John and Winnifred Dexter, was Ixirn Oc- 
tober 2:i, 1700, and died January 20, 1755. He graduated at Harvard in 1720, and 
after leaving college taught school in Taunton, Lynn and Maiden. He afterwards 
studied for the ministry and was settled the fourth pastor of the first church in Dcd- 
ham May 6, 1724, with a salary of one hundred and fifty ])ounds ])er annum. He 
married Catherine Mears July 9, 1724, and hadeleven children. Samuel, <me of their 
children, was bom March 1(5, 1726, and died June 10, 1810. He w;is a merchant and 
married Hannah, daughter of Andrew and Mary Sigourney, a descendant c)f Andre 
Sigourney, who came to America from Rochelle, in France, after the revocation of 
the edict of Nantes. He was a member of the First I'rovmcial Congress and the 
founder of the Dexter Professorship of Sacred Literature at Harvard. During the 
Revolution he moved to Woodstock, Conn., but sjient his la.st years in Mcndcn, 
Mass., where he died. He was buried in Woodstock. 

Sami El. DEXiEK,_the subject of this sketch, was the son of the last Samuci .m.i ^^,l> 
born in Boston May 14, HHl. He graduated at Harvard in 1781 in the cla.ss with 
John Davis, for many years judge of the United States District Court, Charles Bul- 
fiiich and Dudley Atkins Tyng, and was the leading scholar in his class. He re- 
ceived the degree o£ LL. D. from his alma mater in 181:!. I le studied law in Worces- 
ter with Levi Lincoln and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in 17S4. He 
began practice in Lunenburg, but removed to Chelmsford in 17.Hf>, and from thence 
to Billerica, where he remained two years. He then removed to Charlestown and 
occupied a house between Main and High streets. He finally removed to Boston 
where he was in practice in the earliest years of the present century, and where he 
continued in business untd his death. He was a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives from Charlestown from 17MS i<, 17!HI, and a member of Congress 



592 IlISTOKY OF THE BEXCH AND BAR. 

from ITJC! to 17i)ii. In 17i)y he was chosen United States senator and served until 
June, 1800, when he was apjiointed secretary of war by President Adams antl resigned. 
In December, IHOO, he was transferred from the War Department to that of the 
secretary of the treasury, and continued in that position until the inauguration of 
President JetTerson in 1801. President Adams olTercd him also a foreign embassy, 
which he declined. On leaving the office of secretary he resumed the practice of law 
and one of the earliest important cases in which he was engaged after his return to 
Boston was the trial of Tliomas (). Sclfridge for the murder of Charles Austin in 
State street, Hoston, in which he appeared for the defence. The homicide occurred 
in 1S0(5, and a full accoimt of the trial was published in pamphlet form in 1807. Ben- 
jamin Austin, the father of Charles, was a prominent merchant of Boston, and an 
ardent supporter of Jefferson. Mr. Selfridge was a member of the Suffolk bar and 
was accused by young Austin of slandering his father. To avenge the insult it was 
reported and believed by .Selfridge that Austin intended to punish him at sight. Meet- 
ing in State street, an altercation occurred, the result of which was the death of Aus- 
tin by a pistol in the hands of Selfridge. The political hostilities existing at t|ic time, 
and the high social ranU of the parties, caused intense excitement in Boston, and the 
trial is, perhaps, with the exception of tli^t of Prof. John W. Webster, the most mem- 
orable criminal trial in the history of the Suffolk bar. It has been said that Mr. Dex- 
ter never inclined to indulge in oratory before a jury, but in his address to the panel 
ill this case he combined the closest reasoning with the most finished eloquence. The 
closing sentence of this address was repeated to the writer fifty years ago by the late 
Judge Nahum Mitchell, who heard it, and it will be difficult to find in essay or speech 
a combination of words more skillfully and gracefully constructed with a view to 
indueiicc the human mind. Said Mr. Dexter; " I respect the dictates of the Christian 
religion; I shudder at the thought of shedding human blood: but if ever I niajf be 
driven to that narrow [lass, where forbearance ends and disgrace begins, may this 
right arm fall palsied from its socket, if I fail to defend mine honor." But Mr. Dexter 
was not profuse in his oratory. It was always in closest harmony with his argument 
and only resorted to when it could lend to hisargument force and grace. It was said 
of him by Mr. Webster that "his very statements were arguments." It has been 
said of him by another, cpioting from " Roberts on Frauds," that he could never be 
charged with "amphibology of language, vagueness of description or vacuity of ex- 
pressi<m." But nevertheless he by no means despised the arts of oratory, and, while 
laying them aside in his arguments to the court, he used them to the fullest advan- 
tage to influence the minds of those who were called from the occupations of daily life 
to decide between the plaintiff and defendant, or to acquit or convict a prisoner at the 
bar. In early life Mr. Dexter was a Federalist, but later supported the war policy of 
Jefferson, and in 1812 advocated a contest with England. He was an earnest oppo- 
nent of the embargo and argued in the courts against its constitutionality. In 1815 
an extraordinary embassy to the court of .Spain was offered to him by President Mad- 
ison, but declined. In 181('), a short time before his death, he was nominated by the 
Rei)iiblican party for governor of Massachusetts, though declaring that he was not 
in full accord with the Re])ublican policy. He was defeated by John Brooks, who had 
a majority of two thousand out of forty-seven thousand votes. He was one of the 
first in Ma.ssachusetts to take a public stand in favor of temijcrance and was the first 
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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 593 

he was a temperanci.' man, and in reference to the prevalent custom of the lime to 
keep conspicuously and offer wine on all occasions to >;uests. he said "that he had 
neither the taste nor the leisure to keep atavern. " Hcfurthersaid, "(Jive me the mon- 
ey paid for the support of drunken paujiers in the United States and I will jiay the ex- 
penses of the Federal Government and of every State in the Union, and in a few- 
years become as rich with the surplus as the Nabob of Arcot." In the winter of 
1815-16, while attending the Supreme Court in Washington, he suffered from an epi- 
demic which so enfeebled him that on one occasion he was obliged to sus])end an 
argument which he was making to the court. Not long after he went to Athens, N. 
Y., to attend the marriage of his oldest son, Samuel, and died there of scarlet fever 
May 4, ISlfi. Ex-President Adams said on hearing of his death, " I have lost the 
ablest friend I had on earth." On the 15th of May the Circuit began its session in 
Boston, and it became known that Judge Story in charging the grand jury intended 
to include in his charge something in the nature of a eulogy of Mr. Dexter. The 
United States Court was held in what was then called the old court-house, nearly 
on the site of the court-house now on Court street. A new court-h<iuse had been 
built on the site of the present city hall, and there the Supreme Court held its ses- 
sion. The United States Court room became so crowded on this occasion that it was 
decided to adjourn to the Sui)reme Court room, and a procession was formed, headed 
by the United States marshal and his deputies and consisting of the judges of the 
courts, the chaplain. United States attorney and othcers t)f the court, the E.\ecutive 
Council, the Massachusetts Senate, the sheriff of Suffolk, members of the bar and the 
public. The procession marched through Court street, Cornhill asthat part of Wash- 
ington street was then called, and School street to the new court-house. There the 
charge to the United States jury was given by Judge Story, including a sketch of the 
life of Mr. Dexter, which the readers may find in the libraries of Boston. Mr. Dexter 
married in Charlestown about lT8i), Katherine, daughter of William and Temperance 
(Grant) Gordon, of that town. 

Charles AL^•KEl) Welch, son of Francis and AFargarct Crease (Stackpole) Welch, 
was bom in Boston, January 30, 1815, and graduated at Harvard in lH3:i, at the age 
of eighteen years. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, I.SIJT. For many 
years he was a partner of Edward D. Sohier, where sketch appears in this Register. 
He belongs to one of the oldest Boston fatnilies. and is descended from John Welch, 
who married Elizabeth, daughter of John White, of Boston, and died probably in 
lTi:i or 1T14, as his will was proved May 1 in the latter year. John Welch, the son 
of the ancestor, was born in Boston. July '.J'i, ltiS2, and married, January 2:i, 17(M!, 
Hannah, daughter of Thomas Phillips. John Welch, a son of the last John, waslM>rn 
in Boston, August 11, 1711, and died there February !•, I78i). He niarrie<l first Sarah 
Harrington, who died in 1736, and second, October 2!(. 1741. Dorcas, daughter of 
Francis Gatcomb. Francis Welch, son of the last John, was born in Boston in 1744, 
and died in London, December 7. 1790. He married Susannah, daughter of Benja- 
min and Susannah (Noyes) Renkin. Francis Welch, a son of the al«)ve Francis, was 
the father of Charles Alfred Welch, and was born in Boston, August 30, 1776, and 
married, October 4, 1803. Margaret Crease, daughter of William Stack|>ole. of Bostfin. 
In early life he wa.s a merchant, but for many years was president of the Franklin 
Insurance Company of Boston. The writer rememlK-rs him in the latter capacity as 
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594 HIS'IOKV OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

a remarkably handsome man, of tine bearinjj, and courtly manners. The subject of 
this sketch is now one of the oldest members of the Boston bar. In March, 18!5S, his 
jiartnersliip with Mr. Sohier began and continued until the death of Mr. Sohier in 
November, 1.S88. Probably no other partnership at the Suffolk bar, or any other bar 
in the Commonwealth, has had a life of more than half a century. The partnership 
between Henry Clinton Hutchinsand Alexander Strong Wheeler began in 1!S44, and 
if continued another year will equal in duration that of Sohier & Welch. In the 
Massachusetts Reports abundant evidence may be found of the extent and importance 
of the business of this firm in the courts during its long service at the bar. Mr. 
Welch married Mary Love, daughter of Kirk Hoott, of Lowell, and has his residence 
in Boston and in Cohasset. 

Fr.\ncis Bii.\Rr)M.-\N Crow.ninsiiif.i.I), son of Benjamin Williams and Mary (Board- 
man) Crowninshield, was born in Boston, Mass., April 23, 180!). His American an- 
cestor was Johann Kaspar Richter von Kronenschild, who came to New l<;ngland 
from .Saxony, (Jermany, about 1G86. with Doctors Henry Burchstcad, of Silesia, and 
Pierre Baudouin, of La Rochelle, France. In his will he signed his name John von 
Cronenshilt. He married, December 5, 1094, Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Eliza- 
beth (Clifford) Allen, of Lynn and Salem. His name was, probably, a translation 
from the Swedish von Kronskjold, belonging to a family which came to Germany 
from Sweden. His son John was born in Boston, January 19, 1696-7, and died in 
Salem, May 35, 1761. He was a merchant and ship-owner, an<l married, September 
37, 1723, Anstiss, daughter of John and Sarah (Manning) Williams. George Crown- 
inshield, son of the above John, was born in Salem, Mass., August 6, 1734, and died 
there June 17, 1815. He also was a merchant and ship-owner, and married. July 27, 
1707, Mary, daughter of Richard Derby. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, son of 
George Crowninshield, was born in Salem, December 29, 1773, and died in Boston, 
February 3, 1851. He was a ship-master and merchant, and secretary of the navy 
from 1814 to 1819. From 1824 to 1832 he w-as a member of Congress, and in the lat- 
ter year removed to Boston. In 1811-1822 and 1823 he was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Senate. He married. January 1, 1804, Mary, daughter of Francis and Mary 
(Hodges) Boardman. Francis Boardman Crowninshield, the subject of this sketch, 
son of the above Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, gi'aduated at Harvard in 1829, in 
the class with Chief Justice George Tyler Bigelow, Rev. William Henry Channing, 
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Judge Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Thomas Davis, 
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Rev. Chandler Robbins, Ed- 
ward Dexter Sohier, and Judge Joshua Holyoke Ward. Probably no more distin- 
guished class has ever graduated at Harvard. Besides those above mentioned seven- 
teen out of a class of fifty-eight made their mark in the various walks of life. He 
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in October, 1833, and established himself in Bos- 
ton, where he was for a time a partner of Rufus Choate. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts House of Rejjresentatives, and its speaker in 1848 and 1849. He was 
also at one time a member of the State Senate. He early became interested in rail- 
roads, and was several years ])residcnt of the Old Colony Railroad. He was a man 
of sterling integrity, exact and thorough in his business methods, and a prudent and 
wise manager of the interests placed in his hands. He married, March 20, 1832, 
Sarah Gooll, daughter of Judge Samuel Putnam, of Salem, granddaughter of John 



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and Lois(Pickcrinj;) t'looll, of Salem, and descendant of John (Jooll, of Scotland. JIc 
died in Marblehead, Mass., May 8, 1877. 

Si MNKit Cii.xsK CiiANDi.KR, son of Tlieopliilus Parsons and Elizabeth Julia <Sclilat- 
ter) Cliandler, was born in Brookline, Mass., A])ril 4, 18ri4. He attended the public 
.schools, and spent two years at Harvard College. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in November, 1875, and established himself in Boston. At a later time he was 
occupied in Colorado and Florida, in connection with corporation business, and m 
the practice of law in New York city, in partnership with the late Judge MuUer. 
After the death of his partner he returned to Boston. He died unmarried in Brook- 
line, May 29, 1898. 

Jamks E. Lk.vcii, son of Philander and Sarah T. (Cushman) Leach, was born in 
Bridgewater, Mass., December 1, 1850. He was educated at the Bridgewater Acad- 
etny. and at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1874. He studied law 
at the Boston University Law School, and in Bridgewater in the office of Hosea 
Kingman, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1870. A[r. Leach is descended 
from Giles Leach, who settled in Weymouth in 10.56, where he married January 20, 
I0."i7. On his mother's side he is descended from John Alden, Miles Standish and 
Isaac Allerton, three of the Mayflinuer s pas.sengers. He is also descended, through 
his mother, from Robert Cushman, a member of the Pilgrim church at Leyden, and 
his son Thomas, who came to Plymouth in the ship Fortiin(\w 1021, at the age of 
fourteen years, and having been educated under the care of (lovernor William Brad- 
ford, became the successor of William Brewster as the elder of the Plymouth church. 
Mr. Leach married, July 10, 1889, Alice M., daughterof James N. and Sabina (Bach- 
cler) Frye, and has his residence in Boston. 

Geokc.e Brooks Bioki.ow, son of Samuel and Anna Jane (Brooks) Bigelow, was 
born in Boston, April 2,"i, 1830. His earliest American ancestor was John Bigelow, 
who settled in Watcrtown in 10;!6, and his descent is through Joshua Bigelow, one of 
the sons of John. On his mother's side he is descended from Joshua Brooks, of Con- 
cord, from whom John Brooks, governor of Massachusetts from ISIO to 1828, and 
Peter Chardon Brooks and the late Bishop Phillips Brooks were also descended. By 
intermarriage the Lawrence and Greene families of Groton were connections. Mr. 
Bigelow received his early education at the old Chapman Hall School, under 
Master Baker, and graduated at Harvard in 18,")0. He studied law at the Harvard 
Law School, and in Charlestown in the office of James Dana and Moses Gill Cobb, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 31, 1H.">9. He has devoted himself 
.ilmost exclusively to office practice, giving to that his time and energies, and .seek- 
ing no oflicc cither by appointment or election. He was made the attorney of the 
Boston Five Cents Savings Bank about 1873, and has continued to serve in that 
capacity to the present time. Such an institution, with deposits amounting to 
twenty-two millions, is necessarily exacting in its demands, and Mr. Bigelow h;Ls 
given to its interests and welfare the best results of his judgment and care. He 
married June 2, 1809, Clara P., daughter of Ivory Bcane, of Boston. 

Josicnt Frank Pahi., son of Joseph Frost and Rachel (Bicknell) Paul, was Ixirn 
in Boston, March 24, 18."il. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and 
at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1M73. He studied law at the Boston I'ni- 
versity Law School, in Paris, France, and Berlin. (Jcrmanv, and was .i<lmitlcd to the 
.Suffolk bar in IS7H. He lives unmarrie<l in Boston. 



S96 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

EnwAKo Ai(;i s] I s Uiton, son of Edward and Betsey (Da\ns) Upton, was born in 
South Danvers, Mass., September 23, lS2i), and graduated at Dartmouth College in 
1855. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 22, 1858, and is now at the bar. 

HosK.v M. Kn'jwli'on was bom in Durham, Me., Maj' 20, 1847, and graduated 
at Tufts College in 1867. He studied law at tlie Harvard I>aw Sehool, and in New 
Bedford in the office of Edward L. Barney, and was admitted to the bar in June, 
1870. He established himself at the Suffolk bar, but in 1872 removed to New Bedford 
and joined with Mr. Harney in a partnershi]) which continued until 1879. He then 
became associated with Arthur K. Perry, who is still his partner. In 1876 he was a 
representative, and in 1878 and 1870 State senator. In the latter year he was ap- 
pointed district attorney of the Southern District to fill the vacancy occasioned by 
the resignation of George Marston, who had been chosen attorney-general, and has 
continued in the office by repeated elections to the present time. He married a 
daughter of Benjamin Almy. 

Joseph D. F.m.uin, the son of a farmer, was born in Doniry, county of Galway, 
Ireland, December 25, 1837, and after attending the national village schools came to 
America at the age of fourteen years. He entered the College of Holy Cross at 
Worcester in 1852, not then a chartered institution, and in 1858 received the degree 
of A.B. from Georgetown College. After graduation he taught school in Woon- 
socket, R. I., in Salem and in Boston, and while in Salem began the study of law in 
the office of Jonathan Coggswell Perkins, who had been a judge on the bench of the 
Common Pleas Court at the time of the dissolution of that court in 1859. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 11, 1865, and established himself in Boston, where 
he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice. As executor and trustee he 
has had many and large interests confided to him, and for several years he has been 
counsel for the I'nion Savings Bank, of which institution he has been for sixteen 
years vice-president. When the South Boston Municipal Court was established in 
1874 he was appointed, by Governor Talbot, first special justice, and in that capacity 
served until the recent death of Judge Robert I. Burbank, the presiding justice of 
that court He was chosen a member of the Boston School Board in 1864, and served 
on the board at various times for nearly twenty years. In the treatment of ques- 
tions relating to the schools he was in accord with Thomas M. Brewer, Samuel K. 
Lothrop, James Freeman Clark, Samuel Eliot and Francis A. Walker, members of 
the board, and with them worked faithfully and harmoniously in promoting educa- 
tional progress. A believer in civil service reform, he has been for several years 
one of the examiners of the Boston Civil Service Board, and his service in this capac- 
ity has been especially earnest and valuable. After the recent death of Judge Bur- 
bank he was appointed by Governor Russell his successor as presiding judge of the 
Municipal Court for the South Boston District, and his appointment was unanimoush- 
confirmed by the Council. He married in Boston, iu 1872, Sarah E. Daly, and lives 
in the South Boston District. 

At'cusTiNK Jones, son of Richard M. Jones, was born in China, Me., in 1835, and 
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1860. He studied law in Boston in the office of 
John Albion Andrew, and graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1867. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1867, and practiced in Boston twelve years, 
after which time he removed to Providence, R. I. He was a representative from 




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Boston in 1878, and in 1879 was appointed principal of the Friends' SehfKil in Pn)vi- 
dence. He married, October 10, 18(57, Caroline Alice, daughter of William and Mercv 
P. Osborne, of Danvers, Mass. 

Wii.i.iAM Bkadrirh Homkr D(.\vsi'., son of Rev. Edmund and Elizabeth (Bow-ditch) 
Dowse, was born in Sherborn, Mass., and sradiiated at Harvard in 1H7:!, He ^;rad- 
uated at the Harvard Law School in 1S7."), and was admitted to the SuflFolk bar m 
November of that year. He married, June 20, 18S3, Fanny Lee, daughter of Henry 
(i. and Frances L. (Williams) Reed, of Taunton. His /Vmeriean ancestor was Law- 
rence Dowse, of Charlestown, who was born in England in 1013, and died in Charles- 
town. March 14, 1692. 

Le Baron Bradford Coi.t was born in Dedham, Ma.ss.. June 25, 1S4(?, and gradu- 
ated at Yale in 1868. He graduated at the Columbia Law School in 1870 and 
traveled in Europe in 1870-1. He established himself in Providence, R. I., and was 
a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1879 to 18M1. He is 
now United States Circuit judge for the First Circuit, consisting of Maine, New 
Hami>shirc. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, to which office he was appointed on the 
resignation of Judge John Lowell in 1884. 

Edward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston and Caroline (Peirce) Kelly, was 
born in that part of Frankfort, Me., which is now Winterport. May 30, 1S31. He is 
descended from John Kelly, who i)robably came from Newbury, ICngland. and settled 
in Newbury. Ma.ss., in 1635. The family to which John belonged is supposed to have 
been a branch of the Devonshire family, which either derived its name from the dis- 
trict of " Kelly " in that county, or gave to it its name. He received a grant of land 
in Newbury in 1C39, and died December 28. 1644. His son John, born July 2. 1642. 
married. May 25. 1664, Sarah, daughter of Richard Knight, and March 15. 1716. 
Lydia Ames, of Bradford, and died in that jiart of Newbury which is now West 
Newbury. March 21. 1718. A third John, son of the last, was born in West New- 
bury. June 17, 1668. and married. November 16. 1696. Elizabeth Emery. He died in 
West Newbury, November 29, 1735, leaving a handsome estate. A fourth son. John, 
son of the la.st. was born in West Newbury. October 9, 1697, and married. December 
31. 1723. Hannah Somes, of Gloucester, Mass. He removed to Atkinson, N. H., and 
there died April 27, 1783. Moses Kelly, son of the last John, wa.s born in West New- 
bury. March 15. 1739. and married. Ni>veml)er 10, 17.57, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Will- 
iam Sawyer, of West Newbury. The wife of Dr. Sawyer was Lydia, daughter of 
Israel Webster, a near relative of the father of Daniel Webster. Moses Kelly re- 
moved from West Newbury to Atkinson. N. H., and thence to Goffstown, N. H., 
from which place he removed to Hopkinton, N. H., before 1H|0, where he died Au- 
gust 2. 1826. In the War of the Revolution he commanded the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire Regiment of Militia and was high sheriff of Hillsborough county thirty years. 
Israel Webster Kelly, son of Moses, was born in Goffstown, N. H., January 4. 177H, 
and married about 1H(M1, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton. 
N. H.. and sister of Grace Fletcher, the first wife of Daniel Webster. He wa.s high 
sheriff of Merrimac county. N. H., from 1814 to 1H19. marshal of the district of New 
Hampshire during the administration of Harris<in and Tyler, and pension jigent 
under Taylor and Fillmore. He removed to Concord, N. H., in I.S4I, anrl clieil there 
March 10. 1S!57. Alljcrt Livingston Kelly, son of Israel Webster, wjis Inirn in Hris- 



59^ HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

tol, N. H., August 17, 1802, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1821. He married, Feb- 
ruary 18, 1829, Caroline, daughter of Waldo Peirce, of Frankfort, Me. After leavin}; 
college he studied law in Portland in the office of Stephen Longfellow, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar of Cumberland county in 182"). On the Fourth of July of the year 
of his admission, at the age of twenty-three, he delivered an oration b\- appointment 
of the municijial autlioritics of Portland. In the latter part of the same year, having 
been appointed on the recommendation of Mr. Webster agent of the "Ten Proprietors' 
Tract" in Eastern Maine, owned by David Sears, William Prescott and Israel 
Thorndike, of Boston, he established his residence in Frankfort, Me., where he at- 
tained a high rank in his profession, and died August 18, 1885. He has been repre- 
sented, by one who knew him well, as " An e.xtensive reader, a fine writer, an alile 
and elociuent sjjeaker, a wise and sagacious counsellor and an accomplislied gentle- 
man." Israel Webster Kelly, a brother of Albert Livingston, and referred to else- 
where in this Register as Webster Kelly, the name by which he was commonly 
known, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1824, and after a course of successful prac- 
tice in Frankfort and Belfast, Me., became May 1!), 18.")1, a member of the Suffolk 
bar. lie married Lucilla S. Peirce, and died in Henniker, N. H., July 3, 185.5. 
iCdward Albert Kelly, son of Albert Livingston Kelly and the subject of this sketch, 
received his early education at the Military School of Lieutenant Whitney in Ells- 
worth, Me., at Foxcroft Academy, Me., and at North Yarmouth Classical Academy, 
lie entered Bowdoin College in 1846 at the age of fifteen years, and remained there 
until the middle of his junior year. In 18.->1 he entered as a hiw student the office 
of George Frederick Farley, of Groton, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk 
county bar in 18.")H. He was associated with Mr. Farley as partner until the 
death of Mr. Farley in 180.'), and continued to practice in Groton until 
isni. when he removed his residence and office to Boston. At the Suffolk 
bar he secured while in practice a high position, and the important cases 
entrusted to his care manifest the confidence reposed in his ability and skill. Before 
he was admitted to the liar he a])])eared in court at Worcester as counsel for Pliny 
II. Babbitt, a deputy sheriff of Worcester county, who had been indicted as accessory 
before the fact to a burglary in Barre. John H. Clifford, attorney-general, appeared 
for the Commonwealth, and in his address to the jury complimented the argument 
of his young brother. In ISWi he apjicared for Charles Robinson, ex-governor of 
Kansas, in an action of contract brought by Joseph Lyman, of Boston, treasurer of 
the Kansas Land Trust, on several promissory notes, amounting in all to $1.5,000, 
and trial by jury Ijeing waived, the case was argued in the Sujireme Court at the 
November term in the above year. Sidney Bartlett and Caleb William Loring ap- 
peared for the plaintiff, but Mr. Kelly obtained a decision in his favor. His argu- 
ment in this case was highly commended by the bench and bar. In 1H7;! Mr. Kellv 
was counsel for the Massachusetts Nation;d Bank in an action of contract brought by 
Nathan Matthews to recover $2."), 000 on a forged certificate of stock of the Boston and 
Albany Railroad, but a still later case of sjiecial interest in which he ajjpearcd as 
counsel was that of the Commonwealth against the Lancaster Savings Bank argued 
before the Supreme Court. By a decree of the court in December, 1870, the bank 
was placed in the hands of receivers, and in the following May a tax was levied on 
the bank under the law authorizing a tax on Savings Banks. Mr. Kelly was the 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 599 

attorney of the bank and advised that lliu tax was illej^al Allorney-CenL-ral Train 
advised that it was Icjjal and the suit was hroiijjlit. The ease was arjcned before tlie 
eourt at Taunton in Oetober. 1S7T, and an opinion of the eourt was ^iveii in January, 
1878, sustaininij; the claim of Wx. Kelly that the tax was illegal. The substance of 
the decision was that the tax on Savinj^s Banks is a tax upon the privilege of trans- 
acting business, consequently it follows that if. at the time the tax is to be assessed 
and is declared to accrue, the bank has for the purpose of transacting its business 
practically ceased to exist, then no tax is to be exacted. Mr. Kellv's practice, which 
was a general one, continued unabated until about ten yearsago, when he aban<lone<I 
it for the care of his own private affairs and of tho.se which others had i)laced confid- 
ingly in his hands. Since he left the profession he has found time to indulge those 
literary tastes which he early aeiiuired, and has been a frequent contril)Utor to maga- 
zines and news|)apers. These articles were marked for their pure Knglish, their 
clearness of statement and thoroughness of research. Me was chosen a trustee of 
Lawrence Academy in Groton to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. 
Karley intl85lj, is a corresponding member of the Maine Historical Society, and has 
received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Bowdf>in College. He was an 
intimate friend of the late Josiah G. Abbott and Peleg W. Chandler, and while the 
latter was the editor of E''cry Otiu-r Saturiiay, he contributed ably to iLs columns. 
One of his articles in this periodical, containing " Advice to Young Lawyers," should 
be read by every young man entering the profession. The lesson he seeks to enforce 
is the necessity of a thorough and exhaustive preparation of a cause for trial and 
then absolute self-reliance in total disregard of an apparent adverse opinion of the 
sitting judge. He cites the first appearance in eourt of Sergeant S. Prentiss as an 
illustration of the lesson. The incident occurred in Brandon, Mississippi. Prentiss 
was a slight made, beardless boy, extremely youthful in appearance and a stranger 
to all in court. When his case was called ho jjromptly responded and stated that his 
ease st(K)d on demurrer to some part of the proceedings, which he desired to argue. 
The judge with some abruptness told him that he did not wish to hear the 
argument as he had made up his mind adversely to his side t>f the ca.se. Mr. Prentiss 
insisted, however, on the constitutional right of his client to be heard and went on 
with an argument which astonished both the judge and the bar. The judge was 
convinced of his error and decided for Mr. Prentiss. Mr. Kelly is not only a fin- 
ished writer but a fluent and graceful speaker, and is often called on to add to the 
interest of historic and other occasions. His maternal grandfather, Waldo Pcirce, 
was born in Scituate, Mass., and was a brother of Silas Peirce, the founder of the 
well-known house of Silas Peirce & Comi)any, of Boston. When, in IsiHt, the seventy- 
fifth anniversary of the establishment of that house was celebrated by a banquet at 
Young's Hotel, Mr. Kelly was one of the invited guests, and c<intributed sketches 
of several of the older members of the firm in a speech, which the A'<W' Eiiji;/iin<i 
Grocer said was characterized not only by elociuence and a fine [lolished style of 
delivery, but also by the fact that it dealt with topics totally different from those 
taken up by others, and was therefore one of the chief features of the occasion. 
Mr. Kelly married at Groton, November 15, IH.-i.t, Mar)-, daughter of (Jeorge Fred- 
erick and Lucy (Rice) Farley, and has his residence in Boston. Mr. Kelly is a 
man of indepeiidence in the truest sense of that word. He avoids the shackles of 



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parly, the rosponsibilitics of trusts, any and all entangling alliances liable to inter- 
fere with independent action. The words of Chapman are to him specially appli- 
cable : 

" Who to himself is law — no law doth need. 
Offends no law — and is a King indeed." 

Dean Stanley said: " Give me a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know 
we can thoroughly depend, who will stand when others fall, the friend faithful and 
true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous, in such a 
one there is a fragment of the rock of ages." A discriminating friend who had 
known Mr. Kelly for thirty years said that when reading these words of the dean 
he thought at once of him. 

Lincoln Ai.i.kn graduated at Harvard in iss.") and at the Harvard Law School in 
1888. After his admission to the bar he established himself in Boston and died at 
Arlington. Mass., May 10, 1892. 

Wii.i.i.\M Ai.K.x.vNDEK G.vsToN, s(m of William and Louisa Augusta (Beecher) Gas- 
ton, was born in that part of Boston which was then Roxbury, May 1, 1858. He at- 
tended the public schools of Roxbury, the Roxbury Latin School, and a private 
school, and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1880. He studied law at the Har- 
vard T^aw School and in the ofBce of Gaston & Whiting, a firm in which his father 
was the senior partner, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in Se])tember, 1883. In 
October, 1883, he became a partner in the above firm and has so continued to the 
present time. The business of the firm is of a general character, with the single 
limitation that it is confined to civil practice. It is too well known to need any spe- 
cial description, and a reference to the reports is only necessary to disclose its extent 
and importance. Mr. (Jaston devotes himself almost exclusively to his profession, 
and aside from his acceptance of the positions of assistant adjutant-general on the 
.staff of Governor Russell, and of director in the Manufacturers' National Bank, there 
IS little evidence of his willingness to be allured from the paths of his profession. He 
married, April i). 1803, Mary D.. daughter of Hamilton D. and Annie L. Lockwood, 
of Boston, and has his residence in Boston. 

Gkokck Hknuv Tiiwi.k, son of Henry and Mary Ann (McCrillis)Towle. was born in 
Boston. April 9. 18.51. He attended the common schools of Boston, the Boston Latin 
School, and the Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn. He had already chosen 
his profession while at the University and there made a beginning of the study of 
law. He afterwar<ls continued his study in Boston with Baxter E. Perry and Samuel 
W. Creech, jr., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1873. He has been 
engaged in mining operations in Colorado, and while attending to a general practice 
he has been largely connected with railroad litigation, chiefly in the South. He is 
descended from Phillip Towle, who came early to New England and settled in Hamp- 
ton in l(i4(), where he married, November 19, 16.57, Isabella Astyn, daughter of Fran- 
cis Aysten and his wife Isabella (Bland) Astyn, who came to Hampton from Col- 
chester, England. The ancestor. Phillip, born about 1616, died in Hampton. Decem- 
ber 19, 1096. His descendants are numerous and include among their number Hamil- 
ton Ela Towle, the distinguished civil engineer who graduated at the Lawrence 
Scientific School in 18.5.5, and died in London, England, September 2. 1881. Mr. 
Towle married, October 25. 187.5. Sarah Dorset, daughter of William and Mary 



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Ihiniblin, of Waketield. Mass., a. ilescciulaiit of tlio Old Colony llaiiiliii family, to 
which the late Vice-president Hannibal Hamlin belonjjed. Ditrerent l)ranchcs of 
the family adopted different methods of spelling the name. Mr. Ti>\vle resists the 
allurements of public life, and the law is his master, demanding and receiving his 
undivided service. 

M.VRci's MoKroN. jr., son of Marcus and Charlotte (Hodges) Morton, was born in 
Taunton, Mass., April 8, 1819. He was a descendant of George Morton, who came 
to Plymouth in the A/m in 1023 with his wife Julian, daughter of Alexander Carjjen- 
ter, of Wrentham, England, whom he married in Leyden. Holland, in l(il2. He 
graduated at Brown University in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1840. 
After further study in Boston in the office of Peleg Sprague and William Gray he 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 12, 1841. In 1850 he took up his residence in 
Andover, and represented that town in the Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in 
the Legislature of 1858. In both convention and Legislature, he served with his 
father, who was a member from Taunton. In the House of Representatives he was 
chairman of the Committee on Elections, and his numerous reports have been recog- 
nized as authorities. In 1858 he was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Suf- 
folk county, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Josiah G. Abbott, and 
remained on the bench until the abolition of that court in 1859. In the organization 
of the present Superior Court in 1859, he was appointed one of the justices, and con- 
tinued, to serve until April 15, 1869, when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme 
Judicial Court. On the 16th of January, 1882, he was appointed chief justice of that 
court to succeed Horace Gray, who had been appointed associate justice of the United 
States Supreme Court. On the 27th of August. 1890, he resigned, having served as 
judge in three courts thirty-two years. He married Abby B., daughter of Henry and 
Amy (Harris) Hoppin at Providence, R. I., October 19, 1H43, and died at Andover, 
February 10, 1891. At a meeting of the Suffolk bar May 19, 1S9I, resolutions were 
passed which Attorney-general Pillsbury presented to the Supreme Court in a dis- 
criminating speech in which he characterized Judge Morton as " strong rather than 
brilliant, patient, always accessible, of sufficient learning, and of political sagacity 
amounting almost to genius, rarely exciting admiration, but never arousing apjire- 
hensi(m." Judge Charles Allen said in the course of his resptmse that " as a nisi 
prius judge he has had few su|)eriors in the history of the Commonwealth; indeed, it 
seems to me few equals." The Reports from volume 102 to volume 150 contain twelve 
hundred of his judgments. 

JoiTN Van Beal, son of Eleazer and Mary (Thayer) Beal, was born in Randolph. 
Mass., July 3, 1842. He is descended from John Heal, who came to Boston from 
Ilingham, England, in the ship Diligiiil in 1(!38 and settled in Hingham, Mass. 
The ancestor married Nazareth, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) Ilobart, 
and sister of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first minister of Hingham. He married for a 
second wife, March 10, 1059, Mrs. Mary, widow of Nicholas Jacob, and died in Hing- 
ham, April 1, 11188. Israel Beal, a great-grandson of John, was born in Hingham, 
April 25, 1726. and soon after his birth his father. Thomas, removed to Newton, 
where he died September 14, 1751. About the time of his father's death, or soon 
after, Israel removed to Randolph and married ICunice Klagg. Eleazer Beal, one of 
the children of Israel, was born in Randolph, Julv 9. 17.-..>< Hi- l)..>n.-.t,..„l «.,- -,.1,1 

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6o2 n /STORY OF 7 HE BENCH AND BAR. 

by him to his son Elcazer, from whom it passed by descent to his grandson Kleazer, 
the father of the subjeet of this sketeh, who, witli his brother George, holds it under 
their father's will. The last Eleazer, the father of John Van Beal, was born in Ran- 
dolph, May 5, 180X, and married. May 13, l«b3. Mary Stetson, daughter of Mieah and 
I'hoebe (Stetson) Thayer, and died April 27, 18!)!. At the age of eighteen, having 
then received only such instruction as the common schools could furnish, he deter- 
mined to secure a liberal education against the wishes of his father, who refused to 
furnish him with any pecuniary aid in attaining the object of his ambition, lie was 
thus thrown on his own resources, but, far from being discouriiged, he applied for 
admission to the school of that eminent instructor, Jesse Pierce, of Stoughton, the 
father of Henry L. and Kdward L. Pierce, and was received by him as a pupil. At 
the end of his second school term it became necessary for him to earn in some way 
the means for further instruction, iind walking to Boston he secured a passage to 
Provincetown by water, and obtained a position as teacher in one of the public schools 
of Truro. After teaching one season he returned to Mr. Pierce's school, and the 
next season secured a place as teacher in Provincetown. Until the age of twenty-live 
he was alternately scholar and teacher, and at that age he began the manufacture of 
boots and shoes, becoming before 1837 the most extensive manufacturer of those 
articles in Randolph. At that date he abandoned manufacturing and became a civil 
engineer, having prepared himself for the business in the office of Mr. Eddy, one of 
the leading engineers in Boston. As an engineer he became interested in the project 
of building a branch railroad to Fall River from the Old Colony main line, and largely 
to his persistent energy the construction of that road was due. He was town clerk 
and treasurer of Randolph from 1844 to 18.54, representative in 1848, and in l.HOl the 
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Third Congressional District. John \'an 
Beal, the subject of this .sketch, was educated in the public schools of Randolph and 
at Phillips Andover Academy. Though fitted for college, ill health prevented him 
from jirescnting himself for examination, and until 1871 he was employed as a teacher 
successively in the Intermediate and Grammar School and High School in his native 
town. In 1871 he entered as a student the office of Jewell, Gaston & Field in Boston, 
:ind after further study of a year in the Harvard Law School, obtained the degree of 
I.L.B. from that institution in 1872. After leaving the Law School, he re-entered the 
office of Jewell, (iaston & Field, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. 
He established himself in business in Randolph and confined himself to the local 
practice of that town until January, 1876, when he began practice in Boston, taking 
desk room in the office of Jewell, Field & Shepard, where he remained until the 
death of Mr. Jewell and the appointment of Mr. Field to the bench of the Supreme 
Court broke up the firm. Their office continued to be occupied by Mr. Shepard, 
Mr. J. C. Coombs and Mr. Beal until 1891, when he opened an office alone. His 
practice has been a miscellaneous one in the civil courts, with a somewhat extensive 
connection with probate affairs, which he has made a specialty. Aside from his pro- 
fessional life his chief interest has been connected with the Congregational Church 
in Randolph and its Sabbath-school, for many years serving as clerk of the church, 
and now holding the position of superintendent of the school. Though belonging to 
a family which has been associated during four generations not only with his native 
town but with the homestead which he occupies, he is so far as kindred are concerned 
almost alone in the world. He has neither father nor mother, nor wife nor child. 



Biographical register. 603 

nor uncle nor aunt nor sister, and only a single brother who was born an invalid and 
both shares his home and receives his care. Both his relations to Randolph and his 
ability to represent it have been recojjnized by his appointment as orator at the ap- 
proaching anniversary of the settlement of the town to be celebrated on the lOth of 
July in the present year. 

John Ward Pettengili., son of Benjamin and Betsey (Pettengill) Pettengill, was 
born in Salisbury, N. H., November 12, 1835. He is descended from Richard Pet- 
tengill, who in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony came to Salem from Staf- 
fordshire, England, and married Joanna, daughter of Richard IngersoU. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools and at the Franklin, Salisbury, North- 
field, and Hopkinton Academies, enjoying the privilege of being a pupil at the North- 
field Academy of that distinguished instructor Prof. Dyer H. Sanborn. Though 
fitted to enter the Sophomore class of Dartmouth College in IS.^4, he was prevented 
by a severe bronchial trouble from entering that institution. From that time until 
1856 he remained at home pursuing the college studies under the direction of his 
father, and at that date became connected with the editorial department of the lit- 
lii-pcndent Democrat in Concord. While in Concord he pursued the study of law in 
the office of Judge Asa Fowler, and in 1858 entered as a student the office of Johr. 
Quincy Adams Griffin and Alonzo W. Boardman in Charlestown. In December, 
18.58, he was admitted to the Middlesex bar and established himself in Charlestown, 
where he remained practicing alone until the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in 
1874. While in Charlestown he was appointed special justice of the Police Court and 
served in that capacity until the annexation. In the spring of 1874 he removed his 
office to Boston proper, and in August of that year was appointed justice of the First 
Eastern Middlesex District Court with jurisdiction in Maiden, Wakefield, Reading, 
North Reading, Melrose, Everett, and Medford. His practice has been a general 
one both civil and criminal, and during the administration of Charles Russell Train 
as attorney-general he was counsel in three capital ca,ses, in all of which he secured 
verdicts of acquittal. In the trial of Orne, indicted for burning a school-house in 
Charlestown, he was counsel for the defendant, and not until the fourth trial was the 
government able to sustain the indictment, and then only after two days and a night 
spent by the jury in consultation. Mr. Pettengill resides in Maiden, where he has 
served as trustee of the Public T>ibrary,. and alderman of the city. Though in the 
early days of the Republican party he was interested in politics, and was an effective 
speaker in support of its candidates, he has for many years devoted himself ex- 
clusively to his profession, neither accepting nor seeking public ot^ice. He married 
in Watertown, Mass., October 20, 184:i, Margaret Maria, daughter of John Richards 
and Mary (Dalton) Dennett, of Lanca.ster, England. 

Wii.i.iA.M HoWARii MiTciiKT.i,, only child of Azor and Sarah Jane (Shaw) Mitchell, 
was born in North Yarmouth, Me., Augu.st 14, 1801. He is descended from Experi- 
ence Mitchell, who came to Plymouth, Mass., In the ship .//;//, in lfi2:?. and married 
about 1028, Jane, daughter of Francis and Esther Cook, of Plymouth. Francis Cook 
was one of the Mavjfoicir company in 1(!2I), and his wife, Esther, came to Plymouth 
with Mr. Mitchell in the Ann. bringing three children, Jacob, Jane, and Esther. 
John, another child, came with his father in the .Mayjlower. The lot of land on 
which Experience Mitchell built a house after his marriage, on the ea.stcrly side of 



6o4 HISTORY OF 1HE BENCH AND BAR. 

Market street, in Plymouth, is well defined. In Kilil he removed to Dnxbury, and 
thence late in life to Bridgewater, where he died in KiSi), about eighty years of age. 
Jacob Mitchell, a .son of E.xpcrience, removed to Dartmouth, Mass., about 1669, and 
had a son, Jacob, who removed to Kingston, and thence in 1728 to North Yarmouth, 
Me. Another Jacob, son of the last, had a son Jacob, who was born in North Yar- 
mouth in 1732, and married Jane Loring. John Mitchell, son of the last Jacob, 
married Elizabeth Gooding, and was the father of Azor Mitchell, who was born 
May *S. 182S, and married Sarah Jane Shaw. William Howard Mitchell, son of Azor 
and the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm and attended only 
country schools until the age of eighteen. In the sjiring of ISSO he entered the col- 
lege ])reparatory class of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, where he graduated in 1«81. 
lie then entered Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and graduated in 1885 
with the highest honor.s. After leaving the university he took charge of the High 
School in Spencer, Mass., but resigned that position in December. 188.5, and entered 
as a student the law office of Edwin L. Dyer, recorder of the Municipal Court in Port- 
land, Me. In October, 1886, he entered the Boston University Law School and com- 
pleting the regular three years' course in one year, graduated with the degree of 
LL.B. in June, 1887. In August, 1887, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and es- 
tablished himself in business in Denver, Col., in the following Septemljer, where he 
became associated with S. S. Abbott, who, in 1892, as assistant district attorney, was 
engaged in the prosecution of Dr. T. Thatcher Graves. In April, 1888, he was com- 
pelled by unfavorable effects of the climate to leave Denver, and he returned to Bos- 
ton, assuming the position of treasurer and genera! eastern representative of the 
Colorado Farm Loan Company, a corporation organized to purchase, sell and make 
loans upon Denver property. In September, 1891, the company went out of business 
and Mr. Mitchell devoted himself to the practice of law in a partnership with Raymond 
R. (lilman, which had been been formed in Dccemlier, 1890, and is now in active 
business. In jiractice he has given much attention to corporation law, and ha.s as- 
sisted in the organization of several successful enterprises, in which he is either an 
officer or director. Mr. Mitchell has his residence in Melrose, and is junior deacon 
of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M., a member of the Waverly Chapter Royal Arch 
Masons, and of Hugh de Payen's Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also sec- 
retary of the Bosttm Wesleyan University Alumni Association. He married at Mel- 
rose, Mass., October 2, 1889, Harriet Louise, only daughter of Frank E. Orcutt, of 
Melrose, collector of internal revenue for the district of Massachusetts. 

Cii.VKi.Ks Lii>i;ktt was appointed by Andros in 1687 one of the justices of the Supe- 
rior court. He married Mary, daughter of William Hester, of Southwark, England, 
and died in London, April 9, 1698, leaving three children, Peter, Charles and Ann. 

JosKPii XicKKRsoN was born in Dennis, Mass., September 17, 1828. He received 
his early education in the public schools of his native town and at Phillips Andover 
Academy, and graduated at Amherst in 1850. He taught school three years before 
entering college, and after graduation was employed as principal t)f the academy in 
Hopkinton, N. M., and tlie academy in Gilmanton, N. H. He began the study of 
law in the office of A. Eastman in Gilmanton, and after completing his studies in the 
office of Charles T. and Thomas H. Ru.ssell in Bost<m, was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar December 19, 18.53. He established himself in Boston, where he practiced with 
success until his death. 



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Aktiiik Wii.oK Ckossi.ev, son of William and Mary (Flick) Crossley, was born in 
Montour county, Pa., and educated in the public schools. He studied law in Wash- 
injjton, D. C, and was there admitted to the bar in 1879. His business is confined 
to i)atent cases. He married in Washington, January 20, IHHH, Mary, daughter of 
William E. Chandler, and resides in the Roxbury District of Boston. 

George Lemist Clarke was born in Jamaica Plain (Boston), August 13, 1H(i1, and 
received his early education at the Roxbury Latin School. He studied law in Boston 
in the office of his grandfather, John J. Clarke, and at the Bost<m University Law 
School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ISST. He is now in i)racticc in 
Boston. 

Like E.\stman was born in 1791, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1812. He was 
admitted to the Suflfolk bar in January, 181fi, and settled in Hardwick, Mass., where 
he died in 1847. 

Levi Cuifi'ord Wadk, son of Levi and A. Annie (Rogers) Wade, was born in 
Alleghany, Penn., January Ifi, 1843. His father, whose ancestors were large land 
owners in Medford, Mass., was born in Woburn, Mass., in 1812, and is now living in 
Alleghany after a successful business career as merchant and manufacturer in Pitts- 
burgh. His mother is a descendant of Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, Ma.ss., who 
was president of Harvard College from April 10. 1082. to the date of his death, July 
2, lfi84. She is widely esteemed for her musical and literary entertainments and her 
activity in benevolent enterjirises. Mr. Wade was educated at home and in the pub- 
lie schools until he was thirteen years of age, and after that time until he was nine- 
teen under private tutors and in Lewisburg University. He then entered Yale 
College and graduated in 18()() with special honors. After leaving college he studied 
Grcefcand Hebrew one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and thcol<igy one year under 
Dr. Alvah Hovey. From 1808 to 1873 he taught sc1k>o1 in Newton, at the same time 
pursuing the study of law, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1873. 
After remaining in the office of J. W. Richardson two years, he opened an office on 
his own account in 1875, and from 1877 to 1880 was associated as a partner with John 
Quincy Adams Brackett. After 1880 his business was confined to railroad law and 
management, and he became counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F<5, the At- 
lantic and Pacific, the Sonora and the Mexican Central Railway companies. Of the 
last mentioned company he was one of the four original projectorsand owners and at the 
time of his death he was its president and general coun.sel. Mr. Wade was a repre- 
sentative from Newton from 1870 to 187il inclusive, and in the last year was chosen 
speaker of the House of Representatives. He was one of the directors of the (icneral 
Theological Library, of the Mexican Central, the Sonora, the Atlantic and Pacific, and 
the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad companies. Mr. Wade married in 
Bath, Me.,- November 10, 1809, Margaret, daughter of William and Lydia H. (Elliott) 
Rogers, and died in Newton, Ma,ss., March 31, 1891. After his death the directors 
of the Mexican Central Railway Company entered on the records of the Board a 
series of resolutions expressive of the obligation of the company to him for the per- 
severance, honesty and skill which he displayed in rescuing it from a languishing 
and almost bankrupt condition. In the language of the resolutions he was a man " of 
large attainments and great general knowledge. His mind worked ([uickly and he 
had wonderful |v..virin iM-.-ispin'.,' new subjects and carrying them to a successful 



6o6 HISTORV OF TlJE BENCH AND BAR. 

issue. He worked assiduously for the company, but he never failed to recognize the 
touch of other interests afTected by the company. His whole life was based on re- 
ligious conviction. He believed and went forward to carry out his belief. He wanted 
to do the right, and wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. His place in 
this company cannot be easily filled." 

Sankord Hakrison Di'di.kv was born in China, Kennebec county, State of Maine, 
January 14, 1843. His father was Harrison Dudley, who at that time belonged to 
the Society of Friends, though he did not always continue his connection with that 
denomination. His mother was Klizabeth Prentiss, still living, in 18!):!, at Cambridge, 
Mass., in her seventy-fifth year. Mr. Dudley is a descendant in the direct line from 
Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and one of the most promi- 
nent men of that early day. His line descends through the governor's eldest son, 
Rev. Samuel Dudley, who finally settled and died at Exeter, N. H. ; Stephen, of Ex- 
eter; James, of the same town; Samuel, of Raymond, N. H. ; Micajah, of Durham, 
Me. : Micajah, of China; and Harrison, before named, who died at Cambridge, Mass., 
in 1880, and he is of the ninth generation of his lineage in America. It may not be 
uninteresting to note that (iovernor Dudley built the first house in Cambridge, that 
his son Samuel also built a house at the same time, on the same street, within a few 
rods, and that Mr. Dudley, the subject of this sketch, owned at a recent date a house 
and land midway and within a few feet of both sites upon which his early ancestors 
built their houses. The house and land still remain in a member of his family, ad- 
jacent to the spot where the first church was built in Cambridge, in which, doubtless, 
br)th ancestors frequently worshiped. Though the several generations of this 
lineage have largely had to do with the early and pioneer settlement of Massachusetts, 
New Hampshire and Maine, yet the latest generation seems to have come back to 
claim the spot where the line originated. Mr. Dudley's parents removed with him 
in his early infancy to St. Albans, in Somerset county. Me., where they occupied a 
farm and live<l a number of years. Here he spent his early childhood, living as other 
farmer.s' children did, but early became studious and a favorite with his teachers. 
At the age of ten years he removed with his parents to Auburn, Me., where his father 
was occupied as a mechanic in the construction of the mills which were rapidly build- 
ing up the present thriving cities of Lewistcm and Auburn. Here, while still a boj-, 
he earned the means to buy the first book he ever owned, and which is still in his 
possession. It was a history of the naval battles of 1812, both interesting and in- 
structive, and not a bad book for an ambitious boy to read. It is needless to say 
that he read it through many times, and became well acciuainted with the heroes of 
those battles. Hoth here and at Richmond, Me., where after the lajise of a few 
years the family moved, the boy made the best use of the educational opportunities 
offered to him, both in the ]5ublic schools and in such private schools as his means 
permitted him to attend. He was by no means unused to such work as he could do 
in his home or wherever he could obtain a compensiition. At the a,ge of sixteen his 
family again removed, this time to l-'airhaven, Mass., and here for the first time, in 
the high school of that town, and under the care and attention of an able teacher, he 
found the fir.st and longed for opportunity for beginning those studies then considered 
necessary in pre])aration for college. It had been the hope of his mother for years 
tliat her son should some day pursue a college course, and it was no new thing for 



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himself lo desire it. lie had long sineo clelerniiiicd iipiin il if ever the nljportuiiily 
was jiresentecl, but the means to accomplisli this he did not and eould not foreeast. 
His father could not assist him, and besides was not fully appreciative of his efforts 
or ambition, but the mother's sympathies were never laekinjj and always followed 
him till he was able to repay them in kind and in a more material way. For two 
years Mr. Dudley pursued his studies at the Fairhaven high school, .somewhat inter- 
mittently but still diligently and with satisfactory results. He had advanced suHi- 
ciently in lS(iO, when his family removed to New Bedford, Mass., to pursue his 
classical studies alone, though with indifferent success. By teaching school in the 
country winters and by sundry other employments at other times, he finally obtained 
the means for completing his college preparation under two well known classical 
teachers, and in 1863 entered Harvard College with very little idea as to the ways 
and means of going through a four years' course until graduation. One or two kind 
friends were found who lent him just that helping hand that enabled him to accom- 
plish his desire, and afterwards to repay them dollar for dollar, l-'ven before gradu- 
ation he was engaged to serve as submaster in the New Bedford High School, and 
there, associated with his former teacher, Mr. Dudley spent three laborious but 
pleasant years as an instructor in the classics and mathematics, having the pleasure 
of sending one young man at least to his own alma mater who has since achieved an 
enviable reputation as a classical scholar and critic. Graduating in the class of lW(i7 
and entering immediately upon the work of a teacher, which he pursued with no little 
enthusiasm, Mr. Dudley was unwilling to make that a life work, but desired rather 
to adopt the law as his chosen profession. He therefore jirocured Bouvier's Law 
Dictionary and a copy of Kent and Blackstone, and began reading law in the oflice 
of liliot & Stetson, devoting to his reading such spare hours as his school duties 
would permit, including his vacations. Meantime, on the '2d day of April, 1H(>!I, Mr. 
Dudley married Miss Laura Nye Howland, daughter of John M. Howland and 
Matilda Coleman Howland, of Fairhaven. Miss Howland was descended in the 
direct line on her father's side from Henry Howland, of Duxbury, who appeared in 
that town in 1633, and was doubtless a brother of John Howland of the Mayflower, 
whose grave is still pointed out on Burial Hill in Plymouth. On her mother's side 
Miss Howland was descended from the Folger family of Nantucket. At the close of 
the school year in 1870 Mr. Dudley resigned his position of submaster in the New 
Bedford High School and removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he has ever since 
resided. He spent a year at the Harvard Law School and graduated therefrom in 
1871, receiving his degree upon examination. He also holds the degree of A.M. from 
his alma mater. Immediately entering the ollice of James B. Richardson, now Mr. 
Justice Richardson of the Superior Court, Mr. Dudley was admitted to the bar of the 
Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, before the late lamented Justice Colt, on the 21 st 
day of July in that year. Though practicing in Suffolk county, he also had an office 
for several of the first years of his practice in Cambridge, but found that one office in 
Boston was all that he could well give his attention to. Mr. Dudley is a busy lawyer 
whose practice is of a somewhat miscellaneous character, taking him sometimes inti> 
one court and sometimes into another. Most lawyers of experience can look back 
upon some one case with more or less of satisfaction because of having accomplisheil 
a success in it of a more notable character than in some other cases. Mr. Dudley 



6oS H1S2VRY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

bujjan one action in the early years of his practice whicli soon developed a bitterness 
between the parties that resulted in one of the lonj^est legal contests known at the 
bar. It was thirteen jears before the one in question was closed up with a judjjjment 
which had to be satisfied and settled. Meantime there had been five jury trials and 
three verdicts in the case, several hearings before the full bench of the Supreme 
Judicial Court, a petition and discharge in bankruptcy in the United .States District 
Court, many hearings in the United States District and Circuit Courts, many con- 
tested motions in all the courts, with varying fortunes on one .side and the other, till 
finally Mr. Dudley obtained a judgment on a bond to dissolve attachment which a 
surety had to pay, the amount then being more than double that originally in con- 
troversy. One of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, in a reported opinion, 
justly called it "this much litigated case." The plaintiff was a minor and sued by 
his next friend, but he was a man over thirty years old when the litigation ended. 
Every judge of the Sujjreme or Superior Court who heard the case is now dead. As 
in many cases a very large proportion of Mr. Dudley's practice is that of chamber 
counsel where he is called upon to pass upon a great variety of questions of every 
possible character, to draft all sorts of legal documents, and to attend to the rights 
and duties of the merchant, the mechanic, or those arising out of family relations. 
Xor has he neglected the religious and social duties which so largely fall upon those 
who are expected to take some leading position in such matters. Mr. Dudley has 
been for years a member of the parish committee of the Universalist Church ; was for 
several years an officer of, the Universalist Club and finally its president for two 
years, and for many years has given a portion of his spare time to the interest of 
Sunday schools. He is now (1893) president of the Universalist Sunday School Union, 
an organization which has for its duty the oversight of twenty Sunday schools. Not 
neglecting his obligations to the State of his birth, he is the president of a social 
organization in his city made up of the sons and daughters of Maine. He is also an 
original member of the Cambridge Club. He has never held political office, except 
for a single year when he was a memlier of the city government of his city, though 
he has taken some interest in general politics at times, and was for a number of 
years a member of the ward and city committee of the party to which he belonged. 
Mr. Dudley cast his first jiresidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has 
voted for every president who has filled the office since except in the case of Mr. 
Harrison, for whom he did not vole. He has also for years been a member of the 
Civil Service Association of his city, and never hesitates to ".scratch" the ballot he 
casts at any election if in his judgment any candidate of either jjarty is unsuitable 
for the position he aspires to. He gives some attention to historical and antiquarian 
matters, and is the president of The Governor Thomas Dudley Fatuily Association. 
He has never forgotten the studies of school and college days, and still keeps in 
touch with them. He has a family of three children: a son and two daughters. The 
son and oldest daughter are at the University and the "Annex" respectively, the 
former being destined to the law, as inight be expected. Those opportunities which 
Mr. Dudley so much lacked in his boyhood and youth, he takes great delight in fur- 
nishing to his children, and his pleasure is all the greater that his children make the 
most of their opportunities. With his family about him in his comfortable home, 
Mr. Dudley enjoys the results of faithfulness and integrity in his profession, and of 




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thai ililigencu which the law, nxist of all the i)r()fessions, jealously demands of every 
member of it, if indeed success or eminence is soujjht for in it. 

Edwin Lassetek Bynnek, sou of Edwin and Caroline (Ed.ijarton) Bynner, was horn 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1842, and ,i;raduated at the Harvard Law School in IHlio. Me 
established himself in the West, but about the year 1M70 came to Boston and after- 
ward made that city his home. He was the librarian of the Law Association at the 
time of his death, but had for many years devoted himself to literary pursuits. In 
1877 he published a novel entitled " N' importe," and in 187« another called " Tritons." 
He was the author of the chapter in the "Memorial History of Boston " on the 
"Topography and Landmarks of the Provincial Period," and in 1882 published 
" IJamen's Ghost," a book which added to his already established reputation. In 
1887 the Atlantic Monthly published a sketch from his pen reflecting the life of 
colonial days in Boston called " Penelope's Suitors," and shortly after " Agnes Sur- 
riage " appeared, followed by " The Begum's Daughter," a story of the Dutch in New 
York. At a later date " An Uncloseted Skeleton " and " The Chase of the Meteor " 
were published, and subsequent to these his last work, " Zachary Phips." He died 
in Jamaica Plain, a district of Boston, August 5, 1893, unmarried. 

George Makepeace TowLE was the son of a physician in Washington, D. C, and 
was born in that city August 27, 1841. His parents removed to Boston, where he 
attended the public schools. He was fitted for college at the Wrcntham Academy 
and the Lawrence Academy in Groton, and graduated at Yale in 18(il. He attended 
the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar November 14, 1862. 
He began a literary career at an early age and while in the law school i)ublished 
three articles treating of Count Cavour, De Tocqueville and Leigh Hunt. In 1805 
and 1866 he was on the editorial staff of the Boston Post, and from 1866 to 1868 U. 
S. consul at Nantes, France. In 1868 he was transferred from the consulship at 
Nantes to that in Bradford, England, where he remained until 1870, when he re- 
turned to Boston and became managing editor of the Coinmcrciat Hut lit in. From 
1871 to 1876 he was again connected with the lioston Post, and was later on the 
regular staff of Applcton s Journal, the Art Journal and the youth's Companion. 
In addition to the results of his journalistic work, and to his lectures on various sub- 
jects, which were always popular and attractive, he published the following original 
works and translations: "Glimpse of History," "History of Henry V, King of 
England," "American Society," " Gaborian's Mystery of Orcival," " Jules Verne's 
Tour of the World in Eighty Days." "Doctor Ox " and " The Wreck of the Chan- 
cellor," "VioUet le Due's Story of a House, " "The Principalities of the Danube, 
Modern Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria," and a number of volumes of a series of 
" Heroes in History " for young pco|)le. He also edited Harvey's " Reminiscences 
of Webster," and at various times produced " Certain Men of Mark," and " Timely 
Topics," including " England and Russia in Asia," " England in Egypt," and others, 
and published histories of England and Ireland for young people, and " The Litera- 
ture of the English Language." He was a member of the State Senate in 1890 and 
1891, and a member of the National Republican Convention in 1888. He died in 
Brookline, Mass., August 9, 1893. 

Joii.s Haskei.i. Bi iiKR, son of John and Mary J. (Barker) Butler, was born in 
Middleton, Mass., August 31, 1841. He attended the public schools of Groton and 
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Sliiiley, and tittcd i'lir collujro al Ihe Lawrence Academy in Groton. He graduated 
;it Yide in IHIilJ, and studied la.v in Charlestown in the office of John Quincy Adams 
(iiitFm and William Saint Agnan Stearns. He was admitted to the Middlesex county 
bar in October, 1.SC8, and entered into a partnership with Mr. Stearns which con- 
tinued until January, 1892. After the annexation of Charlestown to Boston in 1874 
the business of the (irm was carried on in Boston proper, and so continued until the 
dissolution of the partnership. Since that time Mr. Hutler has been alone, engaged 
in a general practice and enjoying a position at the Suffolk bar among its leading 
members. Mr. Butler was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
in 1880 and 1881, and a member of the E.\eeutive Council in 1884, '85 and 'Sfi, repre- 
senting the ;id Councillor District. In his adopted city of Somerville he has been 
and is a prominent, active and useful citizen, having served many years on the School 
l^oard and been connected with various enterprises involving the welfare and growth 
of that city. He has been many years a member of various associations, in most of 
which he has held high office. Among these may be mentioned the order of Free 
Masons, the order of Odd Fellows, the American Legion of Honor, the Grand Lodge 
of the A. O. U. W., the Home Circle, the Royal Society of Good Fellows, the New 
England Commercial Travelers' Association, etc. He married in Pittston, Penn., 
January 1, 1870, Laura L., daughter of Jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull, and has his 
residence in Somerville. 

Ai.iir.KT A. Ai'sriN was admitted to the Suffolk l)ar .\pril Ui, is.")!). He went to tlie 
war, and afterwards became clerk of the courts in one of the counties in Maine. 

Hknkv K. Bki.i.f.w was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188(1. and is now one of the 
assistants of the Superior Civil Court of that county. 

Skth C. BiRNiiAM was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 19, 18(i(i, and is believed 
to be now engaged in some business outside of the law in Farringtim, Mc. 

.Makshaii. S. Chase was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 4, 1848, and was 
associated some years in business with James A. Abbot. He afterwards moved to 
California and there died. 

Tkacv p. Chkkvkr was admitted to the Suffolk bar April 1, 1847. lie went to the 
war and has since died. 

George W. Cch.i.amore studied law with John A. Andrew, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar November 27, 1852. He went South and occupied a farm which was 
raided by the Confederates during the war. He concealed himself from the enemy 
in a well, where he was afterwards found dead. 

RissELL H. Co.NWF.i.L was practicing in Boston in 1875, but afterwards became an 
Episcopal minister. 

Benjamin F. Cooke was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 20, 1846. He after- 
wards added Cressy to his name, and was practicmg in Boston as Benjamin F. C. 
Cressy in 1861. He is now dead. 

Charles C. Dame was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 8. 18.">y, and after- 
wards moved to Newburyport. 

F. W. Dickinson was practicing in Boston in 184."), and was associated some years 
with George Bancroft. He is now dead. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. (n\ 

William R. Dimmock was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 4, 1S(W, and after- 
wards moved to New York. 

William Enh came from Nova Scotia, and after takinjj out preliminary papers 
was admitted to the Suftorlk bar before his naturalization June 'JO, 1H.")2. He finally 
returned to Nova Seotia. 

Ira Giubs was practicing in Boston in ls.")T. He was at one time city marshal. 

Gkorc.k H. Hkilhron was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ISHti, and is now praetic- 
in Seattle. 

HoK.vrio ("i. Hkrrick was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 1. W^t', and is now 
high sheritf of Essex county. 

James M. F. Howard was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 14, LSI):!, and is now 
judge of the Municipal Court of the West Roxbury District of Boston. 

P. Wkiistrr LocKK was practicing in Boston in 187."), and is now in Berlin Falls, 
Maine. 

Llkwei.i.yn Powers was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188H, and is now in Maine. 

B. F. Ri'ssELi. was practicing in Boston in 18.51, and afterwards moved to New 
York. 

Daniel E. Smith was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 18.")(i, and after- 
wards moved to California, where he became a judge. 

Ja.mf.s R. M. Sqiire was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March. 1870, and afterwards 
moved to New York. 

Bernarii S. Treanor was admitted to the Suffolk bar June •!, 1804. He wont to 
the war and has since died. 

J. Kendall Tvi.er was admitted to the Suffolk bar July '^. 18.'):!. He was in the 
Mexican war, and was also captain of a company raised for three years" service in the 
War of 1861. His company was temporarily attached to the Third and Fourth three 
months regiments at Fort Monroe, and afterwards was a part of the Twenty-ninth 
regiment. He now lives at Charlestown. 

BAiNiiRinr.E Wadleigu was born in Bradford, N. H., January 4, 18:!1. Wq was ad- 
mitted to the bar of New Hampshire in 18.")(), and practiced in Milford in that State. 
He was a member of the New Hampshire r^egislature eight years and United Slates 
senator from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1870, as the successor of James W. Patter- 
son. He was on the roll of Suffolk county attr)rneys in 1890. 

George Casper Adams graduated at Harvard in 1880 and is now at the Suffolk bar. 

Frrderiik Hari lev Ai wood graduated at Harvard in I.'<8.| and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1888. He is now at the bar. 

James Walker Austin, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1888 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. He is now at the bar. 

Walter Aistin graduatedat Harvard in 1887 and wasadmitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1800. He is now at the bar. 

William Russell Austin graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard I..aw 
School in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882 and is now at the bar. 

William Framis Bacon graduated at Harvard in I88,"i and at the Harvard Law 
SehtM)l in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1.880 and is now at the bar. 



6i2 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

CiiAKi.Ks Wrii.iAM Bacon jjratluated at Harvard in 1879, and is now at the Suffolk 
bar. 

Thomas Tn.i.sinN Hai.hwin graduated at Harvard in 188G, and was admitted to the 
the Suffolk bar in May, 1888. He is now at the bar. 

Ja( iin Banckoi-t graduated at Harvard in 1884, and at the Harvard Law School in 
1S8S. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar in 1889, and is now at the bar. 

Jamk.s Edwako Hatks graduated at Harvard in 18()4, and was practicing at the 
Suffolk bar in 18(i6. 

Wii i.iAM Hi.AiKiK graduated at Harvard in 18(i6 and at the Harvard Law School 
in I8(>8. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September Ifi, 1869. 

KuANK Ei.ioT Bradisii graduated at Harvard in 1878, and was practicing at the 
Suffolk bar in 1891. 

Wii.i.iAM Dadk Bki-.wkk, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1886, and was practicing at 
the Suffolk bar in 1889. 

Hk.nkv Nichols Bi.akk graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar June 8, 1859. 

(iKoKCK Wii.i.iAM Bkow.n graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1887. 

HoKACK P.uciwN graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Harvard Law School in 
1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1874, and died in 1883. 

AiiKAiiAM Stki'IIKNs Brisii graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1885, and was 
.admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1886. 

CvRii. Hkkiif.kt BcRDHTi- graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. 

JoN.vjiiAN Wauk BcTiKRi-iKi.i) graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1869. 

Bknjamin Mkrrick Cami'Uki.t, graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1884. ami 
was practicing at the Suffolk bar when he died in 1886. 

RoiiKRT BooDV Cavkri.v graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18:i7 and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March 8, l.s;i7. He died in 1887. 

1'"|)i;ak RoiiKR]- CiiAMi'MN graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18S(l and is now 
at the Suffolk bar. 

LoKKN/.o S. Crac.in, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1849 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 21. 1851. He died in 1875. 

John Coi.man Crowi.kv graduated at Harvard in 18.52 and at the Harvard I^aw 
School in 1857. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 19, 1856. 

'P. Ki II KHic-.K Ci .\1MINS graduated at Harvard in 188.1 and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1887. 

(iRAi- KIN Dii.ANv Ci SIMM; graduated at Harvard in 1885 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. 

John Nkwmarcii CisHiNc. graduated at Harvard in 1887 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1890. 





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Biographical register. 6.3 

LiviNosTON Cusiirxr, graduated at Harvard in IKTOand at the Harvard Law Scliool 
in 1S82. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. 

Sami'EI. LotKE CiriER, jr., graduated at Harvard in 1854, and was practicing at 
the Suffolk bar in 1860. He died in 1880. 

M..\RSEiALi. Ci'Ti.ER graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1882. 

W.M.iER Reeves Dame graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Boston University 
Law School in 1886. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. 

William Franklin Dana graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. 

Frederick Homer Darling graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1888. 

Hkriiert Henry Darling graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar October 20, 1891. 

BANCRorr Gherardi Davis graduated at Harvard in 188.j and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S8(!. 

Jerome Davis graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1850 and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar May 8 in that year. He died in 188:$. 

Benjamin Wood Davis graduated at Yale in 1875 and at the Harvard Law ,Sch<K>l 
in 1878. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Samuel Craft Davis, jr., graduated at Harvard in 186:{ and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 5, 1867, and died in 1874. 

David Taogart Dickinson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar August 4, 1891. He is now at the bar. 

Samuel Knight Dow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.54, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar December 13, 1853. 

Walter Henry Dorr graduated at Harvard in 1865, and was admitted to the Suf- 
f<ilk bar July 13, 1871. He died in 1880. 

W. Harrison Dundar graduated at Harvard in 1SS2 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1886. He is now at the Suffolk bar. 

John Emery Dow, jr. , graduated at the Harvard Law .SehcMil in \^W%. mvX was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar January 19 in that year. 

Jonathan Dwigiit graduated at Harvard in 17'.I3. and was .admitted to the Suffolk 
bar before 1807. He died in 1840. 

Edward Augustus Duriiin graduated at the Harvard I.,aw School in 1861, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1861. 

James Martin Eder graduated at the Harvard I-aw School in 18,59, and was ad- 
milted to the Suffolk bar in March of that year. 

George Herherp Eaton graduated ,it Harvard in ls«2. ami w.as practicing at the 
Suffolk bar in 1887. 

Samuel HorKiNs Emery graduated at Amherst in 1872 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18,85. 



6 14 H/ STORY OF 77 IE BENCH AND BAU. 

James Piiii.i.ii's Farley probably graduated at Harvard in 18(i.S, and is now at the 
Sufl'olk bar. 

Aniirew Oris Evans graduated at Harvard in ISTi) and at the Boston University 
Law School in 1873. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1877. 

Francis Britain Fay graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. 

Aaron Ksikv Fiseier graduated at Harvard in 1857, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar January 17, 18(il. 

KowARi) FisKE graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1889. 

Nathaniei, Lanc.don FRoriiiNciiAM graduated at Harvard in 187."), and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 1880. 

Francis Gardner graduated at Harvard in 17!):!, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1790. He was a member of Congress, and died in 183.5. 

("lEORGE Ai.iiERT Gerrish graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18.55, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar March If), 1856. He died in 18()fi. 

Joseph McKean Gihhons graduated at Harvard in 1881 and at the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School in 1884. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1884. 

Sami'ei, CorioN Gii.hert graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1883. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 23, 1 883, and died in 1885. 

ICuMiNi) GiEEoRi) graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1841, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in July, 1840. 

I'-REUERir HiNiiN(;ioN Gil. I. En graduated at Amher.st in 1874 and at the Harvard 
I^aw School in 1877. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Henry Winiiiroi' Hardo.n graduated at Harvard in 1883 and at the Harvard T„aw 
School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Frank Warren Hackeit graduated at Harvard in 181)1, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar November 19, 18()0. 

Frank Rockwooh Hali. graduated at Harvard in 1872, and is now at the Suffolk bar. 

James Francis Hari.ow graduated at Harvard in 18,s,s, and was admitted to the 
Suft'olk bar August 4, 1891. 

Kdwari) Avery Harriman graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar January 20, 1891. 

KiiwARii Aniiress HinHAKi) graduated at Harvard in 1884 and at the Harvard T,aw 
School in 1880. He was admitted to the SulTolk bar in 1880. 

Ciiari.es Henry Hiihrei ii graduated at Harvard in 1804, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar December 14, 1807. He died in 1878. 

Gkiirge Nicholas HnciicocK graduated at Yale in 1804 and at the Harvard T^aw 
School in 1807. He was admitted to the Suft'olk bar Ajjril 19, 1800. 

Akiih R Parker Hodgkins graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18,82, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18S3. 

Franklin Wh.i.iam Hooper graduated at Harvard in 1875, and was at the Suf- 
folk bar in 1890. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 615 

EiU'.N SiioTWKi.i. Jacui Ks }{ra Uiat<.-(1 at lliu Harvard F^aw School in l«4"i, ami was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 20, 1810. 

John Kidkkr graduated at Harvard in 1T!I;{, and was at the Suffolk bar in 17!(7. 
He died in 1810. 

Cn.vKi.KS C.VKKoi.L King graduated at Harvard in ISS,") and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1888. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in ISUO. 

Lorenzo Lane graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18()1, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar June 23, 1860. He died in 18(57. 

Aiiiiorr L.vwKENCE graduated at Harvard in 1841) and at the Harvard Law School 
in 18G3. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 1864. 

Aiiiiorr Lawrence, jr., graduated at Harvard in 187.") and at llic Harvard Law- 
School in 1877. He wasadmitted to the Suffolk bar September 15, ISKO, and died in 1882. 

Ai.KREii French Lank graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188."). 

Arihur PREscorr LornRt))' graduated at Harvard in 1882, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1886. 

John Jacoh Lol'D graduated at Harvard in 1866, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar February 2, 1872. 

Chari.es Taylor Loverinc. graduated at Harvard in 1868 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1870. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 26, 1878, and is now 
at the bar. 

John Pi.imer Lyons graduated at Harvard in 1882, and is now at the Suffolk bar. 

Austin Agnew Martin graduated at Harvard in 1873 and at the Boston University 
Law School in 187,5. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February 28, 1876, and died 
in 1890. 

Henry Farniiam May graduated at Harvard in 1881, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1884. 

George Lowell Maybirv graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School in 1885. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Thomas W. McGrath graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1865, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1865. 

George Harrison McGrew graduated at the Wesleyan University, Conn., in 1870 
and at the Harvard Law School in 1873. He was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1873. 

Elijah Hedding Merrill graduated at West Point in 1878 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1883. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883. 

William Peiterki i. Mont.vue graduated at Harvard in 186i), and was a tutor in 
the college after graduation. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1871. 

Nathan Newmark graduated at the University of California in 1873 and at the 
Harvard Law School in 1875. He w-as admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1875. 

George Dana XtivKs graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1854. He is now at the bar. 

Henry Ernest O.xnard graduated at Harvard in 18.86 and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1889. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188!>. 



6i6 in STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

John AiGisi is Haci. ifriuUiatcil at the University of Paris in 1852 and at the Har- 
vard Law School in ISSli. IIu was admitted to the Suffolk luir November 20, 1855, 
and died in I88:i. 

JosKrii Nkwki.i, Pai.mek graduated at Harvard in 18S(i and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1880. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. 

\Vn. 1,1AM (Ir.oKia-: Pei.lkw graduated at Harvard in 1880 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1884. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1884. 

Hi'.NKV (i(ii)i)AKi) Pi(Ki-,Ki.N'(; graduated at Harvard in 18(i!) and at tile Harvard Law 
School in 1871. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1890. 

Wii.i.AKi) yriN'cv Piiii. MI'S graduated at Harvard in 185.') and at tlie Harvard Law 
School in 1858. He was at the Suffolk bar in 18();5. 

Hi-.NUV PicKKKiNc graduated at Harvard in 18()1, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar November 10, 18(i;j. 

Joii.Nso.N 'l\"iTi.K Pi.ATT graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18li5, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 13, 1885. He died in 1890. 

CnAULKs Cooi.iDCK Rkad graduated at Harvard in 1804 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1807. He is now at the Suffolk bar. 

Gii.Ks Hopkins Rich graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1859, and is now at 
the Suffolk bar. 

EiKJAR JiDso.N Ri( 11 graduated at Harvard in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar January 30, 1891. 

Jamks RrrciiiK graduated at Harvard in 1835, and was at one time mayor of Rox- 
bury. He was practicing at the Suff'olk bar in 1808, and was drowned in Massachu- 
setts Bay in 1873. 

Thomas Fkancis Ruiiakdso.n graduated at Brown University in 1852 and at the 
1 larvard Law School in 1854. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 17, 1855. 

Gkorge Lewis Ruefin graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1869, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar September 18, 1869. He died in 1886. 

Nathamei. CiRTis Scovii.i.E graduated at Harvard in 1864 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar October 31, 1865. 

Aki iiiK Wesi.ev Sim graduated at Harvard in 1885, and was at the Suffolk bar in 
1889. 

Hknkv Mi'NsoN Si'ELM.VN graduated at Harvard in 1884, and is now at the Suffolk bar. 

James Monroe Stevens graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1858, and was at 
the Suffolk bar in 1863. 

John HuMi'iiREVs Storer graduated at Harvard in 1882 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1885. He was at the Suffolk bar i« 1885. 

Jaioh Storv, jr., graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar January 4, 1847. 

Roger Faxton Sturgis graduated at Harvard in 1884, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1887. He is now at the bar. 

Lynde Sci.i.ivan graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar January 20, 1891. 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 617 

Ai.iiu-.ii Tachakt j;r:uluated at Beloit College, Wiseonsin. in IHoli, ami al the Har- 
vard Law School in 1858. Ho was admitted t<j the SulTolk bar February 1(1. 1M58. 

Thomas Taylor, jr., graduated at Kno.x College, Illinois, in 1881, and al the Har- 
vard Law School in 188.'). He was admitted to the SutTolk bar in 188«. 

W'li.i.iAM Tk.mim.k graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1874, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar June 23. 1874. 

RoiiKKi Mkans Tho.mtso.n graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 180.S, 
and at the Harvard Law School in 1874. Me was admitted to the SutTolk bar Octo- 
ber 10, 1873. 

CiiAKi.F.s Marti.n Thavkk graduated at Harvard in 1889, and was admitted to the 
SutTolk bar August 4, 1891. 

C11ARI.FS Jackson Tiiorndikf. graduated at Harvard in 1849, and became a mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1880. 

William Goodrich Thompson graduated at Harvard in 1888, and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar October 13, 1891. 

Walter Ciikcki.f.v Tiffany graduated at Harvard in IS.Sl. and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. 

Nicholas Tillinghast received an honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1807, and 
was at one time a member of the Suffolk bar. He died in 1818. 

Edward W. Emery Tomi'son graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1870, and in 
December of that year was admitted to the SutTolk bar. He is now at the bar. 

William Den.man Tildf.n graduated at Racine University, Wisconsin, in 1874, and 
at the Harvard Law School in 1870. He was admitted to the SutTolk bar in Febru- 
ary. 1876. 

James Ale.xander Tvng graduated at Harvard in ls7(i. and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in May, 1879. 

Gl'stavus Henry Wald graduated at Yale in 1H73, and at the Harvard Law 
Schcx>l in 1875. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in March. 187."). 

Her.mann Jackso.n Warner graduated at Harvard in 1850, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 18.52. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar July 5. 1S53. 

Benjamin D.\vis Washbirn graduated al the Harvard Law School in 1870, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar October 8, 1870. 

Sa.mlel Farrei.l Wehi! graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18(39. ami was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 20. 1809. He died in 18,S7. 

Siiles Ganneti Weils, son of Samuel and Kate Gannett Wells, graduated al 
Harvard in 1886. and was admitted to the SutTolk bar in 1890. He is now at the bar. 

Sidney Wef.morf graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 1885. 

Horace Osc.vr WiirnEMoRE graduated at Harvard in 1853, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar January 16. 1809. He died in 1871. 

William Aistin WiiiriNr; graduated at Harvard in 1877. and at the Boston Uni- 
versitv Law School in 1879. He was admitted to the SutTolk bar in July, 1879. 



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HISTORY OF 'HIE BENCH AND BAR. 



CiiAKi r.s Ai.KXA.NKKK Willi lEMoKE gradiuitcil al Ilaivanl in ISSo, and is mnv at llie 
Suffolk bar. 

Al icxANDi-.K WiiiTNKV graduated at Harvard in is;{l, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in April, 18;37. He died in 1.S42. 

Eiiso.N Lkiixk WinTNKV graduated at Harvard in 1SS5, and at the Huston Univer- 
sity Law School in 1.S87. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. 

J()ii.\ Hknkv Wujmork graduated at Harvard in 1883, and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1887, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1887. He is at the head of 
the law school in Tokio, Japan, and a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great 
Britain. 

George Didi.ev Wildes graduated at Harvard in 1873, and at the Boston Univer- 
sity Law .School in 187."). He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 187.5. 

AiiEi. Theoduiu'. Wi.nn graduated at Harvard in 18.")!), and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in Se])tember, 18G3. 

Henkv Hedden Wi.nsi.ow graduated at the Harvard Law School in 187'2, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in December of that year, 

Andrew Woods graduated at Harvard in 1877, and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1885. He was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1.S8."). 

George Hi.^nrv Woods graduated at Brown in 18."):i, and at the Harvard Law School 
in 185.5. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June 18.50, and died in 1884. 

Edward Clarence Wright graduated at Harvard in 1886, and at the Harvard Law- 
School in 1889. He was at the Suffolk bar in 1.889. 

Ei'iiKAiM Wool) Yoi \G graduated at Harvard in l.'<48, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar October 15, 18.56. 



The following attorneys were either admitted to the Suffolk bar at the dates speci- 
fied or were i)iacticing at said bar as early as the dates indicate. Those marked 
with an asterisk (*) are now at the bar. 



*Charles E. Abbott, admitted Oct. 5, 1864. 
* George C. Abbott, admitted March 22, 

18,80. 
Grafton T. Abbott, admitted 1879. 
Ira E. Abbott, practicing in 1875. 
John G. Abbott, admitted Nov. 8, 1876. 
Nathan I). Abbott, admitted in 1882. 
*S. I'. Abbott, admitted iMarch 8, 1,S72. 
I). L. Aberdain, i)racticing in 1860. 
Chas. True Adams, admitted July 14, 1868. 
Coleman S. Adams, admitted March Ki, 

1849. 
John K. Adams, admitted in 1818. 
Joseph T. Adams, practicing in 1844. 
Julius Adams, admitted in 1876. 



W. Robert Adair, admitted Jan. 24, 1857. 
Albion A. Adams, practicing in 188.5. 
Walter Adavis, admitted in 187;5. 
Cyrus Alden, practicing in 181.S. 
Edwin G. Alexander, admitted in 1884. 

* Charles E. Allen, admitted in l.'^87. 
(Jeorge A. Allen, admitted Ai)ril 25, l.s.5.5. 
Harris Allen, admitted Jan. 14. 18(>4. 
Sam. W. K. Allen, admitted June 5, 1875. 

* George 1). Alden, practicing in 1891. 
Arthur M. Alger, admitted in 1876. 

H. (). Alden, practicing in 18.53. 
Samuel C. Allen, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
*H. N. Allen, admitted before 18.87. 



hlOGRAPmCAL REGISTER. 



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A. B. Alnion, admitted July 0. \^'^'l. 
Ferdinand I>. Andrews, admitted Jan. 1, 

1849. 
Callison C. Andrews, admitted May 27, 

IHHO. 
John II. Andrews, admitted Oct. 31, ISGO. 
\Vm. N. Andrews, admitted June 4, 1852. 
Frank H. Angicr, admitted Feb. I, 1873. 
\Vm. J. Apthorp, admitted Nov. 2, 1821. 
J. L. Andrews. i)ractieing in 187."). 
Isaac Angell, |)rai.ticin,a; in 1879. 
Samuel R. Archer, admitted llec. 12, 

186:!. 
*Zenas S. Arnold, practicing in 1890. 
Herman Askena.sy, practicing in 1867. 
George E. Atkins, admitted in 1870. 
J. Augustus Atkins, admitted in 18.')7. 
J. Atkinson, admitted in 18ri2. 
Edward Austin, admitted Jan. :!1. 1S()7. 
D. J. Atwood, practicing in 1.S7.S. 
Charles U. Atwood, practicinsj in 1878. 
Wm. P. Austin, admitted in 1873. 
George W. Averil, practicing in 1885. 
* Albert E. Avery, practicing in 1890. 
Phineas Aver, practicing in 185(i. 
Joseph C. Ayer, admitted Nov. 20, 1886. 
C. A. Babbitt, practicing in 1882. 
Charles H. Bacon, admitted April 11, 1854. 
H. C. Bacon, practicing in is.sl. 
Frederick A. Bacon, admitted Nov. 9. 18(!3. 
Thomas S. Bacon, admitted March, 1845. 
Gardner W. Bailey, practicing in 1878. 
L. B. Bailey, practicing in 1878. 
Fisher Ames Baker, admitted June 2(>, 

18B0. 
John R. Baker, practicing in 18fi6. 
Wm. P. Baker, practicing in \'<i'i. 
Joseph Balch. practicing in 1813. 
Horace E. Baldwin, admitted May 15, 

1848. 
Benjamin W. Ball, admitted July 11. 18411. 
Wm. A. Ball, practicing in IsOO. 
•John Ballantyne, practicing in 1801. 
Henry Barnard, admitted before 1807. 
Thomas F. Barr, admitted Nov. 8, 1H.59. 
Samuel B. Barrell, admitted Jan. 15, 1813. 
♦Thomas W. Barrelle, practicing in 1890. 
Edward I. l'..irritt. adinitlud in 18,83. 



A. L. Bartlctt, admitted in 1887. 
Charles Bartlett, admitted Dec. 19, 18(iO. 
I). C. Bartlett, practicing in 1H90. 
Henry P. Barbour, admitted Feb., 1880. 
J. N. Barbour, practicing in 1870. 
Charles S. Barker, admitted Feb.. 1870. 
James M. Barker, admitted Oct., 1830. 
Isaac A. Barnes, practicing in IKSi. 
Allison A. Bartlett, admitted Nov. 22, 

18.55, 
A. B. Bartlett, practicing in 1857. 
Bradbury C, Bartlett, practicing in 1857. 
Charles E. Barber, practicing in 1887. 
George W. Bartlett, practicing in 1878. 
Horace E. Bartlett, admitted June. 1881. 
Wm. Bartlett, practicing in 1800. 

* R. C. Bayldone, practicing in 1890. 
I':d\vard A. Bayley, admitted Aug, 4. 1S91 . 
J. C. M. Bayley, practicing in 1890. 
Frederick K. Bartlett, admitted Dec. 28, 

1844. 
James Barrett, admitted Jan. 24, 1848. 
Leroy Batchelder, admitted May 13, 1870. 
John M. Batchelder, practicing in 18,50. 
Clark A. Batchelder, practicing in 1S73. 
L. B. Batchelder, practicing in 1808. 
Leon 11. Bateman. admitted in 1883. 
Elijah Bates, admitted before 1807. 

* Edward S. Beach, practicing in 1M90. 
George F. Beck, admitted Nov. 23, 1847. 
John W. Bell, admitted in 1884. 
Waylan E. Benjamin, admitted May, 1S79. 
Francis M. Bennett, admitted May 22, 

1874. 
Isaac C. Bemis, admitted Oct. 22, 1.840. 
Seth Bemis, practicing in 18>I2. 
C. M. Bennett, practicing in 1870. 
Santiago C. Bello, practicing in 1855. 
Edward S. Bellows, practicing in 1837. 

* Frank T. Benncr. practicing in 1891. 
John R. Bennett, practicing in 1882. 
Edward F. Benson, admitted in 18«2. 
W. H. Bent, practicing in 18!H). 

Abel B. Berry, admitted July. 1840. 
John W. Berry, practicing in 1807. 
O. Ewing Betton. admitted Oct. 0. 1.84(1. 
Horace Bickford. admitted Feb. 12, 1S45. 
Barnabas Bidwell, admitted before |S07. 



HISTORY OF THE MENCH AND BAR. 



Oliver Bigelow, admitted Alarcli, 1817. 
Jcihn J. Bigelow, practicing; in 1848. 
* George I). Bigelow, admitted Feb. 1878. 
SamnelC. Bigel(>\v,admittedAiig.3(),1848. 
Washington Bissell, practicing in 1889. 
Frederick M. Bixby, admitted in 1884. 
James L. Black, admitted June, 1809. 
*PauI R. Blackmiir.admitted Jan. 20,1891. 
Omar Binney, practicing in 1870. 
Jonathan P. Bishop, jiracticing in 18.53. 
\Vm. N. Blair, admitted Nov. h, 1,S47. 
Thomas Blanchard, admitted before 1807. 
Charles F. Blandin, practicing in 1871. 
Henry C. Bliss, practicing in 1890. 
George B. Blodgett, admitted Oct. 20, 

1808. 
Thomas Bloomfield, admitted in 1890. 
Jarvis Blume, admitted May ;iO. 1876. 
J. C. Bodwell, practicing in 1860. 
Simeon Bowen, admitted June '■\. IS.'jO. 
Abel Boynton, admitted in 1.807. 
Moss K. Booth, admitted April 8, 1S.")1. 
T. C. Bowdich, practicing in 1871. 
Thomas J. Boynton, admitted in 1889. 
AVm. E. Boynton, admitted June, 1868. 
Charles Bradbury, admitted in 1813. 
Joseph H. Bragdon, practicing in 1803. 
Charles R. Brainard, admitted March 

20, 1870. 
Charles A. Braley, admitted in 1886. 
P. N. Branch, admitted in 1890. 
Ellery M. Brayton, admitted July 1 1, 1806. 
Will. Breck, admitted May 13, 1878. 
Frederick A. Bredeen, admitted Feb. 26, 

1883. 
J. F. Brenne;i, practicing in 1877. 
Klias Bremer, admitted before 1807. 
S. J. Bradlee, practicing in 1876. 
Ileman Bragg, practicing in 1877. 
*J. O. Bradbury, practicing in 1891. 
Henry A. Brigham, admitted June, 1870. 
Wui. T. Brigham, admitted Sep. 16. 1867. 
A. N. Briggs, admitted April 23, 1866. 
*Benjamin F. Briggs, practicing in 1890. 
Cephas Brigham, admitted March 9, 1808. 
Walter C. Brinsley, admitted Nov. 22, 

1874. 



Philip R. Brodey, admitted in 1883. 
Ira H. Brown, admitted in 1889. 
*Francis Brooks, practicing in 1890. 
*Wm. G. Brooks, admitted in 1884. 
Otis L. Bridges, admitted Nov. 12, 1844. 
C. Brigham, practicing in 1867. 
Alvin M. Brooks, practicing in 18.58. 
Charles M. Brooks, practicing in 1861. 
P. C. Brooks, practicing in 1871. 
Augustus J. Brown, admitted May 12, 

1838. 
Calvin H. Brown, admitted Oct. 17, 1803. 
*Charles F. Brown, jiracticing in 1890. 
Charles H. Brown, practicing in 1.89(1. 
David W. Brown, admitted June 18, 1809. 
Isaac Brown, admitted Oct. 14, 1851. 
Jeremiah Brown, practicing in 1852 ; dead. 
John H. Brown, admitted Dec. 15, 186.5. 
*Sidney P. Brown, admitted in 1887. 
Thomas B. Brown, admitted April 11,1855. 
Frank II. Brown, admitted June, 1876. 
Henry G. Brown, admitted Sep. 11, 1872. 
Dana Browne, admitted July, 18.54. 
Kphraini Browne, admitted April 21,18.54. 
John H. Brownson, admitted June, 18.54. 
Wm. J. Brownson, admitted F"eb. 18.5.5. 
Henry B Bryant, admitted Oct. 1877. 
(t. C. V. Buchanan, admitted March 17, 

18.55. 
Edward Buck, practicing in 1844: dead. 
J. H. Buckingham, admitted March 6, 

18.52; dead. 
C. A. Bucknam, practicing in 1880. 
John S. Bugbee, admitted July 19, 1802. 
Elias Bullard, admitted in 1826. 
F. E. Bryant, practicing in 1881. 
Eli Bullard, admitted before 1807. 
C. W. Buck, practicing in 1860. 
Edward B. Bureee, admitted A])ril 22, 

1891. 
Albert G. Burke, admitted April, 1.8,55. 
Win. R. Burleigh, admitted March 27, 

1875. 
Samuel A. Burns, admitted in 1831. 
Samuel C. Burr, admitted Oct. 18.54. 
Sanford S. Burr, admitted May 18, 1865. 
E. T. Burr, practicing in 1873. 




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B. F. Huniham, practicinjj in ISfiS. 
Charles J. Burns, admitted Jan. 24, 1S74. 
John H. Burt, admitted October, 187«. 
Ellsworth T. Buss, admitted June 10, 

1873; dead. 
Benjamin Butler, admitted Jan. l."i, \^VS. 
John L. Butler, practicing iivlH78. 
M. Butler, practicing in 184o. 
Edward Butt, admitted Nov. 13, 1843. 
Edgar R. Butterworth, admitted A])ril, 

187.-). 
Edward K. Bullock, practicing in ls.")(i. 
George A. Byam, practicing in 1866. 
F. B. B\Tam, practicing in 1877. 
Eben E. Cady. admitted Jan. 10, 1848. 
Middleton A. Caldwell, practicing in 1890. 
John Cahill, practicing in 1877. 
Jonathan Callender, admitted before 

1807. 
George E. Campbell, practicing in 1863. 
W. L. Campbell, admitted June 17, 1869. 
Phineas Capen, admitted Nov. 16, 1849. 
D. >f. H. Carpenter, admitted Jan. 10, 

1848. 
James E. Carpenter, admitted May 7, 

18,-i9. 
Robert W. Carpenter, admitted June 4, 

1834. 
Charles A. Carpenter, admitted Oct. 4, 

1871. 
Henry H. Carrington, admitted April. 

1890. 
Charles W. Carroll, admitted March, 1861. 
George P. Carroll, admitted in 1886. 
*\V. W. Carter, admitted Oct. 14, 1863. 
*P. J. Casey, practicing in 189(1. 
Andrew J. Ca.ss, practicing in 1804. 
Anderson Cartwright, admitted Nov. 9, 

1857. 
Nathan C. Cary, practicing in 188.-(. 
John D. Catlin, admitted April 4, 1849. 

C. E. Ceney, admitted July, I860. 
Thomas E. Chase, admitted Dec. 31,18H,->. 
Ichabod R. Chadbourne, admitted April, 

1812. 
Ward Chadwick. admitted April 11, 18,19- 
George A. \V. Chamberlain, admitted 

March 29. Is.^.ii d.-.id 



Edwin M. Chamberlain, admitted May 

10, 1867. 
Franklin Chamberlin, admitted July 10, 

184.->. 
Christopher E. Champlin, admitted in 

1SSI. 
Everett S. Chandler, admitted in 188.->. 
James E. Chandler, admitted in 1889. 
*Edward M. Cheney, admitted June 2, 

1860. 
Charles W. Chase, admitted in 1884. 
J. M. Cheney, admitted in 188,j. 
Wm. H. Chickering, admitted May, 1875. 
Calvin G. Chdd, admitted Jan. 11, 18.58. 
Wm. O. Childs, admitted July 19, 1886. 
Charles H. Chellis, admitted June, 1872; 

dead. 
A. P. Chittenden, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. 
Ozias Goodwin Chapman, admitted Oc- 
tober 8, 1845; dead. 
Wm. M. Chase, admitted June 3, 1848. 
P. E. Chattis, admitted April 12, 1831. 
John Chenie, admitted May, 1878. 
Lucius \\. Chandler, admitted February 

7, 184.5. 
James W. Chapman, practicing in 188,5. 
IT. B. Chilson, practicing in 1881. 
Almon J. Clark, admitted October, 1874. 
Edwin R. Clark, admitted Feb. 19. 1862. 
Joseph F. Clark, practicing in 18.5(i; dead. 
Joseph T. Clark, practicing in 1864. 
Wm. H. Clark, admitted in 1882. 
Moses Clark, admitted in 1SH4. 
(Jardiner H. Clarke, admitted June, 1855. 
•George W. Clarke, practicing in 1891. 
»Isaiah R. Clarke, admitted Feb., is7<i. 
*I. P. Clarke, practicing in 1890. 
Wm. Clcland, practicing in 1864. 
C. W. Clement, practicing in 1881. 
T>. H. Clement, practicing in 1890. 
Joseph M. Clarke, admitted Dec. 11, 186.5. 
R. P. Clark, practicing in 1883. 
T. E. Clark, practicing in 18.59. 
Henry A. Clifford, admitted in I8.84. 
John I). Clough, admitted in 1885. 
John Clougherty, admitted in 188s. 
Daniel J. Coluirn. admitted Mar. 13, 1862; 

dead. 



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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Frederic Cochrane, admitted Oct. 13, 1S(!(). 

I. F. Coffin, admitted October, 1809. 

Robert L. Colby, admitted Nov. 22, 1S4«. 

l'-d\vard !■". Collins, admitted July <>, !>**•>. 

Daniel C. Coleswortliy, admitted April 
17, 1S.-)S. 

Arllinr 1). Collins, admitted April 22, 
ISTf). 

John C. Colby, admitted (dale imknown). 

I'atriek \V. Colleary, admitted June 1!), 
18G9. 

*Clement H. Colman, practicing in ]si)0. 

Henry \V. B. Cotton, admitted Nov., 
1880. 

\\m. M. Connelly, admitted .March, I8(i7. 

\Vm. T. Connelly, admitted July, 1804. 

Thomas K. K. Conrad, admitted IJeeem- 
ber, 1875. 

*R. T. Conroy, practicing in 18!)!. 

F. A. W. Converse, practicing in 17(i2. 

TX E. Concry, practicing in 1881. 

H. H. Coney, practicing in 188."). 

v. T. Conly, practicing in 18.50. 

Sebron T. Conlee, practicing in 187T. 

Edward J. Conaty, practicing in 1882. 

*Charles P. Cook, practicing in 1891. 

James Cook, practicing in 1811. 

Lyman I). Cook, admitted in 188.'). 

Henry E. Cooper, admitted Nov., 1879. 

Harvey T. Corning, admitted in 1885. 

R. Abernethj- Corrigan, admitted Octo- 
ber, 1877. 

Joseph P. Costino, admitted in 1882. 

Henry E. Cottle, admitted in 1882. 

*J. H. Cotton, practicing in 1S9() 

John J. Cotton, admitted July, 1890. 

R. B. Covcrly, practicing in 1838. 

* Alfred C. Cowan, practicing in 1890. 

Charles Cowley, practicing in 1872. 

Charles T. Cox. admitted July 21, 18(i2. 

John E. Coslello, admitted in 1883. 

H. M. Covey, practicing in 18S2. 

R. Cormack, practicing in 1877. 

Lebron T. Cornice, admitted June, 187f!. 

Wallace Corthell, practicing in 1870. 

Daniel J. Cowen, practicing in 1879. 

James O. Coyt, admitted March, 1868. 



* E. H. Crandall, practicing in 1890. 
John H. Crane, admitted Oct., 1807. 
Royal S. Crane, admitted Nov. 17, 1859. 

* Frank I>. Cressy, admitted in 1885. 
Austin P. Cristy, practicing in 1875. 
I^emuel E. Croane, practicing in 1878. 

G. H. Crockett, admitted Dec. 11, 1844; 

dead. 
Samuel R. Crocker, practicing in 1804. 

* F. T. Crommett, practicing in 1891. 
Wni. G. Crosby, admitted Oct. 182(i. 

* S. W. Culver, practicing in 1890. 

* John W. Cummings, practicing in 

ISill. 

Wm. Cummings, practicing in 1880. 
Nathan Cunningham, practicing in 1890. 
Joseph M. Cunly, practicing in 1889, 
Thomas Curley, practicing in 1890. 
John Currier, jr., admitted Sept. 1855. 
O. S. Currier, practicing in 1890. 
Daniel N. Crowley, practicing in 18T8. 
Cyrus Cummings, practicing in 1842: 
dead. 

* fieorge E. Curry, practicing in 1887. 
John C. Crowninshield, admitted Jan. 1, 

1847. 
Soreno E. I). Currier, admitted .Sep. 13. 
1800. 

* George S. Cu.shing, admitted April 30, 

1844. 
Joseph A. Cutter, admitted Nov. 7. 1801. 
Ralph H. Cutter, practicing in 1890. 
Henry L. Cushing, admitted Nov. 3, 

184.5. 
Martin G. Cushing. admitted March 4, 

18.52. 
Austin S. Cushing. practicing in 1859. 
Arey F. Cushman, admitted in 1885. 
Jothan Cushman, admitted before 1807. 
Walter S. Cushman, admitted Jan. 10. 

1865. 
Edward S. Cutter, admitted April 30. 

1807. 
Joseph Cutler, practicing in 1845; dead. 
Nathan Cutler, admitted Jan. 14, 1874. 
Wm. A. Dame, practicing in 1890. 

* Arthur P. Dana, admitted July, 1890. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



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F. A. I)ana, practicing in 1S.")7. 
♦Peter Ualey, practiciiiji; in 18i(l. 
Augustus J. Daly, admitted in 1H8T. 
Henry C. Dana, admitted Jan. 31, ISfH. 
John C. Danforth, admitted Nov. (>, 1S4S. 
Samuel C. Darling, admitted Oct. 4, 1«()7. 
Edward C. David, admitted Xov. 17, 

18.J3. 
J. B. David, admitted April 3, 1821. 
* James T. Davidson, admitted July, 

1890. 
Edward H. Davis, admitted April 21, 

1841. 
Abner Davis, admitted Jan. 27, 1819. 
A. W. D. Daniels, practicing in 1882. 
A. C. Darby, practicing in 187.5. 
E. Davis, practicing in 1871. 
Frank Davis, admitted Aiiril, IH-IS. 
Benjamin C. Dean, practicing in 186U. 
Frank A. Dean, admitted Aug. 4, 1881. 
Timothy Davis, practicing in 187.8. 
Thomas H. Davis, admitted Oct., 1830. 
John E. Day, admitted Feb., 1876. 
C. M. Dawes, practicing in 1879. 
Willard A. Davis, admitted in 188.5. 
Henry L. Dawes, jr.. admitted in 1887. 
Mark Davis, practicing in 1860. 
Frank A. Dearborn, practicing in 1885. 
Joseph W. Dearborn, practicing in 1885. 
N. A. L. Dearborn, admitted bef(jre 1807. 
John F. Dearington, admitted March 4, 

1874. 
George Dennison, admitted Jan., 18.)0. 
\Vm. Dennison, jr., admitted March, 1810. 
Seth P. Dewey, admitted before 1807. 
Andrew Dexter, jr., admitted Oct., 1802. 
Samuel G. Dexter, admitted before 1807. 
Joseph F. Dearborn, practicing in 1.885. 
Samuel Dexter, jr., admitted Aijril, 1812; 

dead. 
•F. B. Deane. practicing in 1801. 
George W. Decosta. admitted Dec. 18.58. 
Elmer (i. Derby, admitted July. 1840. 
Samuel H. Devotion, admitted Apr.. 1810. 
George P. Deshon, practicing in |.*<88. 
. T. M. Dewey, admitted Oct. 28, l.s.55. 



Elijah F. Dewing, admitted April 10. 

18.58. 
J. Dickinson, admitted before 1807. 
\V. Dickinson, admitted Sept. 5, 1844. 

* \Vm. Dickson, jiracticing in 1890. 
David Dickey, admitted July 13, 1840. 

F. J. Dieter, admitted in 1884. 

George W. Dillon, admitted Sep. 14. 1868. 
James F. Dillon, admitted Feb.. 1881. 
Oliver Dimon. admitted Feb.. 1844. 
Athur P. Dodge, practicing in l.'iOl). 
Frederick B. Dodge, admitted Sep. 17. 
1868. 

* George C. Dickson, practicing in 1891. 
Wm. C. Dillingham, practicing in 187.5. 
Francis B. Dixon, admitted Apnl 12, 

1886. 
Charles H. Donahue, admitted in 1.883. 
John F. Dore. admitted Nov. 21, 1881. 
Samuel A. Dorr, admitted Sep. 1.5, 1860. 

G. S. Dow.se, practicing in 18,54. 

Ellis R. Drake, admitted Oct. 28. 1865. 

F. L. Drake, admitted in 1887. 

Samuel W. Dolling, admitted March 3, 

1869. 
Wm. A. Dowe. admitted April 22, 1863. 
James 1 )o\vdall. practicing in 1.88,8. 

* Wilton E. Drake, practicing in 1891. 
David F. Drew, admitted July. 1846. 
(Jeorge W. Drew, admitted July. 1874. 
John T. Drew, practicing in 1876. 
Edward C. Dubois, admitted March 17, 

1871. 
Charles Dummer. admitted Oct.. 1817. 
Frederick C. Dumpfel. admitted Sep. 13. 

1873. 
Eugene 1. Drew, practicing in 188,5. 
David 1). Duncan, admitted in 18.83.' 
»Wm. P. Duncan, practicing in 18iMt. 
Charles G. M. Dunham, admitted Feb 

17. 1869. 
Edmund Dwight. practicing in 1.808. 
H. W. Dwight, practicing in 184><. 
Clinton Eager, admitted in 18.86. 
Ithamar B. Fames, admitti ' ^" M, 

1.S46. 



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lllSTOKY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Win. II. Eastiiuin, practicing in lMr)4. 

*E. v.. I^aton. practicing in 18!)0. 

Patrick D. Dwyer, practicing date un- 
known. 

JIark 11. Dnrgin, practicing May, 18(i7. 

Daniel 11. iJustin, practicing in 1844. 

Warren Dutton, practicing in 1844. 

All)crt Dwight, practicing in 187.5. 

Thomas B. Eaton, admitted March, 1872. 

Thomas G. Eaton, admitted in 1882. 

Thomas J. Eckley, admitted July, 1807. 

E. E. Ivlwards, practicing m 188:5. 

Charles W. Eldridge, practicing in 1884. 

John J. Eldridge, admitted July IS, 1842. 

Wm. Elliot, jr., admitted Oct., 1829. 

James Ellis, admitted before 1807; dead. 

James M. Ellis, admitted Dec. 17, 1858. 

Nathaniel Ellis, practicmg in 1885. 

Charles F. Eddy, admitted Sep. 8, 1891. 

Frederick A. Ellis, admitted in 1883. 

John Elwyn, admitted March, 1827. 

Henry W. Ely, admitted Dec, 1874. 

Wm. Ely, adinitted before 1807. 

Charles II. Emerson, admitted April 111. 
1849. 

Oeorge W. Emery, admitted Sejj. 27, 
1S59. 

Alfred Ennis, admitted in 18.S;5. 

Charles N. Emerson, practicing in 1844. 

James W. Emery, practicing in 1858. 

James Emery, practicing in 1809. 

Willard F. Estey, practicing in 1869. 

* Edward Everett, admitted in 1884. 
Samuel L. Fairtield, practicing in 18S5, 
Henry F. Fuller, practicing in 18.>8. 
Fhili]) (). Farley, admitted in 1887. 
Henry B. Evans, admitted in 1889. 

C. W. Everett, practicing in 1878. 

* James K. Fagin, practicing in 1891. 
W. C Farnsworth, practicing in 18(i;i. 

* Frank A. Farnhani, admitted in 18.S4. 
Wm. H. Farrar, admitted Jan., 1848. 
John Farric, jr., admitted Xov. 0, 1818. 
Frederick Farrow, ])racticing in 1890. 
Timothy I'arrar, admitted May 7, 184-1. 
Samuel D. Fclker. admitted in 1887, 



Alexander C. Felton, admitted Oct. 24, 

1853. 
A. J. Fenwick, admitted in 1889. 
Henry H. Fernald, admitted Jan. 17, 

1854. 
Robert Field, admitted April, |S(»5. 
Abner C. Fish, admitted Jan. 24, I8()(i. 
Albert (i. Fisher, practicing in 1S70. 
Herbert T. Fisher, practicing in 1890. 
Henry M. Fisk, admitted before 1807. 
James H. Fisk, admitted May, 1S80. 
Benjamin D. Fessenden, admitted April 

20, 1828. 
Justin Field, practicing in 1837; dead. 
Mansell B. Field admitted July 5, 18.59. 
Sidney A. Fisher, practicing in 1885. 
Amasa Fisk, practicing in lSl;i. 
James W. Fenno, admitted April, 1831. 
John L. Fenton, admitted June 20, 1800. 
George E. Filkins, practicing in 1M77. 
George Fitch, admitted Oct., 1834. 
Alfred W. Fitz, admitted in 18«7. 
James Fitzgerald, admitted in 18.83. 
James E. Flagg, admitted April 7, 1854. 
George A. Flanders, admitted June 4, 

18G1. 
*C. H. Fleming, practicing in 1890. 
John S. Flagg, adinitted April, 187.5. 
George M. Flanders, practicing m 1859. 
Josiah Fletcher, admitted Jan. 25, 1863. 
Jesse L. Floyd, admitted Feb., 1846. 
Samuel E. Floyd, admitted May 30, 1862 
M. T. Foley, practicing in 1890. 
George H. Folger, practicing in 187.5. 
Charles S. Forbes, admitted in 1889. 
Edward Ford, practicing in 1889. 
Josiah Forsaith, practicing in 1.S22. 
*II. W. Folsom, admitted in 1892. 
Arthur F. Foster, admitted in 1889. 
John L. Foster, admitted Oct. ti, 1869. 
George Foster, admitted Jan. 28, 1H15. 
George S. Foster, admitted Oct., 1833. 
Henry A. Folsom, admitted June 6, 1824. 
Jonathen Fowle, jr., admitted Nov. 16, 

1814. 
Erwin J. Francis, admitted June 13, 1881. 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



625 



Francis K. Freeman, admitted Nnv. 1. 

184.S. 
ICbenezer French, practicinjj in 1S.")'2. 
Henry F. French, admitted Sep. o, ISUO. 
Ralph S. French, admitted in 18S7. 
Wm. H. French, practicing in ISflO. 
George S. Frost, admitted July, ISflS. 
Frederic U. Fuller, admitted in IKSS. 

B. A. G. Fuller, practicing in 1ST7. 
Samuel D. Fuller, admitted Apr. 27, 

\m:\. 

Joseph R. French, admitted Oct. Z, 18(>0. 
\Vm. Friar, practicing in 1H74. 
Alexander E. F'rye, admitted in 1889. 
Waketield G. Frye, admitted April 18, 

1887. 
Clinton Gage, practicing in 18!((). 
William Gage, admitted Jan. 14, 1819. 
Matthew Gallagher, practicing in 188.5. 
A. K. Garland, practicing in 1879. 
F'rederic W. Galbraith, admitted June, 

1873. 
J. J. Galligan, practicing in 1878. 

C. P. Gardiner, practicing in 1883. 
Henry Gardiner, practicing in 1808. 
Henjamin J. Gcrrish, admitted Dec. 8, 

185.). 
Samuel Gerrish, admitted Feb. 18, 1842. 
Frank F. Gerry, practicing in 1890. 
Wm. F. Gibson, practicin.g in 1882. 
Wm. H. Gile, admitted June 14, 18«9. 
Allen Gilman, admitted before 1807. 
Edward H. Gay, admitted in 1887. 
C. E. Gibson, practicing in 1885. 
Charles A. Gilday, admitted in 1884. 
Edward B. George, practicing in 1885. 
John H. George, practicing in 18M7. 
J. Francis Gill, practicing in lM7;i. 
G. Giles, practicing in 1875. 
John S. Gile, practicing in 1883. 
Elisha Glidden, admitted April 15. l.'^IO. 
E. A. Goddard, practicing in 1H(;h. 
Thomas Gold, admitted before 1M07. 
John Goodenow, admitted May 5, I.S42. 
Richard Goodenow, jr., admitted Jan. 11, 

1873. 
John M. Goodrich, practicing in 1.S90. 
79 



II. GardinerGorham, admitted July, l.'<37. 
David Gould, admitted Nov. 5, 184(i. 
Isaac Goodnow, practicing in l.'<09. 
Stephen Gould, admitted June, 18(17. 

Goekritz, practicing in 1874. 

Samuel H. Goodale, admitted March 18, 

187.1 
S. W. E. Goddard, practicing in 18(i(J. 
Hugh Goff, admitted August 4, 1891. 
Naphin Gray, admitted Jan. 21, 1874. 
Mary A. Greene, admitted in 1.S.88. 
(). H. Green, practicing in 18.52. 
Edward A. Greeley, practicing in 1.'<S4. 
Martin Griflin, admitted Jan. 31, 187(1. 
Lemuel Grosvenor, admitted .April, 1.837. 
Walter B. Grant, admitted Nov. 10, 1S91. 
L. A. Grant, admitted October 8, l.s.Vi. 
Franklin Graves, admitted March, 1870. 
T. E. Graves, practicing in 1871. 
Thomas J. Gray, admitted July, 1873. 
Wm. C. Gray, admitted January 8, 1.831. 
J. A. Greene, admitted October 20, 18.59. 
Daniel J. Greenough, admitted Feb., 183(5. 
Elliott M. Grover, admitted Sept. 3, 1874. 
R. C. Gurney, admitted October 11, 18.55. 
Frederick W. (trantham, admitted May 

2.5, 1844. 
Herman W, Green, admitted April 10, 

18.57. 
Oscar R (irccn, admitted August, 1808. 
Richard W. tJreen, admitted Oct. 3. 181.5. 
Waller C. Green, admitted July 18, 1823. 
Crawford S. (Jrifiin, admitted June, 187(i. 
Frederick W. (jriffin, practicing in l.'<8.5. 
*James W. (Jrimes, practicing in l.*<91. 
A. Grout, practicing in 1801. 
Henry E. Gould, admitted in ISS4. 
(ieorge W. (lunnison, admitted Feb. 2X, 

1HM7. 
Jiihn T. Hama, admitted July 13, 1S.S.S. 
George W. Hanson, admitted in l.s,s(i. 
Charles H. Hapgood, admitted May. 

18.59. 
John H. Hapgood, admitted in l.s,88. 
George Harding, practicing in 18,82, 
Wm. T. Hadiloek. admitted Oct. 4, 1822. 
J. Jerome Halin, admitted in I8S9. 



626 



HISTORY OF lUE BENCH AND BAR. 



m. J. Hadley, practicing in 1S!)1. 
William II. Ilaile, practicing in 1881. 
H. L. Hamilton, practicing in 1840. 
Ellis G. Hall, admitted October 20, 18:«. 
Henry Sctli Hall, admitted Aug. 12, lH(i:l 
David J. Haggerty, admitted Nov. 1880. 
Thomas K. Hale, admitted Jan., 1808. 
Ivory Harmon, admitted March 10, 1843. 
CJcorgc F. Harriman, admitted July, 1876. 
Walter C. Harriman, practicing in 1884. 
Joseph Harrington, practicing in 1812. 
W. II. Harrington, practicing in 18i)0. 
B. N. Harris, practicing in 18(14. 
David L. Harris, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
Horace Harris, admitted May, 187"). 
Wm. A. Harris, admitted Nov. 25, 1871. 
Benjamin Harvey, admitted before 1807. 
Napoleon Harvey, admitted in 1890. 
Benjamin Haskell, admitted July ;}(), 1846. 
Wm. Haskell, admitted Dec. 7, 1848. 
Gilbert E. Hood, admitted Jan. 15, LS.V). 
W. E. P. Haskell, admitted Aug. 9, 18.52. 
Isaac Hastings, admitted July, 1808. 
John G. Hathewcy, practicing in 1H85. 
Judson Haycock, admitted July 6, 1858. 
Thomas JicCuUock Hayes, ;idmitted 

May 4, 1864. 
George W. Hayford, admitted Nov., 1S75. 
Edward V. Hay man, admitted before 

1807. 
Charles Heard, admitted March, 18i:i. 
Thomas Heath, admitted before 1807. 
John B. Hebron, admitted Nov., 1881. 
George L. IIemen\yay, admitted May, 

1878. 
James E. Hayes, admitted Aug. 4. 1891. 
Edward F. Haynes, admitted in 1882. 
Henry P. Haynes. admitted Oct. 0, 1871. 
M. W. Hazen, practicing in 1885. 
Charles C. Haywood, practicing in 1871. 
Frederic Ilemenway, admitted Sept., 

1872. 
*John E. Hanley, admitted Sept.. 1890. 
Isaac M. Henshaw, practicing in 1875. 
George li. Hovt, admitted Nov. 29, 18.58. 



Wm. A. Herrick, admitted Oct. 1, 1856 

dead. 
John Heurrot, admitted Sept. 30, 1856. 
John H. Higgins, admitted Sept. 16, 18G0 
George R. Hildreth, admitted Oct. 9, 

1851. 
Clement H. Hill, admitted Jan. 3, 18,59. 
Edward L. Hill, admitted March 16, 1860, 
Eugene W. Herndon, admitted June 19 

1861. 
E. H. P. Herrick. practicing in 1878. 
Jonathan Higgins, admitted Nov. 21 

1862. 
James Hendrie, practicing in 1870. 
E. M. Hewlett, practicing in 1881. 
Charles E. Hibbard, practicing in 1881. 
Charles C. Hibbard, admitted April 21 

1869. 
Frank II. Hills, admitted Dec, 1873. 
Nathaniel C. Hills, jr., admitted Sept. 

1834. 
Eugene B. Hinckley, admitted June 14 

1862. 
Charles Hitchcock, admitted April 22 

18.54. 
Charles II. Hoag. admitted Nov. 20. 1876, 
Peter Hitchcock, admitted before 1807. 
H. C. Ilobart, admitted Jan. 23, 1845. 
George L. Ilobbs, admitted March, 1874. 
Wm. Hobbs, practicing in 1858, 
Wm. Hobson, admitted Oct. 9, 1873. 
Allin F. Hodgkins, admitted in 1883. 
Silas P. Holbrook, admitted Jan. 23, 1823. 
Augustus L. Holmes, admitted in 1888. 
Emery F. Ilohvay, admitted July 25, 

1857. 
E. G. Hooke, admitted October 12, 18.53. 
John Hooker, admitted before 1807. 
Daniel Hoit, admitted March 4, 1850. 
Charles Hoffman, practicing in 1875. 
Seth P. Holway, -admitted Nov. 18, 1857. 
George C. Hopkins, admitted July 12, 

1864. 
J. D. Hopkins, admitted before 1807. 
Isaac R. How, admitted May 9, 1814. 
Edward S. Hovey, practicing in 1870. 



BroGKAPHlCAL REGISTER. 



627 



Will. L. Ilnwani, admitted June',', 1S74. 
Charles II. Hubbard, admitted Oct. Ki, 

lS.-)7. 
Daniel J. Hubbard, admitted before 1S(I7. 
Hiiraee C. Hubbard, practieinj; in 1W(i3. 
T. H. Hubbard, praeticinj; in lS(i4. 
Jay A. Hubliell, praetieinjj; in 1S90. 
Wm. Hulin, admitted May 4, is:{(!. 
Frederic J. Hunt, piactieini; in IH.s."). 
TliDmas A. Hunt, admitted in 18.13. 
Lewis D. Ilurbaugh, admitted Dec. 24, 

1862. 
John \V. Hurlbert, admitted before 1807. 
Hamilton Hutchins, admitted Oct., 1830. 
Winthrop Hutchinson, admitted June, 

1873. 
William Hutt, admitted before 1807. 
H. M. Hunter, practicing; in 187."). 
Wm. G. Hunter, admitted March 13, 

1832. 
Timothy Hurley, practicinj; in 187(1. 
Josiah Huzzey, admitted Dec. 3, 1813. 
Horace Hunt, practicing in 1870. 
John E. Ide, admitted July. 1890. 
Charles M. I ngersoll. admitted Sept., 1 81. "j. 
John Ingersoll, admitted before 1807. 
Alon/.o D. Jacks<m, admitted Jan. 15. 

1860. 
Gerald G. P. Jackson, admitted Aug. 4, 

1891. 
George Jaffrey, admitted Jan. 11, 1813. 
A. T. Ingalls, practicing in 1861. 
Charles W. Jaffrey, admitted July. 1838. 
•Charles W. Jones, admitted in 1888. 
Elias James, admitted before 1S07. 
Thadeus I. Isham, admitted Aug. 9, l.»*80. 
C. L. Jackson, admitted before lH(t7. 
J. F. Jackson, admitted July 7, ls47. 
H. A. W. James, admitted in 18S8. 
Herbert R. Jennings, admitted in 1883. 
Franeello (5. Jillson, admitted Feb. 2.">, 

1865. 
David J. M. A. Jewett. practicing in 1S67. 
Charles G. Johnson, admitted Feb. 19. 

18.58. 
Merritt C. Johnson, admitted Nov. 2M. 

18,55. 



Moses Johnson, admitted June 18, 1S56. 
Wells H. Johnson, admitteil in 1H.S3. 
H. F. Johonnott, admitted in 1S.S3. 
Frederick W. Jones, admitted Oct. Is, 

1850. 
Henry Jones, admitted Aug. 2, 1865. 
James T. Jones, practicing in 1NM5. 
Frvin A. Johnes, admitted in 18N2. 
Daniel V. Johnson, admitted Oct. I«5I. 
Harrison Johnson, admitted May, 1847. 
Winfield C. Jordan, admitted June 10. 

1882. 
Edwin H. Jourdain, admitted in 1H90. 
L. E. Josselyn, practicing in 18.53. 
J. R. Kane, admitted in 1884. 
John Kearns. practicing in 188.5. 
J. E. Keith, practicing in 187.5. 
George W. Kelley, admitted June, 1875. 
John Kelley, admitted Jan., 1829. 
Wm. Kelley. practicing in 1890. 
Elliott E. Kellogg, practicmg in 1857. 
Robert B. Kendall, admitted April 29, 

1868. 
Charles X. Kent, admitted Dec. 8, 1866. 
(ieorge Kent, admitted in 1817. 
Jacob Q. Kettelle, practicing in 1842; 

dead. 
A. V. Kibby, practicing in 1887. 
Reuben Kidder, admitted before 1807. 
Sumner B. Kimball, admitted April. 1860. 
C\-rus King, admitted before 1807. 
Tyler B. King, admitted in 18M2. 
Samuel S. Kingdon. admitted May 26. 

l.'^68. 
Aaron Kmg.sbury. admitted Sept.. 1M57. 
Orren S. Knapp, admitted August, 1H65. 
Arthur S, Knell, admitted in 18X5. 
J. E. Knight, admitted June 26. 1S43. 
E. Kimball, jjracticing in 1863. 
J. S. Kimball, practicing in 1840. 
John R. Kimball, practicing in 1.'<.59. 
Samuel Knapp, admitted March 23, 1S6I. 
Wm. II. Knight, admitted April 25, 1S74. 
Alfred Iv Knajip. practicing in l.H,88. 
S. I. Kimball, i mi 1861. 

C. C. Kinsley, i in IMCfi. 

J. G. Kiltite, admitted Jan., 1s42. 



628 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Sanuu;! \V. Knciwlcs. admitted Oct. 10. 

ISIHi. 
Charles M. Lamprey, praeticiiiij in lss4. 
Daniel S. I.amson. admitted Aug. 2'J, 

lS.-)4. 
W. A. Laneastcr, admitted in lS8;i. 
N. A. Lanj!;ley, practiciiii; in ISTO. 
James II. Lanman, admitted March (i, 

lS.tl. 
1). II. I, anman, practicing; in 1S!)(). 
Riifus Lapham, jiracticinj; in 1S(!7. 
IC. C. Larncd, practicinj; in ISTO. 
Thomas F. Larkin, practicing in ISS."). 
Abbott W. Lawrence, practicing in ISOO. 
Eugene Lawrence, admitted Aug., 1847. 
I'rancis Rives La.ssiter, admitted in 1887. 
(George F. Lawton, practicing in 1878. 
Isaac B. I^awton, practicing in 1890. 
IClisha Lcc, admitted before 1807. 
Jonathan Leavitt, admitted before 1807. 
Oliver Leonard, admitted before 1807. 
J. N. Lesser, admitted Ajn-il 14, 18i)l. 
IvdwinC. Lewis, admitted Dec. 8, 1801. 
Fr.-mk W. Lewis, admitted Dec. l(i, 1872. 
John Licks, admitted before 1807. 
John D. Lewis, admitted in 188.5. 
Orlando Leach, admitted Oct. 8, 18(i:5. 
Thomas Ledky, admitted May (!, 18(ii). 
J. W. Le Barnes, admitted Aug. 17. 18(14. 
Thomas E. I-eeds, admitted Jan. Vi, 18(i;j. 
Charles F. Lincoln, admitted in 18,Sfl. 
Francis J. Lippitt, admitted Oct. 12, 18G4. 
John L. Litton, admitted in 1887. 
Henry M. Lisle, practicing in 18G0. 
Walter Litchfield, jr., admitted Oct. 10, 

18,-)!). 
Xatluui \V. Lilclilield, admitted June Ki, 

1870. 
\Vm. Littleton, practicing in 1888. 
\V. IJttlelield, practicing in IS.IO. 
R. T. Lombard, practicmg in 1807. 
\Vm. Lon, or Lun, admitted Feb. 14, 1802. 
Francis Loois, or Lovis, admitted March 

1!), 1845. 
Henry C. Lord, admitted Jmie 14. 1847. 
Henry D. Lord, admitted Sept., 18i58. 
Joseph L. Lord, admitted Jan. .'), 1848. 



K. D. Ivoring, practicing in 1870. 
Edward Loring. admitted March, 1827. 
Eleazer B. Loring, admitted Sei)t. HO, 

1871. 
Edward 0. Loring, jr. , practicing in 18.-i7. 
Thomas Lord, practicing in 1871. 
Joseph D. Loring, admitted Jan. 14, 18(il. 
Samuel Lathrop, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
Sidney V. Lowell, admitted July 22, 1802. 
Edmund R. Luce, admitted in 18,80. 
Clarence B. Lund, admitted Feb., 18,80. 
Marcus M. Loud, admitted Oct. !), 1870. 
James Longhran, admitted July I."), 18.V2. 
Michael Lovell, admitted Jan., 1833. 
Thomas D. Luce, practicing in 180.5. 
Obed B. Low, admitted March 8, 1847; 

dead. 
John Lovell, ]>racticing in 1780. 
George W. Lovell, practicing in 1882. 
Edward E. Lyman, admitted March 18, 

1801. 
John F. Lynch, admitted Jan. 20, ISOI. 
Robert A. Lynch, admitted in 1880. 
* A. Selwyn Lynde, admitted Dec. 1 1 , 

1873. 
*W. A. Macleod, practicing in 1.800. 
Michael McNamara, admitted Jan. 7, 1807. 
D. B. Magee. admitted December 2, 1878. 
C. L. Magenesker, practicing in 1871. 
Michael Maginncs, admitted Aug. 4, 1801. 
Thomas F. McGuire, admitted Oct. 28, 

1807. 
Wm. S. McFarland, admitted Dec. 20, 

1872. 
Frank H. Mackintosh, admitted m 1880. 
Wm. E. MacDonald, practicing in 18,S0. 
Charles A. Mackintosh, practicing in 18S7. 
Frank H. Mackintosh, practicing in 187.5. 
Jeremiah J. Maloney, admitted in 188.5. 
T. E. Major, practicing in 1881). 
M. B. Mansfield, practicing in 1808. 
J. J. Marsh, admitted Sept. 1, 1844. 
*E. M. Marshall, practicing in 1891. 
Francis Martin, admitted in 1883. 
Wm. H. Martin, practicing in 188."). 
George C. Mason, admitted Sept. 21, 1871. 




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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



629 



J. J. Maliinc, practicinjj in 1SS4. 
AlphcnisA. Martin, admitted July 1 1, IHI!!!. 
Alvcrdo Masim, practicing in lS(i4. 
Georjife M. Mason, practicing in l.S'2T. 
Edwin II. ^^ather, admitted Jnnc 24, ISfil. 
Arthur Maxwell, admitted Feb. !), ISt'.l. 
* Arthur A. Maxwell, admitted in 18S(J. 
John B. Mayo, admitted July 3, ISfW. 
C. C. McAllister, admitted Dec. 12, X'^'kx. 
Rufus W. Mason, practicing in 1S85. 
Joseph May, admitted in 181H. 
Charles J. McCarthy, admitted Oct. 22, 

1S(52. 
Thomas J. McCarthy, admitted May, 18711. 
Wm. H. McCartney, admitted March 21). 

lS.j(i. 
Samuel W. MePavitt. practicinj; in 1881. 
Flavins J. McFarlan, admitted Nov. ;!. 

18f)4. 
Edward McFarland. admitted in 1884. 
P. J. McGuirc, practicing in 188.'). 
Wm. Mclntyre. admitted in 18i(n. 
Wni. J. Mclntyre, practicing in 18i)(). 
*J. F. McKay, practicing in 1801. 
Wm. A. McLeod, admitted Nov., 1880. 
E. W. McLure, admitted in 1882. 
(t. F. Means, practicing in I8S1. 
Almon R. Meek, admitted April '.», 18(!(). 
Clarence F. Mead, admitted Nov.. 18T."i. 
Michael Meade, ])racticing in 187(i. 
George W. McConnell. practicing in 188.") ; 

dead. 
Edward L. McManus, admitted Jan. 20, 

1891. 
James .S. Mulvey, admitted in 1882. 
George Merrill, admitted April 2. 18.")1. 
Clement Meserve, admitted Ajiril 22, 18(i."i. 
George T.Metcalf, admitted Jan. :!. I8.-.4. 
Jonas M. Miles, admitted in 1882. 
Wm. F. Miles, admitted in 1882. 
Leon Millin, admitted before 1807. 
Ezekiel L. Miller, admitted July :i. 1848. 
John C. Mills, practicing in I87."i. 
Frank B. Mildram.admittedApril 27,1870. 
Asa Messer. practicing in 18li!), 
•E. C. Mitchell, practicing in 1.887. 
John J. A. Moll, practicing in 1878. 



•George B. Moore, practicing in 18!)1. 

Jonathan F. Moore, practicing in 184."i. 

Mark Moore, practicing in 1822. 

*C. C. Morgan, practicing in 18711. 

Joseph E. Moore, practicing in 1882. 

B. Morey, practicing in 1871. 

John L. Morgan, admitted July 22. 1871. 

Frank E. Morgan, admitted June. 1874. 

Ashley C. Morrill, admitted Ajtril HI, 1.8(m. 

Frank J. Morrill, admitted March, 1874. 

Wm. F. Morrill, admitted July, 18(i4. 

Wm. W. >torris. admitted June 21. 1872. 

('. Osgood Morse, jiraeticing in 18(i!(. 

Elisha M. Morse, practicing date un- 
known. 

George A. Morse, practicing in 1807, 

George W. Morse, admitted Oct. '^^. I8.V1. 

John Wells Mor.se. admitted in 1887. 

Moses \.. Morse, admitted July 7. 18(!:!, 

Sidney B. Morse, practicing in 1872. 

T. S. Morse, practicing in 18.'i8. 

Jacob C. .Morse, jiracticing in 188."i. 

Frederic (!. Mosback, admitted Jan. 21. 
1871. 

Ferdinand Moulton. admitted Dec 28, 
184(i. 

Patrick V.. aMuUIoou, admitted in 1884. 

P. v.. Mulvey. i)racticing in 188."i. 

Wm. J. Munroe. admitted in 18,82. 

Frederick W. Murphy, practicing in 181HI. 

Albert L. Murray. i)racticing in l.'<ltO. 

David P. Mu/.zcy, admitted Nov. Ill, 18.MI. 

Wm. F. Myles, practicing in 18iMI. 

Joseph Nash, admitted before 1807; dead. 

Joseph Nash, admitted July HI, 1872. 

Lonson Nash, admitted March, 18(18. 

James B. Nasc.n, admitted Feb. 20, 18(!.-). 

John Nason, admitted in 188:i. 

Wm. A. Xason, admitted June. 187:1. 

Richard IC. Newconib. admitted before 
18(t7. 

Wm. Newman, admitted March, 1.8."i(l. 

Frank A. Nichols, admitted July il. 18(17. 

J. L. Nichols, admitted July 24. 18(1(1. 

Melville P. Niekerson, admitted Nov. 1874. 

Thomas Fl. Niles. admitted July 17. 1874. 

Daniel Noble, admitted 1>efi>rc 1827. 



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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 



JamosR. Newhall, admitted May2'>. 1>^47. 
Wni. Nichols, jr., admitted Dec, ISlii). 
Wm. P. Nickcrson, practicing in 18H5. 
Frank T. Noble, practicing in 1885. 
John A. Norman, admitted in 1886. 
A. F. Norris, practicin.a; in 1859. 
Hartholomew Xoyes, admitted in 1882. 
Frank E. Noyes, admitted June 27, 1S.")(;. 
Isaac H. Noyes. admitted Nov., 18fi'>. 
Amos Noyes, ])racticing in 1809. 
George F. Noyes, admitted July, 1847. 
M. R Norton, practicing in 1800. 
F. Clarendon Oak, admitted Dee. 22, 1802. 
Eugene O'Brien, admitted Jan. 20, 1891. 
George F. Ornisby, admitted in 188."). 
Isaac Osgood, practicing in 1821. 
I. P. Osgood, practicing in 1848. 
Lewis W. Osgood, practicing in 1804. 

E. B. O'Connor, practicing in 187:!. 
J. S. O'Gorman, ])racticing in 1877. 
W. Barry Owen, practicing in 1890. 
*John H. Packard, admitted Feb. 21, 

1.S8!. 
Charles F. Paige, admitted March, 1870; 

<lead. 
A. Warren Paine, admitted March, 1S27. 
Asa W. Paine, admitted Nov. 1(1, 1817. 
John J. Paine, admitted -Jan. 29, IS.")!). 
Wni. Cushing Paine, admitted Jan. 8, 

18*!. 
George H. Palmer, practicing in 187:5. 
Moses P. Parish, admitted Jan. 7, 1829. 
Charles T. Parker, admitted April, 1831. 
George B. Parkinson, admitted July, 1879. 
Charles E. Parker, practicing in 1882. 
Wm. Parker, admitted Nov. 20, 1814. 
Clarence A. Parks, admitted Dec. 27, 

1870. 
Wm. McCainc Parker, admitted May 4, 

I8O:?. 
Ebene/.er Parsons, jr.. admitted Oct. 7, 

18.^)9. 
Solomon Parsons, practicing in 1890. 

F. C. Patch, practicing in 1888. 
John Patch, practicing in 18:!0. 

Daniel D. Patten, admitted Dec. 4, 1800. 
John F. Paul, admitted March 9, 1857. 



Arthur L. Payne, admitted March 9, 18.58. 
Thomas E. Payson, admitted July, 18;i7. 
James C. Peabody, admitted Jan. 17, 

1854. 
Isaac E. Pearl, admitted in 1885. 
Benjamin C. Perkins, admitted June 25, 

1850. 
Daniel A])pleton White Perkins, admitted 

March 9, 1802. 
Joel Perham, practicing in 1880. 
Jacob L. Perkins, admitted Aug. 9, 1S45. 
J. M. Perkins, practicing in 1882. 
Asa Peabody, practicing in 1811. 
Timothy Pearsons, admitted Aug., 1845. 
Wm. H. Prince, admitted Feb., 1802. 
Thomas Pember, admitted Oct. 5, 18.58. 
Frank H. Pendergast, admitted in 1883. 
Israel Perkins, admitted May 0, 1808. 
^F. A. Pelton, practicing in 1891. 
Robert W. Pearson, practicing in 1869. 
Roger N. Peirce, practicing in 18.55. 
George E. Perley, admitted in 188;!. 
W. II Pcrrin, admitted April 10, 1849. 
*Chester M. Perry, jiracticing in 1890. 
Edward E. Pettee, admitted Sept., 1880. 
Noah B. K. Pettingell, admitted in 1888. 
Edward K. Phillips, practicing in 1889. 
Edward W. Philbrick, admitted Jan. 20, 

1891. 
David W. Phipps, admitted in 1882. 
Charles W. Pickering, admitted July, 

1801. 
Charles H. Pierce, admitted about 18:!8. 
Oumcy Pierce, admitted Nov., 1870. 
Charles E. Pike, admitted Oct. 10, 1849. 
Walter S. Pilkin, admitted June 29, 1880. 
John E. Pike, admitted June, l.'<2:!. 
Wm. A. Pierce, admitted April 20, 1800. 
Carroll E. Pillsbury, practicing in 1890. 
Wilson H. Perley, admitted in 1884. 
Orestes Pierce, practicing in 1.881. 
Edward P. Pigeon, practicing in 18.84. 
Ebenezer F. Pillsbury, practicing in 1.8,8.5. 
Charles E. Pindell, jiraeticing in 1885. 
Joseph E. Pond, jr., admitted July 9, 

1872. 
Benjamin Poole, practicing in 18.82. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



<'l^ 



Benjamin Piiole, jr.. admiltod May -"J, 
1871. 
^;^imos W. Pope, iidmiltetl Nov., IH7!). 
Cliarlos E. Poucher, practicing in lSf<->. 
Edmund P. Powers, admitted in iss;{. 
Jerome B. Porter, admitted iJee. li, 18(!7. 
John W. Porter, admitted in 18S(i. 
Nathaniel Porter, admitted before 1807. 
Elam Porter, admitted March 7, 1805. 
*James R. Powers, practicinj; in 181)1. 
Sidney P. Pratt, admitted July, 1874. 
J. W. Prentiss, practicing in 1887. 
John Prentiss, admitted before 1807; 
dead. 

A. A. Prescottt, practicing in 18(17. 

B. L. Prince, admitted Oct., 1810. 
(Jordon Prince, practicing in 1881. 
Joseph Proctor, admitted before 1807. 
George F. Putnam, admitted Dec. Ui, 

1848. 
John Pynchon, admitted before 1807. 
James W. Preston, admitted Nov. 2, 18(i0. 
Solon A. Putnam, admitted in 1887. 
George Prescott. admitted July 22, 1875. 
F. A. Prescott, practicing in 18G7. 
Stephen Pynchon, admitted before 1807. 
J. P. Quimby, practicing in 1877. 
Wm. J. Quinn, practicing in 1881. 
Charles W. Rand, admitted April 21, 

1845. 
Otis G. Randall, practicing in 186:1. 
John M. Raymond, admitted Oct., 1878. 
Benjamin Read, practicing in 18i:i. 
Edward Read, admitted Dee. 2!). 1845. 
*C. F. Randall, practicing in 18!)1. 
James M. Randall, admitted July, 1845. 
Charles A. Reed, admitted July. 18(i8. 
Charles C. Reed, admitted July Ki. 18(i7. 
D. W. Reardon, practicing in 187!). 
J. Reddington, practicing in 188!». 
Charles Reed, practicing in 18.5!). 
Ue.Nter \V. Reed, practicing in 1NS7. 
Frederic Reed, practicing in 1887. 
•George M. Reed, admitted Jan. 12, 18(17. 
Charles F. Remick, admitted Nov., 18.55. 
Frank C. Remick, admitted Oct. :t, 

1885. 



*Moses I. Reuben, practicing in 18!)0. 
•Walter II. Reynolds, admitted in 18!)0. 
Fit/. 11. Rice, admitted April (i. 18(15. 
Silas H. Rich, admitted May H, 18(12. 
Cicoige II. Remele, admitted Feb., 187(1. 
John L. Rice, admitted Oct. 27, 1H45. 
James II. Rice, admitted date unknown. 
Abijah Richardson, admitted April 14. 

18(;2. 
Henry E. Richardson, practicing in 

1874. 
Nathaniel Richardson, practicing in 185:}. 
Will. K. Ritchie, i)racticing in 187(1. 
Dudley Roberts, admitted in 1884. 
John E. Risley, practicing in 1804. 
Sanford II. Richardson, admitted Aug. 

i:^, 1802. 
Wni. A. Richardson, admitted Jan. 2!», 

18.-,S. 

*II. S. Riley, practicing in 18i)l. 

A. W. Roberts, admitted March 8, 1820; 

dead. 
*H. A. Ringrose. practicing in 18i)l. 
David Roberts, practicing in ISO:). 
George R. Rivers, practicing in 1888. 
C. II. Ripi)ey, practicing in 18.S7. 
Frank T. Roberts, admitted Feb. :{, 18!)l. 
Frank W. Roberts, admitted Dec. 17. 
• 1882. 

*John L. S. Roberts, practicing in IHUO. 
Leonard G. Roberts, admitted in 1840. 
Ali)honso J. Robinson, practicing in 18M5. 
Albert J. Robinson, admitted May 10, 

18(i:j. 
Daniel Robin.son, admitted in 1SM4. 
•Daniel C. Robinson, practicing in 181)0. 
John C. Robinson. a<lmilte<l Feb.. 1875. 
J, T. Robinson, practicing in 1800. 
•Joseph II. Robinson. i)racticingin 18!)0. 
Lelia H. Robinson, admitted in 18.X2. 
.Sawtelle \.. Robinson, practicing in 181)0. 
.Sylvaiius W. Robinson, admitted March 

:i, 1847. 
Daniel Rockw<M.d. admitted July H, 1811. 
Nelson Robinson. ■ in 1800. 

John S. Rock. adi. 11. 1807. 

llarrv W. R<ibinsoii, practicing in 1887. 



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L. J. Rubinsoii. practicing in 1887. 
Francis F. II. Refers, admitted Sept. l"), 

]sr)S. 
I''rcdcrick \V. Rogers, admitted in issfi. 
Uaniul Rollnis, admitted in I88:i. 
*James W. Rollins, practicin^i; in 18!)l). 
J()sei)hr*. Rogers, admitted April 23, 18(W. 
John O'Donnovan Rossa, practicing in 

I8S1. 
I-:ric E. Rosling. admitted in ISSO. 
Samuel J. Ross, practicing in 18!)0. 
John A. Ross, admitted Nov., 18.")(i. 
J. X. Rowe, admitted before 1807. 
Joseph Rowe, admitted before 1807. 
Herbert S. P. Rutlin, admitted in 1884. 
John Rumney, [jracticing in 1808. 
James E. Rowell, admitted Jan. 9, 1874. 
Thomas E. Rnddell, admitted Jnly 22, 

187;!. 
J. R. Russell, admitted Jan., 1842. 
Henry James Ryan, admitted in 188(i. 

E. C. Sallmarsh. ])racticiug in 1887. 
Edward W. Sanderson, admitted Sept. 

21, 18(j:i 
(icorgc W. Sanderson, admitted May. 

1S80. 
■" Alphens Sanford, practicing in 1890. 
Austin Sanford, admitted Feb. 9,1872. 
Joseph B. Sanford, practicing in 18(i;i. 
Joseph II. Sanford, practieiug in 1870. 
Slei>hen Sanford, admitted Nov., 1880. 
Benjamin F. Sawyer, admitted Dec. 11, 

1847. 
B. Sanford, practicing in 1870. 
JamcsO. Sargent, admitted April ;i8,18r)(!. 
(i. W. Saunderson, practicing in 1802. 
James F. Savage, admitted June, 1876. 
*'Tliom.is Savage, ])raeticing in 1890. 
Luther I). Sawyer, admitted Sept. 27, 

18(m. 
Nathaniel Sawyer, admitted .March, 18H0. 

F. (). Sayles, practicing in 1849. 
Oeorge S. Scammon, admitted April 5, 

1871. 
F. Scott, practicing in 1878. 
John B. Scott, admitted in 1887. 
I'rank Seaman, a<lmitted Nov., 1879. 



James M. Seaman, admitted Oct., 1811. 
Wm. M. Seavey, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. 
Addison J. Seaward, practicing ni 1876. 
Henry D. Sedgwick, admitted Mar., 1808. 
Henry I J. Sedgwick, jr., admitted in 1884. 
John N. Shattuck, practicing in 1887. 
IClliott Shaw, admitted in 1890. 
Mason Shaw, admitted before 1807. 
Frederick Z. Seymour, admitted August, 

18,')4. 
George F. Seymour, admitted in 1884. 
Charles B. Shackford, admitted March 5. 

1806. 
Patrick F. Shea, admitted Dee. :i, 1871. 
J. George Sheltser. practicing in 1887. 
Orlando B. Shennon, admitted Jan. 23, 

1877. 
J. B. Shedd, practicing in 1879. 
DennisR. Sheridan, admitted Jan. I, 1884. 
Daniel L. Shorey, admitted Sept. IJf, 1854. 
Thomas Skinner, jiracticing in 1804. - 
J. P. Sibley, practicing in 1890. 
Wm. C. Silsbee, admitted Ajiril 12, 187.'). 
*J. P. Silsby, practicing in 188"). 
Samuel Simmons, admitted in 1887. 
Wm. A. Simmons, admitted May 12, 1869. 
Wm. H. Simpson, admitted Feb. 8, 1800. 
Henry M. Sisk, admitted before 1807. 
James M. Sisk, admitted May, 1880. 
E. T. Slocum, practicing in 187."). 
George L. .Slcejjer. admitted Nov. 14.1867. 
John \V. Sleeper, admitted July, 1873. 
David A. Smith, practicing in 1840. 
Ebenezer Smith, jr., admitted Oct., 1835; 

dead. 
Charles F. Smith, practicing in 1842. 
Charles E. Smith, admitted Mar. 22, 1867. 
Charles G. Smith, athnitted Jan. :iO, I8U1. 
* Edward I. Smith, practicing in 1890. 
Emery B. Smith, admitted Jan. 2, 1860. 
Francis P. Smith, admitted October, 1819. 
George H. Smith, admitted June, 1875. 
(Jeorge M. Smith, admitted Sept. 10, 1878. 
Henry F. Smith, admitted Sept. 6, 18.'i9. 
John W. Smith, admitted October. 1S()7: 

dead. 
John W. Smith, admitted June 27. 1857. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



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Matllicw W. Smith, ailmittc-d Jul\-, \xM;. 
Thomas 1'. Smith, achnitteU Mar. !>, lS(i,"i. 
Wm. Smith, admitted Nov. 1, 1S47. 
W'm. H. Smith, practiciiijj; i" XS'y.i. 
Wm. E. P. Smyth, admitted Dec, 1858. 
A. L. Soule, practicing in 1885. 

* L. \V. Southgate, practicing in 1881. 
Alfred B. Spalding, admitted Jime, 1874. 
Joseph H. Spotl'ord, admitted in 1887. 

A. F. Spencer, practicing in 1871. 
W. G. Spraguc, j^raclicing in 18G(i. 
Charles C. Springer, practicing in 1890. 
James Sproat, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
James C. Squire, admitted Dec., 1859. 
G. G. Stacy, practicing in 1885. 
Andrew J. Stackpole, practicing in 18G9. 
*A. G. Stanchfield, practicing in 1890. 
\V. Standish, practicing in 1858. 
John Stark, admitted July 27. 1842. 
♦Robert M. Stark, practicing in 1890. 
Charles R. Starr, admitted Dec. 11, 1809. 
Wm. G. Stanwood, admitted March, 183'2. 
John H. Staples, admitted May 3, 1860. 
(leorge C. Starkweather, practicing in 

18G4. 

* Richard S. Stearns, practicing in 1890. 
Thomas L. Steele, practicing in 1854. 
Henry C. Stephens, admitted Jan. 4, 1860. 
•George W. Stetson, admitted in 1890. 
ElishaM. Stevens, admitted Jan. -'O. 1891. 
Henry A. Stevens, practicing in 1887. 

D. K. Stevens, practicing in 1885. 
Solon Stevens, admitted October, 1808. 
W. J. Stevens, admitted July 17, 1851. 
Philip J. Stewart, admitted in 1890. 
Wm. B. C. Stickney, admitted Nov. 9, 

1870. 

E. C. Stimson, admitted in 188:5. 
Amos Stoddard, admitted before 1H07. 
John Stewart, practicing in 1812. 
Elias M. Stillwell, admitted July, 1838. 
Wm. H. Stevens, practicing in 1885. 
Thomas Stevenson, practicing in 1823. 
S. Stoddard, jr., admitted before 1807. 
S. Stoddard, admitted April 12, )S21. 
Ethan Stone, admitted before 1807. 

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Theodore Strong, tidmitted before 1H(I7. 
Wright Strong, admitted before 1807. 
Wm. G. Strout, admitted June, 1870. 
Wm. C. Strong, admitted Jan., 1848. 
Wm. H. Stubbs, admitted Peb. 18, 1871. 
Wm. T. Sturtevant, admitted in 1880. 
H. Sullivan, admitted before 1807. 
♦Cornelius J. Sullivan, admitted in 1883. 
C. S. Sullivan, practicing in 1885. 
George S. Sullivan, admitted October 13, 

1859. 
M. E. Sullivan, practicing in 1881. 
James P. Sullivan, practicing in 1850. 
W. N. Swain, practicing in 1885. 
Isaac W. Swan, jr.. admitted March, 1833. 
John E. Sundstrom, admitted in 1883. 
J. B. Swazey. admitted June 15, 1873. 
Charles E. Sweeney, admitted Jan. 23, 

1806. 
Edwin Sweetser, admitted, date un- 
known. 
E. M. Swett, practicing in 1809. 
•E. T. Swift, practicing in 1890. 
*C. A. Taber. practicing in 1891. 
*{;eorge R. Taber, practicing in 18iK(. 

Wm. J. Taft, admitted in 1885. 
♦Arthur E. Talbot, practicing in 1890. 

George J. Taft, practicing in 1870. 

Wm. B. Tanner, practicing in 188.5. 

John T. Tasker, admitted August 7, 1845; 
dead. 

A. Birncy Tasker, practicing in 1884. 

Charles J. Taylor, admitted April 11, 1842. 

George H. Taylor, admitted April 21, 
1806. 

Nathan A. Taylor, admitted Peb., 1880. 

•George W. Tebbeils, admitted in 1890. 

Theodore V. Thachcr, admitted f)ctober, 
1832. 

Lawrence Taylor, admitted Oct. 17, 1865. 

Wm. Tenney, admitted in 1811. 

II. B. Terry, practicing in 1871. 

Prederick C. Terry, practicing in 1887. 

GeorgeC. Thatcher. admitle<l before 1807. 

Enoch W. Thayer, admitted before 1807. 

Samuel P. Thayer, admitted May 20, 1870. 

Eugene 1). Thomas, admitted in 1887. 



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HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



* Minor R. Thomas, practicing in l.S!)(). 
Thomas Thomas, admitted before IHOT. 
* JumcsD. Thomson, admitted June, IHoS. 
Ezra Ripley Thayer, admitted Sept. If), 

1881. 
Frank H. Thayer, admitted Jan. 20, 18U1. 
I-cviThaxter, admitted before 1807; dead. 
Tliomas M. '['honijjson, admitted April 

19, 18.")4. 
*\Vm. V. Thompson, practicing in 18U1. 
Henry Thorndike, admitted Oct., 1812. 
Larkin Thorndike, practicing in 1849. 
John M. Throkay, admitted Feb., 1881. 
Thomas Tocmiey, admitted Oct. 14, 1857. 
J. R. Tower. ])raeticing in 1875. 
Thomas P.. Tiffany, admitted Feb., 1881. 
John Tighe, admitted Jan. 10, 1853. 
Calvin Tilden, practicing in 1829. 
J. P. Timmcmey, practicing March 6, 1805. 
Charles B. Tilden, practicing in 1882. 
Calvin Torrey, practicing in 1802; dead. 
Gideon E. Tower, admitted June, 1874. 
James A. Tower, admitted May 2S, 1871. 
Charles B. Towle, admitted Nov. 11, 1881. 
I'^rederick W. Tracy, admitted in 1886. 
Henry J. Train, practicing in 1878. 
Alexander Townsend, admitted July, 

1885. 
1 )avid Townsend, admitted March, 1815. 
v.. v. Tracy, practicing in 1882. 
\Vm. L. Tucker, admitted Jan. 27, 1876. 
Joseph Tufts, admitted October, 1810. 
Charles H. Turner, admitted Feb. 25, 

18G7. 
*Charles W. Turner, practicing in 1890. 
\Vm. B. Turner, admitted in 1885. 
Charles A. Tweed, admitted Dec. 2, 1859. 
John C. Tyler, admitted April 0, 1864. 
*Johu F. Tyler, jiracticing in 1890. 
Othniel Tyler, admitted before 1807. 
ICdward Upham, admitted before 1807. 
Francis W. Upham, admitted Dec. 7, 

1844. 
Jacob Ujiham, admitted before 1807. 
Joseph Vambn, admitted Jan. 22, 1857. 
M. \'an Buren, practicing in 1882. 
•^•\V. C. Vanderlip, practicing in 1882. 



Wm. Vandervoort, practicing in 1882. 
(j. X'andeutsch, admitted Oct. 1853. 
*Franeis W. Vaughan, admitted-Nov. 8, 

1801. 
G. E. \'aughan, admitted before 1807. 
John Vaughan, admitted in 189(». 
Warren H. Vinton, admitted April, 18,52. 
Herman Vollmer, admitted March, 187:i. 
■"'Samuel W. Wagner, admitted in 1890. 
Thomas B. Wait, admitted Sept. 13, 1814. 
John C. Wait, admitted Aug. 4, 1891. 
"Wm. G. Waitt, practicing in 1890. 
John H. Wakefield, admitted Sept. 22, 

1852. 
Calvin Waldo, admitted before 1807. 
A. M. Walker, admitted before 1807. 
Henry A. Walker, practicing in 1880. 
Wm. L. Walker, admitted Jan., 1850. 
Jonathan Wales, admitted Nov., 1875. 
John W. Walsh, admitted Nov., 1881. 
*J<)seph L. Walsh, admitted in 1889. 
*J. P. J. Ward, practicing in 1890. 
Thomas Walsh, jr., admitted before 1807. 
George M. Ware, admitted Dec, ls79. 
Jairus C. Ware, admitted July 21. 1826. 
Levi Warner, admitted Jan., 1859. 
Samuel L. Warner, admitted July 19, 

1853. 
John C. B. Ward, admitted Aug. 18, 1848. 
Francis F. Warner, admitted June 16. 

1863. 
Walter J. Walsh, admitted April 13, 1844; 

dead. 
Nabur Ware, admitted July 2. 1816. 
Samuel Warren, jr., practicing in 1863. 
Edward L. Washburn, admitted October, 

1878. 
Nathan Washburn, iidmitted, date un- 
known. 
Charles G. Washburn, admitted in 18M7. 
Henry L. Washburn, practicing in 1875. 
Milton B. Warner, admitted Jan. 10, 

1891. 
Reuben Washburn, admitted Jan., 1812. 
G. W. Washington, admitted in 1890. 
Asa Waterhouse, practicing in 1858. 
Isaac Waterhouse, admitted Feb., 1879. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL RRGISTER. 



(>5S 



Isaiah Wateihousc, admitted Jan. 'J!l, 

1S57. 
Claronco Way, practicing; in 1SS1. 
Charles II. Webl), admitted iVIarch 15, 

180-,. 
KdwardE. Webster, admitted May. IS7.-.. 
Wni. Webster, admitted in IHSa. 
Milton Wasson, admitted Dec., lS4fi. 
Jes.se Francis Waterman, admitted in 

1887. 
Georjjc B. Waters, admitted A])ril, 1874. 
Sylvanus M. Wearley, admitted Jidv 19, 

'l8.-)3. 
Georjje C. Wheaton, admitted April 22, 

18.^9. 
Archibald J. Weaver, admitted Jan. 2."i, 

18(>9. 
K. W. Wedgwood, practicins^ in 1S(!I. 
A. M. Wheehen, admitted Oct., 1S02. 
Joseph A. Welch, admitted July 20, 18.->.-). 
Thomas Welch, jr., admitted in 1813. 
Abraham Weld, jr., admitted Oct. (i, 1812. 
F. H. Wellman, practicing in 1873. 
* Charles W. Wells, practicing in 1890. 
S. P. Weld, practicing in 188.). 
*Ed\vard J. Welsh, admitted June 1-"), 

1869. 
Samuel Wcntworth, admitted October 23, 

18")1. 
Augustus L. West, admitted October 30. 

1844. 
Edward B. West, admitted July 27. 1849. 
Paul West, admitted June, 1S7.5; dead. 
Thomas West, admitted before 1807. 
Nathan Weston, admitted Jan. 21. 1801; 

dead. 
John E. Wetherbee, admitted May 27, 

1874. 
Edward Webster, admitted July, 18.-.2. 
S. II. Wheeler, admitted before 1807. 
John H. Wheeler, admitted Oct. 19, 

1875. 
Thomas M. Wheeler, admitted June, 1858. 
D. L. Wheeler, practicing in 1875, 
Samuel G. Wheeler, admitted March 15. 

1850. 



G. A. Wheelwright, admitted Dee. 1, 1840. 
George H. Whiteomb, admitted in 1887. 
Dewitt C. White, admitted Jan. II, 1870. 
Edwin M. White, practicing in I8!(0. 
Guilford White, admitted Sept. 2S, l.*<.5!». 
l-ulher L. White, admitted April 14, ls57. 
Thomas L. White, admitted Nov. 9, ls,"i<l. 
Willard White, adniitte<l May 15, 1H75. 
William A. White, admitted May, 1850 
Hamilton L. Whithead, admitterl Ma 

!H,SO. 

Henry White, practicing in 1KS5. 
George H. Whitman, practicing in 1837. 
William White, admitted in 1813. 
Wni. D. A. Whitman, admitted Aug. 11. 
1855; dead. 

C. L. Whiting, practicing in 18iln. 
Daniel Whiting, admitted Jan., 1814. 
James C. Whiting, practicing in 1800. 
John Whiting, admitted before 1807. 
Mason Whiting, admitted before 1807. 
Henry L. Whittemore. practicing in 18110. 
Hugh \'. Whoriskey, practicing in 1881. 
Robert Wiener, admitted in 1888. 

F. N. Wier, practicing in 18,88. 
*E. R. Wiggin, i>racticing in 1801. 
John H. Wiggin, practicing in 18f!2. 
Wm. Whiting, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
Wm. P. Whiting, practicing in is.si. 
J. H. Whitney, practicing in 18(11. 

D. I'. Whittle, admitted Oct. 13, 1849. 
James Whittle, practicing in 1828. 

R. S. Whitlicr, jiraeticing in 18(!!l. 
*llenrv I.. Whittlesey, practicing in 1887. 
W. W. Wilkins, ]>ractieiug in 1877. 
Abel Whitney, admitted July 1, 1828. 
Maiiassali H. Whitney, admitted in 1880. 
J. A. L. Wliittier, practicing in 18.S5. 
Ashton R. Willard, admitted in 1887. 
Sidney A. Willard, admitted March 8. 

1853. 
*Cluirles A. Williams, practicing in 1890. 
Charles M. Williams, admitted Feb. 4. 

IHlll. 

Daniel Williams, practicing in 18!)1. 



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HISTORY or TIIR BENCH AND BAR. 



Ephiaim Williams, adniittcc! before 1807. 
LaVxm Wheaton, admitted before 1807; 

dead. 
Joseiih M. Wiijhtman, admitted Jan., 

lS7.'-i. 
Edward H. Wildes, practiciiij; in 1S78. 
Charles Williams, admitted Jan. 2.'), ISUl. 
Franeis W. Williams, admitted March, 

1826. 
Charles II. S. Williams, admitted Ajn-il 

1."), 187!». 
Horatio M. Willis, i)ractieinsr in 1S'.21. 
Masa Willis, admitted Se])lember, 1814. 
Archelaus Wil.son, admitted March 4, 

18.52. 
CharlesS. Wilson, practicing in 1S82. 
Thomas Wilson, practicing in 188."). 
Samuel S. Wilson, admitted Oct. i), 18G."). 
* Henry Winn, practicing in 1890. 
Wm. W. Winthrop, admitted Jan. 6, 18.14. 
Courtland Wood, admitted June, 187;i. 
David W. Wood, admitted March 18, ]8(i2. 
John J. Wmn, admitted in 1882. 
Wm. C. Whitten, practicing in 1881. 
Wm. M. Wilson, practicing in 18(!0. 
Benjamin Wolcott, admitted June 5, 1874. 
Charles F. Wolcott, admitted June 21, 

18(il ; dead. 
George Willard Wood, [iracticing in ISS.^). 
Henry C. Wood, practicing in 1882. 
Jonathan Woodbrige, admitted before 

1807. 



Joseph Woodbridge, admitted before 1807. 
Charles H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 7, 

18{)2. 
Frank G. Woodbury, admitted Nov. 2, 

1874. 
Jesse R. Woodbury, admitted Oct. 12, 

18.VJ. 
A. Woodman, admitted May 2;!, 1844. 
Charles Woodman, admitted July 10, 

1810. 
John S. Woodman, admitted Dee. 2y, 

18.").5. 
John R. Worcestei, admitted Feb. 12, 

18.J3. 
H. N. Worthen, practicing in 1877. 
Albert J. Wright, jr., admitted April it, 

1802. 
Robert W. Wright, admitted (October 8, 

1846. 
* Ferdinand A. Wyman, admitted in 1880. 
Wm. H. Woodbury, admitted Jan. 22, 

1859. 
Charles C. Woodman, practicing in 1850. 
John S. Woods, practicing in 1883. 
Franklin Woodside, practicing in 18.59; 

dead. 
Benjamin W. Wooster, admitted June, 

1876. 
(leorge C. Yeaton, jjracticing in 1859. 
liphraim Wood Young, admitted Oct. 15, 

18.56. 
Eneas Yamada, practicing in 1870. 



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ADDENDA. 



CnARi.Ks Jackson, son of Jonathan Jackson, was born in Newburyport. Mass., Xlay 
i51, 1775, and graduated at Harvard in 17!):!. He studied law with Theophihis Par- 
sons and was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1796. In 1803 he removed to 
Boston and was associated in business with Samuel Hubbard. He was appointed to 
the bench of the Suprerne Judicial Court in 1813 and continued in office until his 
resignation in 1824. He died in Boston December 13, 1835. 

George Bancroft was admitted to the bar in Middlesex county in April 1842, and 
practiced many years in Boston. 

H. L. JfDsoN was an attorney at the SulTolk bar in 1S7."). 

George Abbott James graduated at the Harvard Law School in 18()b. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 18G3, and is now at the bar. 

Elbridge G. KiMKAi.i, graduated at Harvard in 1877 and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in July 1880. 

Charles I. Adams gi-aduated at Dartnioutli in 1S.")2 and at the Harvard Law School 
in 1858. He practiced at llie Suffolk bar and died in lS(i2. 

George C. Adams was practicing at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. 

Crawford C. Ai.i.en was y/racticing at the Suffolk bar in 188(J. 

Benjamin Hai.sey Andrews graduated at Harvard in 1830 and at the Har\-ard Law 
School in 1833. He practiced at the SutTolk bar and died in 1847. 

John Atwood was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 

Herbert L. Baker was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. 

Jacob N. Baker was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 3(t, 1807. 

Ebenezer Hint Beckford graduated at Harvard in 1SII5 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in March, 1808. He died in ISOO. 

Edward Irvinc; Bigelow graduated at Harvard in f84>l and was a member of the 
Suffolk bar. He died in 1854. 

Edward Darlev Boit, son of Edward Liarley Boit. graduated at Harvard in 1803 
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar Marcli 10, 1800. 

JosEi'ii Bai.ch Braman graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1SG8 and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in June of that year. 

Ika H. Bronson was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889. 

Edward King Bcttrick graduated at Harvard in 1852 and at the Harvard Law 
School in 1854, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar before 1850. 

D.-vviD Lee Child was born in West Boylston, JIass.. July 8, 1794. and graduated 
at Harvard in 1817. He was for a term sub-master in the Boston I^atin School and 
secretary of legation in Lisbon about 1820. He studied law with his uncle, Tyler 
81 ' 



638 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Bigelow, in Watertown, Mass., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1828. 
He went to Belgium in lSH(i to study the beet sugar industry and was the first manu- 
facturer of that article in the United States. He was afterwards earnestly engaged in 
the anti-slavery movement, and at one time, with his wife, edited the Anti-Slavery 
Slaiidard in New York. He married Lydia Maria Francis and died in Wayland, 
Mass., September 18, 1ST4. 

John J. Coi.i.LNs was born in Boston August 28, 1862, and was educated at the pub- 
lic schools and at the College of the Holy Cross. He studied law at the Bo.ston Uni- 
versity Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 188(j. He is now at the 
bar. 

CiiAui.K.s Fk.\n<is DoNNK.i.i.v was admitted to the Suffolk bar in September, 1858, and 
is now at the bar. 

Dk.an IJi'iii.i-.v was admitted to the Suffolk bar September 23, 1884. 
Joseph Di dikv, son of (Jovernor Thomas Dudley, was born in Roxbury, Mass.. 
July 28, 1047, and graduated at Harvard in l()(iri. He studied theology, but aban- 
doning it for a ])olilical career, was a representative from 1673 to 167."), assistant from 
1670 to HiS"), and from 1677 to 1681 one of the commissioners of the United Colonies 
of Plymouth, Ma.ssachusctts, Connecticut and New Haven. He was appointed by 
James the Second president of New England in 168."> and in 1687 chief justice of the 
Supreme Court, but was arrested with Andros at the time of the Revolution of 1688 
and sent to ICngland. He was apixiinted chief justice of New York in 1690 and was 
afterwards deputy governor for eight years of the Isle of Wight. In 1701 he was 
chosen a member of Parliament from Newton and from 1702 to 1715 was governor of 
Massachusetts. He died in Roxbury A])ril 2, 1720. 

Pai'i. DiDi.r.v, son of Joseph Dudley, was born Septembers, 1G75, and graduated 
at Harvard in I6i)(l. He studied law at the Tcmiilc in London and in 1702 was made 
attornev-gcncral of Massachusetts. In 1718 he was appointed an associate justice 
of the Superior Court and in 1745 chief justice. He was the founder of the IJudleian 
Lectures at Harvard, for which he made a bequest. He died January 25. 17.52. 

Wii.DKK Dwiciir was born in Springfield, Mass., April 23, 1883, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1853. He graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855 and was ad- 
mitted to the Sufi'olk bar September i), 1856. He practiced in Boston until he was 
appointed major of the Second Massachusetts Regiment May 24, 1861. He was taken 
prisoner at Winchester May 25, 1862, and on the 13th of June in that year was made 
lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded at the battle of Antietam and died of his 
woiuids September li), 1862. 

.\mikkw DrNL.M' was born in Salem, Mass., in 17'J4 and graduated at Harvard in. 
isl;!. He was admitted to the bar in Essex county in 1818, but removed to Bo.ston 
ill 1^20, where he became distinguished at the bar. He was many years United States 
attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and died in Salem in 1835. 
C. J. EiicF.Ki.v was at the Suffolk bar in 1885. 
IIenkv F. F.m.lon was at the Sufl'olk bar in 1858. 

Ali'rki) D\\ ii;n r Fostek graduated at Harvard in 1873 and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in April, 1875. He is now at the bar. 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 639 

Charles Edwin Forbes was born in West Bridgewater, Mass., August 25. 179"), 
and graduated at Brown University in 1815. He studied law in Eniield and North- 
ampton, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He was county attorney in 
Hampshire county, a member of the Legislature, judge ol" the Common Pleas Court 
from 1847 to 1848 and a judge of the Supreme Court in 1848. After one year's serv- 
ice in the latter court he resigned. He died in Northamptr)n February 13, 1881. 

Henry C. Gardiner was at the Suffolk bar in 1857. 

Frank E. H. Gary was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1889 and is now at the bar. 

Robert Gordon graduated at HarvMid in 1043 and was at the Suffolk l)ar in 1857. 

Benjamin Gorham was at the Suffolk bar in 1849. 

Peter S. Grasscup was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1873. 

Melbourne Green was admitted to the Suffolk bar in May, 18fi7. 

Elton Hutchin.son was admitted to the Suffolk bar March 19, 1.S73. 

Erford C. Hunter was at the Suffolk bar in 1876. 

P. O. Larkin was at the Suffolk bar in 1874. 

George Gardner Lowell was at the Suffolk bar in 1882. 

H. M. McNemara was at the Suft'olk bar in 1872. 

Gei.iroe Richards Minot was born in Boston iJecember 28, 1758, and graduated at 
Harvard in 1778. He was admitted to the Suff'olk bar in 1781 and attained distinc- 
tion at the bar. He was clerk of the House of Representatives from 1783 to 1791, 
and secretary of the convention which adopted the Constitution. He was appointed 
jud.ge of probate for Suffolk county in 1792 and held the office until his death. In 
181)1) he was appointed chief justice of the County Court of Common Pleas, and in 
the same year a jud.ge of the " Municipal Court in the Town of Boston." He died 
in Boston January 2, 1802. 

Timothy O'Connor was at the Suffcjlk bar in 18()4. 

N.^thaniel a. Parker was admitted to the Suffolk bar December 16, 1858. 

Jacob C. Patten was admitted to the bar in Middlesex count)^ in October, 1H87, 
and practiced at the Suffolk bar. 

Charles Frederick Payne was at the .Suffolk bar in 1867. 

William H. Peirce was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1862. 

Ivory N. Richardson was admitted to the Suft'olk bar March 9, 18)'l. 

Frederick Robinson was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in July, 183(i. 

Odin B. Roberts was admitted to the Suft'olk bar January 20, 1S91, and is now at 
the bar. 

Edward W. Sanborn was at the Suft'olk bar in 1887. 

Lemuel Shaw, jr., son of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, was born in Boston in 1829, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1849. He .graduated at the Harvard Law School in 
1852 and was admitted to the Suft'olk Inir April 5 in that year. He was associated in 
business with John Jones Clarke and was largely engaged in the management of 
trust estates. He was a trustee of the Boston Library, the Boston Atheneuni and 
the Boston Provident Institution for Savings, and President of the Boott Manufactur- 
ing Company and the Rockport Granite Company. He died unmarried in Boston 
May 6, 1884. 

Philib J. Stewart was admitted to the Suft'olk bar in 1890. 



640 m STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Fkedkkick M. Sionk was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 18HT and is now at the 
bar. 

Fkkdi-.kuk \V. Sjkom; was admitted to the Suffolk bar Xovember 1. is?.".. 

William Hvsi.or Sumnkr, son of Increase Sumner, was born in Dorchester, Mass., 
July 4, 17.S0, and graduated at Harvard in 1799. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in July, 1S02, and practiced in Boston. He was a representative from 1SU8 to 1S19, 
and adjutant-general from 1818 to 1834. He died at Jamaica Plain, now a part of 
Boston, October 24, 18(il. 

Ch.mu.es TovvNSENi) graduated at Harvard in ISIO and was admitted tfi the Suffolk 
bar January 19, 1814. He died in 181(1. 

Fk-\ncis Ti'Kts graduated at Harvard in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in 
18.")!. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 14, 1857. 

Henry C. W.m.dko.s was at the Suffolk bar in 1883. 

Francis \V. Waldo was at the Suft'olk bar in 1814. 

Joii.N C. B. Wakii was admitted to the Suff'olk bar August is, 1.^48. 

John F. Ward was at the Suffolk bar in 1S79. 

C. L. Watson was at the Suft'olk bar in 18(10. 

Smuii K. I). Weston was at the Suffolk bar in 1890 and is now at the bar. 

William N. Whue was admitted to the Suffolk bar in July, 18S0. 

S. M. ^"l•,AHL^ was at the Suff'olk bar in 18");i. 

Xaihamel Morton Davis, son of William and Rebecca (Morton) Davis, was born 
in Plymouth, Mass., in 178.") and graduated at Harvard in 18C4. He wasadmitted to 
the Suffolk bar in January, 1808, and established him.self in his native town. He was 
repeatedly representative and senator and was a member of the E.xecutive Council 
while John Davis was governor. In earlier life he was a major in the militia and 
president of the Court of Sessions. He married in 1817 Harriet Lazell, daughter of 
Nahum and Nabby (Lazell) Mitchell of East Bridgewater, and died in Boston July 29, 
184.S. 

Thomas Hiii'kinsi;n was born in New Sharon, Maine, August 2.5, 1804, and grad- 
uated at Harvard in 18'S(). He studied law with Lawrence & (Jlidden in Lowell, and 
was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 18;!3. He was a representative from Lowell in 
1838 and 1S47, senator in 1845, and in 1848 was appointed a judge <m the bench of 
the Common Pleas Court. In 1849 he resigned and was made president of the Bos- 
ton and Worcester Railroad Company. He died in Cambridge Xovember 17, 1850. 

Har\ EV N. Coi.i.i.^oN was born in Boston March 22, 18(50. He received his early 
education at the public schools and graduated at Harvard in 1881. He graduated at 
the Boston University Law School in 1S84 and was admitted to the bar in that year. 
He was a member of the Boston Common Council from Ward Si.\ in 18H3-84-85, and 
a representative in 1887-88. In 1887 he was chosen a member of the Boston School 
Board and he has held and is holding other offices, which manifest the confidence of 
his fellow citizens in his ability and character. 

William Gray, son of William (iray, was born in Boston December 20, 1810. He 
received his early education at the public schools and at the Boston Latin School, 
and graduated at Harvard in 1829, the third in rank in a class which included such 
men as Joseph Angier, Elbridge Gerry Austin, George Tyler Bigelow, William Brig- 



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BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 641 

haiii. William Homy Clianniiijj, Janu-s Fruumati Clarke, KrariLis H. Crowninshield, 
Hcnjaniiii R. Curtis, lieorjje 'V. Davis, (Oliver Wendell llciliiies, Samuel May, Henja- 
min I'ieree, CluiiuUer Robbins, Uthvard U. Soliier anil Joshua lUilyuke Ward. I'nib- 
ably no more distinguished elass ever jjraduated from Ilarvanl. ( )ut of a class of 
fifty-nine the writer is familiar with the career of twenty-nine. Mr. tiray was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Middlesex county in October, 18:!4, and in |S3,"), on the removal 
f)f Pele};; Sprague in that year from Maine to Boston, he became associated with him 
in business. The connection continued until Mr. Sprague was appointed, in I.S4I, 
judge of the United States District Court. In l«-t.S he retired from the law and be- 
came interested in cotton manufacturing. In IHliG he was appointed a commissioner 
on the annexation of Roxbury to Boston, and in the same year chairman of the com- 
mittee to relieve the wants of those suflering from the great Pr)rtland fire. He served 
as chairman of a similar committee after the Boston fire of 1S7'2, and was always 
ready with sympathy and practical aid for the sulTering pour. lie was president of 
the Harvard Alumni A.ssociation at its formation, and many years an overseer of 
the college. As a manufacturer he was the first to adopt the ten hour system, and at 
the formation of the First Massachusetts Regiment in lS(il he gave ten thousand dol- 
lars for the relief of the families of its soldiers. He married, October U5, 1h:{4, Sarah 
Frances, daughter of Caleb and Ann (C.reelyl Loring. of Boston. He died in Bo.ston 
February 11, IS<)-J. 

L.\ii.\N Whkaion, son of Dr. (leorge and Elizabeth (Morey) Wheaton, was born in 
that part of Norton, Mass.. which is now Mansfield, March t;{, 17.')4. He was edu- 
cated at the Wrentham Academy and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1774. He 
taught school at Xort')n and then studied divinity with Rev. Abiel Leonard, of 
Woodstock, Conn. In May, 1775, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and in 
177(J began to preach, occupying pulpits at various times in Woodstock, Oxford, 
Walpole, Dedhani, Portsmouth and Boston. With failing health he abandoned the 
ministrv and engaged for a time in business in Watertown. In 17S,"i he began the 
studv of law in Watertown and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 17s,s. He at once 
established himself in Norton and practiced successfully in the courts of Worcester, 
Norfolk, Bristol, Suffolk and Plymouth counties. He was a representative to the 
General Court seven years, eight years a member of Congress, and in isin was ap- 
pointed chief justice of the County Court "if Common Pleas. In ISI!) he was ap- 
pointed chief justice of the Court of Sessions, and retired from active business in 
1827. He married in 17114 Fanny, daughter of Samuel Morey, of N^irton, and died 
March 2:j, is4(i. 

HoK.M i; F. Smiiii referred toon page ">:t4, has been dean of the Albany Law School, 
and is now in August. ls!i:i. living in Johnstown, N. V. 

Wii.ii.wi Win I Wakki.n. son of William and Aliigail 1 Lyman) Warren, was born in 
Brighton. Mass.. February 27. ls;!:i, and graduated at Harvard in lH,"i4. In IS,"i(l he 
graduatc<l at t)ie Harvard Law School anil after further study in the otiice of Jnhn 
Phelps Putnam of Boston, was adnntteil to the Suffolk bar March IN. 1S,")H. 1-rom 
1S5(> to l^ilili he was town clerk of Brighton, and in lSti."i was a- ■ sident 

Johnson collector of internal revenue for the Seventh Mass.i Ik- 

was .1 delegate to the Democratic National Convention in IHi; 11 

1S7(I. In 1^74 he was chosen representative to Congress and -■ g 



642 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND RAR. 

(lefcaletl in 1870 by his Republican opponent, William Claflin. He was a trustee of 
the Public Library in Brighton from its organization in 18G4, until on the annexation 
of that town to Boston it became a branch of the Boston Public Library. He was a 
trustee of the Brighton Savings Bank, a director in the Brighton Butchers' Slaugh- 
tering and Melting Association, a member of the Bethesda Lodge of Masons and an 
active worker in the Unitarian ranks. He began practice in Boston and in 1862 
formed a partnership with his classmate, Thomas P. Proctor, which continued until 
his death, enjoying a large and lucrative practice. He delivered an address in 18T(i 
to the graduating class of the Georgetown Law School and in 18TT delivered the 
Fourth of July oration before the city government of Boston. He married, October 
(), IS.iO, Mary L. Adams, of Newton, and died in the Brighton District of Boston May 
2, 1880. 

John Simmekfiklu Br.wto.n, son of Israel and Keziah (Anthony) Brayton, was 
born in Swansea, Mass., December 3, 1826, and graduated at Brown University in 
18.11, from which institution he received in 1893, a degree of Doctor of I^aws. He 
studied law at the Harvard Law School and in the othce of Eliot Sc Pitman, of New 
Bedford, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar upon examination by Judge Merrick of 
the Supreme Judicial Court August 8, 18.")3. On the organization of the city govern- 
ment of Fall River, where he had established himself in his profession, he was chosen 
city solicitor, and held that office from 18.54 to 18.57 when he resigned. In 1836 he, 
was chosen clerk of the courts of Bristol county, and was selectman in 1861, serving 
until his resignation in 1864. He then associated himself in the practice of law with 
James M. Morton, now an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, under the 
firm name of Brayton & Morton, but relintjuished practice in 1868. He was a mem- 
ber of the Executive Council in 1866-07-68-70 and '80, and has been president of the 
First National Bank of Fall River since its organization in 1864. He is also presi- 
dent of the B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and of several manu- 
facturing corporations in Fall River. He married, November 27, 18.55, Sarah Jane, 
daughter of Finoch and Rebecca (Williams) Tinkham, of Middleboro. Mass., and re- 
sides in Fall River. 

Mki.vin O. Ai).\ms is the son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams, and was born 
in Ashburnham, Mass., November 7, 18.50. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and Appleton Academy in New Ipswich. N. H., and graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1871. After leaving college he taught school in Fitchburg, Mass., 
for a time, and while in that town studied law in the office of Amasa Norcross. In 
1874 he came to Boston and attended lectiu'es at the Boston University Law School, 
from which institution he was graduated in 187.5. He was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar in 187.5, and was soon after appointed assistant of Oliver Stevens, district at- 
torney, continuing in that position until 1886. The familiarity he acquired while in 
that office with the methods of the government in dealing with persons charged with 
offences against criminal law, gave him a position at the bar which it would have 
been difficult to otherwise obtain. To his reputation as a lawyer thus attained was 
undoubtedly due his engagement as associate counsel in the defense of Miss Borden, 
indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother, who, after one of the most 
notable criminal trials in the Commonwealth, was acquitted of the charge. After re- 
signing his position as assistant district attorney, he became associated in business 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 643 

wilh Augustus Russ, and omtimictl with him until thctleath of Mr. Rn« in the <itni- 
mer of IS'.t'i. He is a Republican in politics, and in IMIMI was a hh >iT 

of Governor Braekett wilh the rank of colonel. He is now in activ' .v- 

the paths of his profession with a fidelity an<i /.eal which j^ive promise of a hrilhant 
career. Outside of his ])rofession he is well known in business and literary circles, 
and in his connection wilh these is president of the Boston. Revere Beach and Lynn 
Railroad, and of the General Alumni Association of Dartm'nith CoUej^e He mar- 
ried Mary Colony in Fitchburs; in 1S7.>. ami lives in Boston. 

S.\Mi Ki. Lki..\ni) PoWKRs. son of Larned and Ruby (Barton) Powers, was born in 
Cornish, N. H., October Sfi. 1S4.S, and jj^raduated in 1«74 at Dartmouth ClUwc. where 
he won the Lockwood prizes both in rhetoric and elocution. He is "' '<.-seent. 

his aticestors having come from England to Salem in lOriO. He >i in thf 

office of W. AV. Bailey, of Xashua, N. H.. at the law school of the University of New 
York, and in the ofHce of Verv iV G;uskell, of Worcester, where he was ailniitied to 
the bar November 17, 1S7.'>, He began practice in Boston in January, is7fi, in part- 
nership with Samuel W. McCall. now a member of C(mgress, remaining associated with 
him until 1877, after which he continued in general practice until IHX7. when, after 
devoting himself for some time to the study of electrical science, he decided to 
make a specialty of law in its application to electrical matters. He was one of the 
first atlornevs in the country to make a specialty of this branch of the law. During 
the last six years he has been almost exclusively employed in representing corpora- 
tions and individuals engaged in electrical operations, not only in Massachusetts, but 
also in various other parts of the country. He is at present general counsel for the 
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, the (Tamewell Fire Alarm Tele- 
graph Company and other large corporations in a similar line of business. He is 
also a director in several electric railway and manufacturing corporations. Mr. Pow- 
ers has resided in Newton since 1!^'^2. and has taken an active part ; ' ^:ul 
political affairs. He was for a number of years a menihi-r i.f the city i; ..f 
that city, the presiding officer of the Council, and a - 1 Ic 
was a prominent candidate for Congress in the Rep 'U 
in 188«, was one of the founders of the Newton Club, and is tiie lirsi \ :U 
of that organization. He is also a member of the University Club of i Ik- 
married in 1878 Eva. daughter of Hon. Prince S. Crowcll, of Dennis. Mass., and has 
one son, Leland. born July 1. 18110. 

S.VMiKi, Rui.KV TowNSKNLi. Son of Satuuel and Abigail Townsend, was l>orn in 
Waltham. Mass., April 1<I, ISKi, and graduated at Harvard in 182!t. After leaving 
college he taught the High School in Plymouth two or three year-;, and then engaged 
in mercantile business in Boston until l«4ti. when he be. \ya\ of the Bristol 

Academy, and continued in that positirm until 1H4!>. \\ ■ law with H. .ratio 

Pratt, of Taunton, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar January 5, IS.MI. He estab- 
lished himself in Taunton, and in 1H."):1 was chosen treasurer of Bristol county, which 
office he hehl three years. In is.->.s he was appointe<l judge <if the Taunton Police 
Court, and served until a new arrangement of the ■ • made by law. He was 

a member of the City C(mncil in is7:t-7.t-7."i. and r in 1hm-.>. He married. 

June •J», \^^^■^~l. Marv Snow Percival. and died Septemi'cT v.. 1><87. 



64 1 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

David Lkhn \ui> Haknks. sou of Rev. David and Rachel (Leonard) Barnes, of Scit- 
uate, Mass., uradualed at Harvard in 1780. He studied law with Daniel Leonard 
and James Sullivan, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1783. He practiced law 
in Taunton from 178:5 to 1793, when he removed t(j Rhode Island, where he was ap- 
pointed bv lelferson judjje of the I'nited States District Court. He married Joanna 
Russell, and died in 1812. 

Hknkv (iiMiuuiN, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Lebaron) (ioodwin, was born in 
Boston, and graduated at Harvard in 1778. He studied law in Boston with William 
Tudor, and after admission to the bar settled in Taunton. He afterwards removed 
to Newport, R. I., and became attorney-general of Rhode Island. He married 
Mary, daughter of William Bradford, of Bristol, R. I., and died at Newport, .\Iav-?l, 
1789. 

SrKriiF.N Gii.MAN, son of Samuel and Sarah (Ooodhue) Oilman, was born in Mere- 
dith Village, X. H., September ->8, 1819, and graduated at Harvard in 1848. He 
studied law in New York eit\- in the office of Man & Parsons, and was admitted to 
the Xew York bar November 'l\, 1871. He afterwards came to Boston and was ad- 
mitted to the SulTolk bar in Ai)ril, ls7y. lie was trial justice in Kssex county twelve 
years, havin.g a residence in Lynnlield in that county with a law office in Boston. 
He married first in New York, March Vl, 1870, Lucv A. Davis, and second at Lynn- 
field. August 7, 1881, Esther ^V. Mansfield. 

Macon B. Ai.i.k.n was one of the earliest lawyers of African descent at the Suffolk 
bar. He was admitted to that bar May 9, 1845, and has been dead some years. 

Aaro.n Alkikki BkADi.Ev was of African descent. He was a frequenter of the 
courts between 1850 and 1860 and managed cases by special authority, but was never 
admitted to the bar. He has been dead some years. 

RicHARii Asiii.KV PiiiKCE was bom in Taunton, Mass., September 7, 1834, and was 
for a time a member of the Suffolk bar. He was a representative in 1800 and 1861, 
and died in New Bedford, August 3, 1869, 

Richard Sii.i.ivan Fay, of whom a short sketch appears on page 125, has a more 
extended memoir, with a portrait, in the second volume, to which the reader is 
referred. 

JiuiN Fkekman Coj.iiv was descended from Anthony Colby, who appeared in Cam- 
bridge in 1()32. and afterwards settled in that pari of Sali.sbury which is now Ames- 
bury. He was the son of John and Mary H. (Holt) Colby, and was born in Benning- 
ton, N. H., March 3. 1834. Kaiiy thrown on his own resources, he saved bv industry 
and economy sutlicicnl money for a limited school education. At the age of seven- 
teen he began to leach school, and the means secured by teaching enabled him to en- 
ter Dartmcmth College in 1855, having gone through his preparatory studies at Mount 
Vernon and Reed's Ferry in his native State, and as a private puiiil of Hon. George 
Stevens, of Lowell, Mass. During his college course he taught school each winter, 
and graduated in 1859. After leaving college he became princi|)al of the Stet jon High 
School in Randolph. Mass., and in 1864 entered as a student the law othce of Ranney 
& Morse in Boston, He was admitted to the Sufiolk bar on examination bv the Su- 
])reme Judicial Court, December 14, is(i5, and continued in practice until his death with 
a constantly increasing reputation and clientage. He was esteemed at the bar as a 
sound lawyer, a conscientious attorney, and able advocate. In 1878-9 he was a mem- 
ber of the Boston Common Council, and in 1887 and 1888 was a member of the Jlas- 
sachusctts House of Rei)resentatives from the Eighteenth SulTolk District, servingon 
the Committee (m Harbors and Public Lands, and on the Committee on Parishes and 
Religious Societies. Always interested in religious affairs, he was in Boston an active 
member at different times of the Mount Vernon and Union Churches. Mr Colby 
sought to avoid business responsibilities outside of his profession, but in 1877 he served 
as receiver of the Mechanics' P)ank, and was for several years cme of the trustees of 
the North End Savings Bank. Mr. Colby married, January '24, 1861, Ruthev Ellen, 
daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman, of Mount Vernon, N. H., ancl 
his oldest son, John Henry Colby, a member of the Suffolk bar, is mentioned else- 
wheie in this register. He died in HiUsboro, N. H., June 6, 1890. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS 

TKKATKD IX Till". I\TR< M HTI'i IRV ClIAl'llCK 



I'UK'r 

Admissions to the Bar IU-li:i 

Andros Edmund ."I'i 

Assistants 1 1 

Attorney-Generals !ts-!i!t 

Attorneys .V,'~t;.V l iCi- 1 ( -I 

Bar Association lil!( 

Barristers. . . Tl-H o 

Beadle. "id 

Boston Court of Comnii>n Pleas . "^ I 

Chancery Court 17-iil 

Charter of Massachusetts Colony. 1 1 

Charter of Massachusetts Province ■">:! 

Circuit Court of Common Pleas T!i 

Clerk of Courts 4!i 

Colony of Massachusetts '.'•> 

Commissioners nf ( )yer and Terminer <1>| 

Councillors. . 4i-.V> 

Counsellors.. 7"i-10.*> 

County Attorne\ !'"•' 

County Court :'« ^l-"'^ 

Counties Established '• 

Courts Established ■'■' 

Court Fees. I "'2 

Court Houses '"" 

Court Rules. lOtHtp; 

Court of Assistants. H.'i-:!. 

Court of Common Pleas iS-HO 

Courts of Justices ^-^ 

Court of Over and 'I'ermnier •'•' 

Courts of Pleas •'- 

Court of Sessions "■' 

Deputy Ciovernors . '" 

District Courts "*"* 

l"reemcn. "' 

tleneral Court. ' ' ''' 

Oeneral Sessions of the Peace ■"'-' 

(lovernors of Massachusetts Colonv •" 



646 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 

Page. 

(ji'uiiL Ouai'lur t'mul . - - . . - Sli-iiT 

Inferior Court ol' e'ominoii I'leas . .83-37-50-5S-r)i)-77 

J udjies ol" Admiralty Court _ _ _ _ _ JIH 

Juds■e^; of Boston Court of Common Pleas_ ..85 

Judj^es of Circuit Court fif Common Pleas .79 

Judsjes of Court of Commr)n Pleas 78-80 

Judijcs of General Sessions of the Peace .82 

Jud,«;es of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas . 77 

Judges of the Justices Court .. . Sfi 

Judjjes of the Municipal Court of City of Boston... . . 8S 

Iu(lj;es of the Municipal Cmut of 'I'fiwn of Bf>st<>n . . . . .HD 

Judges of Probate . !Ml-i)l 

Judges of Superior Court si 

Judges of Superior Court of the County of Suffolk.. . -^o 

Judges of Su])erior Court of Judicature . tili 

Judges of Su])rcnie Judicial Court. VI 

Justices Court. ... .Mt-Sii 

Loring Edward ( ;. , Removal of. i)2 

.Magistrates 43 

M aritim e Court i»8 

Marshal . . .oil 

.Military Court m 

Municipal Courts ... ...... Ss 

Municipal Court of the Citv of Boston. S7 

Municipal Court of the Town of Boston . . .NT 

Police Court ...... ..SG-8S 

Presidency of New Rnghiiid 52 

Probate Court 50-90-91 

Quarterly Sessions Court 52-()0 

Registers of Probate !)IM)1 

Reporters of Decisions .... 7(i 

Revolution of ]fiH8 .52 

Sessions of the Peace . . . 5s 

SherilTs . mi 

Solicitors-General .9!) 

Sjjecial Justices of Inferior Court ... 77 

Special Justices of Superior Court. . 67 

Strangers Court 3!) 

Suffolk County Bar . 1()1-1(M 

Superior Court of Judicature 52-53-01 

Superior Court . .80 

Superior Court of Suffolk Countv . H5 

Supreme Judicial Court. li'.i 

X'erdicls ... ..51 

Witchcraft . . .57 

Witnesses . 50 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



X AmiDn , Ji_isiAH G. 

Apams, Mki, villi. O 

I' Ai.i.EN, Frank D. 
■•' AlSTlN. Jamks \V. 
-/ AvERV, EmvAkij 
'^ Bauson, Thumas M. 
■J Bai.i,, Jdsiua T). . 

y Bangs, Edwakh 

>/Beai., John V 

/Benneit, Edmi nu H. 
y Bennett, Josi tii 

/ BeNTUN, JoSIAIl II., JK. 

y BiGELow, Geokgk B. 
/Bolster. Solomon A. 
v' Brackeit, JoirN y. A. 
/ Brooks, Fran< is A. 
i/' BkicE, CJeorgk a. 

K'BiRDEII', JosElll ( 1. 

' Bi iLER, Benjamln F 
/Bi TLER, J. Haskell 

►' CnANDLER.TlIEollllLLsI'. 

■^Chandler, Alfri i' I'. 
"^CiiiLU, Kims 

<■■ ClllLI', LiNl s M 

•'Choaie, Ri 11 s 
^Clarke, Tiio.ma^ \V 

■ CoGGAN, MaKi 1 1 II ~ 

/ C(ji.nv. John F. . . 
>^Crowmn>iiii 1 !■. Fk XNI.I- 

B 

C'l. M.MINGS, PrENII-.^ 

• Ci Riis, Benjamin \< 

1 )EAN, Benjamin . 
►^^E.MIR. Samiei 
•^Dlmer. Franklin 

/ 1 111 KlS-"-..M XR'.'I I'' 1" JK 



faciii>; pa^i.' 1- I^li i.au a\ .Wii i.ia.m K 1.. taciiiK jiajftr i'.i".J 

IS , UlT.lE\, Saneori) H. •■ •J'J.*' 

■-'4 / 1)1 RANI, Menrv F ■-':« 

:!ii /UvER, Mkah, jr mo 

:!li . Kl.llREDGE. Cl ARtM I i -'-Ifi 

4".' V FmruaNKS, LoREN/o S J-Vl 

4s »-Tai L"N, JosEi-ii I ' .'■>•! 

•'.4 /Fan, Sami el P. I' -'tl2 

•HI , Freni II, Asa ■-'•>•< 

•Hi /Gargan. Thomas J. -7'- 

'I'l /(iASTON, William -■•> 

7s . (Jas:on, William .\ -Sti 

■'<4 , (lEORGE, Elijah -S"! 

!MI uCii.MAN, E|i\\ in C .'!•- 

'.Mi , Oilman. Ravm..ni. R. -'»« 

102 , Hadioi k, Harxkv 1). '.0-' 

lOS ; Hamii ION. Samiei K i"'! 

114 /Hassam, J..IINT. . ir.' 

l-'o Haves. Benjamin F IPi 

r.'ii . Hi osoN. John K ■^■i^' 

i:is / Hlni. Freeman I'li 

i:i2 /Jenkins, KnwAKii J. '•'s 

144 ^'JE\VEl 1 , IIarves !14 

l.')!! . Kli.l\. Ei'U vkp a. '"io 

l."lll i/KlNGMAN, Host A ;V1 

11!-.' ''LeAI II, Jamis E Wi 

HIS v'|,iN> oi N, Solomon His 

174 k'LoRiNi;, Charie- I'l. '•'<- 

/1-owEi.i , John 17<1 

isii /M> Ci.Ei 1 AN. Arihi k I ' fsii 

I.Sti tM VS..N. |l\Ml. II 'S(i 

111',' v'MlNol. Wll II KM I'-f.' 

Ills .Mill IlLll . Will lAM II ''IMi 

•,'114 -^MoKsi . Naiiian ll- 

■.'10 /Mol<-,t. RollERI M 'IS 

•Jin •'MoR-.L. ('lEoRGI \\ 1"S 



648 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



" MoKSE, (todkrey facing paj 


?e 402 


^^ Morton, Makcis 


• 424 


i/Mlri'1iv, Jamks R. . . 


■ 430 


/Nkedham. Daniki, 


■ 430 


y XoVKS, CHAR1.ES J. .. 


■ 442 


v Osooiii), Jdsei'II K. F. 


• 448 


J Paink, RciiiKRi Tkeap _ 


■ 454 


/ I'aine, Roheki Tkkai_._ 


• 460 


-J Paine, Chari.es J. 


• 464 


V Pekry, Baxier E. . .- 


• 470 


i/ Pei lENcii.i., John W. 


■ 476 


y Pii.i.sniRv, Ai.iiERT E 


' 480 


V PoriER, Oklanik) B 


• 48() 


y Powers, Ciiaki.es E. . 


■ 492 


/Powers, Samiei L. 


• 490 


\l Powers, \Vii.i;i k H 


• .JOO 


V Prince, FuEiiERir 


■ .")06 


i/ Pro<-ioi<, Thomas P. . .. 


■ 012 


•/ Ranney, Ambrose A. . 


■ .■>l.s 


>/ Reed, Chester I. 


• .-)24 


y Rii.EY, Thomas 


■ .-,28 


•J RlSSEI.I., Wll.l.lAM (1. •• 


■ .-)34 


/San(;ek, Georoe P 


• 540 


J S(-HOlI.EK. JaMEs 


544 



/Sears, Phii.it H facing page 548 

/Shattuck, George (• " 552 

/Shepard, Harvey N 5."ii; 

v Simmons, John F. " " 500 

/ SoMERDY, GlSTAVl'S A. . - " " 564 

/ Si'RAciE, Pelei; . " " 568 

/ Stearns, Wn.Li AM S. ... . " '■ 572 

y Swift, Henry W. •' •• 576 

v/ Tho.mi'.son, LiciAN B. '• " 580 

/TowLE, George H. ■ ■ 5S4 

/ Train, Charles R. ■■ ■• 5!)o 

/ Tucker, George F. '• • 596 

y Tc.xHCRY, George W •• •• 602 

y Wade, Levi C ... " " OOs 

/ Wehster, Daniel Frontispiece 

/Welch, Charles A. facing pa.ge 612 

y Wells, Samiei " " 616 

/ Weston, Thoma-^ " " 620 

/ WniTE, George " '• fi24 

y WiiTTiNi;, William •' •• 628 

/ WlLl.ARU, JosETii A. " " 632 

/ Wooi>ulrv,Charle.> I.E\ I ■• •' 636 

/ Wright, Edwin " ■' 640 



IN DEX 



BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER 



Abbe William Alanson, 337. 
Abbott Edwin Hale, 334. 
Abbott Uenjamin Vaughan. 318. 
Abbott Charles E., 618. 
Abbott Charles L., 117. 
Abbott Curtis, 131. 
Abbott Franklin Pierc;e, 18a. 
Abbott George C, 61S. 
Abbott Grafion St. Loe, iSq 
Abb.>tt Grafton T., 6i8. 
Abbott Ira E.. 61S. 
Abbott James Alexander, 456. 
Abbott John Edward, 334. 
Abbott John G., 618. 
Abbott |ohn .S., 45" 
.\bhott josiah Gardner, 257. 
Abbott Leon Martin, 347. 
Abbott Marshall Kittredge. 4>7- 
Abbott Nathan D , 618. 
Abbott Samuel Appleton 

Browne, 247. 
Abbotts H, 618. 
Abbott William A., 450. 
Aberdain D. L., 618. 
Achorn Edgar O., 489. 
Ackerman Charles Lewis, 457. 
Adair W. Robert, 618. 
Adams .\lbion .\.. 618. 
Adams Arthur Edwin, 454. 
Adams Benjamin, 437 
Adams Brooks, 273. 
Adams C. H. F.,457. 
Adams Charles Day, 2; 
iVdams Charles I'rancis. 273. 
Adams Charles Krancis, jr., 272. 
Adams Charles Frederick, 273. 
Adams Charles I.. 6^7. 
Adams Charles True. 618. 
Adams C'lMMKiii S., '^i8. 
Adams 1 s. 131. 

Adams I :-. 

Adiim- ■ .ird, 273. 

A; .tt, 271. 

A' ii*). 

A'l ''US, 201. 

A^: 

A 134. 

A ; 

A'! ^ . 243- 

a; .282. 

Aii.. I'. 

83 



73- 



Adams Joseph T., 6i8. 

Adams Julius. 618. 

Adams Melvin O., 642. 

Adams .Sherman Wolcott, 457. 

Adams Thomas Hoylston, 457. 

Adams Walter, ^30.' 

Adan]s Zab<liel Ifovlston, ji8. 

Adan John Richardson, 426. 

Adavis Walter, 618. 

Addington Isaac, too. 

.\herin John H. P., 3; 

Aiken David, 421. 

.-\lbee Sumner, 3i<>. 

Albers Ht»mer. 289. 

.\lhert Talbot Jones 458. 

-Mden Cyrus, 618. 

Alden George D., 618. 

.Mden H. O . 618. 

Alden Peter Oliver, 300. 

Aldrich Peleg Emory, 302., 

Aldrich Samuel Nelson, aoi. 

.\lexander Elwin G.. 6'3 

.Mfred Francis Edward, 458. 

-Mger AlpheUS Brown. 302. 

Alger .Arthur M., 618. 

Alger Edwin Alden, 302. 

,\lger Edwin .Augustus, 303 

Allds Warren, 132. 

Allen Arthur Lincoln, 213. 

.Mien -Xuii'i^tus Oliver. -i?7. 

All. • 

All. ■ 

AIK : . ■ , ■ 

.•Mien Cli.iili..^ Iv.lward, 327. 

Allen Crawtord C, 637. ' 

.Mien ICIisha Hunt, 253. 

Allen Frank Dewey, 503. 

.Mien I're.lerick, 121. 

Allen I're.lerick Hunt, 489. 

Allen (iet.rge .■\,.'ii.^. 

.Mien Harris. m8. 

.Mien 11.. ra . li . 11,. 

Alkv. ,i6. 

AIK; vvdoin, 550 

All. ' 

Alle 

Alle .44. 

Alle ' T.. ^55. 

All, 

AlU 3. 

Allei . ,31. 



Allen Stillman Boyd, 32". 
.-Vllen Thomas, 458. 
Allen William, 2^8. 
Allen Willis Boyd, 4(8. 
Allin H. N.. (,!!.. 
Allync Rufus Bradford, 3ig. 
Almon A. B., 619. 
Almy Charles, jr„ 458. 
A)...v T,.i.. .„_ 

trnin, 338. 

: ' ■ »37. 

..::.•-. 1 ..:..r, 458. 

Ames Isaac, 553, 

Ames James Barr, 458. 

Ames John W., 544. 

Ames Nathan, 338. 

Ames Samuel, 45^, 

Ames .Seth, 218 

Amory Francis Inman, 261. 

Amory George Kirkland, 458 

.-\i(;..r\' K' Mf ■;. I ; -w. 



,458 



Roberts, ■ 



.■\Il.;icw» L. C. SS7. 

Andrews I'erdinan.l L 



i 



650 



HISTORY OF 'I IN-: BENCH AND BAR. 



Appleton Francis Henry, 320. 
Appleton Frank A.. 237. 
Appleton Frt'dorick A., 552. 
AppU'ton John Henry 320. 
Appleton Samuel, zoq. 
Appleton 'I'homas Gold. 294. 
Appleton William Channing, 213 
Apsley George Kdward. 458- 
Apthorp Robert Bast, 458- 
Apthorp William F(jster, 458. 
Apthorp William J.. 619. 
Archer Samuel R., 619. 
Armstrong Thomas Henry, 320. 
Arnold Howard Payson, 458. 
Arnold Zenas S.. 619. 
Ashmnn VA\ Porter, -^21 
Ashmun John Hooker, 321. 
Askenasy Herman, 6iq. 
Aspmwall Thomas. 237. 
Aspinwall WilHam, 248. 
Atherton Humphrey, 193. 
Atkins Georj^e E., 6iq. 
Atkins J. Augustus, 6iq. 
Atkinson Henry Martyn, 458. 
Atkinson J., 614. 
Atwood Charles, 251. 
Atwood Charles U., 619. 
Atwood I^. J.. 61Q. 
Atwood Hartley K., 611. 
Atwood John. 637. 
Atwood William, 269. 
Auchinuty Robert. 237. 
Auchmuty Robert, jr., 237 
Augustus John, 5'^'-^- 

Austin Albert A., 6ni. 

Austin Arthur Williams, 450. 

Austin Kdward, 619. 

Austin liiliridge Gerry, 223. 

Austin Henry. 234. 

Austin Henry David, 456. 

Austin Ivers James, 223. 

Austin James Trecothick, 

Austin James Walker, 588. 

Austin James Walker, jr., rm. 

Austin John Downus, 22^. 

Austin Jonathan Williains, 225. 

Austin Percy, 459. 

Austin Walter, 6r I. 

Austin William, 225. 

Austin William P., 619. 

Austin William Russell, on. 

Averil George W., 619. 

Avery Albert E.. 619. 

Avery Edward, 317. 

Averv John Edward, aiS. 

Aycr Frederick Fanning, 459. 

Ayer Joseph C. 619. 

Ayer Phineas, 449. 

Ayers George David, 318. 

Ayers Henry M.. 179. 

Ay I ward James Francis. 318. 

Aylwtn William Cushing, 451. 

Babbitt C. A., 619. 
Babbitt Erasmus. 439. 
Babcock Francis Eaton, 4<;q 
Babcock Lemuel Hoilings- 

worth. 450. 
Habson Robert Tillinghast, 132 
Babson Thomas McCrate, 574. 
Bachelder Thomas Cogswell, 

247. 
Back Roscius Harlow, 247. 
Bacon Charles H., 619. 
Bacon Charles William, 6t;. 
Bacon Kzekiel, 286. 
Bacon Frederick A., 619. 



, 223. 



Bacon H. C., 0(9. 
Bacon John William, 421. 
Bacon Thomas S., 6r9. 
Bacon William Francis. 611. 
Badger Almarind Ferdinand, 

454. 
Badger Walter Irving, 132. 
Bailey Andrew Jackson. 947. 
Bailey Dudley P., 247. 
Bailey Gardner W.. 619. 
Bailey Hollis Russell, 252. 
Bailey John Appleton, 459. 
Bailtv Joseph Whitman, 252. 
Bailev L, H,,6iq. 
Baker Albert. 390. 
Baker Alpheus. 288 
Baker Edward T., 253. 
Baker Elihu C , 457. 
Baker Fisher Ames. '^19. 
Baker Henry L., 396. 
Baker Herbert L., 637. 
Baker John Freeman, 459- 
Baker James Murrav, 45q- 
Bakcr John R., 6iq. 
Baker William H., 252. 
Baker William P.. 619. 
Balch Francis Vergnies. 459. 
Balch Joseph. 619. 
Baldwin George W.. 439. 
Baldwin Henry, 261. 
Baldwin Horace E., 619. 
Baldwin Loainmi. 350. 
Baldwin Thomas Tilcston, 612. 
Ball Benjamin W..619. 
Ball Jf^shua Dorsev. 350. 
Ball William A., 619. 
Ballantyne John, 619. 
Ballard James Morton, 459- 
Bancroft C. S., t;53. 
Bancroft George, 637. 
I^ancroft Jacob, 612. 
Bancroft Sidney C. 557. 
Bancroft Solon. 459. 
Bancroft William Amos. 261. 
Banfield Everett Colby. 456. 
Bangs Edward, 4^7. 
Bangs Edward. 587. 
Bangs Edward A., 351. 
Banks Frederick L.. 55?. 
Banks Nathaniel Prentiss, 273. 
Barber Charles E.. 619. 
Barbour Henry P , 6iq. 
Barbour J. N., 619 
Barker Charles S., 619. 
Barker James Madison, 203. 
BarKer James M., 619. 
Harl(»w James P., 351 
Barnard Charles A.. 451). 
Barnard Henry, 619. 
Barnes Charles M.. 350. 
Barnes David Leonard, 644, 
Barnes Isaac A., 619. 
Barnes Isaac O., 356. 
Barney Edward L., 45<j. 
Barr Thomas F., 610. 
Barren Samuel B., 619. 
Barrelle Thoma-* W., 619. 
Barrett Edward J.. 619. 
Barrett Harry Hudson, 351. 
Barrett James, ctg. 
Barrett John. 459. 
Barrett Jonathan Fay, 187. 
Barrett William, 3*;i. 
Barrows Charles H., 459. 
Barrows Morton, 576. 
Barry George M., 459. 
Barry Thomas E.. 459. 



Barry Thomas J.. 351. 
Barstow George. 425- 
Barstow Simcm Forrester, 452. 
Bartholomew Andrew J., 439. 
Bartholomew Nelson, 439- 
Bartlett Addison A., 619- 
Bartlett A. B., 619. 
Bartlett A. L.. 619. 
Bartlett Bradbury C. 619. 
Bartlett Charles. 6iq. 
Bartlett Charles W., 351. 
Bartlett D. C. 619. 
Bartlett Francis, 442. 
Bartlett Frederick K , 619. 
Bartlett George W., 619 
Bartlett Horace E.. 619. 
Bartlett Joseph. 189 
Bartlett Sidney. 188. 
Bartlett Si<Iney, jr., 442. 
Bartlett Stephen S., 459. 
Bartlett William, 619. 
Barton Charles Clarence, 119. 
Bassett Elisha, 132. 
Bassett Francis, 119. 
Batcheldcr C'lark A., 619. 
Batcheider Eugene, 442. 
Batcheldcr F'rancis Lowell, 268. 
Batcheider John M., 619. 
Batcheider Leroy, 619. 
Batcheider L. B., 6ig. 
Batcheider Samuel. 459. 
Bateman Leon H., 610. 
Bates Benjamin Edward, 132. 
I'iates Elijah, 619. 
Bates Hamlet. 459. 
Bates James Edward, 459. 
Bates- John Lewis, 118. 
Bates Liberty, 439. 
Bates Samuel W., 460. 
Bates Waldion,46o. 
Bates William, 413. 
Battelle Nathaniel, 282. 
Baxter Joseph Nickerson, 460 
Bayldone R, C, 619. 
Bayley Edward A., 619. 
Bayley J. C. M.. 619. 
Baylies Henry, 268, 
Baylies William, 324. 
Beach Edward S..619. 
Beach Morgan W,, 460. 
Beal John Van. 6ui 
Beale Benjamin, 286. 
Beale Charles Edwin, 261. 
Beale Joseph H. jr., 262 
Beaman Charles C, jr . 438 
Bean George F , 262. 
Bean Stephen, 557 
Beard Ithainar W., 460. 
Beck Ge<>rge F , 619 
Beckett Melville P , 267. 
Beckett John Gregg. 460. 
Beckford Ebenezer H.,6<7. 
Belcher Jonathan, 267. 
Belcher Jonathan, 554 
Bell John W ,619 
Bell Joseph, 361. 
Bell Joseph Mills. 362. 
Betlew Henry E.,6io. 
Bellingham Richard, 163. 
Bello Santiago C. 619. 
Bellows ICdward S., 619. 
Bellows Josiah G , 460. 
Bement Gerard, 133 
Bemis Charles, 46^. 
Bemis George. 176. 
Bemis Isaac C , 619. 
Bemis Seth, 619. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



6S' 



Render Jotliaii!, .-7 Rlakc 

Henjainin James, ^67. lila- 

Henjainin I'ark, 177. Bin.. 

Hcnjaniin Waylan E., 6iq Hhi 

Henncr I'rank T.,610. Kla.. 

Hcnmtt (■ M . 6ig. Ulak 

Hennctl Rdnmnd Hatch, 373. Hla: 

Htnnelt Francis M ,6ig. Blar 

iiennelt John A.. 352. 141a 

Kcnnctt John R., 61,). Rlai. 

Hennett "Joseph. ^S^. Ulane 

Bennett lo-ieph Irving, 353. Blinn 

Bennett Josiah Kendall, 353. I'.llSs 

Bennett Samuel C , 353. Bliss 

Henneit William Fredericlt, Bliss 

460. I'.lis-i 

Benson Kdward F., 6iq. 
Bent t-leorge C, 330 
Bent Saniviel A.. 460 
Bent Wiljiani H., 619. 
Benton Josiah Henry, jr., 150. 
Beriek Francis Hermoness, 460. 
Bernard Francis, ^5?. 
Berry .Abel B., 6ig 
Berry John King. 132 
Berry John W.. 6iq 
Berry Mehem'ah Chase, 351 
Berrv Th-Mnas. 364 
Beth'une John McLean. 15Q. 
Bettcns Edward Uetra?., 4^0 
Betton (Icorge E.. 156. 
Betton Kinian C, 156. 
Betton O Erving, 553 
Bickford Horace. 619 
Bicknell Edward. 367 
Kicknell Emory O.. tho. 
Bidwell Barnabas. 619. 
Bigelow Ab'iah, 267 
Bigelow Alpheus. 460. 
Bigelow Edward Irving. 637. 
Bigelow Edwin Moses. 35^ 
Bigelow Francis Whitney. 3^^ 
Bigelow George Brooks. 505. 
Bigelow (leorge D., 620. 
Bigelow Geoi-ge Tyler, 17a. 
Bigelow Horati' . 435' 
Bigelow Horatio. 460 
Bigelow John I-. 620. 
Bigelow John Prescolt, iqik 
Bigelow Slelville Madison, ly. 
Bigelow Dliver, ^20. 
Bigelow Samuel C, 630 
Bigelow Timothy, 190 
Bigelow 'Piinothy. 460. 
Bigelow Tyler. 191. 
Biriings Oliver P. C , 348 
Binney Omar. '>2o 
Binney William Cushing, 4f«i. 
Biscoc Arthur ti , 430- 
Biscoe J Foster. 434. 
Bish..|, H.-p.iv Walk.r. ,21 
111 

r. 

r. 

r. 
1; 

!■ 
I; 
B 

r. 

I'. ert, 353. 

1: 



I'Jwiird. 433. 



hols, 613. 
'.lyne, 373. 



ti :i Unit \- ) •.-ori-r 4M, 

itit, 746. 

.46.. 

id WiliiMui John Aldrn, 



y I.. .V. J53. 

tie.. . 373 

Ale^., 

FredeiicU \V right, 337. 
George. 501. 
Henrv C, ■ -• .. 



rftt,373. 
11:.. 1! , ijio. 

Bill I Kendall, 461. 

Bio ; -7'. 

Bl... 

BU. er, 338. 

BlUE.i 

Blume Jarvis, cij- 
Boardman Alphonzo Warren, 

461. 
Boardraan Halsey J , 303. 
Bixlwell J. C. 620. 
Boit F Uv.ir 1 Darley, 349 
Boil ' .rley. jr . 637. 

Bol 270. 

Bol ■ i. 

Holies H Ilu^^ene. 132. 
BoUes John A . 272 
Bolster Percy Gardner, 345. 
Bolster Solomon Alonzo, 57'j 
Bolster Wilfred. 486 
Bolton Willi.im. \\^- 
Bon 431 

Bo I, 
B .r 



«6i 



Ho, 
Bos 
Bor 
Bo., 
Bo.) 
Bo.i 
Bo.; 
Bou 
Boi. 
Bo..' 
Bo.. 
Boi. 
Bou 
Bo^s 

Bo« 



n. 4^1 . 



.ri.llev. 4;i. 



• r«oll. 



Bowditch William IngerKoll. 



I: 
..ton, 4^1 i 

1: 

I 



Blakv lli:ir:i-s I- 



r.T.Kloiirv ' narli 



fflSrORY OF THE BENCH AND BAk. 



Brooks Franklin E., 46a. 
Brooks Geortfe Merrick, aicj. 
Brooks Gorhaai, 225. 
Brooks James Wilson, 462. 
Brooks P. C. 620. 
Brooks William G., 620. 
Brown Alexander P., 462. 
Brown Alplieus K., 557. 
Brown Augustus J,. 620. 
Brown Bartholomew, 324. 
Brown Calvin H., 620. 
Brown Charles Brooks, 373. 
Brown Charles F., 620 
Brown Charles H.. 620. 
Krown David W., 620. 
Brown Edward Everett, 462. 
Brown Kdward Payson, 462. 
Brown Frank H., 620. 
Brown George Addison, 375. 
Brown George W., 612. 
lirown Henry, 462. 
Brown Henry G., 620. 
Brown Horace. 612. 
Brown Howard Kinmonth, 375 
Brown Ira H,, 620. 
Brown Isaac, 620. 
Brown Jeremiah, 620. 
Brown John 1-., 375. 
Brown John H , 620 
Brown John P , 462. 
Brown Keheiniah, 455. 
Brown Sidney P.. 620. 
B;own Thomas B.. 620. 
Brown William, aog- 
Brown William Henry, 374. 
Brown W. Lock. s57. 
Browne Albert Gallatin, 462. 
Browne Causten, 304. 
Browne Charles, 374. 
Browne Dana. 620. 
Browne Edward Ingersoll. 374. 
Browne Ephraini, 620. 
Browne (ieorge M., 462. 
Browne J. Merrcll, 462. 
Browne John White, 365. 
Browne William, 21,. 
Brownlow William Albert, 462. 
Brownson John H., 620. 
Brownson William J., 620. 
Bruce Charles Mansfield. 295. 
Bruce George Anson, 1^%. 
Bruce Phineas. 28^. 
Brush Abraham Stephens. 612. 
Bryant F. Iv. 620. 
Bryant Henry B., 620. 
I?ryant John Duncan, 368 
Bryant Napoleon Bonaparte, 

202. 
Buchanan G. C V , 620. 
Buck C W.. C20 
Buck Edward, 620. 
liuck Henry Ball, 463. 
Buck Robert H.. 449 
Buck Walter Darling. 368 
Buckingham C deb Alexander, 

Buckingham F. W., 553. 
Buckingham J. H., 620. 
Buckman C. A., 620 
BufHnton Kugene Lucian, 267. 
BulTum Walter N., 4O3. 
Bugbee John .S , 620 
BuKinch George Storer, 239 
Bulkley John, 282. 
Bulkley Peter, 208. 
Bullard Eli, 620. 
Bullard Elias, 620. 
Bullard John Richards, 267. 



Bullivant Benjamin, 263. 
Bullock Edgar K., 621 
Bullock Rufus Augustus, 463. 
Bumpus Everett C.. 364. 
Burbank Robert Ingalls. 435. 
Burbank Walter Channing. 178. 
Burcee Edward B.. 620. 
Burdett Cyril Herbert, 612 
Burdett Everett Watson 129. 
Burdett Joseph O . s's- 
Burgess Edward Phillips, 463. 
Burke Albert G., 620. 
Burke Francis, 367. 
Burke John H , 367. 
Burleigh William R., 620 
Burlingame Anson, 274. 
Burnett William, 4(13. 
Burnham Alfred Foster, 463 
Burnham B F., 621. 
Burnham Robert Orne, 377. 
Burnham Seth C.. 610 
Burns Charles Henry. 463. 
Burns Charles J , 621. 
Burns .Samuel A., 620. 
Burnside Samuel McGregor, 

550- 
Burr David Augustus. 463. 
Burr E T , <i2o 
Burr Heman Merrick, 202. 
Burr .Samuel C, 620. 
Burr Sanford S.. 620 
Burrage Albert C, 439. 
Burrage George D.. 463. 
Burrage William W., •,67. 
Burt John II . 621. 
Burt William Lothrop, 463 
Burton Henry McKnight. 367. 
Buss Ellsworth T . 6ii. 
Bussey Benjamin, 415 
Buswell Henrv Koster, 463 
Butler Benjaniin, 621. 
Butler Benjamin Franklin 492 
Butler Franklin Jenness. 463. 
Butler George Brown, 463 
Butler John E., 463. 
Butler John Haskell, 609. 
Butler John Henry, 374. 
"■"""-• ' 621. ' 



Butler John H< 
Butler John L., 
Butler M., 621. 



Butler Sigourney, 442. 
Butt Edward, 621. 
Butterfield Jonathan Ware. 

463- 
Butterworth A. F.. 465. 
Butterworth E.lgar R., 621 
Buttrick Edwin K . 637 
Buzell Albert Clark, 463. 
Byam George A.. 621. 
Byfield Nathaniel, 238. 
Byinglon Horatio, 398. 
Bynner Edwin Lassiter, 609. 
Byram F, B.. 621. 

Cabot Edward Twisleton, 464. 
Cabot George, 428. 
Cabot Henry. 2,87. 
Cabot Henry Bromfiel.l, 464. 
Cabot James Elliot 452. 
Cady Kbenezer E., ('.21. 
Cadv .Stillman, 439. 
Cahill John, 621. 
Caldwell Middleton A., 621 
Caldwell William, 439. 
Calhoun William Barron, 448. 
Callender Edward Belcher, 236. 
Callender Henrv B., 236. 
Callender John." 285, 
Callender Jonathan, 621. 



Campbell Benjairin Merrick, 

612. 
Campbell George E,, 621. 
Campbell George Hylands. 236. 
Campbell James P.. 464. 
Campbell John Ray, 230. 
Campbell Joseph Aloysius, 230. 
Campbell William L., 621. 
Canavan Michael Joseph. 336 
<"anavan William Francis. 464 
Capen Elmer Hewitt, 305. 
Capen Phineas. 621. 
Carleton Thomas, 450. 
Carpenter Charles A., 621. 
Carpenter D. M. H., 621. 
Carpenter Frank Oliver, 576. 
Carpenter James E.. 621. 
Carpenter Mathew Hale, 299. 
Carpenter Orrin Henry, 230. 
Carpenter Robert W., 621.' 
Carr Sir Robert, 263. 
Carnes Francis. 463 
Carret James Russell, 464. 
Carrigan Edward C. 259. 
Carrington Henry H., 621. 
Carroll Charles W., 621. 
Carroll Georee P. 621 
Carruth William Ward. 464. 
Carson John Bernard. 464. 
Carter Ira Osborn, 336. 
Carter W. W., 621. 
Cnrt Wright Anderson. 621. 
Cartwright (ieorge, 263. 
Carvell Leonard T., 464. 
Carver Eugene Pendleton, 247 
Cary Nathan C. 621. 
Cary Thomas Greaves, 130. 
Casey Albert William, 464. 
Ca.sey John H., 247. 
Casey P. J.. 621. 
Cass Andrew J 621 
Casseli H. O., 463, 
Cassuly William' E., 336. 
Gate Edward Warren, 220. 
Catlin John D., 621. 
Cavanagh Leander J., 464. 
Caverly Robert Boody, 612. 
Cazeaux Lendall Pitts, 464. 
< azncau Andrew, 268. 
Ceney C. E., 621. 
Chace Thomas E.. 621. 
Chace William M., 621. 
Chadbourne Ichabod R., 621. 
Chadbourne William G., 464. 
Chadwick Ward, 621. 
Challis Josiah A., 553. 
Chamberlain EdwinM .621. 
Chamberlain Franklin, 621. 
Chamberlain George A. W., 

Chamberlain George W.,553. 
Chamberl.iin Mellen, 395. 
Chamberlavne Charles F., 463. 
Champlin Christopher E., 621 
Champlin Edgar Robert, 612. 
Chandler Alfred Dupont, 419. 
Chandler Charles Peleg, 453. 
Chandler Everett S., fi2i. 
Chandler James E.. 621. 
Chandler Lucius H , 621. 
Chandler Parker Cleaveland, 

230. 
Chandler Peleg Whitman, 249. 
Chandler Sumner Chase, 595. 
Chandler Theophilus Parsons 

34'"' 
Chandler Thomas Henderson, 

336. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



'•53 



Channinff Edward Tyrrel, asa. 
Channinv; Francis Dana, 464. 
Chapin Herbert Allen, :-t,(y. 
Chapin Horace l^wiglu, 464. 
Chaplin Herman White, 236. 
Chapman lames \V ,621. 
Chapman Jonathan. 423. 
Chapman Ozias Goodwin, 621. 
Chapman Reubtn Atwater, 245. 
Charles Salem Darius, 230 
Chase Charles W., ft2i. 
Chase James M., 464. 
Chase Marshall S., 610. 
Chase Salmon, 336. 
Chase Thomas E., 621. 
Chase William M., 6ai. 
Chattis P. E., 621. 
Checkley Anthony, 263. 
Cheever Ezekiel. sfg 
Cheever lieorge Francis, 127. 
Cheever Trarv P., <Sio. 
Chellis Charles H., 621 
Cheney Edw.'ird M., 612 
Cheney Horace Rundlett. 454- 
Cheney J. M., 621. 
Chenie John, 621. 
Chick Charles G.. 464. 
ChickerinR Wiiljam H , 6ai. 
Child Calvin G.. 621. 
Child David L , (,yi. 
Child Frank L., 437- 
Child Linus, 235. 
Child Linus Mason, 235. 
Child Samuel M.. 289. 
Childe Edward Vemon. 33*^. 
ChiUls Francis Linus, 437- 
Childs William O , 621 
Chilson H. K.,621. 
Chittenden A. P.. 621. 
Choate Charles Francis. 2^. 
Choate Charles Francis, jr , 294, 
Choate Frederick William, 550 
Choate George F., 557 
Choate Joseph Hodges. 204. 
Choate Rufus, ^Sa. 
Choate Rufus, jr., 464. 
Choate William. 157. 
Chomecin Leon F., 4^8 
Church Walter Lenoir, 336 
Churchill Asaph, 157. 
Churchill Asaph, 158. 
Churchill Charles M. S.. 464. 
Churchill John M. B.. 337- 
Churchill Joseph McKean, 2<p. 
Churchill Joseph R.. 251. 
Churchill J. P. S., 464. 
Clapp Arthur Hlake. 4^4. 
Clapp Clift Rogers. aSg. 
Clapp Henrv Austin, 306. 
Clapi) Robert P.. 369 
Clark Albert Cady, 337. 
Clark Almon J., 621. 
Clark Chester Ward, 129. 
Clark Edwin R., ^21. 
Clark Greenleaf. 4'i5 
Clark Isaiah Raymond, 306. 
Clark Joseph F.,021. 
Clark Joseph T., 621. 
Clark Louis M.,465. 
Clark Moses, 621. 
Clark Peter, 343. 
Clark R. P..6ai. 
Clark T. E..62r. 

ci.irk w :;:;.,!ii 11., ...... 



Clarke George W., 6ai. 
Clarke Isaiah R„ 6ai. 
Clarke Henry J.. 438. 
Clarke Iohn'J<^ncs, aio. 
Clarke 1. P.. 1.21. 
Clarke Joseph H.. 621. 
Clarke Manlius Stimson. an. 
Clarke Peter, A\. 
Clarke Samuel Greeley, 465. 
Clarke *rhomas. joS. 
Clarke Thomas Willfam, 547. 
Clary Albert E., 337. 
Cleland William. 621. 
Clement C. W., fr2i. 
Clement L, H., 631. 
Clifford Henry A., 6ai. 
Clifford John Henry, 293. 
Clifford Nathan, 379. 
Clifford Nathan Jaine«, 560. 
Clifford Samuel W., 157. 
Clifford William Henry, 157. 
Clough Andrew Jackson, 337 
Clough John D., 62'. 
Clougherty John, ^>2i. 
Clvmer Edward Myers, 464. 
Co'akley Timothy W., 465. 
Coale George O G.. 465. 
Cobb Charles Kane, 465- 
Cobb Cyrus. 48ft. 
Cobb John Storer, 338. 
Cobb Moses Gill, 337. 
Cobb William H.. 553. 
Cobe Ira M,. 465. 
Coburn Daniel J., 621, 
Coburn Edwin K,, 553. 
Coburn Lewis Larned, 4''>- 
Cochrane Frederick. ^22. 
Coddington WMlIiain, 170. 
Codman Charles Russell. 30^'. 
Codnian Henry. 377. 
Codman James McMaslcr. jr , 

465. 
Codman John, 424. 
Codman John, jr., 288. 
Codman Kolwrt. ^65. 
Codman Robert, jr.. 465. 
Codwise George A. P., 338. 
Coffey John Augustus. 465. 
Coffin Abraham Murbank, 329. 
Coffin C. P., 4'"i. 
Coffin I. F.. »)2j. 
Coffin Nathaniel, j'i:. 
Cog,;.in I'lhn, .' 

C.H . 

c... 
c... 

Cn 

c... 

ColbuvT 

Colburn 

Colby II 

Colby loh! 

Colby John f . 249. 

Cc 

Colbv 

Cole'J.jhn H. 

Cole;wor'h I' 

Co' 

Co 

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Co 

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Colt James Dennlson, J31. 

C.li I itii.'.. 1 liMiiii.,, >n '•"..3j|. 



oliciy L>. I 
oiiery 11.11 
unlun John. . 
onlee Sebroii 1 ., (,32. 
only V. T.. '•-■2. 
onnelly William M.,Aaa. 
onnelly William T , 622. 
onrad Phomiui E. K.,6aa. 

..ni"V li I .. . .;.. 



D . 622. 
n ir. 465. 
'■ . 610. 

.48. 



:iS, 339. 
i'h. 4''5- 
:.:h. 46«. 
V. 339. 



. 6a2. 



\vn. 284. 



l^Oloy lonu , 

Colby John F . 24. 
Colhv John Henr 
Colbv Robert I- 



C.illon 
('(^tton 



I. H..'.., 
tohn 1 . I.,, 



Clarke Gcoitic Lcmist, ujj. 



6S4 



'HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Cragin Lorenzo S., jr., 612, 
Crandall E. H., 622. 
Crane David F..466, 
Crane John H.. 6^2. 
Crane Royal S.. 622. 
Crancl) William, 274. 
CrandcU K. H., 622. 
Crandell Hiram Burr, 374. 
Crawford Frederick E., 466. 
Crawford Jay Boyd, 373. 
Creech Samuel \V.. 373. 
Creed Michael J., 329. 
Cressy Frank L., 466. 
Cristy Austin P.. 623. 
Croane Lemuel E., 622. 
Crocker George Glover. 307. 
Crocker George Uriel, 307. 
Crocker Samuel Leonard, 466, 
Crocker Samuel Mather, 288. 
Crocker Samuel R., 622. 
Crocker Uriel Haskell, 307. 
Crockett George H.. 622. 
Crommett Freeman Turner, 334. 
Cronan John F., 335. 
Cronin Cornelius F., 308. 
Crosby Charles H.» 335. 
Crosby J. Porter, 335. 
Crosby William G.. 622. 
Crossly Arthur Waldo, 605. 
Crowley Charles. 307. 
Crowley Daniel N., 622. 
Crowley John Colman,6i2. 
Croswell Simon Greenleaf, 335. 
Crowninshield Edward A., 127. 
Crowninshield Francis B., 594. 
Crowninshield John C, 622. 
Cruft Edward, jr., 398- 
Culver S. W., 622. 
Cummings Cyrus. 622. 
Cummings James T., 335. 
Cummings John W., 622. 
Cummings Joseph. 373. 
Cummings Prentiss, 575. 
Cummings William, 622. 
Cummins Ariel Ivers, 466. 
Cummins David, 421.- 
Cummins T. K... 612. 
Cunly Joseph iL,622. 
Cunningham Frederick, 374. 
Cunningham Guy, 335. 
('unningham Henry V., 466. 
Cunningham Nathan, 622. 
Curley Thomas, 622, 
Curran Francis P., 335. 
Currier H. H., 560. 
Currier Horace Hamilton, 454. 
Currier John Jr., 622. 
Currier Nathan, 335. 
Currier O. S., 622. 
Currier Soreno E. D., 622. 
Currier Thomas Florian, 374. 
Currv George Erastus. 375 
Curtis Benjamin Robbins, 175. 
Curtis Benjamin Robbins, jr.. 

Curtis Charles Pelham, 129. 
Curtis Charles Pelham, jr , 130. 
Curtis Charles Pelham, 3d, 466. 
Curtis Daniel Sargent, 434- 
Curtis Edwin Upton, 308. 
Curtis George Ticknor, 239. 
Curwin Jonathan, 215. 
Cushing Abel, 369. 
Cushing Abner L.. 370. 
Cushing Arthur P., 219. 
Cushing Austin S., 622. 
Cushing Caleb, 291. 
Cushing Charles, 287. 



Cushing Charles W., 466. 
Cushing George S., 622. 
Cushing Grafton Dulany. 612. 
Cushing Henry L., 622. 
Cushing John, 216. 
Cushing John, 216. 
Cushing John Newmarch, 612. 
Cushing Livingston, 613. 
Cushing Louis Thomas, 376. 
Cushing Luther Stearns, 275. 
Cushing Martin G., 62:;. 
Cushing Nathan, 246. 
Cushing Thomas, 275. 
Cushing William, 317. 
Cushman Arey F., 622. 
Cushman Austin S., 457. 
Cushman Henry Otis, 375. 
Cushman Joseph, a(^. 
Cushman Jotham, 622. 
Cushman Walter S., 622. 
Cutler Joseph, 622. 
Cutler Marshall. 613. 
Cutler Nathan, 622. 
Cutter Edward S.. 622. 
Cutter Isaac Jones, 376. 
Cutter Joseph A., 622. 
Cutter Ralph H., 622. 
Cutter Samuel Locke, jr., 613. 

Dabncy Freaerick, 213, 
Dabney Lewis S., 187. 
Dacev Timothy J.. 1S7. 
Dakin Arthur H , 466. 
Daland Tucker, 466. 
Daley Peter, 623. 
Dalton Tristram, 486. 
Daly Anthony C, 146. 
Daly Augustus J., 623. 
Dame Abraham A., 456. 
Dame Charles C, 610. 
Dame John Thompson, 551. 
Dame Theodore S., 550. 
Dame Walter Reeves, 613. 
Dame William Augustus, 466. 
Dame William A., 622. 
Dana Arthur P., 622. 
Dana Charles Francis, 454. 
Dana Edmund Trowbridge, 147. 
Dana Edward A., 448. 
Dana Francis, 146. 
Dana Francis, 248. 
Dana F. A., 623. 
T)ana Henry C, 623. 
Dana James, 130. 
Dana John Adams, 438. 
Dana Richard, 146. 
Dana Richard H., 146. 
Dana Richard H. jr., 147. 
Dana Richard H., 3d 147. 
Dana Samuel, 147. 
Dana William Franklin, 613. 
Dan forth tleorge Franklin, 542. 
Danforth John C. 623. 
Danforth 'I'homas, 194. 
Danforth Thomas, 268. 
Daniels A. W. D., 623 
Darby A. C, 623. 
Darling Charles Ross, 466, 
Darling Edwin H., 148. 
Darling Frederick Homer, 613. 
Darling Herbert Henry, 613. 
Darling Samuel C, 623. 
Dary George A., 148. 
Davenport Addington, 128. 
Davenport Addington, jr., 542. 
Davenport Ivdwin, 466, 
Davenport William Nathaniel, 



David Edward C, 623. 

David J. B., 623. 

Davidson James T.. 623. 

Davidson William K.,466. 

Davis Abner, 623. 

Davis Augustus Brigham, 466. 

Davis Bancroft Gherardi, 467. 

Davis Benjamin Wood. 613. 

Davis Charles. 287. 

Davis Charles Francis, 148. 

Davis Charles Gideon, 185. 

Davis Charles Thornton^ 148. 

Davis Daniel, 186. 

Davis Edward H., 623. 

Davis Everett Allen, 148. 

Davis E., 623. 

Davis Frank. 623. 

Davis Frank M., 467. 

Davis George Thomas, 150. 

Davis Hasbrouck, 148. 

Davis Henry Charles, 308. 

Davis Henry Talman, 433. 

Davis James Clarke, 149. 

Davis Jerome, 613. 

Davis John, 149. 

Davis John Brazer, 426. 

Davis John W., 560. 

Davis Mark. 623. 

Davis Nathaniel M.. 640. 

Davis Samuel Craft, jr., 613, 

Davis Simon, 149. 

Davis Thomas H., 623. 

Davis Thomas Kemper, 149. 

Davis Timothy, 623. 

Davis Wendell, 442. 

Davis Willard A.. 623. 

Davis William. 150, 

Davis William Nye. 150. 

Davis WMUiam Thomas, 150 

Davison Andrew Cunningham, 

151- 
Davy Humphrey, 208. 
Dawes C. M., 623. 
Dawes Henry L., jr., 623. 
Dawes Rufus, 293. 
Dawes Thomas, 246. 
Day Charles Frank, 456. 
Day Henry, 415. 
Day James, 467. 
Day John A., 560. 
Day John E., 623. 
Day Joseph M., 467. 
D;ty Stanton, 149. 
Dean Benjamin, 517. 
Dean Benjamin C, 633. 
Dean Frank A., 623. 
Dean Joseph S., 186. 
Dean Josiah Stevens, 467. 
Dean Thomas. 467. 
Deane F, B., 623. 
Deans George Wheaton, 467. 
Dearborn Frank A., 623. 
Dearborn Joseph F., 623. 
Dearborn Joseph W^, 623. 
Dearborn N. A. L., 623. 
Dearington John 1^., 623. 
Decosta George W., 62^. 
Dchon William, 425. 
Delano Delavin Calvin, 151, 
I^elano Frank Ralph, 457. 
De Las Casas William H., 253. 
Demick I' rank E., 467. 
Deming Horace Howard, 457. 
Deniond Charles, 456. 
Denlield I-ouis Emil, 151. 
Denison A. E., 467. 
Denison Daniel, 193. 
Dennison George, 633. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



65s 



Dennison Joseph, 467. 
Dennison WiUiivm, jr., 468. 
Denny Henry Gardner, i83. 
Denny Thonias. 457. 
Demon William I'ltt, 560. 
Derby Elias Haskcl. J39. 
Derby Elmer G.. 6jj. 
Derby Ezekiel Horsey, 399. 
Derby GeorRc Stroniij, 449. 
Derby John B.. -^45. 
Deshon George P.. 6^:3 
Devens Artliur Lithgow, 376. 
Devens Chark-s, .'17. 
Devereux Humphrey, 287, 
Devereux John James, 188, 
Devotion ;?anmel H., 623. 
Dewey Charles Augustus, 291. 
Dewey Daniel, 246. 
Dewey Francis Henshaw, 421, 
Dewey Henry Sweetser, 1S7 
Dewey Justin, 2. 4. 
Dewev Seth P., 'v..^. 
DeweS- T. M . 6.-^. 
Dewing Elijah P., cj -. 
Dexter Andrew, jr., 6J3. 
Dexter Arthur. 467. 
Dexter Edward kobbins. 4(17. 
Dexter Everett K., 467. 
Dexter Franklin. 568. 
Dexter George. 17:?. 
Dexter Samuel, 591. 
Dexter Samuel. 5-..-. 
Dexter Samuel. 591. 
Dexter Samuel, jr., 623. 
Dexter Samuel G., 623 
Dexter Thomas Amory, 376. 
Dexter Willianj Sohier, 44 j. 
Dickerman Albert, 187. 
Dickerman Frank Elliot, 187. 
Dickey David. 623. 
Dickinson David Taggart. 613. 
Dickinson F. \V., 610. 
Dickinson J.. 623. 
Dickinson Marquis Fayette, 

375- 
Dickinson \V.. 623. 
Dickinson William Austin, 467. 
Dickson George C, 633. 
Dickson William, f'>23. 
Dieter F. J., ^23. 
DiUawav George Wales. 4^ 
Dillawav William E. L., s'a. 
Dillingham William C, 623. 
Dillon (ieorge W.. 6-^3. 
Dillon James F.. '>.'3. 
Dimmick Frank, 4'^?- 
Dimmock William R., "n 
DimoD Oliver, f'iK. 
Dixon Francis B , '-v 
Dixwell Epes Sargent. 4'7 
Doane Henry. =,=;■'. 
Dockray Tames. -So. 
Dodge > "'^ ■ '' ' J3. 
Dodge : rman, 467. 

Dodg. : ■.■-!. 

Dodge i , . . .'-.. 623. 

Dodge John » .. ^i'k. 

Dodge I>ihn Frederick, 453. 

j),.,i,... I,. ,-. u. P.. ^f^. 
I) n W.. 4^7. 

1- lel. 383. 

U •' ' -S- 

Doher: 
Dolan "■ 

n 



r Jm 333- 
1 E., 623. 



Dole San ford Ballard, 448. 

Donahue Charles II., 623. 

Donn s P., 638. 

Doi 

Don 468. 

Dor viichie. 468. 

Dor . 156. 

Doi ..-o. 

Dorr .'^aiiiut I A. lams, 157. 

Dorr Waller Henrv, 613. 

Dorr Wi!!iam Bradley. 428. 

Doiu 4f^8. 

Dow .-, jr., 613. 

Dov, . mipson, 550. 

Do\'- ivester. 375. 

Dou ,;ght, 613. 

Do\^ - C, 4^- 

Dowil i.init-v 1 .. 438. 

Dowdall James, 623. 

Dowe William A.. rj3- 

Downes Henry Hill, 333. 

Dowse G. S., r>?3. 

Dowse William B. H., 597. 

Drake Ellis R., 623. 

Drake F. L., fri-^ 

Drake Luther 

Drake Wilton 1.., 

Draper I, W., 438. 

Draper Moses. 365. 

Drew Charles A., 334. 

Drew Charles Henr)\3go. 

Drew David F., 623. 

Drew l-ugeue I.. 623. 

Drew George W., 623. 

Drew IraT.. 4^>8. 

Drew John T.. trs^. 

Drury William H., joo. 

Du j<»ts Edward C, 623. 

,j„^- . r . ^ Griswold, 468. 

Du : >. 

I>u G.»55o- 

Du.i.e. _,-^,.w. r.38. 

Dudlev i>evi Edwin, 308 

Dudley Paul. 618. 

I>U'l'- ■ ^ ■•'•'• * Harrison, 6j6. 

Du , 163. 

Du Preston, 375 

Du.i 

Dutl Wil k. 468. 

Duggan V 199. 

DUTV" '-^ 

Dik: 

Du: 

Du ^• 

Dvi: 

Du; 

Du- 

Dlir -.3 

Du: 

IlU' 

Dr. 
Du 

Du- 

Du: 'I Mt-J' 

Du 
Du: 
Dui 
Dm; 
Du 
Du- 
Du ; 
Du;. 



Dwight Edmund. 
Dwitrht H W . ' , 

n 






Eager Clinton. 6jj. 
Eames Ithmar B.,('j;;. 
Eastman Ambn-Ae, »>t. 
Eastman George Nebemiah. 



"U. 



rNTt. ''13. 



Edward^ Henderson Josiah, 

468. 

I'. 

I 

1 



E ..- - 

5?'- 
EUlridirc lohn J., ftj*. 

Kl,l,, ■..,.. I,,hn I-.. ring, 36<. 

I ury, 450- 

1 .49. 



4'V- 



656 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Emerisoti luUvard HHss, 469. 
Emerson John W., 469. 
Emmes Anron, 288. 
Emmons Arthur Brewster, 469. 
Kninions Freeman, 334. 
Kmnions Henry Butler, 334. 
Emmons William H. H., 334. 
End William. 611 
Endicott John. 163. 
Endicott William C, 309. 
Endicott William C, jr.» 421. 
Rngley William Francis, 469. 
English (leorge B . 125. 
English Tames L., 156 
Ens:Iish James S., 156. 
Ennis Alfred, 624 
Ensign crharles Sidney, 289 
Ensign Edward Eli, 454. 
Ernst (leorge A. O.. 289. 
Estabrook George W., -.-Sg. 
Esley Willard F., 624. 
Esty Constautine C, 490. 
Evans Andrew Otis, 614. 
Evans Glendower, 469. 
Evans Henry B., 624. 
Evarts Jeremiah 293. 
Evarts William Mnxwell, 293. 
Everett Alexander Hill, 125/ 
Everett C. W., 624. 
Everett David. 286. 
Everett Edward, 624. 
Everett John, 428. 
Everett William, 490. 
Everett William Abbott, 469. 
Eustis Abraham. .:39. 
Eustis George, 289. 
Eustis Horatio Sprague, 554- 

Fabens Francis A., 383. 
Fabens William, 469. 
Fagin James K., 624. 
Fairbanks A. W G , 414- 
Fairbanks John, 469. 
Fairbanks Lorenzo S.. 508. 
Fairbanks Rufus G., 224. 
Fairfield Samuel L., 624. 
Fales Henry. 469. 
Fales Henry E., 233. 
Fales Stephen, 418. 
Fales William Augustus, 469. 
Fall Anna Christy, 224. 
Fall Charles Gershom, 224. 
Fall George Howard. 224. 
Fallon Joseph D., 596, 
Farley Benjamin Mark, 234. 
Farley Frederick Augustus, 

Farley George Frederick, 357. 
Farley James Francis, 469, 
Farley James Phillips, 614. 
Farley Philip O., 624. 
Farmer I^ewis G.. 383. 
Farnham l^rank A., 469. 
Farnham Horace P., 469. 
Farnham John E.. 469. 
Farnsworth W. C , 634. 
Farrar George, 455. 
Farrar Timothy, 634. 
Farrar W^illiam H , 624. 
Farrell Michael F., 384. 
Farrie John. Jr., 624. 
Farrow Frederick, 624. 
Farwell George, 264. 
Faunce Sewall Allen, 447. 
Faxon William, jr., 201. 
Fay Clement Kelsey, 219. 
Fay FarwcU F., 438. 
Fay Francis Britain, 614. 



Fay Jonathan, 283, 644. 
Fay l<ichard .Sullivan, 125. 
Fay Samuel P. P., 447. 
Federhen Herbert M., 384 
Feeley Joseph James, 124. 
Felch Charles k.. 557 
Felch Frederick R., 469. 
Felken Samuel D , 624. 
Fellner Eugene, 356. 
Fellows H Parker. 469. 
Felton Alexander C., 624. 
Fcnno James W.. 624. 
Fenton John L., 624. 
Ft-nwick A. J., ('>24. 
Fernald B. Marvin, 236. 
Fernald Henry B., 624. 
Fessenden Benjamin D., 624. 
Fessenden Franklin Goodridge, 

421. 
Fessenden Thomas Green, 245. 
Field Justin, iv^^. 
Field Alansell U.. 624. 
Field Robert, ()24. 
Field Walbridge Abner, 259. 
Field William Paisley, 455- 
Fields Robert, 288. 
Filkins, (ieorge E., 624. 
Fischacher Max, 469. 
Fish Abner C, 624. 
Fish Frederick Perry, 469. 
Fisher Aaron Esty. 614. 
Fi-her Albert G., 624. 
Fisher David Simmons, 356 
Fisher George Albert, 469. 
Fisher Herbert T., 624. 
Fisher Kathaniel. 285. 
Fisher Samuel, 209. 
Fisher Samuel, 469. 
I'^isher Sidney A., 624. 
I-'isk Aniasa. 624, 
Fisk Henry M., 623, 
Fisk James H.. 62^. 
Fisk Robert Farns, 455, 
Fiske Andrew, 310. 
Fiske Augustus Henry, 310. 
Fiske Charles Henry, 310. 
Fiske Edward. 469. 
Fiske Francis S., 414 
Fiske Frederick A. P.. 310. 
Fiske Isaac, 470. 
Fiskejerome il., 310. 
Fiske John, 310. 
Fisi-e John Minot, 470. 
Fiske John Minot, 124. 
Fitch George, 624. 
Fitch Samuel. 269. 
Fitz Alfred W., (-,24 
Fitz Daniel Francis, 470 
Fitz Frank E., 356. 
Fitzgerald Tames, 624. 
Fitzgerald James E., 332. 
Fitzgerald John E., 486. 
Flagg George A., 328. 
Flagg Tames E., 624. 
I''lagg John S., 624. 
Flanders Goorge A.» 624. 
Flanders George M., 624. 
Flatley P. J., 47c. 
Flatley Thomas, 124. 
Fleming C. H.. 624. 
Fletcher Josiah, 624, 
Fletcher Richard, 239. 
Flint lames Henry, 224. 
Flint Thomas, 193. 
Flint Waldo. 438. 
I-'loyd Jesse L.. 624. 
I'^loyd Samuel E.,624. 
Flynn Edward James, 251. 



Foley Jeremiah G., 252. 
Foley M. T..624. 
Folger George H.,624. 
FoUan William I^., 470. 
Folsom George, 438. 
Folsom Henry A.. 560. 
Folsom H. W., 624. 
Folsom Samuel H-. 560. 
Forbes Charles E., 639. 
Forbes Charles S.. 624. 
I'^orbesjohn Murray, 287. 
Forbush Frank M., 252. 
Forbush George Sumner, 351. 
Ford Edward, 624. 
Forsaith Josiah, 624. 
Forsaith William Josiah, 326 
Foster Alfred D., 638. 
Foster Andrew. 470. 
Foster Arthur F., 624. 
Foster Bessenger, 285. 
Foster Charles Amos, 470. 
Foster Dwight, 422. 
Foster Francis C.. 3S4. 
Foster George, 624. 
Foster George S., 624. 
Foster James, 470. 
Foster Jedediah, 246. 
Foster John, 260. 
Foster John L.. 624. 
Foster Ralph W., 470. 
Foster Reginald, 470. 
Foster Stephen Austin, 326 
Fowle Jonathan, jr., 624. 
Fowler George R., 326. 
Fowler William Plumer, 356 
Fox Jabez, 311. 
Fox Tames Augustus, 311. 
Fox James W., 311. 
Francis Erwin J., 624. 
Francis Nathaniel A., 470. 
Frank (ieorge Washington, 47 > 
Freem.Hn Francis ■■ ., 625. 
Freeman Xathaniel, 470. 
Freeman Rufus G. A., 470. 
French Arthur Phelpy, 311. 
French Asa, 5S5. 
French Asa Palmer, 384. 
French Ebenezer, 625. 
French George B., 470. 
French Henry F., 625. 
French James Jackson, 450. 
French Teremiah, 455 
l'"'rench John Henry, 470. 
French Joseph R., 625. 
French L,yman I^., 470. 
French Ralph S., 625. 
French William B., 470. 
French William H , 625. 
French William Wesley, 311. 
Friar William, 625. 
Frost George S., 625. 
Frost Henry Walker. 470. 
Frost Lewis Pierce, 384. 
Frost Robert W., 384. 
Frost Walker Sprague, 384. 
Frothingham John. 47. . 
Frothingham Nathaniel L., 470. 
Frothingham Thomas B., 490. 
Fry Charles, 384. 
Fryc Alexander E., 625. 
Frye Wakefield G.. 625. 
Fuller Abraham W., 563. 
Fuller B. A. G., 625. 
Fuller Eugene, 387, 
Fuller Frederick D., 625. 
Fuller Henry F,, 624, 
Fuller Henry H., 342. 
Fuller Henry W., 330. 



INDEX TO lUOGIiAPHlCAl. REGISTER. 



537 



Fuller Hunry WeM, 250. 
Kullcr Horace W., 470. 
Fuller Richard Krederick, ■i\ij. 
Fuller S;inuiel A-, jr.. 415, 
Fuller Samut'l D., (',■5. 
Fuller Timothy. .■>i.^. 
Fulton Charles Kdward, 470. 
Furber George Pope, 385. 

Gage Arthur E., 387. 
Gage Clinton, 635. 
Gage John Cutter, 471. 
Gage William, 625. 
Galbraith Frederick W., 6^5. 
Gale John. 411. 
Gale Lucien, 574. 
Gale William. 4-'5- 
Gale William H .411. 
Gallagher Charles Theodore. 

Gallagher Matthew, 625. 
Galligan I. J., 625 
Gallison John. 402. 
Galvin John Edward. 313. 
Galvin Owen A., 295. 
Gammons George Gordon, 471 
Gansevoort Henry Safford, 455. 
Gardiner C. P., 625. 
Gardiner Francis. 614. 
(lardiner Henry, 625 
Gardmer John.' 239 
Gardiner John, 284 
Gardiner Robert Halloweil. 

313- 
Gardiner Satnuel Jackson, 411. 
Gardiner Wade Hampton. 471. 
tlardiner William .Howard, 426. 
Gardner William Sewa!l, 218. 
Gary Frank E. H., 630. 
Gargan Thomas J., 511. 
Garland A. K , 625. 
Gasttm William, 385. 
Gaston William A., 600. 
Gates Fairbanks A. W., 471. 
Gates Isaac. 471. 
Gay ICbeneaer, 124. 
GayKbene/.er, 253. 
Gay Edward H., 625. 
Gay George, 399. 
Gay Samuel, 398. 
Gaynor William J., 43S. 
Gedney Bartholomew, 209. 
George Edward B., 625. 
George Elijah. 131. 
George John H., 625. 
George Richard. 44':" 
Gerard Francis Smith. 4m 
Gerrish Benjamin J., 625. 
Gerrish George Albert, 45^. 
Gerrish James, 3S5. 
Gerrish Samuel, o.-?, 
Gerry Elbridge. -2"-, 
Gerry Frank F.. '-vs- 
(xibbons Edward. 19^. 
Gibbons Joseph McKean. '14. 
Gibbs Amory Thompson. 47* 
Gibbs Emery Reuben, i,-'^. 
Gibbs Ira. f'w. 
(.libson C. E.. ^25. 
Gibson George Alphonso, 471. 
Gibson William F., 625. 
Gidflings C. I., 47>- 
GiflFord Edmund. '■14. 
Gilbert Uavid. 47'- 
Gilbert Samuel C.. 614. 
Gilchrist 1>. S., ^<\i. 
Gilday Charles A., '>3;. 

84 



Gilc lohn S.. fns. 


(irax.s T 


1" . 


*'is. 


(lilcXVilliiim H., ijs. 


1 ,' 






Gilt's Alfrt'd ISlHtiffWood, 4S". 


(, 




n G.. 44'; 


iiik-s c;., i.j^. 


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(iill-S J.H-I. u-'. 


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tiilt-'S John. ;4--. 


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(■ill 1. Friinris. f>j^,. 


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\-)i. 


liill rtioinns. 5'j.*. 


G 




^%l.. 


liillett FrfiJerick H., t'\\. 


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Ciilmaii All, n. ■ •;. 


Gr 




(.J, 


Cilni 1 . ';87. 


Gray l"il.l 
Gray I.rvi, 


H' 


-"'J. 473. 


liillv;. '. R., 581. 


47; 




lillni.. ,J6. 


Gra\" Morr 


i ., 


V 


Gilpatnck I'r-- k-rick C, 471. 


Gi 






(lirurclin Louis. 5j6. 


G; 






(;!-.i-;iT. AlV^ort Alljtlistus. 3^7. 


Gi 






' ' \n(iell, III. 

I-7- 


G 






G;.v.r, I'.l v. '. -1, 454. 


1 •; 
G: 






Glover Kni 


G: 






Glover Hoi. I 171. 


■ ■■'S- 


Glover John, i^, 
Gockrit/. •, 63";. 


G- 




V- . '•>•,. 


(.: 




rne. 63,). 

- St. John, 4SO. 


GocUlard K. A., f-js. 


G- 




Goddartl Gt'orRe Augustus. 471, 


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Goddard Maurice, 471. 


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■ . fiJI. 


Goddarl S W, R.. t>.-,. 


G! 




I w ; -..-5. 


GotT IT 


tirei-n 






Gold : 


Greene 




1- 


Gold-. , i-q. 


Greene 




1, 


Golrlslnr.ii lacoh. 471. 


Gn 






Gooch Daniel W., lu. 


G- 






Gooch \V. \V.. 471. 


G 






Good.'de Samuel H., 635. 


(i: 




III. 


Goodenow John. '•35. 
Goodeno-.v Kic'^ard. jr.. 'tc. 


(..■ 




.;niun, 41 


(; 






tlooi! ■ '.. 1-: 


1 i 1 . ■ , ( I 


1 luMiia^. -,45. 


G 00^1 ■ 


( .:.-. ::-.uKh Chrtrlcs Pelham. 



Goodwin Frank 


, 471- 


G 


Goodwin Henry 


. 644. 




Goodwin O/.ias. 


.17 1. 


4 > 


Gookin Daniel, 


Henry, ii-k 


<i 


Gordon G^-or^^,. 


(i 


Gort! 




(1 


Gor '! 


441- 


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Gort ' 




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Goreiv « f 


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Gorh.iin l'.' 




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Gorh ini B- 




( 1 


Ciorti.iin U.i 




( t 




hner. 4-'4- 
stetson, (I \. 

worth. 113. 

■.IC, 321. 

>rk.3S6. 

•■. ^M 

t7<. 
nry. 47a 

M.. »3I. 


'■ 



treinotigh Daniel J., '^as- 
.reeniuigh David Stoddard, 

ir ' '"'isha. 41 1. 

iguslus (food- 



' '5- 

.635. 



Mkltn, 234- 
■u. 41 J. 



1-* K., IS 



•dgelt. 4SS 



W.. 6a 5. 



6:;8 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Ilacketl Frank Warren, (-m. 

Haddock William T., t-is. 

Hadley Isugene J., 518. 

Hadlock Harvey Dcming, -^55. 

Hajtar Kujj^ene Bigelow, 194. 

HagK^'fty David J., 6j6. 

Hahn J. Jerome. 625. 

Hahn Sihts B , 449. 

Hailu W'llliam H., 626. 

Hale Abraham G. R., 5»8. 

Hale Charles, 518. 

Half ICdwin B . 179. 

Hale Geor^re Silsbee, 414- 

llalr Nathan, 127. 

Hale Nathan, 175. 

Hale Thonuis E.", 626. 

Hale William P., 518. 

Hall Alfred Stevens, 170- 

Hall iieniamin, 178. 

Hall Hordman, 17S. 

Hall Charles F., 178. 

Hall Charles Winslow. 518. 

Hall Ellis G..626 

Hall I'rank Rockwood, 614 

Hall Franklin, 222. 

Hail Henry Seth. 626. 

Hall lames Milton, 178. 

Hall Joseph. ^83. 

Hall jnnius, 398- 

Hall Kobcrt Sprague, iy4- 

Hall Tliomas Hartlett, 194. 

Hall William Slickney, 51S. 

Hallett P.eniamin Franklm. 275 

HalUtl Henry L., 194 

Halsted John J., 51S. 

Halsted Penninjrton, 51S. 

Ham Benjamin Frankhn, 552. 

Hama John T.. 6?5. 

Hamblin Howard Malcolm, 518. 

Hamilton Alexander James. 

518. 
Hamilton H. L.. 626. 
Hamilton Samuel K., 355. 
Hamlin Charles Sumner, 248. 
Hammond John Wilkes 204. 
Hammond Thomas, 285. 
Hancock t'harles Lewis, 427. 
Hanks Charles Stedman, 317. 
Hanley John E.. 316. 
Hanniijan John l^Mward, 414 
Hanson Charles H., 518. 
Hanson Gcorjce W., 625. 
Hapgood Charles H., 625. 
Hapgood John H., 625. 
Hardin>r Emor Herbert, 518. 
Hardin)^ I'Msher Ames, 398. 
Harding George, 625. 
Harding George Herbert. 220. 
Harding Herbert Lee, 326. 
Harding William Penn, 412. 
Hardon Henrv W., 614. 
Hardy John Henry, 31-^. 
Harlakenden Roger, 192. 
Harlow Janus Francis, 614. 
Harlow kobert Pinckney, 519. 
Harlow Thomas Stetson, 126. 
Harmon Irving, 62(3 
Harmon Stephen W.. 519. 
Harriniati Ivdward Avery, 614. 
Harriman George F.. 626. 
Harriman Walter C, 626. 
Harrington Dennis A., 519. 
Harrington Joseph, 626. 
Harrington W. H.,(>26. 
Harris li. N.. 626. 
Harris Beniamin Winslow, 130. 
Harris Charles Nathan, 412. 



HaiTis David L., 626. 
Harris (i N., sio. 
Harris Henry F.. 440. 
Harris Horace, 626. 
Harris T^icob B., 323. 
Harris Joseph A.. 501. 
Harris Robert Orr. 453. 
Harris Samuel T., 519. 
Harris William A., 626. 
Harris William Thaddens, 44S. 
Hart William H., 204. 
Hartshorn I^enjamin M., 519. 
Hartwell Alfred Stedman, 519. 
Hartwell Shattuck, 519. 
Harvey lienjamin, 626. 
Harvey John Le (irand, 327, 
Harvey Napoleon, 626, 
Har\vt>od A. L., 519. 
Haskell Benjamin. 626. 
Haskell WiUiaai, 626. 
Haskell William E. P.. 626. 
Haskins David Greene, 412. 
Hassaip John Tyler, 232. 
Hastings (ieorge Russell, 519. 
Hastings Isaac, 626. 
Hastings Seth, 440. 
Hatch Arthur G., 519. 
Hatch Nathaniel 263 
Hatheway Albert Newton, 519. 
Hatheway Amos L.. 519. 
Hathew;iy JohaG., 626. 
Hatheway Simon W., 413. 
Hathorne John. 209. 
Hathorne William, 20S. 
Haven Franklin, jr., 51. j. 
Haven Samuel, 345. 
Hay Gustavus, jr., 413. 
Hay George W^hitney, 222. 
Haycock Judson, 626. 
Hayden Aaron, 519. 
Hayden Albert Fearing, 414. 
Hayden Charles Spraguc, 519. 
Hayden Edward D., 330. 
Hayes Andrew Wayland, 415. 
Hayes Benjamin Franklin, 558. 
Hayes Charles Henry, 519. 
Hayes Francis Brown, 294 
Hayes Francis L., 519. 
Hayes George E., s'o- 
Hayes James E.. 626!^ 
Hayes Thomas McCuUoch, 626. 
Hayes William Allen. 123. 
Hayes William A., 2d, 519, 
Hay ford George \V.. 626. 
Hayman lidward P., 626. 
Hayman Samuel. 264. 
Haynes Charles H.. 519. 
Haynes ICdward F., "169. 
Haynes Gideon F., 520. 
Haynes Henry P., 626. 
Haynes Henry Williamson, 

520. 
Haynes John. (Oj. 
Hayward Charles C, 626. 
Hay ward Jedediah K., 553. 
Hayward John W'hite, 520. 
Hazelton Horace L,, 420. 
Hazen M. W ,626. 
Head Edward F.. 249, 
Head George Edward, 415. 
Healey John P., 260. 
Hea,b' Joseph, mo. 
He»\Villiam E. 520. 
Heard Charles. 626. 
Heard Francis Fiske, 250. 
Heard John, 286. 
Hearne Joseph, 271. 



Heath Thomas. 626. 
Heath William, 543. 
Hebnm John B., 626. 
Hedge William. 405. 
Hedge William Kneeland, 448. 
Heilborn tleorge H., 611. 
Hellier Charles Edward, 415. 
Hemenway Alfred, 163. 
Hemenway Charles M., 520. 
Hemenway Frederick, 626. 
Hemenway F. B., 520. 
Hemenway George L.. 626. 
Henderson Thomas Albert, 454. 
Hendrick Clarence, 520. 
Hendrie James, 626, 
Henshaw Isaac M., 626. 
Herbert John, 163. 
Herndon Eugene W., 626. 
Herrick E. H. P., 626. 
Herriek Horatio G., 611. 
Herrick Robert F., 164. 
Herrick William A., 626. 
Hersey Henry Edsoni. 164. 
Hersey Ira Charles, 164. 
Hervey James Algin, 520. 
Hesseltine Francis Snow, 164. 
Heurrot John, 626. 
Hewins James, 363. 
Hewlett E M., 6a6 
Heywood Charles E., 520. 
Hibbard Charles C, 626. 
Hibbard Charles E..626. 
Hibliard Edward Andress, 614. 
Hibbens William, 193. 
Hichborn Benjamin, 554. 
Higginsjohn H., 626. 
Higgins J<}hn Joseph, 164- 
Higgins Jonathan. 626. 
Higginson Edward, 520. 
Higginson Nathaniel, 285. 
Hifdrerh Arthur, ^iq. 
Hildreth Charles H., 614. 
Hildreth George R.. 626. 
Hildreth Richard, 164. 
Hill Clement H., 626. 
Hill Edgar S., 520. 
Hill Edward. 282. 
Hill Edward L , f 26. 
Hill Edwin Newell, 520. 
Hill Hamilton Alphonso, 453 
Hill Henry E., 440. 
Hill John, 502. 
Hill William, 284 
Hillard (ieorge Stillman, 173. 
Hilliard Francis 240. 
Hiliiard William, 192. 
Hillis John, 520. 
Hillis Thomas, 520. 
Hills Frank H., 626. 
Hills Nathaniel C. 636. 
Hilton (i. Arthur, szo 
Hinckley ICugene B., 626. 
Hincklev Samuel, 440. 
Hincks David Armstong, 165. 
Hinds Calvin P., 123 
Hinks John. 264 
Hitchc.ick Charles, 626. 
Hitchcock George Nicholas,6i4. 
Hitchcock Peter. 626. 
Hoag Charles H., 626. 
Hoague Isaac Theodore, 520. 
Hoar David Blakely, 123. 
Hoar Ebene/.er Rockwood, 123, 
Ho:ir Samuel, 443. 
Hoar Sherman, 442. 
Hobart H. C, 626 
Hobbs Charles Gushing, 520. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



'■59 



Hobbs Frederick, 418. 
I lobbs George L., (>a6, 
Hol)bs (ieortce M.. 123. 
Hoblis Murlaiid C., 520. 
Hobbs William. 626. 
Hobson William. 636. 
IIuiIk<-'^ I'Mward Fuller, 17S. 
Hoilf^es Cieor>;e Clarfn<!on. i^'s;. 
Ilnd^e^i (.;cc>r>;;L' l''oster. if. 5. 
Hntlvrt's ThonuHkc Dcland, s-"o. 
Hod^'kins Allen F.. 0^6. 
Hudv;kins Arthur P.. tiM. 
HolTman Charles. 6j6. 
HotYman Wickhara. -212. 
Hoit Daniel, 626. 
iiolbrook Daniel Jefferson, 520- 
Holbrook Leander. 521. 
Holbrook Moses, 165. 
Holbrook Silas P.. 6^6. 
Holcombe Frank O., 165. 
Holcombe Willie Perkins, 165. 
Holden Artemas ktigers, 520. 
Hold'-n Joshua Bennett, 520. 
Holland Henry Ware, 165. 
Holland John >Iyers, 5=1. 
HoUis Abijah, 521. 
Holmes Abraham. 447. 
Holmes Aug^ustus I,., 6j6. 
Holmes Edward Jackson, 521. 
Holmes Jabe/. Silas, 521. 
Holmes John, 43V 
Holmes John Sylvester, 166. 
Holmes Joseph Alexander, 447. 
Holmes Kathanic-l, 166. 
Holmes Oliver Wendell, jr.. 259. 
Homer OeorKC F., 42S. 
Homer Thomas J., 117, 
Holt J.O.. 5?i. 
Holway Emerv F..62C'. 
Holwav Seth P.. r:.*. 
Hood (lilbcri F.. < .-r.. 
Hooke E. t;.. f>2f. 
Hooker John, 620. 
Hooper Arthur W., 521. 
Hooper Kdward William, 43''. 
Hooper P'ranklin W., fn^. 
Hoopor Suwall W , 521. 
Hooper Stephen. 421 
Hopkins AUn-rt H., 123. 
Hopkins Frederick S., 521. 
Hopkins George C 62". 
Hopkins John, 421. 
Hopkins J. D., 626. 
Hopkins William S. B., 440. 
Hopkinson Thomas, 640- 
Hoppin Menrv Parker, 521 
Hopwood J. H., 521. 
HouRh Atherton, igr. 
Houghton Charles. 44Q. 
Houghton Frederick L.. 571. 
Houston Frank A., 521. 
Hovey Etlward S., 6-'6. 
How Isaac K.. 626. 
Howanl Edward Otis. if.7. 
Howard E. <> . 521. 
Howard [aines M. F..'>ii. 
Howard William L.. fyiT- 
Howe Ar. hi'.iM ^r,. 167, 
Howe C 



Howf Y. 
H owe < i 
Howe N 
Howe I 

How. ^! 

H^ 
H 



fin, 167. 

66. 



.'ton, 167 



Edward, 521. 



, 168. 



Eustis, 
II., ...7. 
., 6.'7- 

r Greene. 55.'. 
Klanchitrd, i(>g. 

4lf.. 



69. 



Howland Henry, 5ji. 
Howland Wilhird, 111. 
Huwlanil WiUiuni UuSHell, 169. 
Hovt (ieorire 11 . Inh 

Hull' ■ ■ 

Hill. 
Hut 

Hub: 

Hubhftrd iieiir 
Hul)baril Henrv C 
Huhharil H . . •■ 1 
HuhbarJ I 
Hubbar.l I 
HuMii- ' • 
Hul 
Hul 

Hub: , .. 

Hubbard 1'. H.,..J7. 

Huht)ard William Joseph, 436, 

llubbell Jay A., fnj;. 

Hudson Charles Henry, .S3i- 

llu.lson H. I-.. ^^4. 

Huii^iMi. I,.liii I'll. 11. li-.., 516. 

Hull- .44.). 

Hu.i. 

Hud -.-;.. 

Huf. . H.,4»7 

HuK 

Huli: '. . -. 

Hud J..liii, ..„■ 

Huuiphrey KuRene, =,1-2. 

Humphrcv l-V.iiui-, lo^iah. 4.' 

Huniphre\- ' 

Huuiphrt-v 

Hunt Kre !• 

Hunt Preenlan, 4>^'- 

Hunt Horace. 627. 

Hunt TiioTiias, -.-,•. 

Hun- . 627. 

Hur- 

Huir .libs. 533. 

Hunter 1^1 io:d C, f..io. 

Hunter H. M., '.37. 

Huntir W " 



les P., 
;e^ \V. 



HmvLs, \V;;liain Burley, 4^5. 



Hun 

Hun 

Huir :. : 

Hur 

Hur 

Hur^ 

Hur 

Hur 

Hur 

Hut: 

Hut. 

Hut. 

Hut. 

Hut. 

Hut. 

Hut.-h-.n- .!! A. 1'.., 

Huichin..on Ehcne/cr 

Hutclr:ii-,..!! !■• Ivv.iiM, 

Hut, 

Hut 

Hut. 

Hut. 

Hut 



>:ht. v*. 
li^ke, 168. 



IhS. 



Idr lohn 1^-, f.jT. 

|.... . I. , , . . 

1 • ,1 

1. 

I: 

I. 

\ 

\- , . , 

Ives .Stephen Urad^titi 
Ivy leSMe C. (;jj. 



>tcr.44i ^ 



66o 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Jones Charles \V., (n-;. 
(ones lidward Jenkins, 314. 
Jones Francis A.. S2=- 
Jones Frederick W., 6 7. 
Jones George R., 317. 
Jones Hem y. 627 
[ones James T., 637. 
Jones Leonard Augustus, 13;^. 
Jones William, 522. 
Jordan Winrield C , 627. 
Joslin lames Thomas, 154. 
Joslin kalph Edgar, 171. 
Josselyn \. E , 627. 
Jourdain Edwin H.. 627. 
Joy Albion K. P., 523. 
Joy Frederick, 171 
Joy James Frederick, 569. 
Judd Chauncey P.. 523- 
Judson H. L..6^7. 
Judson Walter Herbert. 455. 



Kaan Frank Wharton. 172. 
Kane J. R.. 627. 
Kap-;ur William, 43^- 
Kearns John, 627. 
Keating Patrick M., 172- 
Keefe John A., 523. 
Keeser Frank M., 172 
Keith Arthur Monroe, 523. 
Keith Israel, 28:;. 
Keith J. F...627. 
Keith James Monroe. 4S4. 
Kei'h John W.. 484. 
Keller William V.. 523. 
Kelley George W , 627. 
Kelley James Edward, 317. 
Kelley John, 627. 
Kelley Louis W., 523. 
Kellev William, 627. 
Kellogg Elliott E.. 627. 
Kellv Edward Albert, 597- 
Kelly Webster, 551. 
Kendall James Brown, 48^. 
Kendall Robert B.. 627. 
Kennedy John Charles, 416. 
Kent Benjamin, 268. 
Kent Charles N., 627. 
Kent George, 627. 
Kettelle Jacob Q.. 627. 
Keyes Charles G., 523. 
Keyes John Shepard, 354 
Keyes Prescott, 122. 
Keves Stephen F., 523. 
Kibby A. V., 627. 
Kidder Frederick H., 4<6. 
Kidder John, 523. 
Kidder Reuben, 627. 
Kiernan Patrick Bernard. 4 
Kilton John F., 523. 
Kimball Benjamin, 416. 
Kimball Charles A., 455. 
Kimball D. Frank, 416. 
Kimball David P.. 523- 
Kimball Edgar L.. 4'?. 
Kimball Elbridge G., 637. 
Kimball E., 627 
Kimball Edmund, 417. 
Kimball George H., 417. 
Kimball (. C, 484. 
Kimball John R., 627. 
Kimball J. S.. 627 
Kimball Sumner B ,627. 
Kimball S. J., 627 
Kimball W. Frederick, 417 

King — . 264. 

King Beniamin Flint, 448 
King Charles Carroll. 615 
King Cyrus, 627. 



King Francis L., 440. 
King George A., 523. 
K'ng Henry W., 440. 
King John Gallison, 450. 
King Tyler B., 627. 
Kingdon Samuel S., 627. 
Kingman Bradford, 323. 
Kingman Hosea, 322. 
Kingsbury Aaron, 627. 
Kingsbury Benjamin B., 523. 
Kingsbury George H., 4'7- 
Kingsbury William Albert. 
554- 

Kingsbury William B.. 122. 

Kinsley C. C. 627. 

Kinsman Henry W., 550. 

Kinsman Josiah B., 523. 

Kitlite 1. (.;.. 627. 

Kitlredge Charles F., 317. 

Kittredge Francis W., 523. 

Knapp Alfred E., 627. 

Knapp John, 288. 

Knapp Tohti. 560. 

Knapp Nathaniel Phippen, 523. 

Knapp Orren S.. 627. 

Knapp Samuel, 627. 

Knapp Samuel Lorenzo, 275. 

Knapp William, 450. 

Knell Arthur S., 627. 

Knight l-'redenck T., 523. 

Knight J. E., 627. 

Knight William H., 627. 

Knowles Charles Swift, 417. 

Knowles Isaiah, 523. 

Knowles Samuel VV'., 628. 

Knowlton Hosea M.. 596. 

Knowlton Marcus P., 204. 

Knowlton Thomas Oaks, 523. 

Knowlton William A., 317. 

Knox William S., 501. 

Krey John H.. 250. 

Kuhn Hamilton. 524. 

Kyle Warren Ozro, 417. 

Ladd Babson Savilian, 540 
Ladd Fletcher, 155. 
Ladd Joseph Hartwell, 569. 
Ladd Nathaniel Watson, 155. 
Lamprey Charles M.,62S. 
Lamson Abbott W.. 524. 
Lamson Artemus War<i, 194 
Lamson Daniel S., 628. 
Lancaster W. A., 628. 
Lander ICdward. 524. 
Lane Andrew, 27^. 
Lane Alfred French, 615. 
Lane James M., 195. 
Lane John C, 195. 
I^ane Loren/o, 615 
Langdell Christopher C. ^24. 
Lange James H., 105, 
Langley N. A.. 628. 
I,anman D. H., 628. 
Lanman James H., 628. 
Lapham liufus, 628. 
Larkin P. O., 639 
Larkin Thomas F., 62S. 
Larned K. C, 628. 
Larrabce Charles W., 524 
Lassiter Francis Rives, 628. 
Latham Aaron Hobart, 154 
Lathrop John, 122. 
I-athrop John, 275. 
Latlirop Samuel, 628. 
I^awrence Abbott. 615. 
Lawrence Abbott, jr., 615. 
Lawrence Abbott \V., 628 
Lawrence Eugene, 628. 



Lawrence Gardner Whitney, 

524- 
Lawrence George P., 524 
Lawrence RosewcH Bigelow, 

140. 
Lawrence Rufus B., 195 
I>awrence William Baxter, 140. 
Lawton George F., 628. 
Lawton Isaac B., 628. 
Leach James E., sgs. 
Leach Orlando, 628. 
Leahy John Patrick, 141. 
I-eavitt Jonathan. 628. 
I-e Barnes J. W., 628. 
Le Breton Edward Lewis, 524. 
Ledky Thomas, 628. 
I-edyard Lewis Cass, 5?4. 
Lee Elisha. 628. 
Lee Elliot Cabot, 524. 
Lee John Rowe, 524. 
Lee Joseph, 141. 
Lee Robert Levi, 534. 
Lee Silas, 343. 
Leeds Thomas E., 628. 
Leland Sherman. 344. 
Leland William Sherman, 345. 
Leonard Daniel, 282. 
Leonard Oliver, 628. 
Leonard William H., 141. 
Lesser J. N'., 628. 
Letchfoid Thomas, 161. 
Leverett George V., 141. 
Leverett John. i'S3. 
Leverett John, 276. 
Lewis Edwin C. 62S. 
Lewis Frank W., 628. 
Lewis Isaac Newton, 121. 
Lewis John D.. 628. 
Lewis Samuel Parker, 195. 
Libby Phillip J., 195. 
Licks John, 628. 
Lidget Charles. 604. 
Light Charles Franklin, 195- 
Light Robert W.. 524. 
Lincoln Albert Lamb, 240. 
Lincoln Arthur. 240. 
Lincoln Benjamin. 283. 
Lincoln Charles F., 628 
Lincoln Charles Plimpton, 341. 
I^incoln Charles Sprague. 241. 
Lincoln Daniel Waldo, 524. 
Lincoln George Taylor, 241. 
Lincoln James Otis, 524 
Lincoln Levi, 240, 
Lincoln Roland Crocker, 524. 
Lincoln Sokimon, ^71. 
Linscott Daniel Clark, 371. 
Lippitt Francis J., 62S. 
Lisle David. S42. 
Lisle Henry M.. 286. 
List Christopher Charles, 402. 
Litchfield Frederick E.. 371. 
Litchfield Walter, jr., 628. 
Little tieorge Coftin, 524. 
Little Joseph J., 524. 
Little William, jr.. 425. 
Littletiekl George Sherman, 371. 
Littlefield Nathan W.. 628 
Littleton William. 628. 
Litton John L., 628. 
Livermore Edward St. Ix)e, 225. 
Livermore Samuel, 501. 
Livermore Thomas Leonard, s6q, 
Locke Jackson, 524. 
Locke John. 366. 
Locke John G., 56r. 
Locke P. Webster. 611. 
Lockhart Benjamin A., 179 



I 



INDEX lO BIOGRAPHJCAL REGISTER. 



66 1 



I.odRf Henrv Cabot, J05. 
Lomax Wiufatn, ir , 5611, 
Lombanl Jiisiali Li»wis, 5^4. 
Lombard K. T., (>.'3. 
I.on, nr I.':t-, William. 638. 
I. - 

1 ! ;incis, 6.-S. 

Lord Arthur, in. 
Lord 1". H., s-> 
Lord TaiiifS Brown, 3^6, 
I-ord Henry C. 6.-S. 
Lord Hfprv D, '■ -s. 
Lord I ■ V 

Lord ' . 42«j. 

Lord I 

Loriny A.u n i' , \i-^, 
Lorinj? Auv;uj;ius P., ^66. 
Lorin^t Caleb \V.. 371. 
Lorinjj CliHrlcs Francis, s'y!'. 
!-oring Charlus Greelev, 443- 
Lorin>,' K. D.. '■.■¥. 
Lonng^ Kdward. n.-S. 
Lohnvr ICdward tiray. 4=4. 
Lorinif I-Mward Llreeley. 4-"S. 
Lorinjii l''d\vard (_i., jr..'628. 
Lorinp l-Idward P., lii. 
Lorintr ICleazer B.,62S. 
Loring KUis (iray, 424. 
Lorinj; Francis ('aleb, 424. 
Loring- H. St-Iden. ',72, 
Lorin^ Jolin AMen. ^6;. 
Loring Joseph I).,'.'S. 
I-orinjj Viclor Joseph, 3^7. 
Loring William t aleb, ■;7-*. 
Lothrop Arthur P., 615. 
Lothrop Thornton Kirkland. 

I2l. 

Loud Clarence H.. 525. 
Loud John Jacob, ^15. 
Loud Marcus M.. f^S. 
Lou^ee Haves. 337. 
Loughran James, 6:;8. 
I^ovell (leorge \V.. r->". 
Lovell John, '■.•.^. 
Lovell -Michael, '.-vi 
Lovering Charles T., ' i^, 
Lovett Charles \V.. j,^. 
Lovis. or l/0»»!s, Francis, f .-s. 
Low 1 

I-OW ' ' 

Lowt . 

Loweii ". n.i- 
Lowell Kd^^ . 
Lowell E.hv, 
Lowell I'ra- 
Lowell ^r:l; 
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wrence. vjs- 



4.-S. 



l-.uce 

Lin'c 



Lun>_l 
Lunt I 

I ■•-• ■ 



lUc. \i,<i. 



Lyman 


Arthur, UQ- 


Lyman 


Dav- 1 lii.im.ir,! 


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Mason William Powell, 341. 

M.i-l. r^ Ci:, ,. , 



M.icDonald William E., 6j3. 
Mackintosh Charles A., f^%. 
Mackintosh Frank, <'A. 
Mackintosh Frank H., (..■3. 
MacU-od W. A., r.,'._ 
Macombcr K. t i . 
M.-igtf D. H.. ■ 
MaKC-c I'"rank V . 
Mahan John \V.. ;v5. 
Mahcr Peter S.. ;,7,> 
Ma>;cneskcr t.\ L., 128. 
MaKinncs Michael. 6;8. 
Maine Sebeus C , 561. 
Ma-or T 1" , --S. 
M:.' ■ ■ 

M; lahj.. 638. 

M.. ^rest C, 309. 

Mann i ::.n >■, I! . ^(k,. 
Mann Horace, iso 
Mannin>^ leronie F.. 450. 
Manning; John P., 373. 
Mansfield hZx-Suinner. ^35. 
MaI!-<fieM M H . '■:'. 
M., ■■ .;. 



M. 
M. 
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M,, 

M., 

M 

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M 

M 

M, 

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. 457- 



, 638. 

' E.. 5'5- 

Murray, .^'-5 



i::..j;;. 



McClellan .Xrthur D., 538. 
MrClfllMn lo-ort-e F„ j-j*. 

;■■ ' ■ r., 5;6. 

V w.. (ij,,. 

W..3J,. 

W., <^-3,). 



.346. 



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662 



JIISTOKY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Merrick John. 284. 

Merrick Pliny, 160. 

Merrill Abel. 569. 

Merrill Amos H., 419. 

Merrill Annis, 419, 

Merrill C'harles A., 526. 

Merrill Ivlijali Hedcjinp:. 615. 

Merrill George, 629. 

Merrill James Gushing, 160. 

Merrill James Gushing, 429. 

Merrill Moody, ifra. 

Merritt Kcheniiah Thomas, jr., 

i(>o. 
Merrill William F., 161. 
Merwin Klias. 155 
Merwin Henry G.. y]% 
MeservL- Gleinent. 629. 
Meserve Henry Gliflfbrd, 161. 
Messer Asa, 629. 
Metcalf Gieorge T., 629. 
Metcalf rheron, 177. 
Metcalf William F.. 629. 
Meyer Joseph, 449. 
Miles Jonas M., 62a. 
Miles William, 629' 
Midgley John. 526. 
Mildram Francis H., 526. 
Miller ICphraim Flint, 526. 
Miller Kzekiel L.. 629. 
Miller George H., 526. 
Miller Heth, 324. 
Miller Thompson. 410. 
Miller Willi:jm Henry. 120. 
Millett Joshua Howard loi. 
Milliken Arthur N., 161. 
Millin Leon. 620. 
Mills Elijah H.. 561. 
Mills John, 561. 
Mills John G., 629. 
Milton Henry Slade, 388. 
Minns George W., 452. 
Minot George, 120. 
Minol {Jeorge !<., (*yi, 
Minot Robert Sedgwick, 526. 
Minot William, \\ii. 
Minot William, 38S. 
Minot William, jr., 580. 
Mitchell E. G., 629. 
Mitchell Nahum. 140. 
Mitchell William Howard, f>o-i.. 
Moll John J. A.. 629. 
Mompesson Roger, 269. 
Monroe William Ingalls, 388. 
Montague George P., 561. 
Montague Russell Wortley, 526. 
Montague William P., 526. 
Montgomerv Hugh. 423. 
Moody George Harrell, 388. 
Moody George Theodore, 526. 
Moore Abraham. 218. 
Moore Heverly K.. 526. 
M<iore Eugene H., 388. 
Moore George H., 629. 
Moore (ieorge W., 388. 
Moore Howard Dudley, 38S. 
Moore James Uaker, 455. 
Moore Jonathan F.. 629. 
Moore Joseph K., 629. 
Moore Mark, (")2q. 
Moore Michael )., 389. 
Moran Alon/,0 D., 526. 
Moran Jolin 15., 526. 
Morey K.. 629. 
Morcv (ieorge, 343. 
Morgan G. C.. 389. 
Morgati David, 550, 
Morgan Frank K., 629. 
Morgan John L., 629 ' 



Morgan William M., 389. 
Morison I'rank, 527 
Morison John H..380 
Morrell Edward. 127. 
Morril! Ashh y C.. 629. 
Morrill Frank J., 62r). 
Morrill George. 527. 
Morrill William F,, 629. 
Morris Henry. 173. 
Morris Robert, 527. 
Morris Robert, jr., 527. 
Morris William G., 527. 
Morris William W., 629. 
Morrison T. J.. 527. 
Morse Albert G., 380. 
Morse Rushrod, 206. 
Morse G. Osgood, 629. 
Morse Charles R., 527, 
Morse Elisha M., 629. 
Morse George A., 629. 
Morse George W,, 629. 
Morse George W., 430. 
Morse Godfrey, 539. 
Morse Horace E.. 527. 
Morse Isaac S , 389. 
Morse Jacob C., 629. 
Morse John Torrey, 206. 
Morse John Wells, 629, 
Morse Moses L , 629. 
Morse Xathan, 496 ' 
Morse Nathan 2d. 527. 
Morse Robert M.. 562. 
Morse Sidney B., 629. 
Morse T, S., 629. 
Morse William A., 527. 
Morton Edwin. 433. 
Morton Ellis Wesley. 323. 
Morton Frank T., 436. 
Morton James Madison. 422. 
Morton Marcus, 206. 
Morion Marcus, jr., 601. 
Morten Marcus 3d, 207. 
Morton Nathaniel, 452. 
Morton Perez. 497. 
Morton Thomas, i6i. 
>iorton William Saxton, 259. 
Mnsback l-'rederic G.. 629. 
Moseley Ebenezer, 497. 
Motley John Lothrop, 176, 
Motte Ellis Loring, 389. 
Moulton Barron G., 527. 
Mo';lt<m Daniel Smith, 527. 
Moulton Ferdinand, 629. 
Moulton George W., 527. 
Moulton Glaus Gaecilius, 453. 
Mowry Oscar W.. 390. 
Muluo'on Patrick E.. 629. 
Mulligan Henry C., 390. 
Mullin lieorge Hill, 344. 
Mulvey James S.. 629. 
Mulvcy P E., 629. 
Munroe E. V., 527. 
Mun'^oe Francis J., 527. 
Munroe Israel. 288. 
Munroe William Adams, 390. 
Munroe William J.. 629. 
Muniock Gharles T.. 391 
Murphy Frederick W., 629. 
Murphy James R.. 545. 
Murray Albert L.. 629. 
Murray William F., 346. 
Muz/.ey Daniel P., 629. 
Muz/.ey Henry W. 479. 
Myers James J.. 301. 
Myles William F., 629, 
Myrick N. Sumner, 527. 

Xaphen Henry F,, 191. 



Kash Frank Philip, 527. 
Nash F. C., 527. 
Nash Howard D., 527. 
Nash Joseph, 629. 
Nash Joseph, 629. 
Nash Lonson, 629. 
Nash Stephen G.. lot. 
Nason James H., 629. 
Nason John, fr-nj. 
Nason Rufus W., s.-?, 
Nason Wiiliam A., f)2g. 
Nay Frank N'., u>2. 
Needham Daniel, 505. 
Xelson Albert Hobart, 192. 
Nelson Job, 416, 
Nelson Thomas L., 297. 
Nettleton Edward P., 249. 
Newcomb Daniel. 283. 
Newcomb Richard E.. 629. 
Newell Gharles Stark. 2^0. 
Newell Robert Ualston. 527. 
Newell .Samuel. 527. 
Newhall James R , 630. 
Newhall John Breed. 191. 
Newman Henry, 191. 
Newman William, 629 
Newmark Nathan, 615. 
Newton Harry H.. 231. 
Newton Jeremiah L., 449. 
Newton Thomas, 264. 
Nichols Benjamin Ropes, 231. 
NiJ'hols Benjamin White, 231. 
Nichols Gharles G.. 231. 
Nichols Frank A.. 629. 
Nichols Henry Gilman, 527. 
Nichols J. L,. 629. 
Nichols kichard, 263. 
Nichols William, jr., 630. 
Nickerson F. S., 527. 
Nickerson John Albert, 453. 
Nickerson Joseph, 634. 
Nickerson Melville P., 629. 
Nickerson Sereno Dwight, 528. 
Nickerson S. W., 527. 
Nickerson William P., 630. 
Niles Samuel, 497. 
Niles Thomas H., 629. 
Niles William Henry, 297. 
Noble Daniel, 629. 
Noble Frank T., 630. 
Noble John. 231. 
Noble William Mark. 233. 
Noonan John Andrew. 233. 
Noonan V. Frank. 233. 
Norcross Grenville Howland, 

528. 
Norcross Otis, 528, 
Norman John A., 630. 
Norris A. F., 630. 
Norris G. W., 234 
Norton Frederick L., 234. 
Norton M. P.. 630. 
Noweil Increase, 167. 
Nowell Samuel, 167. 
Noyes Amos, 630. 
Noyes Bartholomew. 630 
Noyes Gharles Johnson, 510. 
Noyes Frank *: ., 630. 
Noyes George Dana. 242. ' 
Noyes George F., 630. 
Noyes Isaac B.. 630.' 
Noyes Samuel Bradley, 369. 
Nutter Charles Gopelantl, 184. 
Nutter tleorge Read. 243. 
Nutter Thomas F., 134. 

Oak F. Clarendon. 630. 
Oak George, 528. 



IXDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 663 

o'k'^I"'" f'Jp''"';;.'^-"- Palmer IrK..ph Mprrill, <.i'.. Pr,.rs..n ll.-nrv HroMiflpld. ,,.,. 

ov"" ' " " l''"' ■ 

OT.. 1., 

"■'•■ .,. I', 

'. S..I.;,,. I', 

c-w, ;;S. I'., 

' ..iniul K. li.. ;;S. I', 

viiivt-i I'ctcr. i\^. r 

OliviT IV-tcr, jn. I'., 

Oliver I'ltvr, 45'.. I' 

Olmstcad lariK's Monroe, i\z. I'.i 

Olncy Rivhard, 4rji. p 

Olnev I'i-.i 1: r-S. p.i. „. . 

O'La -k. .•4.'. I'arki-i . 

Orcu- A-ron. ,'i.'. Parkt-r i 

Orcut aiintiT. 52S. I'mtl-' . 

Orinsbv liirolgi- 1"., 630. I' 

Ornc Henry. 43. r 
Osbornr 'riu'0(k>re SInody, s:;8, I'.l 

Osbornr William H., .-ij. V. „. 

Osborne William MfKinley, 19S. P,- 

OsiMi.f U:iat:. 's^. P. '" ^fa-inn. 453, 

' ' lO Peabodv, ii\. . P,. '. . 6i(). 

i; !•■ , !i.-. P.. 

' ^ -- - A is W,, h^O. P. :i, 43<». 

O.siio..a William N., j^,-;. ]■ 

Otis Albert P.oyd. 351. ]■,. .ird. •'■>■, 

Otis Ham. v. , . ' p,: ,.ti, . ., 

Otis 1 ■kc,4i.l P.. :'1.4M- 

Otis' V 

Otis ( . -i.U'i ,i ,. !■ 

Otis ' ■ 

Otis ' 

Otis 11 . . 

tltis U.irii.>un (.irav, jr.. 4.-s. P. 

Otis lames. 371. I'. 

Otislliurs. - . P.. 

Otis ■ 
Otis ■ 
Otis 

Otis \ ,>. 3..,. 

Otis '. 
Ovei : 

Ower 
Owe: 

Oweii . ;■ 

0.\nard lUiiry i:.. r , ,. P.. 
P. 

Pa- ■,:.r ! V/':.: T, . ; ■. P. 11 . , ,.-, ■ 1 



P. 
P 

i P. 

Pa;i:i. A,..; U .. ■ , . P 

Paine Charle.s. ,■-- . P 

Pai.ir >■■ ,,,■. -. '■:-'."'!.,. P 



• n l-,<tj.|ia;< 



664 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Pierce Orestes, 630. 
pierce Richard A., 644. 
Pierce Richard NT., 561. 
Pierce Willjam A., 630. 
Pigeon Edward P.. 630. 
Pike Charles E.. 630. 
Pike John .E, 630. 
Pike Robert, aoq. 
Pilkin Walter S..630. 
Pillsbury Albi-rt E , 565. 
Piilsbury Carroll E., 630. 
Pillsbury Ebenezer P.", 630. 
Pindell Charles E., 630. 
Pinkerton John M., 5v>. 
I'inkhain Walter Sanuiel. i4.>. 
Piper George Fiedcrick. s3.t. 
Pitman Robert Carter. 198. 
Pitts Charles Coffin, 135 
Piatt John Tuttle, 530 
Plimpton Silas Fisher, 451. 
Plunier William, 530. 
Plummer Cliffo d H.. 530. 
Phnnmer Sedgwick L.. 530. 
Phmkett Christopher G., 140, 
Pollock Robert H.. 530. 
Ponce John H., 139. 
Pond Heiijaniin, 250. 
Pond Georpe E., 530. 
Pond Joseph IC, jr., 63->. 
Poole Benjamin, 630. 
Poole Benjamin, jr., 631. 
Poor Albert, sso. 
I'oor (Jeor^e II., 530. 
Pope Charles Greenwood, 298. 
Pope lames W , 631. 
Pope Thomas Butler. 139. 
Porter Elam, 560. 
Porter Georjje Doane. 130. . 
Porter Jerome B.. 631. 
Porter John W.. 631. 
Porter [onathan, -j^i- 
Porter Jonathan Edwards, 530 
Porter |osiah, 530. 
Porter Nathaniel. 631. 
Porter Thomas W.. ^y.-,. 
Potter Orlando B.. 570 
Poucher Charles E., 631. 
Power Thomas, 424. 
Powers Cassius Clay, 393. 
Powers Charles ICdward, 354. 
Powers Edmund P.. 631. 
Powers Edmund W., 393. 
Powers Erastus Barton. 393. 
Powers James Loren, 393. 
l*owcrs James R , 631. 
Powers T.,lewellyn, 611. 
Powers Samuel Iceland, 643 
Powers Wilbur H., 544, 
Pratt Albert Jerome, 4ck>. 
Pratt Benjamin, 243. 
Pratt Charles E., 400. 
Pratt Charles H.. 531. 
Pratt Edward B., su. 
Pratt Edward Ellcrton, 413. 
Pratt E. Grenville. 531. 
Pratt Geor>j:e tircenleaf, .■49. 
Pratt Harvev H., S"9. 
Pratt N'athah H., 400 
Pratt Sidney P.. 631. 
Pratt William, 440. 
Preble Edward, 399. 
Preble William Henry, 400. 
I*reble William Pitt, 531. 
Prentiss John, 631. 
Pruntiss John, 531. 
Prentiss J. W.,631. 
Prescott A. A., 631. 
Prescott Benjamin, 265. 



Prescott Edward G., 279. 
Presc<-tt F. A.. 631. 
V*rescolt George. 631. 
Prescott James, jr., 574. 
Pre-;cott Samuel. 531. 
Prescott Samuel J,, 400. 
Prescott Willi.ini, 279, 
Prescott William G., 452. 
Prescott William H.. 426. 
Pre-it William .Morton, 400. 
Pres'on tieorge Henry, 401. 
Preston James W,, 631. 
Preston John. 400. 
Prime \V infield Forrest, 401. 
Prince B. L,.63i. 
Prince Charles Albert, 333. 
Prince Frederick Oetavius, 198 
Prince Gordon, 631. 
Prince James P., 401. 
Prince Joseph Hardv, 401. 
Prince William H.. 630. 
Proctor l^rank W., 531. 
Proctor Joseph, 557. 
Proctor Redfield. ^s^o. 
Proctor Thomas P., 473. 
Proctor Thomas W., 401. 
Purchase Oliver, 209. 
Purnam William J.. 581. 
Putnam Aaron Hall, 287. 
Putnam Francis E., 418. 
Putnam (ieorjje. 401. 
Putnam Georpe I''., 631. 
Putnam Henry Ware, 401. 
]*utnam Jauies, '.71 
Putnam John Phelps, 299. 
Putnam J. S.. 42S. 
Putnam Samuel, 247. 
Tutnam Solon A.. 631. 
Putr-am William Le Haron. 588 
i'utnam Willi.am Lowell, 402. 
Pynchon John. 208. 
Pynchon John. 631, 
Pynchon Joseph^ 265, 
Pynchon Stephen, 6^1. 
F*.ynchon William, 168. 

Quimby J. P., 631. 
Ouincy Edmund, 215. 
Ouincy lidmund, 266. 
(^uincy Josiah, 265. 
(Juincy Josiah, 265. 
Quincy Josiah, 266. 
Ouincy Josiah. 267. 
(juincy Josiah H., 267. 
Ouincy Josiah P.. 266. 
(Juincy Samuel. 269. 
Ouincy Samuel, jr., 284. 
(Juincy Samuel Miller, 266. 
Ouincy William J., 631. 

Rackerman Charles Sedpwick, 

183. 
Rackerman Felix. 183. 
Rand Arnold A., 151. 
Rand Beniamin. ?66. 
Rand Charles W.. 631. 
Rand Edward J>..53i. 
Rand Edward Sprapue, 428. 
Rand Edward Spraeue, jr., 429. 
Kandall C. F.. 631. 
Randall James M.,6^i. 
R;inaall Otis G.. 631. 
Randall Samuel Haskell, 45-. 
Randolph ICdward, 264. 
Ranlett Daniel i)odi;e, 511. 
Ranlett Frederick J.. in6. 
Ranney Atnbrt)^e Arnold, ^69. 
Ranncy Fletcher. 451. 



Rantoul Robert, 279. 
Rantoul Robert Samuel, 299. 
Rativfan John H,. 4^9. 
Raymond Edward F., 531. 
Raymond F. F., 531. 
Raymond John M , 631. 
Read Benjamin, 631. 
Read Charles C, 616. 
Read Edward, 631, 
Read John, 270. 
Reardon D. W.,631. 
Reddinjjton J., 631. 
Redfield Isaac F., 456. 
Redfield Luther C. 456. 
Reddy Thomas F., 183. 
Reed Charles, 631. 
Reed Charles A., 631. 
Reed Charles C. 631. 
Reed Charles Montgomery, 1S3. 
Reed Chester A., 531. 
Reed ('hester Isham, 363. 
Reed Dexter W., 631 
Reed Elias Sipple, 531. 
Reed Frederick, 631 
Reed George Hammond. 183. 
Reed George M.. 631. 
Reed Isaac G., 560. 
Reed James Russell, 154. 
Reed Joseph Wheeler, 531 
Reed Samuel Willard. 155. 
Reed Warren Augustus, 531. 
Reed William. 269. 
Reed William, 245 
Reed William Gardner, 155. 
Remele George H., 631. 
Remick Charles F.. 6ji. 
Remick Frank C, 631! 
Remington Jonathan, 216. 
Reno Conrad, 196. 
Reuben Moses I.. 631. 
Revno ds John P ,367. 
Rev- olds Walter H., 631. 
Rice Bushrod F., 457. 
Rice Charles Damon. 454. 
Rice David Hall, 276 
Rice Fit7. H.. 631. 
Rice George Edward, 196. 
Rice James H..631. 
Rice John L., 631'. 
Rice Merrick. 196. 
Rice Thomas. 106. 
Rich Edgar Judson, 616. 
Rich Giles Hopkins, 616. 
Rich Silas H., 631. 
Rich Wilfred B.". 105. 
Richards Francis ti., 511- 
Richards George H., 196. 
Richards Jolin, 2->8. 
Richards William R., 196. 
Richardson .\bijah,63i. 
Richardson Amos, 2^^. 
Richardson Charles P., s^i, 
Richardson Daniel E., ^^2. 
Richardson Daniel S., 341. 
Richardson tleorge I'., 341. 
Richardscm Henry A,, 531. 
Richardson Henry !■'., 631. 
Richardson Ivory N'., 639. 
Richardson Ivory W., 196. 
Richardson James, 531. , 

Richardson James Bailey, 197J 
Richardson James P., 531. 
Richardson John S., s^i. 
Richardson Luther, 287. 
Richardson Xathaniel, 631. 
Richardson Sanford H., o^i. 
Richardson Thomas P., 532. 
Richardson William, 197. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



665 



Richardson William A., 631. 
Richardson William Adams, 
Richardson William K., 533. 
Richardson William M., 197. 
Ridcont Elmer Iv, 197. 
Kuld'c William Quincy, 533. 
RilfV H. S., ^31. 

\V.\-: !■.. Tick, 4^7. 
' ■ ■■^. 4SO- 

1; A.. 631. 

B. .43; 

'" G., aai. 



Ripl. : 

Rippey. 

Risley Julai E., ijji. 
Ritchie Andrew, 212. 
Ritchie Harrison, 53a. 
Ritchie lames, 616. 
Ritchie William K.,631. 
Rivers tie...ri^e R., 631 
Robb James B., 500. 
Robbihs Edward Hutchinson, 

42g. 

Roberts A W.. ti^i. 
Roberts Da\ 



. n 



;.ev. t'y\. 



W. 

1: ■.XT..i>ii. 

K Ilk W., 631. 

RuLjert.s tieorge Litch, 220. 
Roberts lohn L. S , 631. 
Rii* ir:'< Leonard *4,, 631. 
Is K., 639. 

I^ en Lltch, a-o. 

K ird Rrook, 2S4 

Is .ni,20o. 

1 ;., S32. 

!•: 1. 

K.. ■ i..63i. 

!;..■ : - ■ a:: n.-iso J;,63I 

K. ■ ■-. ■ '■: -• -,.99. 



.63I 



■ r 328. 



!•: 



i: n Gerry, »io. 

)^ .n Paul, aio. 

Km',,:iv,.!i I, |- ,631. 
Robinson loseph H., 631. 

R,,V.in~nTi T. 1 , •,,:. 



■ I... 631. 
tier. 210. 
\'anus \V., 631. 



ird. 









P H.. 633. 

^2, 

v., 632. 
42«. 






I 1 
'1, 

vm 


)2. 
■ , 251. 
- . "J2. 
44Q- 
. H9- 

. 310. 
;32. 


Il?> 


L'.lin 

bo 




■32. 



Rollins Harry 1. 

>. Rollin, h.m,-. \'. 

R. 
R. ; 

Re; 

Rosenlhui .Muleiis 

Roslinfij Eric K., < : 

Ros-. I..l;ii A .■:.■' 

Ro 

Ro 

Ro^ 

Rov, 

R..V 

Rosv . , 

Rowe Jo?,ep)l, 63J, 

Rowe Joseph 2S6. 

Rowe 1 X . ,j 

Ro\, 

Ro 

Rii 

V.\\ 

Ru: 

Rn: 

Rii. 

Ru 

Rii 

Ru 

Ru- 

Ruv 

Ru 

Ru 

Ru- 

Ru 

Ru- 

Ku> 



Sanford U.. 642 



I'linil, 532. 



>'iin, 632. 



Surfciellt llora,.i. 

I.)7. 
>.Oi,'ent I.1IIKS C 



1 Fcliitlev, J4t 



;>. 173- 

. . 452- 

liiouey, jr , 



I71. 
. 533- 






SaijaJer.i Chaliei K 

312. 

Saunders Daniel, 213 



y. 4UJ 

l.)<;ruon. 



: Kustinf^S, 393. 



lore, 2y2. 
lore, jr.. 



Russell James, 193. 

Russell James Dutton, 392. 

Russell John I., 423. 

Russell J. R.,'6i2. 

RusS(V Ki'diar 1. 1 <i 

Ru- 

Ru 

Ru- 

Ru 

Ru- 

Ru> 

Rust Pir 

R utter I 

Ryan Ht n j2. 

Ryther Cieotkje no;ton, 4.-2. 

.Snftin John. -t^. 

■ ter, 2t>7. 
-s3J- 

>:i bott, 403. 

Sal- vli. 
Sal- :<o. 

Sal- , 180. 
Sal- r,. 

Sal;. 
Saltonsiaii Ki 



losmer, 210. 

32- 



>,, 313. 
' K., 313. 



,6,3 



>r..v.Me N.itiiamel C. 616. 
Scudder Henry A., 348. 

Se.-i-nnn Fr.-mk. <■>? 
■-;■ ■ •■ '.33. 

lf>4. 



I .Middtecott, 



Saltonstnll Sir Rielmrd, !»■' 

.Sairr -■ 1 <.- 

San 

Sai; 

Sanitoiii i-i.tiis in nenjainin 

4°3- 
.Sanboin M, r,*«nd>»lov. \n-\ 

San ' - - •■ '-- - • 

San 

San 

Sai: 
.San: 



"^33- 



666 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Sewall Samuel. 244. 
Sewall Samuel Edmund, 427. 
Sewall. Stephen. 214. 
Seymour Frederick Z., ft}-- 
Seymour Georji:e F.. 6^2. 
Shackford Charles H..632. 
Sharkey Joseph C. 533. 
Sharp Thomas, 192. 
Shattuck Charles E., 53^. 
Shattuck George Otts, 514. 
ShattucK John N., 632. 
Shaw Elliott, 632. 
Shaw George H. P., 404. 
Shaw John Oakcs, 405. 
Shaw Lemuel, ^44. 
Shaw Lemuel, jr., 6^9. 
Shaw Mason, 6^2. 
Shaw Otis Madison. 210. 
Shaw Roland Crocker, 5-53. 
Shaw Samuel F*arkman,'i34, 
Shaw Samu'-l Savaj^e, 410. 
Snaw William Smith, 178. 
Shea Daniel J.. 185. 
Shea John F.. 405. 
Shea Patrick F.,632. 
Shea R. W , 185. 
Shedd J. li.,632 
Sheeran Joseph W., 405. 
Sheffield Georjfe. $33- 
Sheldon Henry N., 533. 
Sheltsei J. George. 632. 
Shennon Orlando B.,633. 
Shepard Edward O., 300. 
Shepard Harvey N., 579. 
Sheppard John H.. 500. 
Sucrburne John H., 32(). 
Sheridan Dennis R., 632. 
Sherman Edij^ar J.. 3<y». 
Sherman Edward Lowell, 533. 
Shimmin Charles F., 435. 
Shipley George Foster, 581. 
Shipley Horatio, 436. 
Shirley William. 270. 
Shorey Daniel L., 632. 
Shorey Frank Howard, 1S4. 
Shorey George Langdon, 184. 
Shrimpton Samuel, 264. 
Siblev Edwin Day, 40^. 
Sibley J. P. 632. 
Silsbee William C, 632. 
Sim Arthur W., 616. 
Simes Robert F., 534. 
Simmons Charles K., ?2i. 
Simmons Charles L., 534. 
Simmons David Allen^345. 
Simmons John F.. 401. 
Simmons Samuel. 632. 
Simmons William, 399. 
Simmons William A., 632. 
Simonds Henry C., 399. 
Simpson William H., 632. 
Sinclair Albert T.. 534. 
Sisk Henry M.,632. 
Sisk James M., 632. 
Skilton A. H.,491. 
Skinner Henry K., 405. 
Skinner Thomas, 632. 
vSleeper George L., 63a. 
Sleeper Herbert, 534. 
Sleeper John W., 632. 
Slocum E. T.. 631-. 
Slocum Holden. jr., 287. 
Slocum William F., 405. 
Slocum Winrteld S., 406. 
Smalley George W.. 4(^0. 
Smith Charles E , 632. 
Smith Charles F., 632. 
Smith Charles G.. 632. 



Smith Charles W., 560. 
Smith Chauncey, 406, 
Smith Clarence Cheney, 407. 
Smith Daniel E , 611. 
Smith David A., 632. 
Smith Ebenezer, jr.. 425. 
Smith Edward Irving, 407. 
Smith Edwin. ^34- 
Smith Emery B., 632. 
Smith Francis P., 632. 
Smith Frederick, 428. 
Smith George A., 534. 
Smith George Edwin, 406. 
Smith George H., 632. 
Smith George M., 632. 
.Smith Henry A., 534. 
Smith Henry Harney, 406. 
Smith Henry F., 534. 
Smith Henry Hyde, 406. 
Smith Horace E., 534. 
Smith John. 2<x). 
Smith fohn W , 633. 
Smith John W..633. 
Smith Joseph E., 534. 
Smith Joseph R., 406. 
Smith Manasses, 534. 
Smith Matthew Hale, 242 
Smith Matthew W.,633. 
Smith Phineas B., 534. 
Smith Robert Dickson, 407 
Smith .Samuel Emerson, 410. 
Smith Samuel Herbert, 410 
Smith Seth P , 410. 
Smith Theophilus Gilman, 410. 
Smith Thomas P., 633. 
Smith William, 534. 
Smith William. 633. 
Smith William C, 40Q 
Smith William H., 633. 
Smith U7,ziel Putnam, 534. 
Smith Ypsilanti A.. 534- 
Smyth William E. P., 633. 
Smythe George A,. 534. 
Snelling George H., 428. 
Snow Charles A., 409. 
Snow Elmer A., 534. 
Snow Frederick E., 534. 
Snow Samuel. 400. 
Sohier Edward. 2n. 
Sohier Edward D., 211. 
Sohier William, 212. 
Sohier William Davies, 211. 
Sohier VVilliam Davies, 212. 
Soraerby Gustavus A., 562. 
Soren George W., 534. 
Soren Walter W., 534. 
Soule Augustus L., 331. 
Southard Charles H., 534. 
Southard Louis C. 213. 
Snuthgate L. W., 633. 
Southworth Robert A , so,. 
Spalding Alfred B.. 633. 
Sparhawk George. 425. 
Sparhawk Nathaniel, 287. 
Spaulding Asa, 56:. 
Spaulding John, 340. 
Spear Charles F., 535. 
Spear William E.. 40Q. 
Spelman Henrv M., 616. 
Spencer A F., 633 
Spofford Joseph H., 633. 
Spofford Richard S , 497. 
Spooner Allen Crocker, 3S6. 
Spooner Lysander. 4go. 
Spooner William Jones, 409. 
Sprague Charles Franklin, 409. 
Sprague Charles H , 4og. 
Sprague Francis William, 423. 



Sprague Henry Harrison, 152. 
Sprague Henry W., 535. 
Sprague Peleg', 563, 
Sprague Seth Edward, 127. 
Sprague W. G., 561. 
Sprague W. G., 633. 
Spring Arthur Langdon, 408. 
Springer t. harles C, 633. 
Sproal James, 633. 
Squire James C, 633. 
Squire James R. M.. 611- 
Stacy G. G., 633. 
Stacy Melville, 535. 
Stackpole Andrew J., 633. 
Stackpole Joseph I>ewis, 426, 
Stackpole Joseph Lewis, 408. 
Stackpole VVilliam, 535. 
Stanchfield A. G., 633. 
Standish W., 633. 
Stanley William J., 535. 
Stanton Henry B., 561. 
Stanw<joti William G., 633. 
Staples Hamilton B., 207. 
Staples John li., 633 
Stark John, 633. 
Stark RoVjert M., 633. 
Starkweather George C, 633. 
Starr Charles R,, 633, 
Stearns Asaliel, 561. 
Stearns George H., 535. 
Stearns Richard S., 633. 
Stearns William G., 142. 
Stearns William H., 535. 
Stearns William St. Agnan, 576. 
Stedman William. 535. 
Steele Thomas L.. 633. 
Steere Charles, 535. 
Stephens Henry C, 633. 
Stetson George W., 633. 
Stetson John Glidden, 142. 
Stetson Thomas M., 207. 
Stevens Ch.irles G.. 142. 
Stevens D K., 633 
Stevens Edwin F., 535. 
Stevens Elisha Si., 633. 
Stevens Hazard, 142 
Stevens Henry A., 633. 
Stevens Henry B., 453. 
Stevens Henry J., 535 
Stevens Homer B., 208 
Stevens James M., 535. 
Stevens Milan F., 535. 
Stevens Oliver, 143. 
Stevens Oliver C, 143. 
Stevens So on, 633. 
Stevens William B., 143. 
Stevens William H., 633. 
Stevens W. J., 633. 
Stevenson 'I homas« 633. 
Stewart Enos, 535. 
Stewart John. 633 
Stewart Philip J., 639. 
Stickney John, 535 
Stickney William B , 633. 
Stillwell Elias M., 633. 
Stimpson L. L., 535. 
Stimson Caleb Morton, 143. 
.Stimson E C, 633. 
Stimson Frederick J., 143. 
St. Lawrence Joseph, 557. 
Stockbridge William M., 144- 
Stockton Howard, 535 
Stockwell James Alaen, 144. 
Stoddard Amos. 633. 
Stoddard Anthonyl 262. 
Stoddard S., 633. 
Stoddard S., jr., 633. 
Stone Charles B., 144, 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



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.Stone Ebcn F.. jio- 
Stone !■'' *> ■■' ■ 
Slotii 'I ,640. 

Ston. ' lT. 144. 



Sw. • ' 



Thnm.is I I! P . 



^ 




; t *. 


s« 




>. , , _ 






Sv 




Storrow J.J. 


• jr. 


. 5J5 


Sv 




Storv Aueu.-; 


tus. 


535 


Sv 




Stor'v 1< . •■■ 






Sy , ... ..„, 


. ;.j 


Stor'v I 
Storv ■ 

St,.. V 




■■ 


Syinond!) .Samuel, 


'<>3- 






Tn)-- '■ ' . 




^- 




;4t. 


T V 




^ 




: 17 


Ti. 










T:!' 














.Stru»Kf I'll 






1 




Stratton C1-. 






1 




.St.,.n , !■■.-, 






1 





~. 


r.. 


I . 633 


T„ 




Tm 


: 44. 


T:r 


^ ■33 


Ta; 


> 033 


Ta- 


K-.435. 


Ta 


-.36. 


Ta, 


> -L.536 


Ta. 


> . . .-.n T.,633. 


Ta 


Su^iiluc Mx^ilaei J , 144. 


Ta 


Sullivan B.. 6^3. 


Ta 


Sullivan Cornelius J . 633. 
Sullivan Cornelius P., 145. 


Ta. 


T.r 


Sullivan C S.. ''■13. 


Ta 


Sullivan Kdwaril. 536 


Ta 


SuMivan lieorne. 14s 


Ta 


Sullivan -jeor^e S.. 6^3 


Ti- 


Siilliv.u: T. •.■:■,. ^. u^. 


T.- 


^ , 


T, 


.=84 


Te 


^ .-ly, 536. 


Til 


. '•13 


Ti 


^ ir.. 536 


Tv: 


J., ,45. 


Tit 


Sul.ivaii J.-'i;:i 1 . S., a86. 
Sullivan Lvnde. e>ro. 


Til 


Th 


Sullivan M". V. ,^n- 


Tli. 


Sullivan Richanl. 145. 


Til 


Sullivan Richard. 146. 


Tl, 


SuKivaP \V-'i-,ini, ^-^6. 


Th. 


S .■'^i. 


Til 


■1./536. 


Tli.. 


> 14" 


Th 


V 


Th 


V 


Th 


> 


Th. 


> *'-. 


Th., 


^ 


Th. 


1,640. 


Th 


Snn.l^: .633. 


Th,, 


Suler ! 


Th 


Swan < 4(>. 


t: 


Swan ' .4. 




Swan ! 




Swan V. 




Swan \V.:;i.aa W.. 554. 


li 


Swan William \V., 554, 


Th 


SW.1..V C,-,,-^,.. K , 4„8. 


Th 


S-... i . 750. 


Th., 




Th 


:; , 633. 


Th, 


S\veent.-5- J.i-.r.o I-., 408. 


Thorn 



455- 
i b.. 633. 



jr., fci7. 
■ W.. 633. 



, 536. 
ich. irS 



lin B. 


, 18). 




183. 




181. 



. 5^^. 



,1-i l-.iiv;«ii(.- n.frjj l-'wrnrtiil Alr^rtn.lpr, ^>4. 



668 



HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Townsentl Charles, 640. 
Townsend David, 634. 
Townscnd Horatio, 285. 
Townst-nd Penn, 400. 
Townsend SamiielR., 643. 
Tracy 15. F., (114. 
Tracy Frederick W., 634. 
Train Charles R., ;4i- 
Train Henry J., 634. 
Trask, William R., 344. 
Travis Cieorj^e C, 301. 
Tread well James P., 453. 
Treadwell, John P., 301. 
Treanor Hernard S., 611. 
Trevett Robert \V., 3g9. 
Tripp (leorpe H., 537. 
Trowbridj^e Kdniund, 216. 
Trowbrid^jc -Stephen W., 360. 
Trumbull, John, 282. 
Tucker Alanson, 435 
Tucker George F.. 502. 
Tucker Ichabod, 537. 
Tucker John, 284. 
Tucker Josiah P., 537- 
Tucker P. K.,301. 
Tucker William L.. 634. 
Tuckerraan Frederick G., 277. 
Tuckerman Leverelt S., 276. 
Tudor Henry J., 136. 
Tudor William, 136. 
Tufts Francis, 640, 
Tufts (ieorjje J., 13G. 
Tufts Joseph, 634. 
Tukey Francis, 435. 
Tuohay John M.. 136. 
Turner Charles H., 634. 
Turner Charles W., 634. 
Turner William B., 634. 
Turner William D., 136. 
Tuttlc Calvin H.. 537. 
Tultle Charles W., 543. 
Tuttlc Frank J., 537. 
Tuttle John L., 537. 
Tuttle William H. H., 137. 
Tuxbury George W., 504. 
Tweed Charles A.. 634. 
Tyler Charles H., 137. 
Tyler George W.. 537. 
Tyler John C, 634. 
Tyler John F.. 634. 
Tyler J Kendall. 6ir. 
Tyler Nathan, 441. 
Tyler Othmiel, 634. 
Tyler Royall, 276. 
Tyler Royall 2d. 537- 
Tyndale Theodore H., 537. 
Tyng Dudley Atkins, 137. 
Tynj^' Kdward, 208. 
'I'yiR James A., 617 
Tyng Stephen H., 135. 

Underwood Adin B,, 117. 
Underwood Francis H., 135. 
Un<lerwood William O., 135. 
Uphani Kdward. 634. 
Upham Francis W., 634. 
Upham George Baxter. 135. 
Upham Jacob, 634. 
Upham foshua. 138. 
Upham Samuel. 416. 
Upham William P., 537. 
Upton Kdward A., 596. 
Upton Kugene C, 139. 
Usher Edward P., 139 
Usher John, 264. 
Usher John L., 441. 

Valentine John, 270. 



Vambn Joseph, 634. 
Van Buren M.. 634. 
Vanderlip W. C. 634. 
Vandervoort William, 634. 
Vandeutsch G., 634. 
Van Du/.ee Ira D., 435. 
Vane Henry, 163. 
Vassall William, 192. 
Vaughan Ernest H., 440. 
Vaughan Francis W.,634. 
Vaughan Francis Wales, 301, 
Vaughan George E., 634. 
Vaughan John. 634 
Vaughan John \V., 537. 
Vaughan William W., 540 
Verdenal Dominique F., 537. 
Verdenal John M., 537. 
Vernon Fortescue. 284. 
Vinton Alfred C, 359. 
Vinton Warren H., 634. 
Vollman Herman, 634. 
Vose Henry. 356. 
Vose Solomon, 537. 

Wade John, 537. 
Wade Levi C, 605. 
Wade Winthrop H.. 301. 
Wadleigh Bainbridge, 611. 
Wadsworth Alexander F., 18 
Wagner Samuel W., 634. 
Wait John C. 634. 
Wait Thomas B., 634, 
Wait William Cushing, 186. 
Waitt William G., 634. 
Wakefield John F., 186. 
Wakefield John H., 634. 
Wakefield John L., 359. 
WaketieUl Thomas H.. 359. 
Wakefield '1 homas L., 416. 
Walbach George G , 537. 
Walbridge Percy E.. 554. 
Walcott Charles F., 251. 
Walcott Charles H., 360. 
Wald Gustavus H., 617. 
Waldo Calvin. 634. 
Waldo Francis W., 640. 
Waldron Henry C, 640. 
Wales Jonathan, 634. 
Walker A. M., 634. 
Walker Edward, 282. 
Walker Edward G., 278. 
Walker Henry. 199. 
W^atker Henry A., 634 
Walker Henry W., 554. 
Walker Joseph, 278. 
Walker 'Nathaniel U.,278. 
Walker William L., 634. 
Wallace ICdgar A., 554. 
Walley John. 215. 
Walley Samuel H., 424. 
Walley William P., 554. 
Walsh James L., 277. 
Walsh John, si^. 
Walsh John W., 634. 
Walsh Joseph L , 634. 
Walsh Thomas J., 634. 
Walsh Walter J .634. 
Walter Arthur M., 288. 
Ward Artemas, 276. 
Ward Clarence S.. 277. 
Ward John C. B.,640. 
Ward John F., 640. 
Ward John P J.. 183. 
Ward Joshua H.» 398. 
Ward Samuel D., 421. 
Wardwell Henry, 184. 
Wardwell J Otis. 183. 
Ware Asher, 226. 



Ware Darwin E., 360. 
Ware George M., 634. 
Ware George W., jr., 248. 
Ware Henry, 441 
Ware Horace E., 329. 
Ware Jairus C. 6^4. 
Ware Nabur, 634 
Ware Thornton K., 441. 
Warland Owen. 554. 
Warner Aaron E.. 554- 
Warner Francis F., 634. 
Warner Henry E.. 554. 
Warner Herman J., 554. 
Warner Joseph B., 370. 
Warner Levi, 634. 
Warner Milton B , 634. 
Warner Samuel L., 634. 
Warner William A., 42('>. 
Wai ren Bentley W,, 344. 
Warren Charles H.. 174. 
Warren George, 285 
Warren George W., 226. 
Warren Henry, 360. 
Warren James, 174. 
Warren Joseph W., 441. 
WaiTen Lucius H.. 554. 
Warren Samuel, jr., 634. 
Warren Samuel D., 361. 
Warren Webster F., 555. 
Warren William W., 641 
Warren Winslow. 434. 
Washburn Alexander C, 370. 
Washburn Benjamin D , 617. 
Washburn Charles E , 370. 
Washburn C. E.. 555. 
Washburn Charle^ G., ^34. 
Washburn Edward L., 634. 
Washburn Emory, 370 
Washburn Frank L.,370. 
Washburn Frederick L, 455. 
Washburn Henry L., 634. 
Washburn John D.,434. 
Washburn Nathan. 634. 
\\ashburn Reuben. 634. 
Washburn Will-am R P , 427. 
Washburn William T., 555. 
Washington G. W., 634. 
Wasson .Milt'-n, 635. 
Waterhouse Andrew O., 555. 
Waterhouse Asa, 634. 
Waterh<)use Isaac. 634. 
Waterhouse Isaiah, 635. 
Waterman Andrew J.. 297. 
Waterman Foster, ■.■87. 
Waterman Jesse F., 635. 
Waterman Richard, 555. t_ 
Waters George B.. 635. 
Watson Benjamin F ,378. 
Watson Benjamin M., 288. 
Watson C. L., 640. 
Watson David T.. 555. 
Watson John, 263. 
Watson Paul B.. 378. 
Watson Thomas A., 213. 
Watts I*'iances O., 378. 
Watts Samuel, 262. 
V\ ay Clarence. 635. 
Way John M., 590. 
Wayland Francis, 348. 
Wead Leslie C, 379. 
Wearley Sylvanus M., 635. 
Weaver Archibald J., 635. 
Webb Charles H., 635. 
Webb Christopher, 264. 
Webb Samuel 1?., 617. 
Webb Seth, 380. 
Websier Daniel, 474. 
Webster Daniel Fletcher, 380. 



INDEX TO BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER. 



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A.. ;.,;. 
^ H..381. 
• C., 55;. 

v., 6J5. 

-. jr., fi35- 
e.. 555. 
larvis. 434 
■u jr., 635 
11 L., 381. 



Webster Kdwartl, 635. 

\N'ehsler ICthvard Iv., 635. 

Webster Krankliu, s;^.,. 

Webster llenrv .'^.. ';';;. 

Webster r,. iii;,~. <.. 

WellSte: 

Wihste: 

We.U. ■'. 

\\. 

w 

V 

w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
\\ 
w 
w 
w. 

W If.. 4,4. 

~AV. lin, 381. 

W, C., 454- 

We, l;ii,^ton Ambrose, 2-m. 

Wellinyfton ^^sa, 248. 

Wellington Hiram. 4js- 

Wellman .-Vrtbur H., 381. 

Welinian F. H.. (>3=;. 
-XVells Charles W..(.i5 
_Wells Daniel, ^08. 

Wells (ieorge il., 452. 

Wells Henrv J.. 337. 

Wells John.' 5S5. 

Wells Samuel, 573. 
i^Vells San--:.-1.363. 
•^V. ■ ■. jr., 573. 

W - ,-617. 

W. I ]..f-^-,. 

Weistl i 

Wendei 

Wentw. . 

Wi 

W 

W. 

W 

W. 

w 
w 
w 
w 

WesiMii 

Weston 

West. . I- 

W 

W. 

\\. 

Wetm..-.' 

WetmiM. 

Wetni"'' 

W. 

w 
w 

Wl.aM.iii .^H 

Whartcm Wii; 
Wheat lanil H. 
WV • ■■ " 

w 
w 

WiM ,,s 

Wheehen .-\ .\1.. ^35. 
Wheeler .\lexantle> .^ 
Wheeler Charl.- - 
Wheeler D. I. 
Wheeler Heni > 
Wheeler Jesse i .. j^.,. 



B.,'635, 



"35- 



382. 






Wheeler John M 



\vi, 

Wh, 

Wh. 

Wh. 

Wh> 

Wh 

Wh 

Whr 

Wlr 



WiRKin John H.. 635. 

W-t^LMIl I..,el.l, P.. ,s 



n T., 38.1. 

. r, ,,3«. 

s W , jq6. 
■ H.,.,35, 

".!5- 



Whi 

\Vh^ 



White Willanl. <.i->. "' 

White Willi.im, ' ;'; 

White Wi" 

White Wi 

White Wii 

White Wilh.ii;. N . - ., , 

Whithead Hamilton L.. ''»35. 

W'vtiniT r L , r ,;. 



.■\., 617. 

1' . i^SS- 

lin, i.'4. 

man ICUmund A.. ii\. 



h; 

hi 

hi 

hi 

hit 

hi till. 'in 1 

hil 

h" 

\v 

h- 

h ! 

hi' 



L-e H , 



1^4- 



;er, 618. 
I, K . 1 



w 
\' 
\\ 
\'. 
\', 



w 
w 



\', 



W.. 5S<,. 
1 It., 6.0. 

'■ iJmlley, f.i8. 
1 ■>.. ^'.K 



A . '35. 
, 1')) 



I. U'J. 

I'., i'.5. 



'. .''>.. "30. 
•1 . "Hi- 



,9.1. 



•IS- iV.,36j. 



670 



in STORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 



WiiiK Henry. 557. 
Winn Abel T., 556. 
Winn Henry, 636. 
Winn John J.. 636. 
Winslovv Kdward. 262 
Winslow Henry H., 618. 
Winslow John. 357. 
Winslow James A., 213. 
Winter v\ illiam, 489. 
Winthrop Adam, 260. 
Winthrop Adam, 288. 
Winthrop George E.. 425. 
Winthrop Orenville T., 4^4- 
Winihrojj Jolm. 161. 
Winthrop John, jr., 3t)6. 
Winthrop John '[',, 426. 
Winthrop Robert C, 162. 
Winthrop Robert C, jr., 557. 
Winthr<jp Thomas L., 557. 
Winthrop Waitrftill. 162. 
Winthrop William W., 6^6. 
Within^ton (i. R. M., 141. 
Withinj^jton (>. W.. 425. 
Wolcott Henjamin, 636. 
Wolcott Charles F , 636. 
Wolcott Roger, 133, 
Wolcott Samuel li., 2q6. 
Wolff James H..417. 
Wood Henjamin, 287. 
Wood Courtland, 636. 
Wood Davia W.. 636. 
Wood George W.. 636. 



Wood Henry C , 636. 
Wood Nathaniel, 422. 
Wood S'ephen B., 139. 
Wood Will. am H.. 324- 
Wood Wilkes. 325. 
Woodbridge John, 209. 
Woodbridge Jonathan, 636 
Woodbridge "Joseph, 636. 
Woodbury Charles H., 636. 
Woodbury Charles Levi, 515. 
Woodbury Frank G., 636. 
Woodbury Jesse R.,636. 
Woodbury John, 141. 
Woodbury Levi 141. 
Woodbury W^illiam H., 636. 
W(jodman A., 636. 
Woodman Charles 636 
Woodman Charles C. 636. 
Woodman Cyrus, 415. 
Woodman K. H., n8. 
Wo<jdman George H., 587. 
Woodman Horatio, 451. 
Woodman John S.. 636. 
Woodruff Henry. 557. 
Woodruff Thomas T , 138. 
Woods Andrew. 618 
Woods George H., 618. 
Woods George H., 557. 
Woods John S.. 636. 
Woodside Franklin, 636. 
Wooster Benjamin W,, 636. 



Worcester John R., 636. 
Worthen Albeit P.. 138. 
Worthen H. N.. 636. 
Worthington Chanes, 398. 
Worthington Krastus, 138. 
Worthington Krastus. jr., 296. 
Worthington Francis W., 456. 
Wright Albert J., jr , 636. 
Wright Carroll D., -38. 
Wright Edward C. 618. 
Wright Kdwm, 321. 
Wright Frederick, 456. 
Wright Isaac H.,250. 
Wright James J.. 557. 
Wright Robert W., 636. 
Wright Smith, 557. 
Wright Winslow W., 557. 
Wyer David. 137. 
Wyman Alphonzo A., 134. 
Wyman Ferdinand A., 636. 
Wyman Henry A., 134. 
Wyman Isaac C 134. 
Wyman John P., 448. 

Yam.ada Eneas, 636. 
Yearly S. M., 640. 
Yeaton (leorge C. 636. 
Young Alexander, 489 
Young Edward, 420. 
Young Ephraim W., 618. 
Young James H., 557. 



ADOEXDUM TO INDEX. 



Colby John F„ 644. 



KRkATA 

Page 89. 10th line, •• Bolst<ir " should l)c> • Knlstor " 

Page i)0, •>4lh line, " Joseph Willaifl' shoiiUl he •■Josiah.' 

Page li);5, :51st line. " Simond Willard" slioulil be •■Simon." 
, Page li)7, (ith line, "Oxford' should he "Itrford." 

Page 22(>, iMh line. In the sketeh of Williiini Whiting the date of l.irth shotild lie 
lHi:i, not 1S18. 

Page 23a, 7th line, In the sketeh of John T. Ilassiint "monthly " shouM Ik: 
" quarterly. " 

Page '2.">8, Judge Abbott was a nienil>er i>f the Kleetoral Commission. 

Page 48'), 17th line. Simon Willard was also of Concord. 

Page 4SI8, Henry P. Durant also attended Mrs. Ripley's seh.K>l in \' 
father was a partner of B. F. Butler. Col. John Kowle, I'.S A . •V, 
wife, was of Walertown, Mass., and not of Ale.xandria. \'a \\ ■llcjtc re- 
ceives no annuity, but is a residuary legatee after the death of hi . 

Page 51T, '20th line, John E. Hudson resides in Marlboro' street, Boston, and not 
in Marlboro', Mass. 

Page -"177, William S. .Stearns attended also the Harvard Law SchiM>l. In the lu-st 
line of his sketch, " John Sprague" should lie "Joseph " 

Page 587, In the sketch of Kdward Bangs. Marvjaril. the first wife of .Mr. Hick*. 
was the mother of Lydia Bangs. The clii' 
Bethia, and Mercy and Ajiphia. twins. Mr 

son, daughter of William (iill Hodgkinson, of Kngland, and Anne t iiitram, daughter 
of David Hinckley, of Bostiin. 

John F. Colby .should have been indexed page <M4 instead of page 2-IU. 



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